Well, there has already been a minor snafu in the administration of the tournament -- I have been given the okay to lay it squarely on the shoulders of the tournament directors, which I am doing -- but apparently you were not meant to be able to specify a window seat versus an aisle seat versus a seat near the bathroom...

In other words, country assignments are to be random. So, thank you for sending me preferences, but I am going to totally disregard them. Instead, I am consulting the ouija board, and...

GM: Adam Martin-Schwarze <smegdwarf(at)yahoo.com>
Game page: http://www.diplomaticcorp.com/?game_id=dc233
Orders CC: orders(at)diplomaticcorp.com
Austria: Gary Bledsoe <kielmarch(at)hotmail.com>
England: John Monson <mister.gatling(at)yahoo.com>
France: Rachael Jameson <verticallychallangedcutie(at)yahoo.com>
Germany: Kevin O'Kelly <kodiplomacy(at)gmail.com>
Italy: Steve Cooley <tmssteve(at)yahoo.com>
Russia: Paul Green <bridgejunky(at)ukonline.co.uk>
Turkey: Thomas Fletcher <tfletch33(at)yahoo.com>

Your take-off is still on schedule, and the fasten seat belts light is on. So, please, submit your S1901 prelims by this Friday at 1000 CST / 1600 GMT (yes, I've had a request to move the hour of the deadlines back a little bit). S1901 adjudication will be next Monday at 1000 CST.

One note on my own GMing... I will treat all movement orders as prelims unless marked final. I will treat all retreat and adjustment orders as final unless marked prelim.

Adam