Date: 	Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:49:10 -0600
From: "Robert F. Heeter" 
Subject: W2WT: Happy Holidays!

Warlords of the World,

We are now entering the official winter holiday period for the tournament.
From December 20 through January 7, none of the time limit rules will
be enforced.  No gamefiles will be late, all timeouts will be restored,
and no one will be dropped from a game for any reason.  Play if you
can, and if you wish, but don't worry about the tournament if you're 
busy or travelling!

Most moderators will simply increase the turnaround time to ~20 days 
during the holiday period, and then set it back to 2 days on January 7.
That way all moves will be due on January 9th.  (Some moderators
who will be around during the vacation may monitor their games more
closely and use the usual suspend/revive method for dealing with players
who are on vacation.)

-- Bob / Headquarters

P.S.  Some additional news:  

* The Practice Round results are almost ready! 

The last late-starting Practice Round game is now on Turn 10, side 3.  
All the Practice Round stats should be ready by the end of the holiday 
period, if all goes well!  


* Round A is now at the halfway point!

As of a few minutes ago, one Round A game was on Turn 14, while two 
were still on Turn 6, and the rest were generally on Turn 9 or 10.


* Don't worry about Round B yet:

Round B will not start until at least mid-February, and we will make
sure everyone has plenty of time to play their final Round A moves along
with their Round B moves, for those games which overlap (if any).