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only weird thing here is the 2 days heads-up notice.

This sorta situation has happened to us before where our opponent won’t respond, you should go to an admin before they set the default date.
The admin team doesn’t know what’s goin on with every single match, especially if you don’t post any relevant match comments (i.e. we cant play wednesday etc.)

Yes but logix have stated they cant play sunday, You havnt stated which days you can/cant play on the match thread, it your own fault. If your so worried about playing then arrange it for a friday or saturday. Or play on a day you’ve already got a game schedualed or use a merc.
No where in the rules does it state that default games *have* to be played on a sunday
Rules = “If a match is not arranged by the schedule deadline, admins will decide a default match date”
So stop whining man up and go play your game.

Yes but logix have stated they cant play sunday, You havnt stated which days you can/cant play on the match thread, it your own fault.

We’ve tried to contact the team the whole week, and they decide to answer the night the default date will be set, which leaves us no time to find out if the date is available

Whenever i couldn’t get in contact with the other team, I just entered a random date into the calendar to avoid default date, then scheduled with the other team as soon as i could get in contact with them.

This way you’ll never get default date.

Well, we were just waiting for the normal default date (sunday) as logix didn’t answer us, and we wanted to play on the default date as this was the best date for us. Apparantly an admin decides that wednesday would be a better default date.

So we’ve tried to take action, and are then being punished for it, which seems unfair.

We simply cannot believe this is how the default day system should work so within this perticular case and it dosnt help that the head admin of etf2l says something completly different than Snowie did.

Day was talking about the default date being set to sunday because that was the only day that was proposed on the match at that point. As Logix rejected this date, we would hardly then set it to sunday, essentially forcing them to default the game. How would that be fair?

But instead by setting the day to wednesday, a day were we instead could not play(and never said that we could play), you were essentially forcing us to default the game? How would that be fair?

Out of the 9 games this season, 8 have been defaulted to Sunday. It appears that week 9 is the only week the games aren’t defaulted to Sunday. I think Clones argue a good point. I made exactly the same assumption as Clones, and thought the default date for our last game would be Sunday (which is perfectly rational given the other 8 weeks have). I planned around this and arranged our other games during the week. Luckily when I found out that the default date was in fact Tuesday (about 1 – 2 days in advance), this day was clear for us. I think Clones deserve some help concerning this matter, considering the other clan did bugger all to help it. Stating that they weren’t available Sunday on the fixture page wasn’t good planning, it was pure luck. If they weren’t lazy they would of actively made an effort to speak to Clones and try to organise an alternative date.

Why is this still being discussed?

One team rejected Sunday, so quite clearly we cannot force that team to play on Sunday.

Default dates are not always set to Sunday. They more than likely will be if neither team has a game on that day, and neither team has already rejected a proposal for that day. If a team already has a game scheduled then or has rejected a proposal for the Sunday, then alternative dates when both teams are free will be looked at, as well as a full review of match comments.

With regards to this game, I set the default date to Wednesday for the exact reasons that Snowie has already said in the thread. It was the only feasible day that was not rejected already, it was a date that you had both discussed but not bothered to follow-up on the match page, it was a date that neither of you had a scheduled match.

It seems a little daft to blame the Admin team for you having very little time to schedule a game in the last week. Is it the Admin team’s fault that you have 3 games left for the last week? No, of course it isn’t. The action I took with the date set for the game, was the correct one. It wasn’t just set on a whim to upset you.

but this admin chosen last minute call thing, just isnt an optimal solution as it forces you to keep your calender free all week if the other team cant even be arsed to answer back.

I understand that, but the problem is, that the last week is an exceptional situation – since all games have to be played by Sunday 6th December. Teams that have more than one game left to play in the last week, are always going to have extra problems.

The default time for matches to be scheduled in a “2-week” period is at the end of the first Sunday. If they are not scheduled, then a default date is set manually by us on the Monday. Great care is taken with the scheduling and to the best of our ability, everything is kept fair and we do not try to disadvantage any teams.

Imagine if it was you who couldn’t play on Sunday because your team was not available…. you would’ve got very angry with us if we had scheduled a game for a day that you had already rejected because it was not possible for you to play on. We had one option, and that was Wednesday 2nd. The only alternative would’ve been to give you two games on the same day, and that’s an even worse idea.

It would be almost impossible to set one day as the default match day, since there are not 300+ teams available on the same day of the week, every week. A default match date is decided in the fairest manner possible and to assist those teams who have difficulty arranging a match with their opponents. There’s nothing I personally hate more than seeing a match page where one team has tried to arrange a game for a week and the other team haven’t even taken the courtesy to bother to reply :(

Oh and might i add to the stupidity that…
less talk play more.
More seasons ffs, too long wait in between and too long wait during.
oh and Clones, if your playing all your officials now..it means u did something wrong :)