It was just installed last night and has been tuned up today from a problem noticed this morning.

Go ahead and send email that is formatted now and see how it works.  We would really like to ring any issues out during the practice round.

This is particularly interesting for Blackberry users.  It appears that there was a change in the past year for Blackberry's email so that it is sent in base64 by default now.  This is total gibberish for the dealer (and email readers that don't handle base64).

Let us know if there are problems.  

Remember, the floorman email changes every year to slow spammers and is floorman19 this year instead of floorman18 at the usual address on wrgpt.org.

(Hey, Spammers!  No floorman has ever purchased anything from that email you seem to snag each year despite the 100+ emails per day it gets.  So, save your bandwidth.)

This is a good time to try out those advance commands and figure out how the ID works, get your email into text only mode and generally figure it all out.

The rounds will only last 2 days rather than the 14 of the regular tourney so we have more action.

There is a chance the practice round will start and stop as problems are found and fixed on our new server.  Hopefully everything will go well.

Good luck.

The practice round will likely start next Monday if not sooner.

I am going through many tests to make sure everything is going fine and working.

I will send email to all the WRGPT18 entrants when we are ready for a live practice run.

It is likely that we will do TWO practice rounds this year.  The first will be to shake out any issues with the server.  The second will be to allow the users to make sure they know all the commands, etc.  I hope to give you an option to sign up and opt out of one or both of the practice rounds if you do not want to participate.

If everyone goes well we will start WRGPT19 in late October.