I agree the lauch time was off and he should have announced a new date, but he didn't, but it's the most fair altcoin launch so far, since it was in fact preannounced, and it couldn't be mined with GPUs at start. About 20 mins after it was launched it was on block 49, so he couldn't have had alot of CPU power on it. The block generation rate is still fast several hours after lauch, but for most that only means more orphaned blocks. The starting difficulty should have been higher for sure.

Anyway, even I managed to snag a few blocks with my core i5 and a core i7 (The core i7 was way worse btw for some weird reason).