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0 pointsfidotron12y ago0 comments

I believe the thinking is that the previous setup meant that most people there were the kind that would obsessively refresh windows in order to secure places. The lottery means there's no benefit to those possibly excessively enthused about the idea, and so the tone of the whole thing could be more balanced and professional.

They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge.

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objclxt12y ago

> They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge.

Is this no different to selling out in minutes though? Besides, hotels already know a) the dates of Google IO, and b) how many people are attending, so you'd imagine they'd already have priced that into their rates. Unless you're talking about the actual booking systems going offline, but that seems unlikely as lots of people will use aggregators (Expedia, Kayak, etc) at scale.

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