Eh it seems most of my FC would actually prefer it this way, with the staggered launch. Gives everyone extra time to level/invest in crafted gear/enjoy the story. I'm in DnT and it seems like a LOT of the grops (even the world 3rd group) actually likes the idea of havingt to wait.

World Firsts would come down to a couple extra factors which arent skill -
1: How laggy the servers are (or even how long teh queue is, if you start 3 hours late, gg you lose)
2: Who levelled most efficiently (this one is fair as it would be considered a test of player ability, but still..)
I'd rather have stable servers and everything before thbe race would begin. We don't know the load that there could be on the servers at tht point, wouldnt it suck to be on the run of runs on the world first attempt and boom, everyone DC's and now you're fucked? I know I'd hate to lose to the server crashing when we were rightfully first.