VANCOUVER - Canadians who lost out on the ticket lottery for the 2010 Winter Games earlier this year will have another opportunity to score some tickets next month.

But the more than 150,000 tickets won't be offered in a lottery system the way the first round of tickets were.

Instead, anyone who wants some will have to log onto the organizing committee's website on June 6 and get into a "virtual line-up.''

Purchasers will be chosen at random from those who get in line at www.vancouver2010.com.

"There will be some randomness to it in that the system we have can only handle so many people at a time,'' Dave Cobb, the organizing committee's marketing vice-president, explained Wednesday after the group's board meeting.

"When you log on to the ticket area on our web site you'll go into a virtual waiting room that will allow people in as the capacity of the system allows. And it'll be random once you're in the waiting room to get into the system.''

Tickets will be available for all events, including several thousand for the opening and closing ceremonies and tens of thousands of tickets for hockey and curling.

The tickets were held back from the first round of sales last fall and include some returned by the so-called Olympic family - participating countries, sporting organizations and corporate sponsors.

Most of the publicly available tickets for next February's Games were spoken for in the first round, which produced $94.7 million in revenue.

Cobb said this round is expected to generate between $40 million and $50 million because there is a larger percentage of high-value events, including "well into the hundreds of tickets'' for the gold-medal hockey finals.

Board members also noted Wednesday that the recession continues to loom over the Games that now are less than nine months away.

"We have commented a number of times that it seems that all of the work now that we do ... everything has to be done in a different environment than we had anticipated,'' said VANOC chief executive John Furlong.

"So we're working hard at keeping a diligent eye on the bottom line.''

VANOC board chairman Jack Poole said the uncertainty has required the organization to monitor daily the sponsorship funds that are committed but not yet received.

Cobb said VANOC has achieved almost 99 per cent of its target on domestic sponsorship commitments, including a recent new signing that has not yet been announced.

"We do hope to conclude negotiations with a couple of others we're working on now in the next month or so,'' he said. "But we're not going to stop there.''

The International Olympic Committee has signed nine sponsors, so far two short of its goal of 11, Cobb said, adding he got updates Wednesday on discussions the IOC is having with prospective sponsors.

"There's still a lot of interest in the marketplace despite what's happened in the economy,'' he said.

The 2010 Games list of sponsors and suppliers includes troubled companies such as General Motors, Nortel and Air Canada.

But Cobb said no company has reneged on delivering a cash payment or products or supplies in kind.

"We've got through six or eight months since the downturn started without a default and we expect to get through the Games with the same situation,'' he said.

VANOC also confirmed Wednesday that the route for the torch relay through Canada has been finalized with the addition of 19 communities, including three that now will host Olympic flame celebrations.

The board heard from Vancouver city manager Penny Ballem that the financially troubled Olympic Village development on the city's waterfront was largely on schedule.

The city was forced to take over financing of the $1-billion project after the developer's international financing dried up.

VANOC and its official online recruitment supplier Workopolis also announced the names of 13 volunteers chosen to represent their provinces and territories at the Games.

They're among the first of 200 volunteers offered Games-time roles. Organizers are calling for 25,000 volunteers to help with Olympic and Paralympic events.