Why not move dates back instead of pulling it closer to the holidays? That way you would only affect the finalists, everyone else would be playing the same dates as before. But by having the tournament start one week earlier you literally change the schedule for half the players or whatever amount of groupstage matches you put there. Really not an elegant solution to extending the the tournament to 32 teams (which is fine) and a not very thought-out decision at all since this leaves many teams without their full roster or even unable to participate at all.
Please reconsider the new schedule and I highly recommend simply moving everything one week back to reduce the affected teams to only the finalists and also to avoid having matches on holidays. Thank you.
Please reconsider the new schedule and I highly recommend simply moving everything one week back to reduce the affected teams to only the finalists and also to avoid having matches on holidays. Thank you.