yeah like even like a 2 min hold seems necessary to give you time to type
Seems not helpful for people trying from the same household really. Also if it’s the same system as the Oasis one, it’s quite easy to get locked out of by mistake e.g. by refreshing, then you get blocked and can’t get back in (could use a VPN but by that time you’re in last and you’re not getting tickets).
Does have it’s downsides
Still be 150,000 scousers there
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Ah fuck this lads. Bogus
I think this is fairer overall. Before it was a factor of both luck AND skill. Trying to game the system with groups and spreadsheets etc, felt like too much to ask for most people.
Now it’s just luck. I guess yes it’s bad if you accidentally get kicked out or close your tab etc… I feel like there could be a fix for this in future though, like you get given a code when you enter the queue and if you get kicked out you enter the code in and go back in where you were?
The queue is just another thing that will break and make the ticket buying process longer and more aggravating. This way is gonna be even more devastating for the ppl who don’t manage it I think.
The old way was pretty much a ballot, but in a way you could boost your chances by being just a bit more enthusiastic about it.
Or just do a lottery for the tickets and fuck the whole thing off. Would be a bit complicated with groups but I’m sure there’s an algorithm for that
Edit: actually don’t really like that idea, since at least with the current system, you have to really want them to have a chance
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I guess it would be nice to reward perseverance and how much hunger you really have, but I think the current system got to the point where it almost discriminated against you based on technical prowess and how many friends you have wanting to go
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I haven’t tried to get tickets for maybe 12 years now, after being successful the previous 6. My kids really want to go and I’m really excited to go. I’m very technically minded, in my job and at home, but the realisation that the best practise for getting tickets has evolved so much over the years has given me an incredible amount of stress this last few weeks! I was fully intended to have multiple different connections, on different computers, networks, vpns, everything, and try and join a group.i want these tickets badly. Reading about this change has made me feel like I’m on a level playing field at least
Does this new system impact the mass spreadsheet people? I’m up for it if so tbh.
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They should just ask anyone who wants a ticket if they plan to do a jog around the festival site
If the answer is yes, they’re banned for life
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You should be made to walk through a “test field” which consists of mud lakes and piles of shit. You aren’t given wellies, only your favourite trainers. And at the end you have to stand through an Ed Sheeran set. You then sleep in a ditch. If you’re alive at the end you can have a ticket.
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I don’t think so, in a way makes it more important to have a few people covering you
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Saturday night then?
Just to clear up my logic btw. First time we’ve tried getting tickets for years. A friend has added us into their spreadsheet group they normally have. Rules says “Try for your sub-group (pf 6). IF you get tickets you carry on and try for the other sub-groups”. This would make sense last year, but not so much this year? Because you’d essentialyl go tot he back of the queue once you rejoinined for another gruop, and chances at that point are close to zero? It feels like the best you can do is make our your group of 6, or even egt people not going to try for you?
I think that’s right, unless for example you used your phone on your mobile network and your laptop on broadband WiFi and they both happened to get close to the front of the queue
yeah its still a numbers game with added luck.
if you have 6 people all in group A trying on 4 devices, they could get lucky and have lower numbers than the 6 people in groups B, C, and D… etc.
I mean yeah, I’ll use multiple devices to join the queue before the ticket sale starts and won’t be at the back of the queue on all of those. My assumption above was that you’d be joining the back when you started trying for the other groups. But actually, I’ll likely still be in the queue on my other devices so I would then just switch to make those already open get used for trying for the other groups. So no, my intial point doesn’t hold
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Glastonbury 2025 is going to be funny because Dave Grohl will appear in the sets and everyone in the audience will just tut at him and he’ll be like “I’m sorry, I can change” and Tom Jones is just standing there trying to break the atmosphere by banging out “sex bomb” and Dave’s just like “what are you fuckin doing Tom stop it”
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There’s also 6 people in each group. So if ppl 1, 2, and 3 from group A, but nobody from group B or C get through, then ppl 2 and 3 from group A sort out B and C.
I think this system will benefit big groups even more than the old one because the old one needed everyone engaged and refreshing for the whole sale. The new system means you don’t need to make that much effort, just open a tab at 9 and keep one eye on it.
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