Garth Brooks Cancels Kansas City Matinee After Bots Flood Ticket Queue

Overview

• Brooks added a lower‑bowl matinee for Kansas City to meet strong demand but announced on Monday that the November 7 matinee has been canceled.
• When tickets went on sale Friday the online queue showed more than 90,000 parties, which Brooks and his team say were largely bots holding floor and lower‑bowl seats.
• The ticketing platform AXS and the T‑Mobile Center stopped the problematic sale as the bot activity escalated and buyers who purchased matinee tickets will be automatically refunded.
• Brooks said the bot problem has been getting worse on the tour, apologized to fans and pledged to personally investigate what can be done to protect real buyers.
• Sales for Brooks’s Seattle dates on the same day proceeded smoothly and sold out, highlighting that the disruption in Kansas City was a localized ticket‑bot surge that underscores broader concerns about automated scalping blocking ordinary fans.