it's that time of year again when schedules and personal clocks get all screwed up thanks to Daylight Savings Time (DST) which began last Sunday in the USA
TourneyBot, which uses UTC time, did not recognize the DST shift starting the
Bloody Mary last Sunday an hour later than it should have ..
vegas_vic, our new Bloody Mary TD, started a Challonge bracket on time at 11 AM EDT (10 AM Texas time - CDT) .. i'm not sure what happened with the
Monday/Three Five or the
Work Can Wait Forever tourneys .. the
Tuesday Three/Five started at the correct local time (11 AM CDT) and
Bago, a European based tourney, started an hour later than usual for me at 3 PM CDT which is correct since Europe and others doesn't begin DST until March 27th
according to
Tom, TourneyBot admin, remaining AUTOMATIC TourneyBot tourneys this week such as the
Three/Fives,
F3,
Mini-Matches, the
Bloody Mary, and others will start at their correct local time for those of us in the USA, that is adjusted to DST, as necessary .. for the next two weeks, anyone outside the USA will have to adapt to our DST by arriving to play an hour earlier than normal
according to
Patti, the FIBS clock is off for "two weeks" due to the FIBS server software being in sync with "when the US used to" change to DST .. fortunately, two weeks from now is when the rest of the world seems to switch over to DST on March 27th .. so, ALL tournaments would be back on our familiar local time schedules soon
i've been trying to keep this list of regularly scheduled tourneys at FIBS current, accurate, and complete for almost a year now .. like many things around FIBSworld, there is much more to it than meets the eye .. DST time changes have always been a long standing challenge to keep straight at FIBS for regular tourney players .. it is again this year
additionally,
socksey recently added
Tanika's new tourney,
Saturday Night Fever, to the list .. if there are any other new tourneys, that is tourneys occurring at the same time each week, please let me or
socksey know and we'll add them to the list as well .. effective today, i have removed the
After Nine tourney from the regular tourney list .. hopefully,
Naavanaxx will re-join us and continue the A9's where he left off soon
a current list of regularly scheduled tourneys is always available from the FIBS Board home page at
Tourneys schedule over in the left hand column .. click at the hyperlink above to see it in a separate window .. corrections would be most appreciated
Happy Spring everyone and thanks,
Tom,
socksey, and
Patti