My uneventful, non hack ticket story.
I got through by typing in the URL and leaving it. I went back and it had the screen to click to go through to registration entering.
I clicked it and went back in a queue and I left it to do its thing.
Screen appeared, I was successful.
I left it to very chilled out chance this year rather than hammering refresh and was very pleasantly surprised.
Tickets for two of us secured at 0845