This is exactly what I’m wondering. Some people could have been on vacation since the beginning. Others (playing as white) may have paused the game when they saw that black was about to timeout. Maybe it’s unlikely, but there were over 10000 games and it’s speculative to say that it could not have happened.
I’m hoping that this could be checked with some sort of automated script or server-side tools, rather than manually. Of course, speculation is certainly no substitute.
Just checked the whole list again, and I can give some fresh and exciting stats for @Lys to enjoy!
I have a game where my opponent was black and on vacation, when his vacation ended the clock was on 28 days, not 3. So I guess the 3 days thing doesn’t work if it’s not in place when the game starts.
My guess is they resigned from the games because they might not have time now, but want to participate in the next round.
Or they don’t know they have to resign from the tournament and they’re in for a surprise in about a year from now.
I believe someone also reported above that if the game is paused and then unpaused before any moves are played, the 3-day pre-game timer gets converted to the game clock with the initial time of 28 days.
I’m guessing that this latter explanation is more likely to be the case for most of them. I also think it’s going to take a lot longer than one year for the second round to start. Sure, the vast majority of games will probably finished within a year, but the round will last as long as the absolute slowest game is still going.
We might even have some players pause their game and then never resume, because they forget about it and maybe even leave the site. It’s possible that the round gets held up, while the organizer/moderators try to contact people that may have abandoned games in a paused state. We might even need moderator intervention to resolve such games, if it eventually becomes apparent that they won’t finish.
Yup, a good chunk of those are this I assume. I didn’t check all 180 games, but I did check for two players and that was the case. More on this in the cool facts section.
I’m counting years in “2020 months”. 
But yes, it’ll probably be much longer.
It’ll be a problem if both players leave, I think the opponent can unpause. Although we’ll probably going to have at least one of those as well. I think I mentioned somewhere a 50-year cap for games.
I’m trying to do this automatically.
So you could either write your thesis or look for some other fun facts! 
Data update:
Total number of participants: 2233
Total number of players in this round: 2233 (100.00%)
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The following data is about the current round only.
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Disqualified or dropped out: 126 (5.64%)
Still competing: 2107 (94.36%)
Number of groups: 224
Progress: 1704 games decided out of 10038 (16.98%)
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Max. games decided by a single player: 9
Min. games decided by a single player: 0
Max. games still open for a single player: 9
Min. games still open for a single player: 0
Max. fraction of games done by a single player: 100.00%
Min. fraction of games done by a single player: 0.00%
Number of players having finished all games: 38 (1.70%)
Number of players having finished no games: 848 (37.98%)
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Groups with all games finished: 0 (0.00%)
Groups with no games finished: 14 (6.25%)
In my crawling trough the data I just discovered that we have 6 players from Antarctica.
I’d love to know if they are joking. 
Now I’m dreaming of go players surrounded by icebergs and penguins. 
I’d be interested to find out if any players are from Westeros or the United Federation of Planets. I’ve seen some on the site that indicate that they are. Additionally, yet others on the site are apparently pirates!
I’ve done a map, but unfortunately it’s only about
our globe’s main countries.
Will I turn this too serious if I wonder what the countries will be in the 22nd century, when this tournament ends?
Depends on whether Facebook, Google, or Amazon win WWIII and how stiff the reparations they charge our current countries are.
Yes. Just too serious.
But no problem; I wonder if there are still players alive at the beginning of the 22nd century to finish the tournament. If so, probably senile.
Are these games put into the heritage to the (grand)children who have an obligation to finish the tournament?
Otherwise it might be that in 20-30-40-etc years this tournament dies (of old age) because of not enough participants anymore.
So really, the whole thing is a tontine in disguise?
Yep.
I still think we should do that.
Does OGS TOS allow for sharing of accounts between parties, and if not, how would that interact with a will saying otherwise? Would that part of the will be unenforceable?
I know we have a lot of programmers, but I think the lawyer participation is low.