The draw for contest 2,330 was held in São Paulo and broadcast on social networks and television. Two winning bets will split the prize, and each will take R$ 162,625,108.22 (US$31.3m). The dozens drawn were: 17 - 20 - 22 - 35 - 41 - 42. The modality “quina” had 1,384 winning bets, each taking R$ 48,978.81 (US$9,430). The “quadra” had 105,342 winning bets, each will take R$ 919.27 (US$177).
One of the winning bets was placed in Aracaju (SE), in the Northeast region of the country. The other winning bet was made online. Both hit the six-dozen drawn.
The total prize of R$ 325,250,216.44 (US$62.6m) is the highest in the history of lotteries in Brazil. It is also the largest individual award ever paid to the Mega da Virada winners.
Before Mega da Virada 2020, the biggest prizes, also from the same lottery game, were registered in 2017, in contest nº 2.000, when 17 bets shared the prize of R$ 306.7 million (US$59m); and last year, in which one bet from Juscimeira (MT), one from Criciúma (SC) and two from São Paulo (SP) shared R$304.2 million (US$58.5m).
The Caixa Lotteries website continued to show instability on Thursday, hours before the Mega da Virada draw. The problem has occurred since Tuesday last week. The failure in the application generated complaints on social networks; some customers stated that the stake was debited, but did not receive the ticket valid as proof of the bet.
Caixa's press office reported that the instability occurred because the volume of bets was higher than that normally seen.
Source: GMB
