OLFSL Hosts have nothing to do with the starting times, I'm the one responsible for that.
And no, we can't publish them with the race calendar, because - believe it or not - we have a real life too. Me and FienDi don't have kids yet, but we still have a life outside OLFSL.
I have to consider a lot of things when I schedule the pools, so it is impossible to know the times weeks in advance. Can you tell me right now what you're doing on Sunday evening 6 months from now? For example 7th of May 2006? I bet you can't. Anything can come up, so I ask our hosts 1-2 days in advance if they can host or not.
The hosts have their time limits when they can host, people are on very different time zones, races take time, hosts race too, hosts need breaks etc etc. The
only two hosts I can guarantee to host at any time are me and FienDi. That is why we host most pools. And because I'm the only host who's not racing, I schedule as many pools for myself as possible. Sitting here ain't that hard, but I need a break too.
I have a GREAT crew I can count on, don't get me wrong. They help as much as they can and we'd be screwed without them.
Only thing we can do, is move the hotlap deadline to Thursday or Wednesday, and the grids would then be out the day after. But that would leave an even bigger chance of something coming up, and then I'd have to re-schedule everything and confuse everyone.
I can only tell you to contact me with email, and request a starting time for your pool when you have plans. I can't promise anything, but I have granted about 98% of the requests I've received. But keep in mind, that the request has to be in my mailbox around the hotlap deadline, otherwise I may not be able to do it.
Oh, and btw.. The rules state that "
SUNDAYS sometime between 16:00 and 22:00 GMT" so let's not exaggerate..
However I'm doing my best here.