Samurais Tokyo game

Creating this topic to organize the 16/04 Seattle @ Portland that will be played at the Tokyo Dome,  If everything goes well, I plan to transform this into a annual event!

The first detail I would like to discuss is the schedule of the game,  I think the current time 9:30 am Eastern time is little incovient to west coast fans, both fans (Seattle and Portland) will have to wake up too early to watch the game , around 6:30am, if the league allows, I suggest some other schedules to the game, starting around midnight Eastern time, I will leave some suggested times for the game, I'm using the Formula 1 Japan Gran Pix as reference to set the time:

The current schedule:


My proposal:


This is also a good opportunity to test a new time schedule for west coast teams, something similar with the "Pac-12 after dark" that happens during the college football season

In my opinion this would be great since the game will be kicked off during the Saturday afternoon in Japan and at the same time will have a nice Friday night primetime football spot in the west coast + a opportunity to have a "late night football" prototype for nationwide audiences

The Midnight start time on the East Coast may be problematic, not just because that's late, but also because I'm not sure if the 00:00 timestamp will mess something up with the simulation, or website display (it does for the GUD, I just don't remember how).

Some where more reasonable might be 11:00AM local time Tokyo, which would be 7:00PM in Portland, and 10:00PM on the East Coast.

Austin Snelick wrote:The Midnight start time on the East Coast may be problematic, not just because that's late, but also because I'm not sure if the 00:00 timestamp will mess something up with the simulation, or website display (it does for the GUD, I just don't remember how).

Some where more reasonable might be 11:00AM local time Tokyo, which would be 7:00PM in Portland, and 10:00PM on the East Coast.

Sounds good! No problem w/that!

Rafael Menoncin wrote:

Austin Snelick wrote:The Midnight start time on the East Coast may be problematic, not just because that's late, but also because I'm not sure if the 00:00 timestamp will mess something up with the simulation, or website display (it does for the GUD, I just don't remember how).

Some where more reasonable might be 11:00AM local time Tokyo, which would be 7:00PM in Portland, and 10:00PM on the East Coast.

Sounds good! No problem w/that!

I ended up changing the official game time to 9:30PM Eastern (6:30PM West Coast, and 10:30AM Tokyo).

The works already began at Tokyo Dome!