yes its a large espionage touney with 4 sections, all of which are nearly done. Is this a spiteful thing... probably not, people do have lives. but some players are spiteful. some will intentionally move at the last possible moment b/c you do not agree to a setting in particular game. this would be a cause to a slow moving issue.
The most likely explanation is one or both of the players has several hundred games in progress and they only move on games where they are close to timing out.
Which may be the answer to a fast tournament . . . make it a private tournament and only invite players with a track record of moving fast.
That would be a nice statistic for BrainKing to keep . . . average time per move by game type.