Scheduling Tips
- You don't need to schedule publicly on AoCZone, but you should post your scheduled time in the Scheduling forum. This adds liability to your scheduled time and helps streamers to maybe stream your match (and the admins and spectators).
An important part of proper scheduling is knowing how the time difference between you and your opponent looks like. AoCZone has a nice feature at the right top of the front page, where you can read your local time and the GMT (Greenwich Mean Time):
It's most usual to schedule in GMT, this also helps streamers and viewers to follow your match. Besides the time format, there are other things to keep in mind when scheduling:
- Use exact day dates/timeframes. If you start on 0 / 24 GMT, use 23:59 or 00:01 instead to have no confusions about what day you refer to.
- Make sure you both talk about the same: starting time or time range in which you will play?
- Take into account there could be technical problems or players show up too late.
- Inform your opponent asap if something crosses your plans.
- It helps to treat you opponent with respect. During scheduling, you are partners, not enemies. Scheduling success is tournament success.
- Sometimes player A proposes time X and then player B confirms time X and then player B takes time X as fully confirmed. But a confirmed time is always a double-confirmed time, both players need to confirm it. A proposal is not a confirmation.
Bad examples
hi. when you can play? (cf. viewtopic.php?f=1297&t=121258)let's play monday sucker!
Better examples
hi. I can play every evening 7th-11th January, 1-4 GMT. can you play during one of these times?sorry, doesn't look good during weekdays. but on the weekend 13th/14th January I nearly can play always. let me know if we can find something there.