I really hate to raise the topic again; although the things I said about quickhosting seem right, there might be a small pitfall that I feel compelled to warn you about again:
Suppose you submit your turn on friday evening, satisfying the next schedule on monday. Hence your next deadline is tuesday noon. Correct.
Now it is a rainy saturday and you check the server again. There had been a quickhost and you happily do and submit your turn again. Now it is
wrong to assume that you already satisfied the tuesday deadline as well and that you wont have to do a turn until wednesday!
The pitfall here is that this thinking is
usually ok, but not necessarily so: There might be a second quickhost on sunday which consumes your turn, and this second quickhost will not skip the tuesday deadline, since the monday deadline has not passed yet. Hence:
Never rely on that two consecutive deadlines will be skipped!
Do not
expect quickhosting to give you more time than you would have in a fixed schedule without quickhosting, although you will experience this sometimes...
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Mark the merciful: Yes, but more important is; "when liable to early elimination, get your excuses in early and loudly".
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Ahh yes, robbing the winner of his pride; a classical revenge in death. How merciful of you... 
[ June 23, 2004, 09:43: Message edited by: Chazar ]
Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
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