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From: Wagner

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328546.190 in reply to 328546.189
Date: 1/14/2026 6:18:43 AM
Wagner College
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Important note on organizing Season 4 matches:

I have already noticed two matches being organized at a wrong time, so in the case this would be a wider problem, I remind you all again that you use official designated match time for each team (official local time, meaning your local time) when organizing matches.

This will change for 1 hour from season to another, depending on Daylight Savings Time-cycles.
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When DST is not observed in EET time zone when season begins, Official HGL match time is your local equivalent of 14.30PM EET (Normal Time) which is the case for Season 4.
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When DST is observed in EET time zone when season begins, match time is 15.30PM EET DST (Daylight Savings Time).

I quote my Announcement posts:

For each team an Official Local Time is provided, which they use when sending PU match invitations. Found (before team name), here: (329502.12).
Use only this time given to your team specifically, and nothing else, when organizing (also when accepting!) Pickup matches!



Let's take one example that I saw:
- VPO-EOS is organized at 15.30 a.k.a. 3.30PM EET; this is 1 hour too late, it needs to be reorganized.
Note: if you have sent more match requests at that faulty time, please cancel them now so tokens are not lost.

- when either of team takes a look at above link (with match times), they notice this time is not correct, as they should send and accept challenges only at that time, that is designated time for their team:

- in other words, LennuK. (EOS) should send and accept Season 4 challenges at 02.30PM (and see those accepted matches being played at that time, when they look at their teams' "regular BB schedule" or friendly matches-page, in where pending match offers can be seen).
For VPO on the other hand, this local time that they see in the friendly matches-page (and eventually on regular BB schedule) would be 01.30PM, because they are 1 hour behind EET time zone.

Example:
When I send challenge, I send it on Season 4 at 2.30PM my time (which is time that I see on post #12 that is linked above and below).
When for example VPO sees it in his friendly matches page, this time appears to him as 01.30PM, which would be correct, because
A) this is the time that he sees in this table (and in participating teams-posts): (329502.12)
B) it's also logical because Italy is 1 hour behind EET time zone, which is a reference time zone in HGL.
(Your local time differences compared to EET time zone are represented in participating teams-posts on both threads, 3rd posts, before the team name and = sign; however, use time on that table, or table linked on A) above when you organize matches.

Always ask if you're unsure of the time, so that we don't end up losing lots of tokens.

Last edited by Wagner at 1/14/2026 6:28:51 AM

From: Wagner

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328546.191 in reply to 328546.190
Date: 1/14/2026 8:39:13 AM
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@ all managers, important notice:
I've noticed some confusion on match times on Season 4.

Please see which time your match is being played by referring to this post:
(329502.12). You would be able to find the same information also from "participating teams"-posts.


This information has been mentioned in official threads probably for tens of times over seasons on different posts, and has been part of the Official Rules since March 2025.

Few of the possible remedies for the future are:
A) check time from those places season by season without making assumptions
B) maybe I could send everyone first round of challenges (I send challenges to all of my games), so that people would then get a correct match time for that season.

Please don't send challenges to Hadár (Svätý Jur Snakers, abbreviation HAD) at the moment as he is likely withdrawing from Season 4.

From: Wagner

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Date: 1/18/2026 10:55:09 AM
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Salary benefit for HGL teams on Season 3-post published, here: (328546.4).