04-03-2019, 09:19 AMGCool Wrote: Thanks for summarizing that well. I had no idea that the conversation progressed to that point.

So if all this is accurate -- and I'm fairly sure it is, because, why would you lie to me -- what's actually preventing the off-time from being condensed? I understand from a management team's perspective if they're simply waiting for this season to end so they can streamline it for next season. That makes the most sense, right? I mean we can talk in real time about how many days it's taking but we've simply never done this before, so it's sort of unreasonable to make a demand RIGHT NOW.

Apart from that, it seems like it's in everyone's best interest to cut the off days between rounds and make GMs abundantly aware of that fact so we can all be better prepared.

As far as I can tell from looking at the indices (I haven't been paying attention to the SHL playoffs much because I'm not in SHL yet) there ... isn't down time between rounds? At all? Game seven for HAM-TBB was an evening sim on Wednesday 3/27, and Game Ones for the quarterfinals were the next morning. That round ended on 3/31 in the AM, the next round started that night. I have no idea where the "down time between rounds" argument is coming from.