Berlin's international film festival has this horrendous system where they'll release a small batch of tickets online every morning on certain dates, and you ju

Berlin's international film festival has this horrendous system where they'll release a small batch of tickets online every morning on certain dates, and you just have to sit there, refresh refresh and hope you clicked fast enough. Serious major events use a lottery system, which is vastly more fair and means you don't need the server infrastructure to deal with this huge flood of requests. I'm not really sure why everything doesn't work like that: let people submit their requests/applications/whatever, and if you truly have zero other criteria, just process them in random order after a cutoff.