Personally, I do not see something breakthrough in this news. They just transferred their database to the blockchain and that's it. As for security, I would argue, any person can transfer his phone to another and he can go through without checking instead of the first.

That's big news, I guess. But decentralization of ticket distribution will be something tough to fight for, because everybody knows ticketing is unfair and lots of issuances go to touts. Not you want to blockchain it, will the poorer fans who couldn't afford it from touts be able to access this technology?

Let's see if people download yet another app for it.

When you say "can the world change... " do you mean a change that will herald only cryptocurrency being used, without fiat or any other method of payments, that wish may never come to pass.
The blockchain may be more popular that cryptocurrency, and it's understandable, it's more viable to be used in more areas, even in ones that are not related to digital currencies, just as its used in the OP. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are working well imo, more adoptions will happen, but the world won't use crypto only.

I think Cointelegraph was one of the first to publish some new son this around over a week ago, echoing some of the information provided in the UEFA link provided by @Stompix.

I’ve seen some sources decontextualize the news, and not delimiting the scope of it to the UEFA 2020 Euro (Euorocup) specifically. It does not apply to any other competitions yet. This year’s Euro event is held in 12 different countries in Europe, changing the traditional format of the event, which is normally played within a single country.

The system aims at reducing ticketing fraud, being Blockchain the basis (but as already mentioned on this thread, a regular BD (with some replication for fault tolerance) could just as well be the supporting information repository).

Those that do use it, do have to install a specific App and activate their Bluetooth in order to allow for the steward to activate and validate the ticket at the gates. I wonder what the B plan is if someone who purchases a ticket and uses the App has issues with the Bluetooth pairing/permissions …

Info:
https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/newsid=2638651.html
https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d81b722c218-d891664d67c9-1000--euro-all-you-need-to-know/?iv=true

No, you don't  . This whole initiative does not promote blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in any way. But has anybody heard of this CHZ coin where some European teams are investing in it? I think in the near future some cryptocurrencies might adopt the use of some stable cryptocurrencies as a mode of payment especially with the increase of the spread of Coronavirus.

Unfortunately, there is no reason to be excited about it. They just will use blockchain technology and there is relation with cryptocurrencies. Lot of big companies have adopted to use blockchain technology, UEFA is just one of them. But can someone tell how many of them actually started to accept Bitcoin payments? Because just adopting blockchain technology don't give any benefits to cryptocurrency.
I doubt that UEFA are considering to accept Bitcoin payments for tickets, especially when some banks are important sponsors of UEFA.

Don't care if it's a private blockchain but if they actually make it useful for us to see and get a "provably fair" demonstration of exactly how those random assignments happen, I'd like to give it a try. Kind of tired of always trying for those lottery tickets (ask me about Eurovision too dammit) and just never getting it... only to see hundreds of them on sale by touts later on.

Don't think we ever will get that though. The same executives probably have backdoor deals with touts.

What I'd welcome is a way to verify entries via a bitcoin wallet let's say. And prove ownership later on at the gates =D make it that much harder to tout these tickets.

Before we're all excited if there's a company or establishment that will use the technology for its purpose. But yeah, it has nothing to do with bitcoin or cryptocurrencies.

Well, let's see how this application will do.