Setsul#32
I think you're missing the point.
It was known that players wouldn't be back from Rewind LAN until at least Tuesday, if not Wednesday.
Some people also don't want to play on Friday or Saturday.
So at best the LBF would be played on Tuesday and then once they knew which team had to play the GF they'd have 24-48 hours to figure out how to get 9 players for Thursday.
S-O didn't tell them until Wednesday afternoon when they could play.
Have you ever successfully gotten a full roster for an official if you only knew about it 6-30 hours in advance?
Have you ever successfully gotten a full roster for an official in HL when there were only 4 days possible?
Have you ever played two officials in the same week with your full roster, when you knew you would not have your full roster available all week?
It's all fine and by the rules, but I don't see a reason to complain about chess defaulting it when they have to play twice in a week that they can not play in.
Your entire argument implies that the deadline of the finals was a surprise. This low time between matches is due to a complaint at the lack of teams to scrim during playoffs.