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Carlos, you and I can certainly manage this. This, to the best of my
knowledge, would be the first tournament with a flat time limit. All games
are played simultaneously. Mats, having been involved in tournaments which
ended with fewer participants than started, and one which never got its
second round assigned, I appreciate very much what you are saying. That's
part of the reason for the structure of this tournament. Once you're in,
you are in. All players will win, lose, draw or time out on all their games
- no exceptions. That's why the line stating 'decisions of the judges are
final'. 

There are obvious problems with this type of tournament, but the main one
is too many players, in which case, we would break the players into 2 or 3
sections. I don't expect that to happen, though. 

The more likely problem is games that can go on too long. A 150 move
masterpiece is unlikely, because both sides would need to play that game at
a pace of 1 move per day, beginning to end, to fit it within the 10 month
time limit. In a sense, this would be a sort of email blitz tournament. The
solution to this starts with careful decisions by the judges about which
games proposed will be played.