AndrewB wrote:This is a wrong approach. The new game is kept by server for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks it is deleted.
So instead of waiting for all first then for all second and finally all third teams to join you MUST send a PM to ALL players, and follow up with ones who have not joined.
So far it looks like you are going to re-start a lot of games...
Don't let it be another tournament screw up...
There is zimmah, BTW???
i didn't know about the 2 week limit, but the reason why we pm the teams in order is we wanted to PREVENT people to join in the wrong order (either by accident or on purpose, you never know with over 140 persons, out of 140 there is always one oddity, i wanted to prevent that kind of things, or keep it to an absolute minimum, even if it is not someone's intention, what if two teams get the message on the same time, and decide to join on the same time, because the just came home from work on exactly the same time and thus, the 4 players join in a very strange order, while the first team had already joined before, and therefore the game will start directly, then we have to remake it right? and that's what i wanted to prevent. and i thought that everyone would log on once a day at least to take his/her turns anyways, so it should not take longer then 1 or 2 days for each team to join, at least that's what i thought. maybe we should make a deadline, now every time there is a 50 hours limit (something more then 2 full days and nights) after the pm is send, if there is no reaction in any way (either a private message or joining the game counts as a reaction) after the 50 hour limit, there will join either a complete new team on their spot, or a reserve player (if only 1 teammate doesn't show up)
that's fair right?
and no, i won't let my tournament screw up, and i 'm sure blake will do anything he can to help me with this tournament, and for that i thank him.
in fact, at the end of this tournament i'll give him 1 month free premium as a show of my reward to him.

i think he deserved it by all the help he gives me with this tournament.