On Saturday hundreds of queuing students were disappointed when tickets to the renowned June Event, the King's Affair, sold out 15 minutes into the start of the launch party. The launch in King's Bar and Cellar provided the first opportunity for non-Kings students to secure tickets, and the line of hopefuls stretched along King's parade to Corpus college.

Students waiting in line were told within a quarter of an hour of the doors opening at 9pm that there were no more tickets available. The next stage of booking (tickets were expected to go on sale online to all members of the University at 9am on Sunday morning) was cancelled, with the message that tickets had sold out during the launch party.

Christ's student Agathe Dupeyron was among the disappointed: "I got there early, queued for hours and still didn't get a ticket - despite The King's Affair webpage saying that attending the launch party guaranteed getting one."

"Only the first few meters of queue seems to have been successful. The hundreds of students behind them could only join the waiting list." Unlucky queuers were invited to add their names to the waiting list in hopes of unclaimed tickets becoming available later on, and were welcomed to attend the launch party nevertheless.

Secretary of the King’s Affair Committee 2011, Alice Bishop, was keen to refute the idea that party-goers were ‘guaranteed tickets’. She told Varsity on behalf of the Committee: “We were careful to never mislead students about the availability of tickets. Our publicity stated that there would be the opportunity to reserve tickets at the launch. We apologise to those left disappointed, and encourage them not to give up hope of obtaining a ticket if they are on the waiting list.”

“Further, the launch party itself was not restricted to those who managed to reserve tickets. We encouraged those queuing to attend the party nonetheless and, from what we could see, the attendees thoroughly enjoyed the event.”

Tickets have been available to King's students since 9am on Thursday 24th February, and their enthusiastic purchasing seems to have caught the Committee by surprise.

They apologise on their website to those students who were unable to secure tickets despite queuing, and explain that "Internal ticket sales increased by nearly a factor of three from last year so we had far fewer tickets available for a much larger of number of people arriving from other colleges. We shall be reviewing our procedure for the launch party next year."

Those lucky enough to secure one of the £65 tickets are in for a treat: the theme was revealed as 'A Midsummer Nightmare', and the committee promise 'the best music line-up in Cambridge with over 40 hours of DJs, Bands, MCs and everything in between.'