*IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT*
After seeing the results of the
informal poll question that I threw up regarding the league's start time, I was frankly shocked at how overwhelming the desire to race earlier was by the vast majority of the replies. Even those that I didn't expect to want to race earlier (west coast residents) seemed to be okay (as a whole) with that idea.
That being said, there's a very fine line between giving in to the majority and alienating those of us (including me) who can't race earlier than 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific. After all, I started this league based on what worked with
my schedule.. However, this league has grown in ways I never planned or expected and it's no longer just about me. Therefore, I've decided to try something that we've never done a single time in our entire history, which is to change our start time!
For our March season,
we'll be starting Sunday's league nights at 9:30pm Eastern / 6:30pm Pacific. Hopefully this will allow us to have appeal from a larger audience (namely east coast residents who don't want to race until midnight). My hope is that this shift in time will allow us to attract enough drivers to fill each of our division's grids back up to the 10+ sizes that we prefer. Obviously, this would mean that we wouldn't have to retract down to four divisions either. 👍
I realize that many of you were hoping that we could move the start time earlier but an entire hour, but that would make racing with us impossible for far too many current members. Meanwhile, shifting the start time by only half an hour was only a problem for myself and
Apmaddock (
and possible tez too).
I'm sure there will be others who didn't vote who can't start racing half an hour earlier, but I have a solution that will allow those of us in that situation to still enjoy S.N.A.I.L. in all its glory (or at least most it). However, I'll have to explain that idea in a later post because I don't want to lose this "top of the page" post position.