Ticket tips and Tricks for 2025 festival

[rubenz]

I don't really understand how the ticket queues work. How does it decide where you go in the queue if everyone piles in at the same time at 9am? 

[Pipine]

It assigns a random place in the queue for each queue ID.  

[incident]

24 minutes ago, rubenz said:

I don't really understand how the ticket queues work. How does it decide where you go in the queue if everyone piles in at the same time at 9am? 

 

Using the technology that See have recently brought in, there's a few different ways they could implement a queue.

 

The way that they did it for the Sam Fender sale, was a "waiting room" system - basically join the "queue" some time before the sale time, and then when the moment comes it allocates a random place in the queue to everyone waiting. Anyone who turns up after that point automatically joins the back of the queue (so is likely too late).

 

Theoretically they could also do it as a straight queue - with the system set to "open" at a nominated time, and queue position determined by the order people hit the server after that - "at the same time" doesn't really apply here - the queue software will know what order people "arrived" in, even if the difference the tiniest fraction of a second and so far smaller than anything perceptible to humans.

Edited 1 hour ago by incident

[rubenz]

So if they did a similar thing with glasto you could join the queue at the start and then be randomly allocated 300000th in the queue and you'd know straight away you had no chance!

 

I hope they keep it the same F5 frenzy as usual.

 

 

[incident]

Just now, rubenz said:

So if they did a similar thing with glasto you could join the queue at the start and then be randomly allocated 300000th in the queue and you'd know straight away you had no chance!

 

I hope they keep it the same F5 frenzy as usual.

 

The technology they're using does have the capability to show queue position, as seen on Ticketmaster and other places, but for the Sam Fender sale at least See kept that turned off so there was no way to determine an accurate position.

 

They just showed a progress bar, which as with any other progress bar can't really be trusted and is only as useful as the context you're able to put it in. Whether they keep it like that for other ticket sales is anyones guess - I keep refering to the Sam Fender sale because it's the only marker we currently have but there's certainly scope for them to do things differently.

[rubenz]

Ah I see, cheers for the info!

 

[dotdash79]

12 minutes ago, incident said:

 

The technology they're using does have the capability to show queue position, as seen on Ticketmaster and other places, but for the Sam Fender sale at least See kept that turned off so there was no way to determine an accurate position.

 

They just showed a progress bar, which as with any other progress bar can't really be trusted and is only as useful as the context you're able to put it in. Whether they keep it like that for other ticket sales is anyones guess - I keep refering to the Sam Fender sale because it's the only marker we currently have but there's certainly scope for them to do things differently.

Those queue position progress bar this are only relevant from the position you are in the queue to the front. 
 

e.g. you are 500 in the queue and your friend is 1000, and you move forward 500 places your progress bar would be complete but your friends would only be half way. Even though you have moved the same number of places.