Um well, those plots ARE OPEN for placing !
I have no clue why [if they were not supposed to be open yet] but they are OPEN if no home was on em, you can easily place a 15 x 15, on the empty plots.
I became my own neighbor placed one next door today/ felucca.
IF they were supposed to somehow hold the plots for the winners whom
apparently could not place their home plot where they won, and they {UO EA} should not have left the plots *open for placing* which they ARE, which now or since has permitted everyone else TO PLACE a plot on any of em that were empty, as of today I guess, or yesterday or whenever.
*Or maybe they have a list of those whom DID contact them and the issue of not being able to place was resolved ??? The rest didn't contact em fast enough, sooo maybe EA UO thought ok no problem with this or that winner, and opened up the empty ones ??
I don't know ! Everyone was babblin in in game chat the plots are open since early this morning. I ignored it all day, till the last half hour, and then I mosey'd on over and PLACED ! ???