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Unlucky fans who did not bag tickets to next year’s Glastonbury Festival have taken to social media to slam the new ticket queue system.

Festival organisers debuted a setup on Sunday (17 November) where punters were “randomly assigned a place in the queue” rather than refreshing the holding page when tickets went live.

Tickets to Glastonbury Festival 2025 sold out after 37 minutes, with hopefuls branding the new process as “outrageous” and  “horrendous”.

One addressed the organiser as they posted on social media: “@emilyeavis why oh why have you input this system. Worse than before. Punters hate it being out of their control. It’s horrendous.”

Numerous social media users reported technical issues while attempting to buy tickets. “My best friend got all the way to the front of the queue just to get REJECTED???” one person wrote on X/Twitter. “Talk about a new fair system’, what is this??” they questioned.

“Why would I get a message saying Access Denied when proceeding to pay a deposit? It was fine the whole way through, entered all registrations,” another person asked.

“Same happened to me,” a fellow punter replied. “Everything was entered correctly, then access denied when I clicked proceed. What time did you get in after the green bars of death? I was after 30 mins.”

Meanwhile, another person joked: “Bold of them to call themselves SeeTickets when I havent seen any tickets.”

Elsewhere, social media users likened the new ticket queue system to the reaping ceremony in The Hunger Games, where names are pulled from a glass bowl at random.

“Let the reaping commence and may the odds be ever in your favour,” one user wrote in reference to the dystopian film starring Jennifer Lawrence.

Although no headliners have been announced and Oasis have ruled themselves out, there are still plenty of huge acts that could still play the festival next summer.

The bookmakers Oddschecker have named pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo as one of the firm favourites for next year’s festival along with The 1975, Fred Again, Sam Fender, Sabrina Carpenter, Green Day, Rihanna and Harry Styles.

Eminem is also being hotly tipped for an appearance – and Taylor Swift has suddenly entered the mix as a potential headliner.

“I’ve been registered with Glastonbury tickets for 10 plus years and never got a ticket,” one fan lamented after tickets sold out for another year.

“I just want to experience it once.”