Originally Posted by
ogreve
Here's a bit of advice in this situation:
I would team up via PM with the other people who have reported here that they missed out in a similar way and then let one person send a combined email, summarising the exact situations for each of the people who have had such issues. Briefly summarise each persons exact situation, include their S8 IDs too and attach any and all screenshots that may show your acorn count up to as close as possible before the update. JPEG images contain so-called "EXIF" information in the headers, amongst which date-time stamps. Using that, along with the server logs, TL should be able to verify that you would timely have made it had the event not ended early. I hope for LonePudding that at least the Rune Prunes WERE still harvested right before the update. For PuppyFrog I hope the same can be said about the acquired gems. TL can verify these actions with the timelines of the event.
Finally, you can refer to this particular forum thread and inform them that you were honestly in line for getting the Barn Owl, and that you took all sort of gem-sepnding actions to see to it that you would get the Owl (like e.g. the speed-hatching of the Ra, Slippopatamus, etc.). With any luck Kooky, Elsa and/or Regina may have followed these posts real-time too, and can then hopefully attest for you that you reported the event to being gone before the update time and that you were in line for getting the Owl. If you want, you may refer to me as a "witness", but well, I'm not sure of course if that would help.
I sincerely hope they'll grant each of you the Owl!
Good luck!