I meant it for the casters or the admins. In any case I feel the qualifiers were rushed. Suppose VNS had to play two team with US/Canada players? Brackets are announced at 23GMT friday when VNS would be asleep. By the time VNS offer some time, US guys would be asleep. So, they will end up agreeing on some time on Saturday evening which leaves only Sunday to play. Plus there are lots of other things which go through in a TG tournament like Civ Draft or strategies against particular teams. To do all that in 1 weekend doesnt feel right to me. Even if the matches were indeed played, they would still be rushed. This would be in contradiction with swissboyy's original idea to keep the tournament short and competitive.Each team had to play only 2 sets of BO5, which means roughly 6 hour game time over 2 days. 2 sets in 2 days is hard but not impossible. Teams did manage to do it.
Don't aggregate playing hours of all teams to dramatize your assessment.
It is not like anyone foresaw this, and this is definitely not anyone's fault. Hopefully, next time, people would close sign ups 1-2 days earlier.
I would also like to mention that swissboyy has done a fantastic job in organising this tournament. I am kind of disappointed to see the qualification being wasted by some strong teams getting AL(deservedly so) and so I just want to make sure that such situation dont arise in future.