Looking into issue with Grand Arena Championship

"Klissen003;c-1894148" wrote:
Jesus. Some of us pay a lot to play this game. I dropped a vault or two to max my BH right before start. All of the posts about launching this on a weekend are so right. When has CG ever done the right thing? FML for being so addicted to this game.

*sighs*

All this about weekend launches.

The exhibition- which was stated explicitly to be a test run- was tied to the title update. The title update was a three-day process that occurred from Monday to Wednesday. Thursday was launch and signups. Friday was matchmaking and the first defense phase. Saturday was the first attack phase, when the critical error occurred. Had this exhibition continued, tomorrow would have also been a critical event, the first round transition. That is seven consecutive days of key events, with an eighth key event on day ten, the final resolution and payout.

Please tell me how you would fit this seven-day sequence of linked key events into a five-day work week with none of them falling on a weekend?

Let's say you choose to decouple the title update and exhibition. A move which would involve delays that this playerbase is not patient with no matter how much they say they hypothetically would be when moves to get prompt content encounters snags. Now, you have to place a seven-day exhibition with key events on days 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 in a five day work week. The only way to do that is to launch on Tuesday. If they started on Tuesday, then the launch would still be three days out and they'd have no data. Because they launched Thursday, it crashed, they got data, and they're still ahead of a Tuesday launch.

Project management!

Further, this was explicitly stated to be a trial run. If you chose to spend a large number of resources on a trial run, that's on you. Not on CG.