rox suspend ws ticket sales after crash

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Rockies: Attack caused system outage


Rockies Spokesperson Jay Alves says ColoradoRockies.com was the victim of a "malicious" attack. 10/22/07

DENVER ? The Colorado Rockies say tickets for the World Series will again be sold online starting Tuesday at noon after an attack brought down the Web site on Monday.


Rockies Spokesperson Jay Alves said on Monday night that ColoradoRockies.com was the victim of an "external malicious attack" that caused a system-wide outage with Paciolan.

Paciolan is Major League Baseball's ticket vendor. The outage impacted all of its North American customers.

The Rockies suspended the sale of tickets on Monday after noon because of the system outage.

"Thank you again for your patience tonight and for all our fans, again for their patience on what's been a difficult day for them and for us also," said Alves on Monday night. "Our Web site, I can tell you, and ultimately our fans and our organization, were the victim of an external malicious attack on our Web site that shut down the system that prevented our fans from being able to purchase their World Series tickets."

The Rockies initially said the system went down because of the heavy traffic to the Web site. They said there were 8.5 million hits on the Rockies Web site after the tickets went on sale.

"It's been an extremely frustrating day for our fans and the entire Rockies organization," said Keli McGregor, the Rockies team president. "Throughout the day, we've evaluated all of our options and we continue to believe that the online sale approach is the most fair and equitable method to distribute the tickets. Our partners at MLB.com and Paciolan have fully assessed the situation and assured us that tomorrow's online sale will go as originally planned."

The Rockies said less than 500 seats were sold after the tickets went on sale and before the system-wide outage. Alves said nearly 18,000 tickets per game were still available.

"We absolutely have backup plans in place that, should something go wrong tomorrow, we will immediately go to those plans," said Alves.

Alves would not elaborate on what those plans were.

He did say it was too late for a ticket lottery because the games are this weekend.

An angry crowd gathered outside Coors Field on Monday in reaction to the ticket outage. They shouted "We want tickets" when Alves told the crowd they were working with Paciolan on the problem.

Alves says they will not be selling the tickets at Coors Field.

The Rockies said fewer than 20,000 tickets - less than half of Coors Field's 50,449 seats - would be available for general sale in each World Series game in Denver. The remaining seats are allotted to season-ticket holders, the two teams and Major League Baseball.

Season ticket holders were allowed to buy tickets over the weekend, but the team didn't say how many had been sold. One of them showed up at the stadium Monday because he said the system allowed him to buy only two tickets per game instead of the maximum of four.

A professor of Computer Science at Regis University says he thinks the online ticket sales can be successful, if there are more servers, spread out over a wider area.

"The Internet is a whole bunch of roads," said Professor David Bahr. "They all lead to the same place in a lot of different directions and the Internet is very good about spreading out the load. If there's a whole bunch of people coming in on one highway, the Internet is very good about redirecting traffic on the back roads, so that you can get around that server that's clogged to a different one from another direction"

Hundreds of Rockies fans e-mailed 9NEWS Monday complaining they were not able to buy World Series tickets.

Of the hundreds of e-mail messages 9Wants to Know received, only a few people were able to get tickets.

One man from Westminster says he went online at 10 a.m. and got four $250 Club Level tickets confirmed at 11 a.m.

The second person says he used two machines and got four $250 Club Level seats.

A third person, from Wyoming, was able to purchase two tickets.

The tickets sold were for Games 4 and 5.

All the other e-mailers either couldn't access the page, were knocked off the Web site, got permission to buy, but then were knocked off before they got a confirmation.

A spokesperson for Paciolan says it is experiencing problems with ticket sales and the company is "trying to assess and resolve" those problems right now.

Team officials have said their computers were ready to handle the expected rush of traffic, but some fans repeatedly got a message saying the Rockies' Web site couldn't be displayed.

The Rockies originally planned to sell tickets at Coors Field and the team's Dugout Stores in the Denver area as well as online. They announced Wednesday all sales would be online, saying that would be fairer.

Fan Mark Pierce, 49, said selling tickets online to everyone rather than setting some aside for Colorado fans was wrong. He said this summer he got to see the Rockies beat the New York Yankees for $4 in the Rockpile.

"It's rude to the Rockies fans, to the people who were the fans all this time when they were losers," Pierce said.

World Series Schedule:
Game 1: Boston, Wednesday, 6 p.m.
Game 2: Boston, Thursday, 6 p.m.
Game 3: Denver, Saturday, 6 p.m.
Game 4: Denver, Sunday, 6 p.m.
Game 5*: Denver, Monday 10/29, Time TBD
Game 6*: Boston, Wed 10/31, Time TBD
Game 7* Boston, Thurs 11/1, Time TBD

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