Drop morning always produces last emails. Someone’s cousin landed in Suvarnabhumi and wants a Kingpin place. Someone else forwards a screenshot of a variant they just decided they prefer.
We freeze forty-eight hours before the mint because the roster has to match the edition sheet that gets printed, the metadata that names the cap, and the lettering credit list. Adding a name at 10:00 on drop day means the paper in Bangkok and the NFT record disagree.
A freeze is visible: the calendar cell changes from “open” to “frozen,” and late requests receive a written decline. We would rather send a blunt no than keep a shadow list that never mints.
If you travel, request the waitlist place when the window opens, not after immigration. The desk answers within two working days in ICT, which is still inside most public windows.