World Cup Ticket To Be Sold Via lottery

The world cup tickets for the knockout rounds will be available via an online lottry system because of heavy load crashed the tournaments official ticketing website

Online tickets for knockouts to be sold via lottery.this will be the first time that there will be an online lottery for a sports event held in the subcontinent.the lottery for the london olympic games in 2012, for example, opens on March 15, 2011.

Organisers say the lottery is a common practice at other global sporting events where there is a heavy demand for tickets. the lottery for the london olympic games in 2012, for example, opens on March 15, 2011. each winner will be restricted to just two tickets, however. "This way at least more people will have a chance to get the tickets said ratnakar shetty the tournament director

Kyazoonga says that they had suggested a lottery system at the start of the tournament as one means of ticket distribution but the idea had been rejected because of its novelty in the subcontinent and of the 4000 tickets being put on sale for the game, only 1000 will be available online.at one stage on monday the website had 500,000 concurrent users trying to buy tickets to the final world cup 2011.

The official website for selling online tickets via lottry system of world cup 2011 crashed soon after the tickets were made available on monday and only 1000 tickets will be available online.