Typical, the vote was not about winning or loosing. Just to see how many ppl are interested in playing after last save.

About the early shut down of server to save:

How long to think it takes to convert and impliment the files into the new system? Considering they are starting so early it should take a while.
Simple as that, they cant start 2.0 without taking all out data, converting it and implement it all into the new system.
And no, thats not simply copy paste a few GB.