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GameKnot related: Postponement Rules

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fmgaijin
24-Jan-09, 13:24

Postponement Rules

I thought that if you postponed your games, the postponement system would not let you postpone again until as much time had passed as the length of your postponement. However, recently, one of my opponents who had postponed for 4 days or so and had 1 day remaining on his postponement (actually somewhat less than that, but the system says 1 day until it reaches zero) was able to postpone again for an additional week or so. I actually am glad that he did because he avoided timing out and I would much rather play games than win or lose timeouts, but I was surprised that the system let him do so. Does that mean that you can "extend" a timeout while it's underway? That would be good to know for cases where I underestimate how long it will be before I can resume my games! Does anyone have any experience with attempting this feat?

kingdawar
24-Jan-09, 15:09

Perhaps the first postponement was an "emergency postponement", which means it is allowed at all times during or past it to take an additional one if needed.

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kingdawar
24-Jan-09, 15:12

Actually it MUST have been an "emergency postponement" as a normal postponement quite clearly states how it works:

"If you postpone your games, you will not be able to postpone them again for 14 days after the postponement period is over; if the postponement is for less than 2 weeks, the "waiting" period will be equal to your postponement time (i.e. if you postpone your games for 5 days, you will not be able to postpone again for 5 days after the postponement period is over, or 10 days total)"

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I think the only way to extend a previously taken postponement is by requesting it via gameknot_com (this only in exceptional cases of course).

fmgaijin
25-Jan-09, 06:37

Sounds Plausible; Thanks

EOM (Hey, another Forum "refiniement": the time-saving message "EOM" is now "too short to post"! And here I thought conciseness was a virtue . . . )

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