Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival Tickets, Lineup and How to Enter

Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival is Rockstar’s launch-week music event, and the only way in is a lottery. The festival runs Saturday, November 21 at Mana Wynwood in Miami. Entries for the DICE ticket draw close Tuesday, November 10 at 4 p.m. ET, according to Rockstar’s official event page. The game itself launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19, two days earlier, and the full date and edition breakdown is on our GTA 6 release date page.

How to enter: DICE handles the tickets, and codes go out through Laylo in a drawing of eligible participants. Rockstar’s page lays out three timestamps. Entries close at 4 p.m. ET on November 10. Winners are drawn at 7 p.m. ET that same night. Tickets for those winners go on sale at noon ET on Wednesday, November 11. Two tickets per person, they are non-transferable, and you have to be 17 or older. One practical warning from Rockstar: make your DICE account right after you enter, using the same email address and phone number as the entry. Get that wrong and the system can flag you as a bot and pull you out of the draw.

November 10 is a double deadline for PlayStation players. Pre-download for GTA VI opens at local midnight that day, PlayStation says, and the festival draw closes at 4 p.m. ET.

The bill is the point: two stages of nonstop music with artists who feature in the game and its official soundtrack. Cactus Jack presents Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Kodak Black and Sofaygo. Cardi B, Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, Justice on a DJ set and Metro Boomin are on the bill too. So are Nick León b2b DJ Python, Prospa b2b Skream, Rauw & Friends, Suero, Tainy, and The Dare b2b Fcukers on a DJ set. Rockstar says the festival is presented in partnership with PlayStation and produced by the creators of III Points. If you want to know what plays in Vice City, our guide to every confirmed song and radio station has the list.

Getting in is the easy part. Mana Wynwood sits at 318 NW 23rd St, and every ticketholder comes in through 5th Avenue. There is no parking on site, so rideshare is the plan, with drop-off points around the perimeter of the grounds. Keep the bag small: no non-clear bag larger than 6 by 9 inches, and every bag gets searched on entry. Security runs a thorough search, with checks such as emptied pockets, a full pat-down and possibly removing your shoes.

Two things stand out about how this draw is run. First, this is a concert instead of a demo. Rockstar’s page sells tickets to a music event and says nothing about playable access to GTA VI, so the festival is a launch-week broadcast instead of a chance to try the game early. Second, the entries close at 4 p.m. ET and the winners are picked three hours later, on the same Tuesday night. The DICE account setup is the part worth doing first, before anything else on the page.

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