I got some stuff on the first free day.
I dunno if this will help for this years freeday, but a good tip is... "The F5 key wont help you navigate a site under heavy load!"
Seriously, F5 refreshes the current page.
If you click a button and a page doesn't load so you hit F5 you are reloading a page your already had, not the new page you want.
So when a page does load, switch the browser to offline mode and copy/paste the url to 10 new tabs then go back to online mode.
Now you have 10 buttons to try and get to the next page.
Then repeat..
(At least, that's what i did in firefox for freeday 1 and it worked well)