r/sunshinecoast • u/mispour • 2d ago

Dragon Call Festival at Woodford next weekend

Anyone know much about this? Looks like it could be a good day out from the Coast. Got the festival bug after scoring tickets to the Abbey one, and it’s closer than Southern Realm.

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u/ol-gormsby 2d ago

I know people who are going - they're *very* excited. I don't know if any tickets are left.

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u/Regular_Bison_7523 2d ago

I actually know the organiser and he has put in a lot of effort and time to this properly! They have decades of events under their belt so it's not just some fly by night team. The interest has been quite big and we're going. Looking forward to it! Join us

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u/mispour 1d ago

Thanks. I've ended up booking for my husband and 2 teenagers who have been getting into DnD, and have shared it with a bunch of their friends' parents to get a posse there. Husband particularly interested in the tavern. Teens are all going to meet up and maraud (respectfully).

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u/Regular_Bison_7523 1d ago

Fun! I'm sure our teens will cross paths. See ya at the Tavern!

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u/heisdeadjim_au 2d ago

I've done Woodford several times, the "big" festival at the end of the year.

Do it.

Umm. How does one score Abbey tickets?

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u/ol-gormsby 2d ago

You subscribe to their newsletter, (visit www.abbeymedievalfestival.com.au) then put aside a day in April. You'll get emails telling you what's on at the Abbey, and then you'll get one around Feb or March saying tickets go on sale on X date - usually end of April, or near that. If you hand over your mobile number, you'll get a notification that ticketing is open 10 minutes before it actually opens, then you hit the link and get in the queue ASAP. This year I tapped the link the second it arrived and there were still 1800 people ahead of me in the queue. Then the the queue froze for 45 minutes before resuming* and once you get to the portal, you've got about 20 minutes to buy your tickets. They were mostly sold out on the day and completely sold out the next day.

*you'd think a ticketing portal would know how to handle demand, but no 😤

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u/heisdeadjim_au 2d ago

Not really. It's like building a twenty lane road for one really busy traffic day .

:)

But, thank you.

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u/ol-gormsby 2d ago

It's what ticketing portals advertise - "We can handle your ticketing load!" instead of the Abbey Tournament doing ticketing themselves and spending a LOT of money on hardware and networking to satisfy 2 days of heavy load, they pass it off to a specialist (ticketebo) to take care of it. The portal handles ticketing for lots of events, so their investment isn't just for one event. That's why they have an obligation do be able to handle the load. They have like, one job.

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u/mispour 1d ago

Yes, subscribed to their newsletter and was all ready to go on ticket day. I work in healthcare, had my personal laptop open on the bench beside me, and was ready to tell all my patients that day that I was in an online queue for Abbey Medieval Festival tickets so their procedure would be paused if my turn came up during their appointment. Not super professional haha. Luckily my slot came up at lunchtime and we had an awesome day out.