Newcastle United home game tickets are more in demand than ever. With tens of thousands of season ticket holders and even more members to consider, there isn’t much space for anyone else.
If you’ve tried to buy tickets, especially those on general sale, you’ll already be bracing for the stressful event that is “the queue”. Employed on the website on ticket sales days, the virtual queue manages when and how many fans can access the booking site at any one time and there’s nothing more stress-inducing than watching the little man kick the football to the front of the queue.
For Newcastle’s trip to Wembley, there haven’t been any ticket details officially confirmed yet, but we’ll hazard a guess and say that fans can expect to hang out in the virtual waiting room when the time does come. In anticipation, we’ve done some research on the Queue It system so that you don’t have to.
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What is Queue It?
In layman’s terms, Queue It is a piece of software designed to manage the flow of online traffic to a website without crashes or robots. It’s used by all manner of websites for all kinds of things, for example, Ticketmaster used Queue It to manage the number of fans trying to buy Harry Styles tickets whilst Currys has used it for PS5 sales.
How does Queue It work?
Imagine yourself sitting in the GP surgery waiting for your appointment, that is what Queue It builds, only it’s online. It means that anyone who tries to visit a website to buy tickets is instead sent to the waiting room and joins a virtual queue.
Once you’re at the front of the queue, your page will refresh and guide you through to the website to buy tickets. What’s frustrating is logging onto the website on time and soon seeing that there are an insane 34,000 people in front of you.
However, Queue It is designed with fairness in mind, making sure that genuine people are the ones accessing the site. It helps to deter the use of bots, programmed to snap up as many tickets as possible and sell them for five times the price.
Are there tips for buying tickets?
According to the Queue It website, the software is designed to be mobile, meaning that you don’t need to be glued to the page and refresh the page every second. When you open the page on your phone’s browser, you’ll automatically be directed to the waiting room and then once the tickets go on sale, you’ll be automatically entered into the queue.
If you were to leave the browser or app, lock your phone or if your phone died, your place in the line is saved and as soon as you’re up and running you’ll be back in again. The same should happen whether you’re using a laptop or tablet.
There are claims that opening multiple tabs on your web browser can get you multiple places in the queue, but we haven’t confirmed that this is the case. However, we can say that using multiple devices can get you multiple places in the queue, so if you can break out your phone, laptop and tablet then you'll get at least three tries.
We can also confirm that it does not matter what time you log onto the website as long as you are there when tickets go on sale. All places in the queue will be randomised.
For example, general sale semi-final tickets for the Carabao Cup went on sale at 10am. Fans who entered the waiting room at the crack of dawn were not given first spots in the queue because they’d waited the longest. Instead, everyone who was there at 10am was assigned a random queue number and those who joined after 10am were sent to the back of the queue.
This part of the system is designed so that people can get on with their everyday lives before sales start. It means that people who need to commute to work or do the school run, can do so without worrying that they’ve missed the chance before tickets have even gone on sale.
So, when the queue system is next used. Make sure you’re in the waiting room at least few minutes before tickets go on sale, but you don’t have to block out a whole hour.
Once you’re in the queue, you’ll be shown an estimated wait time until it’s your turn. That way, you can continue with your business until it’s your turn, you don’t have to be waiting with your eyes glued to the screen.
When will Newcastle announce Wembley ticket information?
The club has announced that ticket information will be confirmed and announced within the coming days. Organisers must first wait until the result of Manchester United and Nottingham Forrest is official at the end of their match tonight.
It is estimated that each team will be given around 30,000 tickets each for the final at Wembley on February 26th. With as many Newcastle season ticket holders already, the scramble for tickets will be just that. Good luck!
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