Wagner, there is a LOT of information posted regarding the HGL.
In regards to setting the correct time for a match, could you please provide a few examples?
For example, if I were to organise a PU with you, what time (my time) should I schedule it for?
My team has +8/+6 (8:30pm) written in the thread. Does this mean that for every game I schedule I should set it for 8:30pm my time?
Perhaps providing a couple of examples for those managers who have not been following closely, or are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information.
A few brief examples would be beneficial I think.
Yes, your example is correct.
These numbers you mentioned (GMT+8/+6) do show on which time zone team is located, and latter number showing what is the time difference to "official HGL match time". Official match time for all HGL matches is 14.30, or 02.30PM Eastern European Time, EET. (EET standard time is GMT+2).
And as your reference number (with regards to official HGL match start time) is +6, it means matches will start 6 hours later
in your local time, than what official match time of 2.30PM suggests.
(If it would be, say, -6, then your matches would start 6 hours earlier than 02.30PM
in your local time, which would equal to 08.30AM).
However, when sending match invites, manager can basically ignore these first few numbers (in your example GMT+8/+6), as time for each manager has been assigned separately and readily calculated for them. They will see it in front of their team name. For example my team it looks like this: GMT+2/0=02.30PM. So from this I can conclude, that I organize all matches starting at 14.30, or on other words at 02.30PM.
So to use your team as an another example, your Official Local Time for HGL matches is 20.30, or 08.30PM. This is the time that you use to schedule all your HGL matches. Why? Because you are 6 hours ahead of Eastern European Time, so when you organize your match starting at 08.30PM, time at EET time zone at that moment will be 14.30, or 02.30PM EET, which is the official start time for all HGL matches.
Now if I would be sending your team a challenge, I would again
use a time designated for my team, found from the participating teams-list on official threads.
For me that is 14.30, or 02.30PM EET. When I send you such challenge, then match will start 2.30PM my time, and 08.30PM your time (which again is official local HGL match time for your team).
Example 2:If some team from East coast USA arranges a match with time zone/personal official match time information being as follows: GMT-5/-7=07.30AM , then they would arrange all their matches so that they start at 07.30AM (important to note: in the
morning)!.
It would equal to start time of HGL matches, 2.30PM EET, so
all HGL matches in that round are played simultaneously. (Side note: If Daylight Savings Time, DST, is observed in different countries at different times, this could theoretically cause "a 1 hour off"-kind of situation on some occasions when you have been the team that has accepted the match challenge, but it should only occur on such transitional periods; for instance, time difference between Finland (located on EET time zone) and Eastern USA will "normalize" to 7 hours soon as we also start observing DST on March 30th - US has already moved to using DST earlier).
Due to character limitations of posts, if we/I want to include this example to the official threads, I need to take space from other posts (as the announcement is already full).
Do you think that's necessary? Or did these examples open up the situation any better/enough? Or would you prefer to write some additional examples?
Last edited by Wagner at 3/23/2025 9:16:22 AM