2020 Town Park Lottery?

[alexbarbosa42]

I'm on board for measuring our THC levels! 

mine are HIGH from the minute I get into town lol

[MaddieRose]

I'm on board for measuring our THC levels! 

mine are HIGH from the minute I get into town lol

SAAAAME. Except this year I'm wating until I get to Colorado to have anything anywhere near me. Don't need a repeat of last year..... 

[alexbarbosa42]

Town Park and Warner Field camping go on-sale at 9AM MST on Wednesday, December 11, 2019.
All remaining Telluride Bluegrass Festival tickets go on-sale at 9AM MST on Thursday, December 12, 2019.

[happytimes]

Arg!  We will be on our way -- on a plane -- to Strings & Sol!  What to do -- there must be others in this predicament.  What's the solution?

[ToddG]

I'd much rather put in and not get selected in a lottery, than wait possibly hours in an online queue where I still might not get selected or get tickets.

 Listening to: Haydn- Emperors hymn

[alexbarbosa42]

Arg!  We will be on our way -- on a plane -- to Strings & Sol!  What to do -- there must be others in this predicament.  What's the solution?

even if we miss out, we've got 6 months to find TP tickets. I am not too worried. I have never actually gotten TP through the lottery anyway, so I don't see much of a difference.

[Australian fan]

Tickets go on sale at 3am here on 12th December. It’s a working day and going to be very hard I suspect.  Good luck festivarians

[culasthewiz]

Tickets go on sale at 3am here on 12th December. It’s a working day and going to be very hard I suspect.  Good luck festivarians

Wow Lesley - that's rough!  Certainly one of the biggest downsides of moving away from a lottery based system is that people have to be in front of a device when the sale happens.  Pretty unfortunate for folks who are overseas, working, traveling, or otherwise unable to dedicate a few hours to this process.

[happytimes]

I am wondering about the queue.  If you log in an hour early, you're in line . . . but presumably don't have to be in front of screen till 9 a.m.  Then, how do you know when you're up?  Does screen automatically change to one of the other screens? And then the timer starts, or maybe not till order is up for charge.  Correct?

[culasthewiz]

I am wondering about the queue.  If you log in an hour early, you're in line . . . but presumably don't have to be in front of screen till 9 a.m.  Then, how do you know when you're up?  Does screen automatically change to one of the other screens? And then the timer starts, or maybe not till order is up for charge.  Correct?

Check out this post: https://www.festivarian.com/index.php?topic=37577.msg157941#msg157941

If you look at the last picture, there's a pre queue which I would imagine you wait at until 9am when presumably it would switch to the actual queue where it will show you your place in line and the estimated wait.

[BuckeyeDog]

I'm on board for measuring our THC levels! 

mine are HIGH from the minute I get into town lol

SAAAAME. Except this year I'm wating until I get to Colorado to have anything anywhere near me. Don't need a repeat of last year..... 

Maddie, we certainly don't need that again. Damn near gave us all heart attacks.

[MaddieRose]

I'm waiting to buy any grass until CO for sure. 

[FaceOnMars]

FoM LOL!!!!! I am not at all for tracking where I am during the festival....but I can get competitive about those points.

I miss the good ol' 3 x 5" index cards mailed in. At least them we could get creative and decorate them so they would catch the eye of the person divvying out the TP tickets. THAT was time well spent, unlike sitting on hold. Maybe we should have a 'selfe pic' competition for everyone on hold. Post you funniest/unique selfie while on hold for tickets. Winner with the most likes gets a Crunchy Frog.

I too will stay optimistic...... Hoping to make it for my 21st year.

As much as I'm not a fan of his in general, I give Shappy credit for using the bygone index card / mailorder system for "GD50 / Fare Thee Well" reunion.   While I certainly wouldn't want to have all aspects of life to be "throwbacks", I'd put ticketing in the same category as voting ... without a paper trail or direct involvement of human beings who are accountable, the system is bound to be gamed by those seeking to exploit vulnerabilities for personal gain.

I would like to keep going to see music in town park, but I think I might be done ... this is a tipping point for me.  It started with Blues & Brews last year (which likely also means Jazz Fest due to same promoter), but Bluegrass kinda pushes it over the edge.   After a little reflection, perhaps I didn't appreciate the old bygone system enough for the "sanctuary" that it was ... I was a bit harsh at times.   At this point, I'm not going to blame a dog for barking or a cat for scratching ... it's the nature of the business, but DO blame the Town of Telluride for not stepping up to the plate re: the use of public land by private interests in a manner that does the hokey pokey with subverting 4th amendment rights.

Not sure how many of you have ever been to Telluride for the 4th of July, but what if it the town decided to use RFID devices (that tether's ones identity to device) to restrict entry into town park in order to manage crowds?  Step back and ask whether it'd be OK for the town to require all vehicles or people entering town limits to possess an RFID device?

[completejohn]

Yes I’m worried that my 20th year in a row won’t happen because of the new system.  But I think the true level of success will be determined by the amount of tickets available thru scalping sites. 

If there is a sudden increase in availability of TP and WF tickets on Craigslist, stubhub or the hundreds of ticket broker sites, “our” fest is over.

See Tickets assures is that they have ways to eliminate Competition from the bots. But those ticket agencies are incredibly resilient.  If Russians can figure out ways to infiltrate our elections then ticket agencies can figure out a way to grab tickets faster than festivarians.

I’m hoping and praying that this turns out to be a wonderful new system.  But excuse me for being highly doubtful. 

[FaceOnMars]

A must read:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/discord-scalpers-harry-styles-ticket-resale-verified-fan/602647/