Bernice:
high number = fast connection
low number = slow connection

kbps = kilobytes per second

I bet you think the internet runs on fiber optic cables and wireless transmissions. No. It runs on child labor. Little children on bicycles ride through underground tunnels delivering emails and web packets. They work very hard in the hope that, someday, they too will be allowed to live among the surface dwellers. The trouble is, you have to pay bribes to the syndicate in order for your website to run properly. Fencer fell behind in his payments, so some portions of the syndicate stopped delivering web packets for him. But these payments are very important. They pay for the food that the little children eat, and without them the children starve. So the real reason for BrainKing's problems: Fencer hates chidren.

Greg Murray: It's cyberterrorism.

Gordon Shumway: Ah, I'm using Opera.

Gordon Shumway: Thank you for making the discussion board annoyingly wide.

When I was a knight/pawn, I calculated like this:

For tournaments with 1 game for each 2 players:
X = M - 1

For tournaments with 2 games for each 2 players:
X = (M - 1) * 2

M = maximum players per section
X = number of slots to set aside

Fencer could use a different advertising service. It's not true that offensive ads cannot be stopped. A reputable advertising service wouldn't even offer those kinds of ads.

Just to see what would happen, I turned on the banner ads at the top of the pages. Then BrainKing told me, "Your current settings do not allow you to receive Action Points. Click here to fix it." I clicked there, and it turned off the banner ads on the top of the pages.

I couldn't access BrainKing all day yesterday.