I work in a State Prison where the schedule consists of seven 12 hour shifts every two weeks.
The third week of July I'm on duty Monday, Tuesday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The fourth week I'm only at work on Wednesday and Thursday, so I'll be off that whole weekend.
-edit- It's also worth mentioning that a
Little Rock Gamecon preliminary tournament will be on July 30th. If you schedule the ARK on the 31'st the two events could boost each other and encourage heavy cross-tourney turnout. It's exactly the kind of reinforcement in the Fighting Game scene that Arkansas needs, which is pretty much the entire point of ARK, right?