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Greg Strong wrote:

Wow. What changed?

My awareness of the consequences of participating in this kind of tournament changed. This kind of tournament can work when the participants all choose games they think will appeal to a larger group, as I did when I chose Extra Move Chess. But when participants use this kind of tournament to choose games with very narrow appeal, as Joe has egregiously done with Chieftain Chess, and Carlos has done to a lesser degree with Coherent Chess, it will not work well. Since I first agreed to participate, I took a closer look at Coherent Chess, and I realized it was a flawed game. Then before I found the time to complain about that, Joe chose Chieftain Chess, which is too large, too complicated, and still has other flaws. When I complained about these games being in the tournament, Carlos simply chose to reassert what he had in mind for a Potluck Free4All. That's when I decided to drop out. As long as this tournament is going to be used to push flawed variants I would otherwise have no interest in playing, I'm not interested in participating in it. Note that while I'm not opposed to playing games I'm not seriously interested in, as I did in the last tournament, I would rather not play games that are seriously flawed, as these two games are.