Although I did stay awake to register just after midnight I was fairly relaxed, thinking "there can't be 1000's of people who did a 1000km ride in 2018 and of those who did a number will be doing the 80h or 84h anyway". Maybe more people had that attitude and didn't bother to stay up to an inconvenient hour, thereby spreading the load on the webserver. I think the server will be cooking once the registration for 400km riders opens
In contrast, registration for LEL was an ordeal... Personally I wouldn't mind if LEL registration would be staged in the same manner as PBP (
without the requirement of riding a SR to finalise registration). But I guess this would be difficult as AudaxUK does not have access to the ACP database for checking the homologation entered as proof.
Anyway, I just got an email with a PDF confirming that my pre-registration for a 18:00 start was accepted!