It's very definitely first-come-first-served. If you get there as late as Friday night, you pretty much haveta squeeze in where you can.

I suggest being sick on Friday and coming Thursday night.

For a sure-fire way of locating close to some other 'catters, find the sign shown in the link under one of my posts higher up in this thread. But you may regret it. We tend to accumulate flatpickers (sigh!) and fiddlers (twitch!) and a few banjo players (gag!)

P.