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Access Fails, So Task Deadlines Are Lifted

The first leaderboard had just appeared, and participants were trying to finish their Odyssey tasks. Cloudflare blocked a group of participants. The deadlines had moved from extended to temporarily suspended, relieving participants of the need to rush through tasks while the entrance was broken.

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The first leaderboard had just appeared, and participants were trying to finish their Odyssey tasks. Access became the immediate problem: some could see their progress, while others could not even open the task page. The recently extended deadlines no longer seemed dependable.

Cloudflare blocked a group of participants. The official team removed all task deadlines until the problem was resolved, so those shut out would not have to race a countdown. The narrator added that a fix was expected today, not several days later. That evening, the team worked with Offchain Labs and Thirdweb to clear the fault. They said everything had been fixed but kept monitoring it.

The deadlines had moved from extended to temporarily suspended, relieving participants of the need to rush through tasks while the entrance was broken. The evening fix gave them a way forward. Subsequent access would test the narrator's same-day assurance; the community still needed to watch for anyone being blocked and wait for a clear account of when deadlines would apply again.