happyjuggler0: "Only 7 1/2 years for round one? That is awesome! It is also why I won't play a backgammon tournament here. Ever."

If you did play one, and got some of the "dirty dozen", it would be the only one that you would ever play. My one tournament, WASSAIL, has only recently started its second round, a comparatively zippy six years on. There are many dead accounts in that one, too.