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BlizzCon Tickets – The Need For Speed
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Imagine sitting in a large stadium with, oh say fifty thousand people. Each of you have a digital stopwatch, and you’re all looking at the scoreboard as it counts down to zero. When the digits come up 0:00, a siren blares and everybody hits the start button on their stopwatch. They then immediately hit stop. As fast as you click, it’s not really instantaneous. You look down at your display and you see a fraction of a second showing on the screen, maybe a tenth of a second if you were really on the ball.
Now imagine that your car tires are going to be slashed to ribbons in the parking lot unless you have one of the four thousand fastest times. Forty-six thousand people are going to be very disappointed, and it all comes down to a fraction of a second.
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Blizzcon 2011 Ticket Sales – Round One
With all this talk about the World supposedly ending today, I almost overlooked the fact that Blizzcon 2011 tickets go on sale at 10am Pacific (Noon CST) !
I’m banking on the fact that the pending Rapture will distract people from spamming their F5 key until the Blizzard Store releases the tickets. Getting a good spot in the queue all boils down to server lag and luck, and there’s just enough lag between California and the belly button of Canada to cause me endless grief.
Come on Blizzard! Just let me buy your grossly overpriced ticket, damn it!
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