[EricH]

Originally Posted by btslaser

The mythical 6-week stop build day isn't really a deadline at all... it's merely a disturbance. The deadline is when your qualification matches begin.

If you want to put it that way, the deadline is when your last match of the season, whether at an on-season or an offseason competition, begins.

If, OTOH, you want to go with the example I was talking about, the "disturbance" is only a few billion dollars and a couple years of several thousand people's lives wasted. Catch my drift?