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Well, it's been a few months since any action on the tournament. Without appropriate access, we can't have the official tournament Fergus has/would have run, but there are more people than myself willing to send out unofficial tournament games, and have a player-recognized, if not fully official, tournament. All games would be rated, and should be tracked. Standard time controls could be used. Or, all games could be assigned at once, with 6 months spare time for each player in each game, and nothing else, so the tournament would have to end in a year. 

There are other problems in continuing the tourney. For example, my first game was against Fergus, who would apparently not be playing anyone else in the rest of the tournament, so how would that game be counted? [Maybe as a tie-breaker?] Similar situations may easily arise during the tournament, where a player drops out without completing his games. We'd need a way to handle them fairly and appropriately. Carlos has offered to run this tourney - anyone else besides me? Carlos? You ready to assign games and figure out how to track them? I'd like to hear some opinions on tourney continuation now and how to work out the problems [& please, say if you're in it or not]. 

I'd also like to see a 'BYO' tourney, where each player brings a game, any CV with a preset here, and plays that game against every other player. Games would be played in pairs, with each player playing 2 games [one of each player's] against every other player. With some expressed interest, I'd run that.