It just goes in line with them creating an Oceania server cluster, so that JP players can no longer have to interact with AUS players, who doesn't even have 1/10th the population of US alone. We had similar (more mild) versions of this issue during SB launch and almost non during ShB launch because it wasn't as popular during 5.0. But SE knew that their servers were complete garbage on NA during the summer, yet refused to upgrade or remedy it in any way.

Having a stable and wired connection yet having to babysit a 6 hour queue is complete bullocks. If you're defending this, yikes.