Good Morning Chessers, The tournament begins tomorrow at 12:01 AM Pacific Daylight time. I will begin processing challenges around 7:00 AM Pacific after I have some coffee so you should find out your first pairings around 10:30 AM Eastern time. Please carefully read over the rules I sent a few minutes ago to ensure you understand how everything works. You have all day today to plan your challenging strategy. The beginning seeding for the tournament is as follows: ----- Rank Name (color for next challenge) 1 Shane Wegner (W) 2 Allen Maynard (W) 3 Carol Harvester (W) 4 Alvin Blazik (W) 5 Lewis Wallach (W) 6 Jim Homme (W) 7 Mike Gieschen (W) 8 Hugh Pharis (W) 9 Connie Torrisi (W) 10 Chris Chaffin (W) 11 Randy Kruzeniski (W) 12 Michael Allain (W)