AbigailII: Fortunately, the exception you mentioned is an extreme rarity. Let's take from
Retep
a spot check of 10 games, we get an average of 19.4 moves per game and variance sigma^2 = 132.93. Probability that a game ends in 50 moves = phi(50; 19.4, 132.93) = 0.00292267, that it ends in 4 moves = 0.00298107. Probability
that in a 8-player-tournament just one player ends all his 7 games in 50 moves while all the other 49 ghames end in 4 moves = 0.0292267^7*0.0298107^49 =
3.19*10^-86. We should make a lot of tournaments - more tournaments than atoms in the universe! - in order that the situation, that a player will be accidentally be detected as "hand-brake" coz he has just 50-moves-games while all other have 4-moves-games, occurs even a single time...

About vacation no other comment that every player has vacation days from the server. It's the job of Fencer if he will give more or less vacation days.

But enough said, this theme seem to cause so much trouble that i don't want any longer suggest a solution for all of us but found a solution for myself: Today i quit all fellowships and will
not start in new tournaments.