There is a basic home page for this tournament out there on the internet (which is where matches will be posted, etc.)
Basic dates to remember:
- Guaranteed registration closes in one week (Friday, November 6). Registrations received after that will be accepted on a space-available-only basis.
- The tournament will start Sunday, November 8, and will run five or six weeks depending on turnout. You will have one match scheduled each week (Sunday -- Saturday), except perhaps the last week when an extra finals match may be scheduled.
- It's a closed tournament -- you will be placed in a flight based on your rating as of earlier today when I got the ratings list from Apterous. The Championship Flight is open to people with ratings above 1300; Flight A is open to people with ratings between 900 and 1300; and Flight B is open to those with ratings below 900.
- If a flight is using a Swiss system pairing, I will use Dubov pairings to try to even out strength-of-schedule issues. My preference this time will be to use pool-play, prelim-and-playoff style matches where available.
- Points per game is gone as a tiebreaker.
- For Swiss matches that are unplayed, I will try to get cross-round pairings working if possible on the last day (Saturday) of the week. If you haven't played/scheduled a time by late in the week, I may be getting in touch with you.
You can register for either or both of these tournaments in this thread.