Wagner, is your concern 1) that you can't 'inspect' boxscores before the game is played or 2) that the games won't play, or 3) both of these?
From what I can see, despite the error messages appearing on the links, the games might still actually play out correctly; we just don't know yet. Therefore, until tomorrow night, we won't know whether these messages mean anything or not.
However, if your concern is only about the boxscores being able to be 'inspected' prior to the game being played, then that might be something we have to accept this season?
I'm not sure if I am understanding your concern correctly?
Both. Plus the fact that in previous Seasons many match links have referred to completely wrong matches, even though manager had also arranged that match, but added wrong links, etc.
Plus the point that if BB-Staff takes care of the problem soon (like they ought to), the damage is/would be very restricted in terms of actions required of each manager, and token usage.
I'd like to expect that BB-Staff wants/does take some kind of stance on this/replies to that post rather sooner than later with correction timeline announced simultaneously. That's of course not guaranteed, but that's what everyone should be able to expect, as I guess it's also in their interest to fix damage that their server migration supposedly caused.
I don't like at all about the idea of changing HGL rules due to BB failing.
But as I said, my thought about this was, written today, that if we can get a reply soon from BB-Staff, with their realistic/trustworthy approximation on schedule when they're going to correct this, then we'll be wiser. If we don't receive message from them, I presented an option with initial number of matches that I thought would be still likely very reasonable to reorganize (4).
To repeat, in that message I presented one possible timeline/deadline that we could use for this exceptional Season 5: 1. Maximum of 4 missed (uninspected) matches at the beginning of Season 5, and we'd do the reorganizing process for those 1-4 first Rounds (played after current RS Round 17.
2. If, on the other hand, there would be 5 or more matches at the start of RS Season 5 that we can´t verify
before match starts (meaning BB wouldn't solve that problem before that), we would:
A) accept all match links now having been made (even though pre-match inspection would be impossible) until to the moment box score links work again and pre-match inspection becomes possible, meaning that results from current match links would remain valid until problem is solved by BB, and
B) we would return to usual pre-match inspection routine during RS of Season 5 as soon as BB has fixed this issue, meaning that all wrong match times (that are not 3.30PM EET DST) would also count as unaccepted matches.
One of the options of course would be to check out those matches (after they've been played, for being correct opponent, court balance and correct day) and ignore match time inspection altogether until BB fixes this issue. But as I said, BB has created this problem, so I'd like to believe they want to solve this quickly.
Of course all other normal HGL rules would apply, so if matchup, day or court balance is wrong, what's said above doesn't "save" those matches.
I totally understand the confusion this may cause to everyone; trust me, it's even worse for me. It also makes me look really bad as being at the end responsible for getting everything to work smoothly, even though I have limited control on how BB will fix this issue.
So yes, I'm still wrestling with this thing with what you wrote in your message, like you can see from my reply (as we both have a point here, and my point also is that if BB corrects this issue soon and we'll get through it with only minor damage, then I'd really like to stick with HGL rules and practices and not change them due to BB's inability to correct damage on time).
Last edited by Wagner at 5/3/2026 10:33:37 AM