I don't mind this queue system either. It gives the appearance of fairness. (Yes, that is a loaded statement).
However, I didn't know you could "get in line" before the actual start time. And, were we all truly randomly placed in line? Someone posted getting in line 30 minutes before it opened and placed in the 700s or something. Much better than me! So was it random?? Never will know.
Back in the day, I remember camping out all night at a department store to be first in line to buy concert tickets. Then they went to a lottery system so that it didn't matter who was in line first -- you got your raffle tickets, they pulled a number, we started from that number, and that was that.
But...we actually SAW the raffle tickets in those days....