Olympic mascots Quatchi and Miga hold mock Olympic tickets. (CBC)

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

The more than 150,000 newly released tickets won't be offered in a lottery system the way the first round of tickets were. Instead, anyone who is interested will have to log on to the website of the Olympic organizing committee (known as VANOC) on June 6 and get into a "virtual line-up."

Buyers 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 vice-president and deputy CEO, 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, which are now 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."

Torch relay includes 19 more communities

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.

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 who were offered opportunities during the actual Games period. Organizers are seeking a total of 25,000 volunteers to help with Olympic and Paralympic events.