The Spidercam that has been hovering above the pitch in four of the stadiums for the World Cup in South Africa is manufactured by spidercam GmBH (headquartered in Austria). The company was founded in 2000 as CCSystems Inc and the prototype free-flying 360° view camera came into play in 2003. 2007, spidercam GmBH was founded. (more…)
FIFA just released another 1600 tickets, so there are oodles of Category 1 tickets still available!
Only R 4 200.00 each! So hurry over to https://lmsfwctickets.fifa.com/LMS/UserArea/Wizard.aspx if you’re that way inclined… I wonder how close to the “64 100” attendance in the 68 000 seater stadium we will get today… R 6 720 000 more revenue on 1 match… (more…)
IOL – the online offering of Independent Newspapers – seems to have issues — only two stories show up – one about Nigeria reversing their ban on its soccer team (and announcing that the football federation said it would disband and rebuild the side) and another after a very strange story about the Gatsby International Health Spa, and the search they performed on the suspicion of theft… (more…)
That place on the web that sells tickets to the foot-operated sport worth billions taking place in a country featuring cities like Cape Town and Johannesburg this year – FIFA.com – has taken the count-down clock off-line – so I had to find other sources to give the 2 day, 18hr count-down.
Meanwhile, there is some uproar regarding the takings some teams have in store for them as winnings paid by their own countries should them come home successfully from the World Cup 2010, even in the light of world-wide “financial pressure”.
So, how much can each player expect to take home as earnings should they lift the trophy?
Let’s translate this into South African Rand (€ 1 = R 9.5014 on 8 June 2010 at 16:00), and compare this to the per-capita GDP in South Africa (latest World Bank figure (2008) is $5,678 (approx R 44 912.98 at the same conversion rate date, at $1 = R 7.91), Stats South Africa is offline (technical error):
So if Spain win, their 23-man squad takes home as much as 2918 South Africans earn (gross) in a year. I just worked that out. Compare that with www.capetown.travel‘s info regarding trivia on the new Cape Town Green Point Stadium: “More than 2 500 workers were employed on site during construction, and almost 1 200 artisans received training from the contractors.”
Just a thought… Kinda surprising, but I guess that’s big soccer…
Tickets are still available for Cape Town for the following matches in the following categories: (more…)
Seems like tickets are flying… check the usage at 15:53 SAST on 5 June below.
Now compare this with the availability at 18:24 SAST today same time (ie 2hr 31 min later), below.
Seems like tickets are near to the “sold-out” definition – but let’s wait for the re-shuffle to proceed…
TimesLive reports that 58 000 tickets will be made available on Monday (remember my previous comment regarding the 90 000 tickets vs the higher number of tickets released?): (more…)
So the big ticket shuffle has started again, and tickets that were “currently not available” this morning, at least for the Cape Town matches (France – Uruguay) are available again – if only in Category 1. An overall view shows tickets available across the board (especially in Polokwane and Rustenburg…)
If you’re keen on getting tickets, keep checking back on the Last Minute Sales FIFA World Cup Ticketing site (as long as it’s up… <grin>) [oh, and add as many ™ and ® signs as you feel like – in your head (if you don’t get the joke, don’t worry)]. (more…)
So the booking system came back online on Friday – late afternoon; after it crashed in the morning, thus shifting online booking advantage drastically… Sigh. And now it’s “Sold Out” in all the good ones. Weren’t they going to release 160 000 tickets? And then it came down to 90 000 tickets…? Perhaps they reported it incorrectly on the news? (more…)
So more tickets went on sale today. Or did they? When I visited the http://lmsfwctickets.fifa.com/LMS link yesterday, I got an IIS7 welcome screen (Welcome to IIS7 — is that the new Icelandic Soccer Federation? 🙂 which was then fixed about 30 minutes later. That was after the IIS7 ASPX BSOD about their web.config file. Bad omen. This after previous hitech hitches…
So tickets went online today at 9am SAST. Connection timed out. Connection error. But that has been fixed 3 hrs later:
How disappointing… Sigh… At least there’s consistency in terms of ticket day launches…
Perhaps there may be another few tickets on the horizon at some stage…
The counter at the top of the page shows that there are 18 days (and 9 hours) to go before kick-off to the world cup. Have all the tickets sold out? Well, currently, there are signs that some matches are currently unavailable, but in the last 30 minutes, the selection screen has dropped down – from all matches, to just the first 14, to just the opening match in Johannesburg – which has not tickets currently available…?
No options, no tickets, no sales… Hm…. I guess that’s one way of creating a demand…
The entire ticket purchasing system is not available at present, please try again later…