TPFHUC2 Forfeits...

[Talking Poker]

Ok... here are the matches that haven't been completed by the deadline:

Penguinfan vs. bdawg
lightfungus vs. drewjax
MathBabe vs. junYUN
sjay2k vs. mrkoontz

We need to decide how to handle this. I could just forfeit all of those players and advance their Round 2 opponents to Round 3, but that seems silly to me. Chances are, one of these guys was harder to get ahold of than the other.

Let's take a look at these match by match:

1. Penguinfan forfeitted himself, but he and bdawg came up with a time to play tomorrow. Because they have a time scheduled, I'm ok with this, so unless they don't play tomorrow, we should have a winner.

2. I have no idea what drewjax and lightfungus' problem was. Both have been on regularly for the past 10 days and even scheduled matches a couple of times, yet no results have been posted. The latest match I saw from these two was supposed to be today at 1:00, but it doesn't look like it happened. I see drew overslept, but here were are 10 hours later, and no match. So..... I don't even know who to forfeit here.

3. junYUN couldn't get ahold of MathBabe for the first week or so, but then they finally scheduled a match for today. She hung around for a couple of hours, but he never showed up. I literally saw them both online at the same time at one point this afternoon, but once again, no results, nor a scheduled match time that I know of. Again, I'm not really sure who to forfeit.

4. sjay2k and mrkoontz had a match scheduled, but mrkoontz didn't show and even though he's been on as recently as today, sjay2k says he hasn't heard back from him, so I'm tempted to advance sjay.

So.... what should we do about this? We could:

-Forfeit everyone.
-Conduct polls to determine who advances.
-Give them more time, and let this drag on for as long as it takes.
-I'm not sure what else.

I suggested getting alternates (including people who have been eliminated already) to play these guys, but not a single person posted that they were interested (besides me).

So..... what do you guys think? I'm very open to suggestions, but here's what I'm leaning towards... Let's give these guys 48 more hours (midnight Tuesday night) to get these matches played. If they don't have them played by then, they can plead their cases in this thread as to who should advance. If only one person posts, he is the one to advance, obviously. If both make a good case, we take a vote.

Or, we could just forfeit them all and I'll take over for them all in Round 2. As I was typing that sentence, I meant it as a joke, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. It would be fun (for me), and I'd definitely make the time to play, so we wouldn't have any more of these problems. Plus, it's my money up for grabs... this would give me a chance to defend some of it.

Oh, and I apologize if I'm coming off as harsh or whatever in this. By no means do I intend to. It's just that putting it all together and running it (not to mention getting prizes and putting up cash from my pocket) is kind of a pain, and it astounds me that four groups of two people (most of whom are on here regularly) can't find 1 hour over 10 days that is available for both of them to play FREE poker with each other.

Thoughts? Anyone......?