What is the chance for Lottery this Year (H1B - 2014)?

What is the chance for Lottery this Year (H1B - 2014)? There are rumors that may or maynot be - is there anyway to predict it?

When USCIS consider for lottery?

What is the deadline for reciving the applications, so that lottery system will be there?

if on April 1st 2013 USCIS receives more than 65K applications, they would consider a lottery. There are chances but very slim. There is no certain way of predicting this, just have a look at the previous years quota completion date explained on the main blog.