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So, the finished schedule!
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Volunteer teams are either scheduling 11 or 12 games.
And non-volunteer teams or scheduling 3 or 4 games.

I am sure you will agree that this is as close to as equal as we can get.

Given that all teams were asked to save tokens and should easily have a minimum of 4...we are done and ready with this schedule.

Thanks for helping out with the schedule! When you (and everyone else) can take a look at my previous, alternative way to solve this in future seasons, if it works in their opinion (post found earlier), please do.

However, now to the more essential things:
While above list shows who is responsible for sending challenges, do not start booking/arranging/organizing matches before we/I have reached a decision on fixed time issue. You will lose those tokens if and when a fixed time for matches is applied as a new rule/practice of HGL, so patience, please. We are not in a terrible rush here yet.

Here's the important question though: if we would make the official/declared time of the match to be 4.30PM for all, how does that seem in a box score when you view it from another country? (Wagner)

No idea. And to be honest, I'm not sure you are going to get all the answers you need from managers to do this accurately within the time we have.

Well, let's wait if I get a response, but in the case not, let's try it with a Pickup game challenge. You have a lot fewer tokens, but if you want to spend one here you can also send me a PU challenge at 3.30PM EET which is like 45 minutes away, and I'll anyway send you challenge for a PU match starting 3.00PM, that is about 15 minutes away. Then we'd at least how they would look like in both of our schedules.

Here's the important question though: if we would make the official/declared time of the match to be 4.30PM for all, how does that seem in a box score when you view it from another country? (Wagner)

No idea. And to be honest, I'm not sure you are going to get all the answers you need from managers to do this accurately within the time we have.

Well, let's wait if I get a response, but in the case not, let's try it with a Pickup game challenge. You have a lot fewer tokens, but if you want to spend one here you can also send me a PU challenge at 3.30PM EET which is like 45 minutes away, and I'll anyway send you challenge for a PU match starting 3.00PM, that is about 15 minutes away. Then we'd at least how they would look like in both of our schedules.

Okay. Let's do it.

Here's the important question though: if we would make the official/declared time of the match to be 4.30PM for all, how does that seem in a box score when you view it from another country? (Wagner)

No idea. And to be honest, I'm not sure you are going to get all the answers you need from managers to do this accurately within the time we have.

Well, let's wait if I get a response, but in the case not, let's try it with a Pickup game challenge. You have a lot fewer tokens, but if you want to spend one here you can also send me a PU challenge at 3.30PM EET which is like 45 minutes away, and I'll anyway send you challenge for a PU match starting 3.00PM, that is about 15 minutes away. Then we'd at least how they would look like in both of our schedules.

Okay. Let's do it.

Only problem...

I just tried to do that but there is no option for any particular time-zone. I can choose a date. I can choose a time. But I cannot choose a time-zone.

Okay. Let's do it.

Yes.. You have a request waiting that will expire in... 8 minutes. :)

EDIT: First match successfully organized, but even though I have accepted your invitation (at match starting 15.35 local time) , and getting a red confirmation text on top of Friendly matches-page to confirm it has been successfully organized, it still doesn't show up in my Schedule (first match shows correctly immediately after accepting).

EDIT 2: Still, even after our first match has started, even if I repeatedly go to Friendly matches page and accept your request (at 15.35) and it confirms it has been successfully organized, I can't see a match starting at 15.35 on my team schedule.
This could be a very worrying sign...

Last edited by Wagner at 3/18/2025 9:04:10 AM

So, the way around this...

You say 3:30PM EET and you say it is 45 mins away. You posted this at 8:50 roughly (my time)

So, 45 mins from now would be about 9:35pm my time...which should be about 3:30pm EET for you?

I will try that and we see how we go.

Did you get my invite?

So, the way around this...

You say 3:30PM EET and you say it is 45 mins away. You posted this at 8:50 roughly (my time)

So, 45 mins from now would be about 9:35pm my time...which should be about 3:30pm EET for you?

I will try that and we see how we go.

I responded to all in my above post 324689.522 in form of adding EDIT's to make this even a bit less forum cluttering conversation.
Yes, message was sent couple of seconds before 2.45PM my (EET) time, so yes, I meant 3.30PM, and I got your challenge, and accepted it almost immediately, and have done so maybe 5 times after that, including after our first match had started. However, it doesn't show up on my schedule, only the one shows up that we are playing now.

First match shows in my schedule 15.00 which is correct for my local time. How does it show up in your schedule? Which part of Australia (East, west, middle) are you located in terms of time zones?

EDIT: Let's try this, in order to try to confirm what is the problem:
I will send you 1-2 offers for PU match, ranging from time when this match at 3PM is still supposedly under way, say at 4PM EET, and other when it's supposedly ended, for example at 6PM EET.
Please try to accept each challenge now in order of starting time, and separately after each acceptance (before accepting the second request), check out your team schedule if the new match can be seen by you.

If this is not possible for you to accept challenges, then it's really worrying, as it might imply that other matches can't be accepted before previous PU match is played.


Last edited by Wagner at 3/18/2025 9:19:46 AM

Yeah...it's not showing up on my schedule either even though it shows in my Scrimmage page as being sent.

I think it is because we are already playing during that time and the GE doesn't like it.

Yeah...it's not showing up on my schedule either even though it shows in my Scrimmage page as being sent.

I think it is because we are already playing during that time and the GE doesn't like it.

Could be possible. But it would be then strange that BB players can play in 2 matches simultaneously, on the other sides of the world.

EDIT: Let's try this, in order to try to confirm what is the problem:
I sent you 1-2 offers for PU match, ranging from time when this match at 3PM is still supposedly under way, say at 4PM EET, and other when it's supposedly ended, for example at 6PM EET.
Please try to accept each challenge now in order of starting time, and separately after each acceptance (before accepting the second request), check out your team schedule if the new match can be seen by you.

If this is not possible for you to accept challenges, then it's really worrying, as it might imply that other matches can't be accepted before previous PU match is played.

Last edited by Wagner at 3/18/2025 9:22:45 AM

So, the way around this...

You say 3:30PM EET and you say it is 45 mins away. You posted this at 8:50 roughly (my time)

So, 45 mins from now would be about 9:35pm my time...which should be about 3:30pm EET for you?

I will try that and we see how we go.

I responded to all in my above post 324689.522 in form of adding EDIT's to make this even a bit less forum cluttering conversation.
Yes, message was sent couple of seconds before 2.45PM my (EET) time, so yes, I meant 3.30PM, and I got your challenge, and accepted it almost immediately, and have done so maybe 5 times after that, including after our first match had started. However, it doesn't show up on my schedule, only the one shows up that we are playing now.

First match shows in my schedule 15.00 which is correct for my local time. How does it show up in your schedule? Which part of Australia (East, west, middle) are you located in terms of time zones?

EDIT: Let's try this, in order to try to confirm what is the problem:
I will send you 1-2 offers for PU match, ranging from time when this match at 3PM is still supposedly under way, say at 4PM EET, and other when it's supposedly ended, for example at 6PM EET.
Please try to accept each challenge now in order of starting time, and separately after each acceptance (before accepting the second request), check out your team schedule if the new match can be seen by you.

If this is not possible for you to accept challenges, then it's really worrying, as it might imply that other matches can't be accepted before previous PU match is played.

I'm happy to do this, but what is the purprose? Are we just making sure PU games work? If so, there have been many bugs recently and it seems that if you try and schedule a game during or close to another game, they don't work. I'm sure any PU game you organise after this current game finishes...will work fine.

After all, we will be scheduling games days and weeks in advance.