Tournament Play

[PoorOldSpike]

I see that POS has a very definite plan for ending them too. His seem to end with no problem. I believe there are several ways to make that happen.

It's easy mate, just slap a finishing deadline on them..:)
Malitz began in mid-December and ends 6 weeks later at midnight on Jan 31st, that gives everybody an easily-understood 'objective' to aim for, and they can customise their file-return rate accordingly to slot in with that annoying thing called 'Real Life'.

For example Malitz is a 20+ turn game, therefore about 60 files will take it to turn 20, but of course each player will only need to return half of those (30 files).
6 weeks is 42 days, so if he returns one file a day it'll only take a month to reach 20 turns, with 2 weeks elbow room to spare for overtime and unforeseen events (PC breakdown,UFO abduction, boss, wife, kids and mother-in-law trouble etc..:)
In fact 25 out of 33 Malitz games have already finished within a month of the start which is pretty good going..:)

PS-I don't organise 'Tourneys' as such, which require multiple rounds and could go on for months/years, I prefer to do short sharp fast 'Competitions' like Malitz.
In the distant past I entered several Tourneys but never liked them much because of their slowness, and never won any.
In fact I don't even know if they're still going, they were launched in a blaze of publicity like the Titanic with lots of cheering and flagwaving, then seemed to sink without trace..;)

BTW for my next Competition I'm toying with doing it on a team basis of some kind but its still in the planning stage, all I know for sure is that it'll be a short sharp 6-weeker with a silver Trophy at the end of it as usual and should be ready to go around March..:)