Obviously it was very convenient this time but now in LA, I fear hours are going to be a whole different story for the EU. Are we talking about middle of the night live games? I remember in Tokyo games started at 5 or 6 am which I guess was reasonable.
Obviously, Games in our own timezone are the best, but I prefer the Americas to Asia/Oceania. LA will probably have events start at something like 8am PDT which is 5pm CEST and then run all through the European night until something like 6 or 7am. In Tokyo, we had events start at 1am CEST and then go into the early afternoon. Cool, if you can take the day off or are in school. Sucks, if you have to work. For LA, I can watch the whole evening and then get a quick update/highlights in the morning. For Asia, it always feels like you are a day behind, watching highlights from 17 hours ago at 8pm and not getting any live sport in the evening.
I disagree, Tokyo was way better as I could sleep through the morning sessions which usually are just qualifiers or heats and then watch the important stuff at work in the morning. There were only a few times I had to stay awake or wake up early to see something I really wanted to see.
In LA all the important stuff will happen in the middle of the night, which means I will basically not sleep for 2 weeks or fall asleep at work.