On Sundays, it should read Tampa 5's at 9 instead of Tampa 7's at 9.  

That's odd, because Sunday's tampa here is 7/9    

You see how easy those mistakes are  

Yes, smart as I am..I cross wired that one 

Is it too radical to suggest that tournaments should be fixed to a UTC time for 12 months of the year?

It isn't radical, and I already tried it with Saturday Stubbies..since it really doesn't matter which local time that runs.

Sadly, it wasn't popular, it didn't fill half of the year and it therefore didn't stick...

It is a good suggestion, but does fly a bit in the face of creating a tourney that caters to a local time slot.

If for example, you switched Thur35 to 1630UTC, then it would start 30 mins earlier or 30 minutes later than it does now, depending on the season. How inconvenient can that be to anybody who enters regularly? Just a thought. Personally, it doesn't matter much to me. I only play a limited number of tournaments. I can work out time zones. I'm just trying to simplify things for administrators, newbies, people who don't have english as a first language and people who have difficulty coping with local time on the other side of the world. Also, it is a 24 hour worldwide server that keeps to UTC. Its use seems logical and it will avoid the confusion if at some point in the future a state opts out of DST because it confuses the cows and fades the curtains.

Now that makes 3 TD's confused about times!  I rest my case.......perhaps the molehill has grown to a mountain?  

The molehill was always there, it is only the height that varies, less change = less opportunity for error and therefore less height. I state again, I find it very confusing to work in multiple time zones, this approach causes the least confusion for me, because I don't have to keep working it all out.

As dorbel  is the only one who doesn't find all this confusing, it is just a shame he hasn't time to deal with it for us dumbos.

As dorbel  is the only one who doesn't find all this confusing, it is just a shame he hasn't time to deal with it

I think I could probably find ten minutes to type out a list of tournaments with times in UTC. Job done for the whole year.

I have really thought about this..and I too would come down in favour..some disruption will happen, but I think if my 7/7.30pm series run at 6.30/7 in winter and 7/7.30 in summer, the rest dont mater too much - it depends where KMA puts Krazy..please please no later than 10pm here, dear 9/9.30 in winter and 9.30/10 in summer?

Tom..I love ya, ya know that right...BUUUT...

The tourneys have run, sure - no problems??? seriously...the problems with UTC were manyfold, so we dropped the UTC component, because none of us can handle it! Tourneys went back when they should have gone forth and forth when they should have gone back..incorrect times were displayed..etc etc..

We have made it easier to get right - but it isnt easy to follow [not impossible, doable]. What we have here is an improvement suggestion, which it seems a lot of us think could work. You are Mr continuous improvement - dont stop now 

The opinions are coming from , are you ready..New Zealand, Australia, USA, UK and Europe [yes, I know they are the same ] Possibly even more...this is a global headache..honest...

The poll is running, please tell me you will consider the shift, if the majority are in favour and happy with it.

The poll is here.

http://www.fibsboard.com/tourney-schedule/should-tourney-times-be-fixed-to-utc/msg36263/?topicseen#new

As LuckyDice doesn't use TourneyBot and does not acknowledge the basic TPR rules, perhaps the Bago tournaments that he runs should not be part of the TPR network anyway.

ok, I'm outta this conversation, I am fine as is...I do not need this crap...