If all teams that we are going to sail against, are prepared to sail between 20:00 - 22:00 hr on a Friday Saturday or Sunday nights, Sydney time, then the amount of vsk sailors from Australia would be large and we wouldnt need to increase our team numbers. However, from past experience in WTRC2010, more often than not, requests came in for us to race somewhere between 3 am and 10 am. The amount of sailors in vsk from Australia that are able to sail in these time slots is very small, probably only a handful and even then, some of them don't do teams racing. Therefore TOA was caught short a few times when we were not able to line up a full team, needed to reschedule, conceded races or in extreme case, wasn't able to negotiate a suitable with a particular team at all.
Scheduling should be a half way meeting OR at least on average go your way every second time...
So just say you can sail saturdays at 08:00 GMT Frydays or Saturdays ... that should be good enough and trust the PC to protect you from receiving the bad end of every scheduling..
any other team that does not keep their saturdays free for extreme scheduling demands IMO can be scored walked over right away..
You could request the RC to permit a Team to race on Saturdays, Frydays and Sundays only after a Team has scheduled all races against Teams in an opposite timezone (+/- 3 hrs).
Also you could submit request to the WTRC RC to put all Australien / Oceanien teams in on Group enabling to meet teams in an opposite timezone as late as possible.
Basically up until quater finals at least, races do not have to be intercontinental..Make it 4 timezones and scheduling is not a problem until the half finals... fromwich all races can be held in 2 weekends)
That however is a matter for the WTRC and requests should go there.