Some teams are having trouble with their rate of progress in 8. Part of this is due to drop-outs, and part is due to teams not adhering to a 72 hour cycle, or losing the plot on their rosters. For the record, teams who are still playing have achieved an average of 3 days per 10 turns since 850 AD. I'm loathe to guillotine the game whlie several teams are still playing, and still some way from world conquest.
I also have a concern that C-IV will release in a few days, and that will no doubt distract quite a lot of players, making the sign-up process for a new Civ3 game a little difficult.
So I think we need to delay SGOTM 9 by a couple of weeks to let some teams finish SGOTM 8 and to let the initial C-IV fuss die down. So we could start pre-game discussions at the end of October, get the teams signed up, then start playing mid-November.
How does that sound?
I also have a concern that C-IV will release in a few days, and that will no doubt distract quite a lot of players, making the sign-up process for a new Civ3 game a little difficult.
So I think we need to delay SGOTM 9 by a couple of weeks to let some teams finish SGOTM 8 and to let the initial C-IV fuss die down. So we could start pre-game discussions at the end of October, get the teams signed up, then start playing mid-November.
How does that sound?
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Thanks for getting this event started and your great work with scenarios development!! 
Do you even check in these days?
, but it's looking an awful lot like the end of October here. Any chance of even little hints about what the next ones going to be? 
