Guys, since we're already discussing this, we also have two players for Masha, and we need to play with them too; the others can wait. Bishop is a serious player, of course, no one argues with that, but, excuse me, who cares that he lost two players? Why aren't they looking for Skylark in the Favorites league? He has tech players, and according to the rules, one substitution is allowed, but this is a completely different team, almost two-thirds different. And they're even extending the deadlines because of this. Let's at least look at the rules sometimes. They completely messed with my head in the Favorites league with the deadlines, and here it's just a complete zoo. Let them play as one team in the next round and go out together, because it's time for the playoffs already.
2) The group stage was extended to January 20 for all participants; they could just play at their leisure.
3) Everyone knew about the additional criteria; I don't know where the self-imposed restriction came from that the third match doesn't need to be played.
4) I'm not responsible for the Favorites league; I'm not interested in what's going on there