Why wait till the 8th?

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@LennyGhoul-1732

Why not Friday

@LennyGhoul-1732

Then they can launch the new season on the 6th.

Because…

@Nevalistis

We decided the compromise was to have at least one week downtime between patch deployment and season start. That gives us a more forgiving window to address critical issues, should they arise, and we plan to continue using this format moving forward to ensure we’re launching each Season in as strong and stable a state as possible. It also allows us to provide a more reliable Season start date going forward.

As the current season is ending on the 8th November, that means the earliest they would patch 2.6.10 to the live servers would be Tuesday 10th and, leaving at least a week after that, the next available Friday to start Season 22 on would be the 20th.