KnightFighter:

I lost a cruel high amount of self-created "one-day-per-move - no-vacation-days" games... ;-)

i created them because i like those games with players who put their priority on the "competetion here and now".
and if i finally lose by timing out, i deserve that loss because the game was not so important for me then for my opponent.
(of course there are exceptions: three years ago my home burnt down and i didnt play for a couple of days, that was bad luck...
but this is life).

for the same reason, being focussed even more on one game, i created the idea of those new time-limits i mentiond at the beginning of this thread, by the way... ;-))

but of course it is not the solution to cancel the vacation days completely. the players who want the competetion here and now should create and sign in in more tourneys with no vacation days and/or simply _not_ play the vacation-tournaments... ;-)