(14 Jul 16, 05:45AM)Mise Wrote: I believe its extremely unfair if France do not get to play with the line up they want. 4/5 days extension wont delay the whole tournament by a great amount. If Russia were allowed to play with their "first team" line up in round 1, the same should apply to France in the semi final especially if its just a couple of days difference.
Also, didn't the map pool take a day and a half to be posted? :/
All im trying to say is - be fair, not trying to take a dig at the organizers or anything.
It's not "four to five days", from the time Million made the request it would be a minimum of ten days since Redbull returns on the 20th and likely would not be able to play the same day. In Russia's case, they could not actually field a lineup without an extension, so would've had to concede the victory to Brazil, which all organisers unanimously agreed would've been unfair. USA didn't play their top lineup against us (UK), and we didn't play our top lineup against Germany - if you aren't prepared to play with every player in the eventuality of differing schedules, why even sign them up initially?
History has shown us all that if an ACWC doesn't get finished by the end of August, it will never get finished. Therefore it's our prerogative to ensure that an entire tournament schedule doesn't get broken simply for the benefit of one team. We believe that is being fair.
EDIT: fixed formatting, still not used to this keyboard fml