The Washington Post reports that round two of ticket sales for the 2012 London Olympics drew public ire within hours of its launch on Friday for the slowness of the website as thousands of sports fans across the UK logged in at the wee hours Friday morning to get an early start in bidding, and found the site was working — but almost impossibly slow.

Edwin Parkinson, Director of Viagogo told Associated Press:

"This frantic Friday has created the biggest rush ever in U.K. history... It's even bigger than Michael Jackson's comeback tour."

The latest chapter in a ticketing mess that has drawn criticism nationwide because of its complexity and perceived lack of fairness, comes after two-thirds of ticket seekers failed to earn any in a first round that ended in April.

More than one million people in the UK missed out on tickets according to the Australian Herald Sun:

Nearly two-thirds of the 1.9 million people in the UK who applied to see events at the 2012 London Olympics were left empty-handed.

Despite a batch of three million on sale, only 700,000 applicants - 36 percent - landed the "greatest tickets on Earth."

That left 1.2 million people forced to enter a second round of sales to get a chance to attend the global spectacular next year.

Apologetic organizers promised that those who lost out would be given the first opportunity to buy the next batch of 2.3 million tickets when it goes on sale early June 24.