I think that's fine provided you can deal with the reality that you may not get in. Last year was a hot mess and the boards are filled with rants from folks who planned trips specifically to attend events only to be closed out. Blame IT, blame management... in the end it was a very very frustrating experience for lots of people.
Mind you, these are folks who did everything right... online at the right time, had all their information ready, etc. But when you have thousands of people slamming the system at exactly the same moment... well lets just say it got pretty ugly with members calling MS to say they were online and in then dropped, they got error messages, etc. In the end there was not a thing that the poor CM could do because when the event fills, it fills... by the time you get through to MS the spaces are gone.
If you are looking to schedule extra trips to leverage your AP then go when there is an event by all means... just don't make that the reason you are going!