pgt: there are still TWO players playing THE FIRST ROUND!!!

At 4-4 in a 9-point match where neither player has got up the nerve to even look at the cube or go for gammon, it'll be another decade yet.

Is there anything anybody can do to speed things up?

This small nucleus of inert site-spoilers either don't care two hoots or lack awareness of their selfish effect. We are but tiny, distant, insignificant electrons and our frantic whizzing around is not for them.

Unfortunately the only practical option is to start a new account.

Maybeoneforeachtournamentthatinterestsyou!

pgt: How about manually calculating the winners of each round and start an invitational tournament with just those players, that is if those 2 players don't figure in to it. Then ask fencer to delete the current tournament when the round finally finishes

Vikings: I'm not actually fussed about winning or losing the tournament. As I said, I am 75 years old now, and if it goes on for another 5 years, I might well be dead, and then take another 7 years to time out before the next round can begin. In the end the winner will be the player who outlives all the others! What a great result THAT would be!!

pgt: I wouldn't worry mate, it's the website that won't survive another 5 years of this slow playing madness. Websites lacking dynamism do not survive on the world wide web, they become tombstones.