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To add to this.Results normally go official at next week's deadline time, so basically right at 7 days.
Due to some holiday travel on our staff, that's not going to be a big deal this week, likely unofficial results will go up a week late.
We're all posting in the TT thread right now and Fetchy is just happily ignoring us.
We are trying something new with the start of GTSport WRS. Partway through GT6, we abandoned our qualifier and moved to the current "rookie" system, which places drivers in a division based on the results in their first three verified TT results.
This system has brought many advantages, mainly that drivers tend to try their best during events, whereas we often had folks who underperformed on the qualifier, and would have to wait for promotions to catch them up.
It also keeps us from having to worry about the impact of physics changes made during updates impacting our cutoff times, since your division results will always be based on events you compete in at the point in time, with other players.
This also has allowed us to jump into events straight away. We had our first WRS event of GT5 nearly 3 months after the release, while the first of GT6 was about 7 weeks after, due to the qualifier running. For GT Sport, we had the first event published about 4 weeks from the release, and all of you guys were able to jump into participation straight away.
The drawback to this approach is that we have to check literally EVERY replay the first few weeks. And some of our leaderboard functionality is not really built to keep up. Buy you're running events while awaiting division placement, rather than sitting there twiddling your thumbs.