Burning Man To Launch Ticket Lottery

In 2011, Burning Man sold out for the first time in 25 years. Next year, there will be a new way to get tickets.

The process will require ticket seekers to register by price tier during a two-week period that has yet to be announced. They will then go through several lottery rounds for each pricing tier, and the ones that are picked will be billed, organizers said in the Burning Man newsletter, Jack Rabbit Speaks. The announcement was reposted in a discussion forum run by the Burning Man team. The new lottery system will eliminate “the annual ticket sales rush” and begin to “address the challenges of scarcity,” organizers explained.

The federal government limits attendance to 50,000.