❓ Issue/Question

• What is a rolling schedule in esports tournaments?
• Why do series start times change throughout the day?
• How does GRID handle rolling schedules in the data?

🖥️ Environment/Context

• Central Data

🥚 Cause

• Many esports tournaments run on a rolling schedule rather than fixed start times. Each series starts when the previous one ends, so how long a match runs directly affects when the next one begins.
• This can vary by a significant margin especially in BO5 series, where one series might end after 3 maps and the next one after 5. 

👌 Resolution/Answer

• On a rolling schedule, start times aren't fixed. A series that goes longer than expected pushes everything after it back; a quick one pulls things forward. By the end of a tournament day, the schedule can look quite different from what was posted in the morning.
• GRID tracks these changes through Central Data, updating scheduled start times as the day progresses.
• Even after an update, actual start times can still be off by roughly ±15 minutes. Any time-sensitive logic in your integration should account for that.