With five hours to go, the Gao Event 2009 is nearing its close. I have made one change: wilducrest, who has been almost completely inactive and has not made any motion to play his matches this tournament, has not been removed from the event; but all of his opponents that tried to contact him will get something for their efforts - because they wouldn't have played their matches for any reason despite what they did. As such, BolloxInBruges and JTxpress have each received one point back, which gives JTxpress sole possession of second place and BolloxInBruges a tie for seventh place as of the end of Day 3 (the standings are not updated with Day 4 scores until the end of Day 4).
To VEGANG1228: I've explained this to you multiple times. It doesn't matter whether wilducrest has been active or not, because even if he was active, your non-contact would have caused the match to not be played anyway. The point of this tournament is to play your match, and neither of you did your part to do this. For this reason, you were penalized, and I cannot give you any points back.
To TrevorTurner: Good to see we're back on friendly terms! You wanna talk about red faces ... I was stupid enough to misunderstand your simple quote and even send WGT an e-mail about it, but I quickly rescinded it and it's all good! Sorry for all those issues, my good man.
To ThunderBoltz: It is unfortunate that you were not able to play your Day 3 match with edchavez, but there is nothing that can be done about it now. The fact is, your match was not played, and you didn't make an effort to get it in. However, you played your Day 4 match, which is awesome!
To BolloxInBruges: I'm not sure why you say you wouldn't have won, considering you're without a doubt one of the best players on WGT! Wilducrest was definitely online last night, and he deleted everything on his wall, which means he had to have seen all wall posts; and there's no possible way he didn't see a friend invite, so I guess he's just ignoring everything to do with this tournament. Oh well, I guess - it's his loss.
Get your matches in everyone! I'm preparing a trophy for the winner ...