As you may know, or maybe not, we are trying to improve the tournaments this year and make the results fairer. In the past the tournaments have suffered from producing patchy results from which it is hard for the Tournament Controller to pick a clear winner. The problem arises because members sign up, play a few games, and then fail to complete. Early games get played but later on they can become harder to arrange with people busy, away or difficult to contact. Meanwhile people still in the tournament are not best pleased if any of their earlier results are discounted because others haven't been able to arrange a match.
The Tournament Controller has the discretion to sort this out and his decision is final. However, after discussion, we have decided that this year there will be a decided shift towards no games being discounted, whatever the later difficulties. This will give an advantage, possibly, to players who take an early initiative to contact their opponents and pin them down for match dates. But we hope this advantage will be vanishing small as all the games get played.
Please feel free to comment on this if you wish and let the Tournament Controller know if you are having any problems with either playing your games or contacting your opponents.
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