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Suggestion: Rotate daily tournament start times.

Right now daily tournaments always start at the same time. This doesn't allow for certain players to participate when they may be working or sleeping, etc. I suggest that the start times be rotated to be convenient for players in different time zones around the world. For example, one day the daily three-check might start at 6 pm EST, the next it may start at 2 am EST and finally the next day at 10 am EST before coming back around to 6 pm EST.
There are already nightly tournaments in complement of the daily tournaments, so two tournaments are present every day.

Also, rotating the start times makes it difficult to keep up with the schedule, and doesn't necessarily improve exposure.
Plus, if two per day aren't enough for you, you can always start your own tournament and wait for people to join.
I suppose I was thinking about the variant tournaments mainly, which only occur once a day (I think?) and don't have hourly versions.
For the daily variants tournaments I would support that idea. It's close to impossible for me, even on weekends, to play the atomic event, as it is 2 AM where I am (pun unintended ;-)). A monthly or even weekly rollover of the starting times would be greatly appreciated.

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