Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

Million bid for 100 m at the Olympic Games

 at Stratford Olympic Stadium will host the organizers jewel of London 2012 100 meters men finals have received more requests of a million tickets to Olympic 100 m men final.

The session, in the Olympic Stadium on August 5, next year, is one of the most sought-after games in London.


Some 40 000 seats are available after the stadium capacity was reduced by half through sponsors, VIP and media.


Candidates will be discover by June 24 if they have received none of the 6.6 million available Olympic tickets.

Level of demand

Approximately 1.8 million people applied, with a total of $ 20 million ticket requests.


Competition to see the finals - likely feature Jamaican, specialist in 100 m athlete and champion Olympic Usain Bolt - would still be fierce.


Such was the level of demand in the recent ballot for tickets to the Olympic Stadium in London is could have been sold at least 20 times more.


Sports editor David Bond BBC said those who have requested Olympic tickets will be watching their bank accounts for an indication of what the tickets they were assigned.


But with other major events to be as subscriber more as the final sprint, millions of people could be left disappointed.

Method of sale

Olympic organizers seek to make £ 500 m from the sale of tickets in the bid to raise the 2bn £ by private means.


Lord Coe, Chairman of Locog Organising Committee, said: "it is really important that 25% of what you see out there of the Organization of these games is our ability to our recipes of tickets of the nails."


Lord Coe also defended the method to sell Olympic tickets that sees payments from accounts of the people until they know the notes they received.


He said: "it was very clear to us, very early that we would take the money and us would then do people know what they got.

"It is easier to do both, rather than dribs and drabs." It is always the case. ?

Olympic ticket prices range from £ 20 to £ 725 for the final sprint jewel and reached £ 2,012 for the opening ceremony on July 27.


On Wednesday, the first locations 74 on the route of the 2012 Olympic Games torch relay were revealed.


End of the Earth, it will see the Olympic torch 8,000 miles (12,800 km) covering every nation and region in the United Kingdom, including through visits to the island.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Osama bin Laden cache battlefield of video games

SAN FRANCISCO- Images of the Pakistani compound where Osama bin Laden made his final stand was transformed into a field of battle of video games.


A map of software named fy_abbottabad in reference to the city where an American military team killed the notorious Al-Qaeda leader in a raid on May 2 was available Monday as a parameter to play the game "Counter-strike." computer online


The map program described as a creation by "fletch" had been downloaded more than 6 400 times of gamebanana.com Web site late Monday.


The parameter is a virtual version of the compound where bin Laden was killed in the raid by the US Navy SEALs, but not step features interior of buildings. Players fight it out in the field of the enclosure.


Fletch dismissed critics online that the bin Ladens slaying was too soft to make light in a video game.


"What many people seem to understand it is that the only thing that this map has in common with Osama is location,"fletch."said in a blog at gamebanana.com"


"I do not see how people think that it is in bad taste, but honestly that if that is your opinion you can protest the entire game (and many others).


"Counter-strike" games created by game of people focus on the State of Washington Valve Software online as terrorists or members groups counter-terrorism with "maps" for missions such as assassinations or the rescue of the hostages.


Fletch said the map made available was a temporary creation and the "substantial update" is nearly complete.


"I find much better than this version (fy_)," wrote Fletch.


"The idea is that the T (terrorists) is returned to destroy the before sensitive information can be located and taken away."