Thanks to the players for helping with the essential score keeping. Perhaps in future tournaments we can manage enough score keepers so people won't have to score their own match.
Thanks also to the people who made donations to the various prize categories.
About half-way through the first round it looked like the matches were going to greatly overrun the estimated 2-hours per match. Fortunately most of the longer matches came in close to that.
Thanks to the players for riding through and managing the bumps in the
tournament. I'm figuring info from this one should make future
ones better. I know one idea that will be scrapped is trying
to assign tables for matches — better to use them as they
become available (especially when matches can become long).
Ray