[...] how many russian teams do you have in your bracket? Yeah I went there.

On a personal note: it baffles me how people manage to not have all officials done on time. If you've been having extreme roster issues or so ok, fair enough, but teams that have had 6 the entire season? What happens there? :s

If you're afraid of the last week not being enough to play the remaining game(s), then schedule them for week 6 and you've created your own catch-up week.

[...]This is not a professional sport where you can simply set dates well in advance and expect teams to be there for them without question. People combine TF2 with real life commitments and those commitments can emerge without warning, rendering the advance planning arguments meaningless.

[...] Are you aware of what maps are played in week 7? Both maps have been played earlier in the league, there's no new map in the last week of this season (and there never will be a new map for this week in future seasons either unless they change things up), so it feels like a bad excuse. Besides, when knowing you can't participate in the two latest weeks of the season, planning ahead seems even more crucial I'd say. Aaand this really shouldn't have caught anyone by surprise, seeing as the admins made it fairly clear that there wouldn't be a catch-up week when the season started. Not to mention the fact that almost every news post contained information concerning the playoff dates (yes, I say almost because when I actually wanted to know the playoff dates, the first post I found lacked them and I got very upset. Bad Crasp!) which obviously is played after the normal league matches are done.

You choose when to play your matches. You're free to move the week 1 match to week 7 as long as you simply notify the admins about it + agree with the opponents.

what would be the disadvantage doing it?

[...] you also have to play 2 matches this week. +1 to extend the week to sunday 18/03 would help alot

I can't play the last two officials :'( [...]but you can't be like oh hey week 7 opponent, I know you haven't practised week 7 maps but let's play it week 1.

On a personal note: it baffles me how people manage to not have all officials done on time. If you've been having extreme roster issues or so ok, fair enough, but teams that have had 6 the entire season? What happens there? :s

I don't quite see the problem. You have 7 weeks to play 7 matches (or even 8 weeks including the first scheduling week?). You choose when to play your matches. You're free to move the week 1 match to week 7 as long as you simply notify the admins about it + agree with the opponents. You're also allowed to move the week 7 match to week 1. People making it a habit of always delaying games should not be encouraged by the admins by wasting yet another week in my opinion. If you're afraid of the last week not being enough to play the remaining game(s), then schedule them for week 6 and you've created your own catch-up week. People were also complaining about only having two seasons per year. Admins can't create time, so by being strict with the weeks this season (plus the coming one I assume) they'll be able to add another season this year which most people seemingly wanted.

Coming from the team that's known for playing from 7-11cet 7 days a week

There should be 1 more week. But the most confusing thing is having Saturday as the deadline? Just make it Sunday so it's an extra night and probably the most popular day to play officials.