We are making good progress, 5 of 16 Round 2 slots taken. I'd love to be starting Round 2 next Friday, and I think its realistic. What is up with Group H? That is our one problem area. Anyone in H have a report?
Chances of me beating Cydoval are along the lines of impossible. And thus, I plunge into hopelessness.
Snooper will be DQ'd Monday night, 12 pm EST if he doesnt show -- assuming you have issued a challenge to him, with a comment indicating its a tourney game. Lacraia finished a 23 turn game with Juuicetin, so I dont know if he was favoring that game or if Juuice's schedule worked better for him. But as for the 1-2 turns a day rate, we have 5-10 people playing at this rate. Before I get involved, what I would like folks to do is say, in a comment: "The Tournament Director is wondering whether we can set a time next week to pound out some moves and hopefully finish the game, because this game is moving more slowly than the rest. Is there a time that works for you?" Send such a message now. Send me a private message to me with the response, and a report on the status of the game -- i.e., who do you think is winning, by how much, and how many turns will the game take. In general, I have a lot of sympathy for someone that sends a message back letting you know they are doing the best they can but have a work/student/life situation (I did promise to be patient in the rules), but very little for someone that gets nasty or ignores such a message.
i would suggest to pm anyone who does not play frequently before dq him/her. when the tourney started the guess was 3 weeks for round one to finish.. if the others from his group play well they might be even advance before he got the chance to play a single game.. also if someone disables notification on his device its easy to loose track of anything going on in the game i would at least wait till the others finished all their games till canning someone.
Well, yeah, I want to be reasonable about it, your right. I cant see any way for us to be done before Friday at best. I plan to see where we are at Monday night and message anyone that hasn't shown. Its just that if they go much longer than that, it starts to slow everyone down.
Group H Round 1 Hebug (Player 1) - I lost FlyBoyZombi (Player 2) - I won Drakeer (Player 3) - I won Vodoo (Player 5) - I won
TREV1 - GROUP B - ROUND 1 Challenged by 1. MLKeener - I LOST! 2. Krypton - playing Challenged.. 1. HLW10 - I LOST! 2. Kogepan - Playing Not lookin good....
FlyBoy's computer has been, and still is, broken. So he is just on his phone. If he was supposed to challenge you, please challenge him asap. Thanks.
Spoke to Drahkeer. He has been crushed with work stuff, but will start moving again. Remember to PM me about non-initiated games and slow movers. Thanks.
Update Group E: 1. Dalbertson - Win 2. Narziss - loss 3. Malphes - Win 5. Delkur - in progress, it may end today
I have now challenged FlyBoyZombi and explained that I were to Challange him. Now I'm waiting for the response. thanks for the help.
Rule Update We have a weird situation brewing in group A, where one player accepted his two challenges and is playing in those games (finished one), but doesnt seem interested in initiating his games. I am in A, and explained that he needed to do so to him, and he has not responded. (Note that I advance regardless of how we resolve this situation -- this ruling does not impact me.) After some thought, I have decided that the games that the defaulter did play will count as normal, and the folks that the defaulter did not play will receive a 1/2 a point. I appreciate that this ruling is not perfectly fair to everyone, but I dont think there is a ruling that would be perfectly fair in this situation. I am open to switching to "dont count any of the defaulters games at all" if most folks think that is preferable. (Both rules would lead to the same result in Group A.)
Group B: (ignoring Kogepan, who resigned from the tournament) HLW10: won 2, lost 1 MLKeener: won 1, lost 2 Krypton: won 1, lost 1, in progress 1 Trev1: lost 2, in progress 1 If Trev1 wins against Krypton, do we all proceed to the next round?
I think there are 2 games in progress, so there are still various results possible. Its making my head hurt trying to figure out if your guaranteed to advance or not, so lets wait and see what happens.
Either I can't read the spreadsheet, or it's changed since I looked at it. Or both. Anyway Krypton has now won at least two, making the potential situation I asked about (2.5 x1, 1.5 x3) impossible for now!
