[eMarkM]

My guess is that this one will have our lowest turnout due to most people's dislike of Stud games (I personally like Stud/8 a lot--much more than regular Stud).

As far as lower turnouts, it's something I'm somewhat concerned about. It's partly the fact that there was unusally high turnout when we first started the new series this year, there was a lot of excitement when we got some of those 60 runner events going. Partly that I haven't been pimping the events as much as I did early in the year, and probably partly just burnout factor on the part of the participants. Maybe we've played too many events. So far, not enough for me to make any plans for radical changes to next year's format, I think I'll still stick with 18 events as I like playing all the different games with the HE emphasis. But it's something I'll mull over.