In these kind of games you're always ahead if you started off earlier.

S177 started around October last year, and we all thought we were "behind" on S1 folks, but you realize everyone's in the same boat as you and typically you're not bunched together with earlier servers for most cross server events. If anything the later servers have it easier now, the games much easier to play and less costly than before. They used to sell regular Kisame for 10k+ coupons, that was last year :P