I not see new tournament round

[Uchmunduk]

Greetings. There is a problem. The second round of the tournament has begun. But I still don't see any new games / my opponent in the lobby. Is this some kind of mistake or was I excluded from the tournament?

[rbodleyscott]

Unfortunately you were timed out in the last round (the game sat longer in your in tray over the course of the game than it did in your opponent's in-tray) and you had not played 6 turns each, so you were indeed excluded from the second round draw.

It is coded that way to prevent next round's opponents' games being spoiled by slow play. The server has no way of knowing whether there were extenuating circumstances, nor can it know that those extenuating circumstances won't also lead to slow play in the next round.

I appreciate that you may both have been playing slowly, but the algorithm is binary and excludes the one that played slower overall.