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Slayer are heavily rumoured to play only Hellfest and Download. Green Day are also ruled out since they're playing Hurricane / Southside on the same weekend.   Maybe Linkin Park - Korn - Slayer - Judas Priest?

That goes against what Emily said last year when she was asked about a ballot.

I tend to agree. However, from a commercial perspective, the organisation may feel differently, looking ahead. Personally, I think we're in for some significant changes as of 2027's event, changes that may divide the opinions of regulars (I was told of one possible change last night that might seem minor but it definitely alters the landscape from a volunteering standpoint). Some might suggest that it's already begun. Effectively removing a key part of shaping the demographic by turning the ticket buying system on its head, in my opinion, is a deliberate move to shake up the audience. I genuinely think they believe this is the fairest way of giving everyone the opportunity to attend. 

And that as a percentage of 2.5 million (the amount of people supposedly trying last year- notwithstanding that was probably multiple devices), is a success percentage of about 1.4%.   Terrifying indeed.

Yeah only time will tell - if it crashes and punts you out the thing all together to be back of the queue then it will be a complete disaster. I found last year the fact you were at a payment screen and it was still essentially a lottery (judging by twitter where loads of people got booted out trying to pay) that it was a bit of a shambles of a process. Not overly surprising they are changing it to "try" make it fairer.