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Rockies Servers Crash, Halting Series Ticket Sales

Posted Oct 22, 07 5:15 PM CDT in US,  Technology,  Sports 

(Newser) – The Colorado Rockies have suspended World Series ticket sales—both online and at the box office—after a partner company's servers crashed under overwhelming demand. Tix went on sale at 10am, but the site had massive traffic 90 minutes beforehand, and by the time sales opened the system was hopelessly jammed. "It's a joke. They should have started selling these a while ago," says one fan.

Only a few hundred Series tickets out of the 17,000 to 18,000 available per game were sold before the site shut down. Fans waiting in line at Coors Field were also turned away. The ticketing service is run by Paciolan, a California company that processes orders for multiple clients, the Denver Post reports. The crash appeared to affect some of them as well, although how many is unclear.

Source Denver Post

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Colorado Rockies fan Aquilina Ibanez sits at a computer terminal at the public library in Denver on Monday, Oct. 22, 2007, where she tried for over two hours to buy World Series tickets online. Ticket...   (Associated Press)
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