[Xietor]

Though I promised myself not to post on the issue again, this will indeed be the last. My thought process was explained as best i could describe it. And though the 2 stale rule was not broken, it was not the reason he was replaced, nor is it the only reason a person can be replaced, nor was it ever meant to be the only reason a person could be replaced.

A person could stale excessively, over time, but not stale consecutive turns. That did not happen here. A person could be removed for "poor sportsmanship" as a player was removed from the Big Game last year. Again that was not what happened here.

What happened here is I thought a race was in danger of a 3rd stale in 9 turns with a player out of the loop, and made a decision based on the facts that were available.

I make no claim to being a good game host. And I am sure that I am not. But, I will say that my other 2 games made it to conclusion, with 12 and 18 players, into turn 90's without any snaffu such as this. So I am reasonably confident that this incident will indeed be an isolated event.