"Jason
"We will award 250 Reward Points to all affected users on Tuesday, 9th October (GMT) at an unspecified time. This will give us time to correctly identify all affected users and prepare a script to send out the reward points."
Also no, design was unharmed.
Well, IMO, ALL users were affected - our race on Monday was littered with dropped connections, freezes, outright crashes of the IGP site, etc. That it finished the race was a technicality; most of the people taking part had no way of getting in and altering strategies or push levels because of the constant issues.
Not trying to fish for reward points, honestly, but I think it's important to note that it wasn't just the guys whose races were postponed that felt like they were, to put it mildly, inconvenienced.