There is, since sunday is still a day in the weekend it's counted towards the weekend. There are always people that will put an activity or job that has to be done on sunday towards saturday, so they can start the server at ease with the least amount of pressure on their shoulders. Some people might even have a free day off on monday, I dont know how crazy people go towards the release of ascalon. Other than that major games are not ascalon and ascalon is not releasing their beta. If you just put it on at instant, the amount of people joining will not be the same as releasing at the set date.
If you think I'm posting in my own behalf, you are wrong. I just got called for a job (teacher primary school), which takes a tremendous amount of work to begin with (if you have any experience in that job), so I might not even be able to start ascalon until wednesday
. The only thing I'd like to see a perfect beginning for a server I've enjoyed numerous times, so I can only wish the best to their schedule and the way the devs have it all planned and not the selfish perspective you are trying to push forward here.
I believe the release in america will be around 10-11am roughly?