User blog comment:Docfreeze/Alliance Duels - the beginning of the end?/@comment-165.228.106.174-20141027053840

Just curious, how would you change the scheduling? I was going to suggest letting alliances choose when they want to duel, but that leads to problems with matchups.

The current schedule has duels (Japan time) early in the morning before school/work, lunch break, after school/work, evening. This probably works great for nubee's primary/first demographic (Japanese people). It works out ok-ish for me in Western Australia where I'm just 1 hour off, so duels for me are 7am, 11am, 6pm and 9pm.

With that said, I am also tired of these alliance duels. Normally I don't spend rods unless it will give our alliance an edge. I've previously spammed rods to rank for Pup (HUR Pup sits on my AD team), and I also decided to try and rank this time. Last Wednesday I finished at rank 427 because I missed the second, third and fourth round that day. So yesterday (Sunday), I spammed my rods like crazy. I was present for all four rounds. By the end of the day, I thought to myself... this is insane... I spent 4 hours of my Sunday playing a repetitive little card game, for what? A pretty virtual card... Hopefully it was enough to get in top 300. Either way, I don't plan on buying any more rods, or trying to rank. It's just too exhausting, boring and I have better things to do on a Sunday.