Submission + - Quake Live is Packed - Public Beta goes Live
"Here we are all dressed up and nowhere to go. Don't worry, to make sure everyone can enjoy the game we have activated our super secret Queue system, which keeps the server from being overloaded and affecting the website."
I've been waiting 40 minutes and now up to 591, after starting from 9982 but have been playing Quake 3 to kill time.