> On Mar 16, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Hitoshi Doi <doi@usagi.org> wrote:
> 
> "Robert .Nykkel. DeLoura" <deloura@yahoo.com> wrote:
> | 
> | It gave me the times in UTC. The event that just ended had 8am UTC end
> | time and 9am UTC start time.  My time is 7 hours earlier, so the event
> | ended at 1am last night and the new ones would start at 2am local time.
> | I imagine other time zones are offset from that normally, if they're
> | running the EN version.
> 
> I would assume most of the EN players are in the US,
> so those times are pretty lousy.
> The east coasters would have to do the mad rush to the
> finish in the middle of the night!
> Those hours work out fine for Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong.

Actually, I think a more significant amount of players are in Singapore and Southeast
Asia.

It’s pretty spread out, based on how the hourly scoring goes, but there’s
definitely a strong presence at the top tiers from that area.

The problem with the EN events is the inconsistency on the length of the event. For
example, they ended the event on the 16th this time, so it was 5th-16th. They’ve
started on the 3rd on some events (ends on the 13th), so it’s kind of
random on the time and the length. 

--Tim