whopper:
mctrivia: If they are constantly timing out they will run out quickly.

Not to be misunderstood: i don't think the slow playing "specialists" want to make the other players angry, but they simply have started more games than they can handle. Now, for losing as few games as possible by timeout, they manage to make the most urgently moves and to use their vacation tolerance where it is possible.

Such a tournament is indeed in my mind, and without a special player it would have taken about a week, but now with the "specialist" i am afraid it will not be finished this year. Even if the specialist
will lose in the next summer ;) by timeout, the other players want much more to start the next round of the tournament than to wait a year
for getting a winning point from the specialist...

In tournaments where players are trying a new game (example Ambiguous Chess) and want to make some experiments in opening theory etc., they would be glad to see the results of their strategies this year if possible ;)
To start another tournament is no solution, coz the specialist can start thousands of games and participate in every tournament he likes.

A complete other idea for solution would be a counter for the timeout-defeats of a player in a year. The first timeout should limit his
open slots to 1000, the second to 500, etc.
until this system self-regulates the poor forecast of a "specialist" and reduces his open slots to exactly the quantity he can handle.