I don't know man, I feel like this is all intentional. I mean, what he is saying right now makes no sense to me... Like they cannot dedicate lawyers to this case which is probably one of the biggest they got in the past year. And second, they ALREADY did all of those research and now they need time? To prepare well. I mean come on, just look at your "notes" from the past year...

No yeah, I think it's intentional on CMA's part but this lawyer was really screwed over, Lol.

An appropriate result all things considered. Clown agency getting dunked on. 

LMao if he really said a day or two to prepare. What a fucking circus.

Yah :) I see what you mean haha Poor guy. But well, I will not lose any sleep over it haha

And yeah, CMA's excuse of needing more time is more bollocks from them.

They have had over a year to create and defend their point, they'll have months since the final decision, they have less documents to deal with and all they have to do is defend their own damn decision that they've already made. CMA is saying they don't have enough time and yet they give Microsoft (and others) only 4 weeks to appeal their final decisions, what kind of double standard is that? Lol.

CMA really does like using the "we don't have enough resources" excuse.

Beard: Some of the material [we're submitting] was before the CMA before the final decision, four of them are short statements from cloud gaming providers which all disagree with the CMA's cloud gaming definition which the CMA omitted and did not ask for their opinions. The EU did and approved the deal.

Activision's stock has just had a little spike, Lmfao.

Maybe due to Diablo IV upcoming reviews?

It's funny timing though, maybe it could be because of this shitshow.

Judge to CMA: it seems dumb (I guess) to bring in someone who was not involved with the decision to come in and say they agree with it. It either has to be a panel member of the CMA with knowledge in economics or an economist within the council.

"The judge calling out the 'irrationality' of the CMA asking for new experts on their side. Judge saying just bring out the experts used on the initial decision instead of finding new experts who have to study the material in order to say the CMA did the right thing."

Looks like MS rolled the dice and got the right judge.  At least in the beginning faze of this appeal.  The thing is if its looking bad for the CMA, would they try to close with MS instead of having the appeal goes MS way and the tribunal dropping or negating the Cloud SLC.  If that happen, it would be a worse case scenario for the CMA and I am sure they would not like to try to dance around something on that level.