BerserK, i 100% agree with first, and not against the second. Dfruns cup is means 4fun competition for community and one of couple ideas was to make this cup like Warmup Cup before DFWC. I can finish this cup 1 week earlier, just starting 2 rounds in one time, no problem.
BUT!
Are you sure that everything is ready? Site/upload/automatic demovalidation, anticheat, rules - this must been updated for current DFWC.
What about DONATION!?!? I keep money from HT2CUP, like most people choose, for DFWC and just wait moment when <hk> make paypal donation account for it (or used his personal, no matter) and add donate button.
Prize fund is huge motivation for many skilled defraggers, it surely attract people attention from Quake community not interested in Defrag before (will result in influx of players in the future).
I think neiT and mucki can do some stream-reviews about each DFWC round results, like ZERG made for DFWC2012, but for international community. I dont ask neiT about this, just my thoughts
. And if yes, he also needs time to prepare for it.
As in result, we have 1,5 week (if asking for end Dfruns earlier) for all of this... I think its not enough and we also must to do news about DFWC2014 for esreality.com, Defrag and Quake groups in facebook.com/vk.com and post it during the current week!
Is well we started talking about it not too late).