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Astroworld: Organizers’ Calculation Error Resulted in Too Many Attendees, Court Docs Reveal


A miscalculation by organizers contributed to too many ticketed attendees at the tragic Astroworld festival in November 2021, new court records show.

A miscalculation by organizers contributed to too many ticketed attendees at the tragic Astroworld festival in November 2021, new court records show. Also, there was the gate-crashers problem: “It’s the hundreds without bands on the perimeter,” one of the organizers wrote to Live Nation’s senior director for global security operations ( via Houston Landing). Earlier this month, Drake — who made a guest appearance during Scott’s Astroworld set — requested that he be dismissed from ongoing litigation in connection from the tragedy, with his lawyers arguing that the rapper “did not receive any security briefings, was not informed of any crowd control issues, injuries or deaths in the crowd, or any stop show orders at any time either before or during his 14-minute performance.”

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