Hi Mayo Inc. I'm Rob Dougan, the asshat who wrote the current alertbots (DUMBRIT! was the original alertbots author =P). Right now, all alertbots pm as soon as the bot detects the start of a game. This is before captains are even picked. The queue pf people to pm is about 100 people deep. Thus, the maximum controllable delay between the bot recognizing the start of a game and you receiving a message is roughly 510ms (due to constraints within the core and two chat messages sent out). Anything beyond that is due to lag between the bot and the server and between the server and you.
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