Gentlemen,
Many thanks for the updates. Looks like Round One is motoring along at a good pace. Almost 50% of the battles have finished!
You may have noticed that Scipio has joined our merry band. I am playing his Round One battles,
but, he is aware that if we haven't finished our battles by the time everyone else has, then they will be ceasefired. So these will not hold up our steady push to the start of Round Two.
This final week of July and the month of August is the holiday season. Happy holidays! As you know I'd like to get Round Two out the door in the next few weeks. Though because August will be primarily for fun and sun, I will wait until the start of September before checking to make sure all the battles have started. Thus the end of October will be the Round Two deadline.
This means that Round Three would have a potential end of year deadline. Well, what I want to do is push everyone to up the pace to finish a few days before Christmas - go ahead and curse me, that's what I'm here for

. This will avoid holiday and post-holiday season slo-mo and a fresh, New Year start for Round Four.
This Christmas end-date is a bit harsh, and if it looks unachievable I'll extend the deadline to mid January. The decision on this will be made before 14th December.
So to recap.
Provisional Round dates are
Round One..................................................................
end date July 31st probably early August
Round Two.........start date
early/mid August..........end date
October 31st
Round Three......start date
November.....................end date
pre-Christmas (tba)
Round Four........start date
January..........................end date
February 28th
Round Five........tba
I will add this schedule to the Rules thread asap, and update it as necessary. If changes do occur I will notify all of you - that's part of the fun of running one these tournies

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