To my lovely Group 1!
I'm available almost every day at 17:00-22:00 GMT. Pls pm me here or in Discord to arrange the games. If I know for sure there's a free day in advance, I'll let you know

It's better to start AFTER Christmas for me

What kind of book will you write?

It'll be a story of a contemporary man who dared to start living his life in a way he truly desired for a long time. Very detailed picture of his believes and thoughts, his doubts and sincerity. It'll show also many big and small things he had to give up choosing this kind of life

Questions that I could answer. Answering them:

- Was the deadline too strict?
Nope, not strict at all FOR ME. I live a life of a militarian who has nothing but service and couple of leisure hours daily tho. I DO think the deadline would be really strict for me if I'd lived a civil life of a big boi with my gf and usual work

- Did you feel too much pressure under the deadline?
Not me, but I see others feel it

- Was it difficult to find your opponents?
Never difficult as most of them are active

- Was the moderating to harsh?
I'd rather use the word "hardline". That's the most essential part of the concept tho

- What could been done better?
Prolong the time to gather more participants to 2-3 days, make group deadline last a week, make 1 available extension per person (no more than 2 days).
OR
Bit rarer cup hosting/hosting them as tournaments (real Speed then)

- Overall thoughts on the Speed Cups?
Speed Cups mainly help the community to stay active on the one hand. On the other hand, nothing new happens there as the participants are always the same people. It's always playing vs walrus, kaleu, blitzed in KO stage. I'm bored of that. Diversity-wise way bored.
Maybe a bit less of cups could lead to a bigger interest for them. It's always quality/quantity thing. Players have adapted themselves to frequent cups hosted weekly on TUS and they don't appreciate it much, joininig them automatically without practicing a bit to play DECENTLY. When a game starts, this "nah ok I lose here so I don't bother myself with too much efforts" is in the air. I feel people don't experience that passionate kind of an interest for winning, don't aim higher, don't prepare for cups. Less cups could help in a way. As I still think, there need to be 1 or 2 more official tournaments of the WormOlympics/CWT level or type working on seasonal basis, not like TUS league. It could attract some additional attention and ease participation schedule saving or even raising the activity level. It may wake the "hunger" for competitive gameplay in players.

It currently gets 6,5/10 from me. Better with them than without, although some things to improve

kk it seems I got the strategy

Should we specify the starting/finishing rules?
I'd love to offer one starting/finishing rule for everyone in order to omit extra discussions: we start on the word START and finish by touching the word FINISH or the wall after it

To my dear Group 1!
I'm available on 19-21th October at 12:00-19:00 GMT. Then on 23th October and onwards at 16:00-20:00 GMT.
Please let me know your time to arrange games and do the thing