Hmm, I tried to notify inactive players from my own group, but I didn’t want to (mis)use mod powers for that, so I only checked if they have ever been on the forums and, for those who were, wrote them messages here - hoping that they’d be notified by email.
Would you like to do that for inactive top players?
IMHO, if someone doesn’t naturally notice a new game in the 28 day window (actually quite a bit more due to weekend pauses), then they’re clearly not particularly interested. I don’t think we should be pestering people about playing games they’re not interested in, and I think it’s totally fine to let them just time out.
I think the 3 day timeouts would’ve been bad for a long time control tournament like this, but that’s been avoided (by design or otherwise)
I did a quick check on the six players mentioned above.
They all have only TTY games in their “active games” list.
I’ve checked their last games in the games history: some date back to 2021!
The most recent is from march 2024.
They could be abandoned profiles or maybe unattended for a long time. One of them is actually deleted. They are not present in the forum, except for being mentioned in this thread. 
I don’t think there’s something we could do about it.
A private message on the server wouldn’t be noticed better than nine new games in the profile.
We just have to wait and see.
Nine days later:
At the moment the highest score is still 9 points. I’m looking for the moment when a 9-point player will win another game and the “Top leaderboard ranks” section will suddenly deflate.
-15 days to the mass timeout
Someone will have 15 points (or even more) after that.
Prediction:
I didn’t do any large scale analysis of the running games, but my given my group and a few others, I won’t be surprised if something like 40 or 50% of the games end at the first timeout.
Almost 10% of the games are gone.
Still 9 is the top score.
-8 days to the mass timeout.
Apologies to everyone waiting for my moves … I’m in a physical and emotional crisis currently, so I had to switch to vacation.
wishing you the best
Mach dir keinen Stress. In this tournament, it’s totally fine to let others wait.
Get better soon! 
I think it’s 6 days if the remaining player was to play the first move.
If the missing player was black, they got 2 extra days because of the weekend bug.
Yes, I have two games where the other player is black and didn’t play a move.
Their clock says 6 days right now, but there’s the week end pause, so it’s 6+2 overall.
I think what @Gia is saying is that idle White players may only have about 4-ish days left on their clock (if their opponent, playing Black, made their first move relatively quickly).
4-ish days left on the clock would equate to about 6-ish days before they time out (since there will be a 48-hour weekend pause before that).
For example, see the games of this idle player: Lothan
In their idle games as Black, they only have 6d 3h on their clock, since that 4-week clock only started running after the first weekend pause.
However, in their four games where they are White (and their opponent has already made the first move), they have from 4 days to 4 days, 9 hours left on their clock, since the opponent made the first move before the first weekend pause, giving Lothan’s (4-week) clock an extra couple of days to run down.
I guess you were busy getting the stats for us first, because whoever played their moves ASAP their opponents in white have 4 days and change left (plus weekend) 
Starting on Monday next week, we will see a gradually building wave of the initial timeouts by White players that never made their first move, which will be spread out over several days. However, on next Wednesday, we’ll see big spike of timeouts from Black players that never made their first move, which should all happen within minutes of each other, limited by how long it takes the server to process these things. Note that it took the server about 7 minutes to create all 6246 games of round 2.
Nice! I didn’t think about white players, since I only have blacks.
That would be fascinating. In my charts that’ll be much simplified, since I download the data once a week. If I keep doing that on tuesday, we’ll see two distinct bumps for whites and blacks.
anoek fixing the server crash it caused*
FIFY 
It has begun. 
OGS servers rn
I see that players have been disqualified from the tourney. How does that happen?
Losing by timeout is an automatic disqualification. The existing games still count for tournament points, but the player will be excluded from subsequent rounds.
