POLL: Preferred tournament times (viewers and participants)

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by Quitch, August 19, 2014.

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What is the best tournament start time for you?

  1. Saturday 0800 - 1200 UTC

    14.6%
  2. Saturday 1300 - 1700 UTC

    34.1%
  3. Saturday 1800 - 2000 UTC

    75.6%
  4. Sunday 0800 - 1200 UTC

    14.6%
  5. Sunday 1300 - 1700 UTC

    24.4%
  6. Sunday 1800 - 2000 UTC

    41.5%
Multiple votes are allowed.
  1. Quitch

    Quitch Post Master General

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    This is a question aimed at both viewers and participants. It would be incredibly helpful for eXodus (and others I'm sure) to know what time is best for people. Multiple selections allowed.

    Additional comments welcome too.

    To check UTC against your local time click the link below:

    http://everytimezone.com/
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  2. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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  3. Quitch

    Quitch Post Master General

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    So France is current on CEST which is UTC+2, once it reverts to CET it'll be UTC+1.
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  4. mot9001

    mot9001 Well-Known Member

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    So i learned today that utc is actually also gmt. This must help all europeans atleast a minute of googling. For the interested, its not exactly the same, but for PA it is the same enough.
  5. cwarner7264

    cwarner7264 Moderator Alumni

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    I prefer UTC to GMT because the 'G' in GMT stands for Greenwich, which is in London. Because of the geographical association, a lot of people use GMT to mean 'British Time', which is only correct for half of the year. UTC is geography-neutral so more likely not to get confused.
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  6. cdrkf

    cdrkf Post Master General

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    I think you need to bear in mind that people who play PA are situated all over the globe.

    For UK, Friday 18:00 UTC or later is fine, or any time on Sat for me really.

    However if we wan't to involve people in Aus / NZ they really need late Friday (22:00 UTC) or ealy sat (9:00 UTC) to be able to play. This is what has determined the times of the Promethean (predominantly EU) vs Team Burning (Aus / NZ players) games.

    The down side is those times are out of hours for US based players, I'm not sure there is a sensible time that works for all 3 time zones though...

    What I'd suggest though is if possible Exodus should tailor some events to the AUS / NZ time zone as there are some great players in that area that we never get to see in the 'main' events.
  7. Quitch

    Quitch Post Master General

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    You might be missing the purpose of the poll :)
  8. Clopse

    Clopse Post Master General

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    The earlier the better for me. Working monday to friday 9-5 Makes me want to have a few beers on the Saturdays. Once a month not so bad I suppose.
  9. cdrkf

    cdrkf Post Master General

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    My point is the time slots you've listed don't really cover *all that's needed* (e.g. Friday PM is a good time to tie up with AUS as it's SAT AM for them)....
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  10. Taxman66

    Taxman66 Well-Known Member

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    the one choice thats reasonable for Australians has only 1 vote :(
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  11. Aeronerd

    Aeronerd New Member

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    2 to 3 AM UTC is best for me.

    All the options in your poll make it either absurdly earler in the central time zone, or during work... so 8PM where I'm from would be 1AM UTC.
  12. Aeronerd

    Aeronerd New Member

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    the poll doesn't give global time options. just from 8AM to 8PM UTC. Is exedus in that time zone or something?
  13. pieman2906

    pieman2906 Well-Known Member

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    It's not too bad, obviously Sunday is pretty much out, since most Sunday times bleed into our Monday, but early morning Saturday leaves us with a Saturday night block, which is reasonable, and a late night Saturday time can start to match up with our Sunday morning.
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  14. cptconundrum

    cptconundrum Post Master General

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    Exodus has people eastern Europe, western Europe, east coast North America, and west coast North America. Nobody from Asia or Australia time zones yet. Tournaments should happen at times that are good for the players and viewers though, not just the organizers.
  15. Taxman66

    Taxman66 Well-Known Member

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    I'm happy to have tourneys at 2am and 5/6am but 4am? I don't even know if i should wake up early or stay up late :S
  16. mayhemster

    mayhemster Well-Known Member

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    You missed out Friday, giving up a Saturday nights drinking upsets me :(
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  17. cwarner7264

    cwarner7264 Moderator Alumni

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    Or you could just do a Clopse:

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  18. mayhemster

    mayhemster Well-Known Member

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    I should probably rephrase that as I'm usually drunk whenever I play... I meant Saturday night drinking <b>in a pub</>
    I always play drunk!!!!
  19. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    that's the name of a player on FAF, it's pretty funny because he really does xD

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