Okay, so, let's look at the timeline
-When the relay is proposed, it's decided that everyone will get one week to work on their torch for two reasons: 1, so that everyone has the same amount of time to keep it fair, and 2, so that everyone knows what week they will have the torch and can schedule around it
-Person B tells the torch runner, A, that they can't do any week from the 20th to the end of December. A assigns them to the week of the 14th to the 21st anyway, either not noticing or not caring
-The relay progresses, and reaches person C who has been assigned for the 8th to 13th. They receive the torch and then hold onto it for almost two weeks; A is completely silent during this time
--What A should have done per the rules of their own relay is skip C and pass the torch on to B at the end of C's assigned time whether or not C was finished (or, at baseline, communicate with B and ask if it was okay that they get the torch late, though IMO this would only be acceptable up to a day after the deadline)
-On the 17th, while C still has the torch, B reminds A that they can't do the relay from the 20th to the 31st and so won't have time to do it if given it at that point
-What any rational person would see is that these are two problems that solve each other. Call the current week a loss, give the completed torch to D (next person in line) on their already-assigned week, move B to the end of the relay, and let the relay be one week longer than it was
-What A does is move B, move everyone else up a week, and give D two days to do the relay
-(For some reason from the beginning of the relay A has been extremely against the relay going on for any longer than absolutely necessary. They were originally trying to organise a relay that would be completed before Christmas. Brother this is a hobby fucking lighten up)
-D does complete the torch in a single day, which is impressive but do I believe they did a good job with it? No, no I do not.
Anyway this relay has been a shitshow
Also shoutout to this dingbat:
It isn't [fair]; But it's certainly doable. It all boils down to two factors:
1) How difficult is the previous language to translate.
2) How developed is your language? How many words or grammatical structures do you still have to coin for the torch?In my relay history I faced wonderfully crafted, but absurdly complicated polysynthetical languages with many special characters (harder to search for in the dictionary) or even once a language that was written in the Greek alphabet, which I could somewhat read but not type at all. On the other hand, once I received a West Germanic conlang, of which I as a native German speaker could translate like 90% without even looking at grammar or vocabulary. Same with the vocabulary: Preparing my torch in Yélian takes me less than one hour by now, but with other languages it's a lot harder.
To sum up my TED Talk, two days is doable. But not easy.
So we should just bank on the language to translate being similar to a language the translator happens to already speak? Go fuck yourself
I never said it wasn't doable. I said it wasn't fair, and it isn't fair. Why are we making a person crunch for a fucking hobby with zero stakes? Why does everyone else think this is okay and why are people making excuses for letting it happen? 'Oh it's okay because it's possible' I don't care! I don't care that D did actually manage to do it, they shouldn't have had to! What if they weren't able to?? What if the extremely likely scenario that on Sunday they had to say 'Sorry I wasn't actually able to do this in two days, I do not have the torch ready' had happened???