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World Series Ticket Sales Overwhelm Servers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the first-error-of-the-series-goes-to-the-owner dept.

vlakkies writes "The Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team decided to only sell tickets for the World Series games at Coors Field online. As a result of overwhelming interest, the ticket vendor Paciolan experienced a system meltdown resulting in a suspension of all ticket sales."

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  1. Meanwhile.... by Otter · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...a pair of helicopters has been hovering over Fenway for the last few hours, I'm guessing to monitor the real world analog of a "system meltdown".

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  2. Reverse slashdot effect? by dacarr · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, the servers are supposed to melt down after the post on Slashdot.

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  3. Re:The old story... by AuMatar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Like most of the rest of the country, they figured baseball was too boring to pay to see.

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