To be honest, if you signed up to this, it's your responsibility to get it done. It's not that hard to make a team with your partner, just pair with someone with a similar timezone and set up a
Pirate Pad and you can have your team built and tested in less than an hour and you still have 4 days to send your team with a description and cute sprites to the host and sleep or do your work or whatever till the round robin thing starts. Then you just have to do 3 simple battles.
Seriously, the duration of this is fine, but if the people who sign up don't put their own effort, Christo can't do crap.