We have two more signups.

David A Zimdars (AdmiralDZZI)
John C Malis (Malis1701)

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Monday, July 28, 2025 - 03:34 pm: Edit

Catching my breath to work on this.

From credit I have
1. Daniel Bitseff
2. Carl-Magnus Carlsson
3. Ted Fay
4. Justin Royter
5. Geoffrey Clark

From payments I have

6. Peter Bakija
7. Stephen Lenfest
8. Rikk Mascia
9. John Malis

Payment to be refunded and taken from credit instead

10. David Zimdars.


The following folks have credit that can be used for this tournament


Graham Cridland
Josh Driscol
Jude Hornborg
Andrew Koch
Dana Madsen
Steve McCann
John Rigley
Bill Schoeller
Jack Taylor

Sorry for the silence -- a visiting brother, the sale, and various ailments had me dogpaddling to keep my head above water.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 07:42 am: Edit

Hey! If most of those people who have credit sign up for free, we have 16 folks and a tournament!

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 09:55 am: Edit

Signed up

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 10:33 am: Edit

Yaa! Just need 5 more!

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Saturday, August 16, 2025 - 11:24 pm: Edit

Who has emailed a blast out, esp. to those above w credit?

By Justin Royter (Metaldog) on Sunday, August 17, 2025 - 06:03 am: Edit

sign me up pls, if I am not currently signed up, thank you.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Monday, August 25, 2025 - 03:49 pm: Edit

I have grown tired of waiting for this tournament to start. Please remove me from S19. Thanks.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 06:11 am: Edit

FIVE FREE TICKETS

I have an offer that will be good until tonight, Tuesday, at midnight Texas Time. If the needed five people sign up in the next 19 hours, I will personally pay the $50 to Jean for their entry fees. This would also require Jack T to cancel his cancellation, or someone else to pay for their own ticket. So, I need five good captains willing to put their lives on the line.

GO!

By Gregg Dieckhaus (Gdieck) on Wednesday, August 27, 2025 - 03:00 pm: Edit

I was waiting to sign up as I had alot going on this summer. But Looks like summer is nearly over so I will go ahead and sign up.

Gregg

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 07:11 am: Edit

I signed up a few weeks ago & still don't see a current list of players. JEAN POSTED IT A MONTH AGO.

The last Sapphire started almost a year ago & took almost 6 month to play.

Please end the Sapphire or run it. WE ARE RUNNING IT.

If I don't see any improvement very soon please take me out. It waste of my time checking the boards. WE ARE TRYING TO DO BETTER

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 08:56 am: Edit

Paul Franz have the mailing list. Spam that list, Paul!

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 04:43 pm: Edit

Hey, can we all kinda be cool here? Like, SPP is having a lot of health problems, I'm sure everyone is stretched thin, and yeah, it's a drag that this is taking time to happen, but it'll happen eventually, especially if folks do things like post in Facebook groups and what not. Let's try and make this thing go, rather than giving up on it.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 04:47 pm: Edit

Speaking of which, I made a post to the Facebook SFBOL group (and the regular official SFB group) about this tournament, and it is *still pending* and hasn't shown up in the group for a few days now. Can someone do something about that?

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 08:41 pm: Edit

BTW, I am the judge on this one and all future Sapphire Tournaments. I will look at the list and create a personal mailing for it and send it out this weekend.

Note: I forgot to correct the mailing I sent previously.

By Dana Madsen (Madman) on Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 10:42 pm: Edit

I'll sign up.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, August 29, 2025 - 12:41 am: Edit

Anyone claiming the free entry tickets I offered needs to tell Jean what's going on. You can if you want pay for entry or use credit you got for something.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, August 29, 2025 - 02:23 am: Edit

I am not sure what more I can do than hire a new judge to replace Steve Petrick and offering to pay for up to five entries out of my own pocket.

I would be happy to see more email blasts but I cannot do them as I don’t have access to that system. I would be happy to hear about more Facebook posts but Jean hasn’t allowed me on Facebook since the incident. I need to be working on CL55 not this.

A decade ago Steve Petrick and I each worked 70 hours a week. Now we are lucky to get past 40 combined, not because we are lazy but because we have health problems and three or four doctor appointments each every week. We are both ignoring the orders of doctors to retire totally and immediately. I have turned over most of the running of the company to Albert so I can focus on getting new products and updates done. I hope to upscale my hours after I get this constant dizzy spell nonsense fixed (early October) and apparently I am looking at my fourth hernia surgery this fall. I just had skin cancer surgery again and it makes it hard for me to type as the skin on that arm is stretched tight. At least I am keeping my weight below 250, compared to 376 a few years ago.

I need SPP totally focused on SFB updates. He is out of the tournament business.

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 11:09 am: Edit

Can we get a update of the sign up players to date?

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 12:25 pm: Edit

The current signups are:

Peter Bakija
Geoffrey Clark
Daniel Bitseff
Stefan L Lenfest
Carl-Magnus Carlsson
Rikk Mascia
David A Zimdars
John C Malis
Bill Schoeller
Tyler Wesley
Gregg Dieckhaus
Dana F Madsen
Seth Shimansky

Note: I do not know the status of who has paid or not. I just get the signups.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 12:43 pm: Edit

Personal Email sent to each person who has credits but have not signed up to the tournament

By Justin Royter (Metaldog) on Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 04:16 pm: Edit

Paul am I signed up? I have credit.. I think. Do I still need to sign up via the webiste? Do you need my ship choice?

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 07:37 pm: Edit

You were and then you pulled out around 2 months ago. Are you back in?

By Justin Royter (Metaldog) on Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 10:09 pm: Edit

yes pls

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 03:24 pm: Edit

Ok. Will do.