Demand for Edmonton Oilers 50/50 tickets crashes site

The frenzy over Edmonton Oilers 50/50 tickets continued Friday, with so many fans wanting to purchase tickets that the website crashed.

Daily Hive tried to access it around 5:30 pm MT Friday, but received an error message. The jackpot currently sits at just over $5-million.

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Even with no fans physically in the arena, hockey enthusiasts are still showing their support by purchasing tickets to win the in-game lottery prize.

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The 50/50 ticket fever follows a week of ticket sales producing higher and higher jackpots. On Wednesday, the jackpot hit $5 million after only five hours of ticket sales.

Tickets can be purchased on the Edmonton Oilers website — if you can get through, that is.

So the @EdmontonOilers 50/50 is up to $5.2M but I can’t seem to get thru to buy a ticket! #oilers5050 #NHLOilers #yeg

— Kristine (@kreeny80) August 7, 2020

The Edmonton #Oilers 50/50 only at $5.2 Million. Even though the site was spitting some geolocation error code, I used a different browser to by-pass it. Pray I win half of this amount. Keeoing fingers crossed. #YEG #NHL #Oilers5050 pic.twitter.com/8WeZJwAHxO

— MacJordan 🇨🇦🇬🇭 (@MacJordaN) August 7, 2020