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Event Lottery
February 07, 2013, 07:13:09 pm

Is there any way to implement an event lottery?  This would be a solution for events that have limited availability and a high demand.  Rather than invite and award the first people that are able to register (think ticket scalpers), we would randomly select a subset of registered people for attendance.

This would be great, but I am not sure if this can be done or has been done already?

Thanks

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Re: Event Lottery
February 07, 2013, 07:31:51 pm

one way to accomplish this might be:

a. Ask folks to fill out a profile with name / email

b. ensure that profile adds these people to a group: "event_lottery_applicants"

c. at end of event lottery, disable the profile

d. do some randomizing of contacts in the above group and create a new group event_lottery_winners

e. send an email (via CiviMail) to the above group members with a checksum  link to the final event registration.

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Re: Event Lottery
February 08, 2013, 08:18:22 am

Thanks.  I will try this out and let you know the results.

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Re: Event Lottery
June 15, 2013, 01:49:42 am
Well, I know what you all are going to do in this event, And I'll appreciate that if you cna invite me for this event or can let me know how i can participate?
For more check the attachment.
Regards,
Shirley
« Last Edit: June 15, 2013, 11:27:02 pm by petednz »
Shirley D. Felder

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Re: Event Lottery
June 15, 2013, 11:27:40 pm
I removed a txt file from above post as i doubt it is genuine but not certain yet
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