Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 12:42:57 +0100 From: Tournament HeadquartersSubject: W2WT: Finishing up the Practice Round Greetings, Warlords! Most of the Round A games have been created, and we will be Letting the War Begin on Monday or Tuesday! With Round A getting underway, there will be some changes in the way we run the Practice Round. * We want you to be able to focus on your Round A games, but we also want you to finish up your Practice Round games as quickly as possible. * We will not be strictly enforcing the time limits for the Practice and Quick games. If you run out of timeouts, send in a query message and your moderator will restore them. But play as fast as you can! Moderators should *not* restore timeouts unless you request it. * The Moderators are also playing in Round A games. To let them focus on playing and moderating in Round A, they will be doing less to help you in the Practice Round. They will still look for rules errors and answer questions, but they won't be volunteering any more advice. Moderators are not allowed to provide strategic advice while official games are underway, because it is no longer fair. * Some of you may want to play your Practice Round games past Turn 10. That's great! But when your Practice Round games reach Turn 11, they do need to pause for a bit so everyone can learn how to report the official final game standings for the tournament. (There are no prizes for the Practice Round, though.) * After all the Practice Round game results are in, the "sample" tournament standings will be determined, and posted on the Web. * More information about Round A will be sent over the next few days! -- Headquarters