Pedro Martínez:  Thank you for your concern over doing things properly.  When I saw this tournament, I had only finished 1 Espionage variant game properly.  The following is the query I sent:

"I'm interested in Espionage and have been reading the posts on the
board for a while.  My rating is above 1500 in all variants, but out of
the total of 22 games across all variants, Indriel has
timed out in 10, Snoopy got overwhelmed by games and resigned 10,
MadMonkey timed out in 1, so that only leaves 1 game I've ever played
properly!  Would I still be disqualified as a newbie, based on these
unearned ratings, do you think?"

I was told I was eligible, but if the organisers now think otherwise, I'll pull out as I don't wish to upset anyone.