Hopefully, by the tournament rolls around at the end of January a number of the players will be well past beginner.
Espionage/Sabotage is a game without a lot of theory behind it and there's no reason a suitably clever person couldn't be one of the top 10 players on this site within a month and a handful of practice games of learning the rules.
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