<<if you say you're going to write a singles tourney, make sure you can. And if you can't get enough questions done--make sure you give people advance notice. I could talk about the weird distribution to but....>> Trying not to sound too defensive here since this was my own fault: I apologize for the fact that the Spencer was abbreviated from the announced length. This was by and large due to my own overconfidence in my ability to write 400 questions in a month while working full time. Continued critiques on this point should be directed at me, and only me. I have taken the following measures to make amends for this, which I hope will be satisfactory to everyone involved: --The mirror sites were released from the negotiated fee for the questions, and are now expected to name the price which they feel appropriate --As soon as I have the relevant list of email addresses, every player at all three sites will receive a free electronic copy of the questions --I will be writing a full-length singles tournament, starting now, which I will offer at no charge to all tournaments held on a weekend to be named later during this coming academic year --I will be writing a singles tournament again next summer, for use sometime in July, to be completed no later than June 30, with regular updates on my progress for those concerned. As for the distribution thing...I agree that it sucked. I experimented with tournament-level distribution, and the experiment failed. Any future tournament I'm involved with will return to standard packet-by-packet distribution. --M.W.
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