what sane person wants to play strat at 4am at any time of the year ^^
The Christmas period is one of the only times that most people have a week or two off, this is the perfect time for some nice strat battles.
The get a life argument is poor. I have a life it involves working from 8am-4:30pm I get home from 6pm-6:30pm. I cant play strat most of the year because people seem intent on having battles around 10pm-4am.
Unless you are going to spend the entire holidays drinking and partying etc then get out of this discussion
most people wont be around all of xmas day sure but then we have a whole week to play ^^