Here’s the thread for this tournament 
9x9 fast correspondence games, 2023 rounds.
It will start on the 1st of January 2023. 1048 registered players so far.
I set rules to avoid games that slow down the tournament too much.
Nine*Nine, NineNineNine is a similar one.
Life goals: don’t timeout.
Holy… This reads like a finalist story for a nomination “the shortest story about an existential dread in a Go setting.” I truly appreciate this, no kidding.
“Through the years” has 12 rounds. I think these 2023 rounds will finish first - is my first instinct, without an intuitive sense of how much two-thousand really is.
Analysis: at 6 moves per day (slowest permissible game not counting the starting time or pause/vacation “abuse”), 12 moves per day if one player is really quick to respond, a round could be about a week long. ~50 weeks a year, 40 years?
Through the years started in the middle of 2020, at 2.5 years per round we get to 30 years.
What is going to matter most, I believe: how timeouts end up reducing the pool of players. In both cases it might be that the pool is large enough that even dropping 90% of the “insufficiently committed” could still preserve enough slow players to not let later rounds go faster…
2023 rounds means more opportunities for people to time out - plus it being much less likely that people consistently keep up with the pace.
Conclusion: I actually didn’t find much to weigh in on my estimate…
I propose two more betting questions:
Looks like roughly 2000 players in each tournament. (“Through the years” claims 2233 players, while “2023 rounds” currently has 1909 players registered.)
Let me add another one: will we ever reach the third / fourth / fifth / etc. round?
We just passed 2023 participants!
Today we reached 2300 players (2311 now).
It will probably (unless a lot of players withdraw) be the biggest tournament started so far, through the years had 2233 players.
I think I’m aiming for 2500 but finding more players is becoming more and more difficult I think.
We are at 2460, I think 2500 is doable. Join in if you haven’t already done so!
I have prepared 10 questions on things I am curious about, and I am also curious to read your predictions 
Maybe I’ll try to estimate something too, but I’ll let whoever wants to answer do it first
Out of curiosity, I checked right now and if I didn’t get something wrong there are exactly 2500 players signed up 
I was considering joining in just to make you happy about the number, but it seems I don’t need to do that 
Uh, thank you! But you should have joined only if you were interested in participating and not for me.
I actually think that a good portion of the players are not super clear on what it about, given some of the questions that have been asked in chat 
It started with 24 minutes delay and 2574 players.
Apparently there are two players without an opponent, PaulMartineau and Sistina, and I don’t understand why.
Sofiam:dolphin: (joking, but I really have no idea)
I’ll also add a prediction of 7 players left when it finishes
Hello,
I can’t find my second partie. Can you tell me what i have to do ?
The second round will start as soon as everyone finishes the first
Have you finished your first game already?
The next round will start when everyone else has also finished so you’ll be in for a wait.
Some people have not yet made their first move.
By my count there are 13 games on vacation:
Plus 4 games with 0-4 moves which have clearly been paused somehow, but now have moving clocks.
