As an unsuccessful applicant to the FFA for World Cup tickets I finally recieved notification today that I was unsuccessful. Some interesting things in the email. "-approximately 6% of applications were successful. - FFA Travel ultimately received 25,296 applications. - The first 1,384 of those applications were successful with the majority of people applying for 3 match packages to Australia's 1st Round matches. From those successful applications, the following shows the percentage of people in the various Package Codes: Package A: 11.2% (Escorted tour) Package B: 12.3% (Unescorted tour) Package C: 25.4% (Hostel and camping) Package D: 51.1% (Ticket only) We did receive a number of complaints from people querying how they could miss out on tickets when they sent in an application close to 9am. The answer is that all application forms were processed in the order they were received by the FFA Travel system. This means that the time sent from your system was not determinative. With the overwhelming demand for the limited number of FIFA World Cup tickets available, almost every person attempted to send in the application form exactly on 9am. Due to the very nature of the internet there are multiple variables that determine delivery speed, which all affect the time received by FFA Travel's system. These vary from email client software used, connection speed to the internet, whether anti-virus software is used, which mail server was used for sending, and the number of network devices between the sender's mail server and FFA Travel's mail server. All of the applications came into a single email mail box, including all emails and all faxes. Essentially, the system created a chronological queue based on the time of receipt of the application. From this point, FFA Travel processed each application in the order received." FFA Travel have also supplied info on how else we can get tickets. There are some expensive corporate hospitality tickets available for those with lots of cash (around $A2000 a game for the 3 group games). For the rest of us there is the FIFA lottery, although our game against Brazil was one of the most popular in the ballot. Good luck to all in the lottery.