I've been thinking about this tourney a little more. With real life I try to keep my games to no more than 3 at time. Otherwise as I've learnt the hard way I CD and screw things up for other players (not to mention my Reliability rating!) I can stretch this out to 4 if we have a scenario like we're discussing here with 3 gunboat tourney games.

But that means if we're going to run the tourney unrated I'll only have 1 game at any point of time capable of keeping my vDip points up. Now I don't know about how incredible you guys are as players, but unless in every rated game I'm scoring win after win, my vDip ranking is going to tank.

So on reflection I am happy to stay in the tourney provided there is at least an arbitrary points commitment of 10 a game. Yes the SoS system will be there and the glory of tourney champ should be decided that way, but I don't want to see my overall vDip rating screwed up just because I put my hand up for this event.

If the general consensus is to progress unrated and minimum of 3 simultaneous games that's cool, but I'll bow out to give someone else a chance who's happy with those game conditions.

If you can accommodate my needs all the better. And on the WTA vs PPSC conversation, over a 15 game commitment I think it won't matter much, so don't care what happens on that front.