new leader
sscrabble gets past lion1234
muziqz falls back to 4th and zippybroc moves to 3rd
Dashvinyl/vinylredman stuck in 5th/6th
4 miles to go, I mean 4 days.
size of the field increased to 801, (188 are still stuck in the starting gate)
Not for long hopefully, just got one of the two accounts to load
I am having a modicum of success on two elderly Windows XP machines. Windows 7 is having none of it, not even with a clean install of the casino.
I suspect that this could either be a Flash issue, an OS issue, or possibly even an Internet Explorer issue.
I have noticed that despite a complete fresh install, the install process is a little different between an XP and 7 machine. Also, the loading bar is a dotted line on XP, but a solid line on 7. XP uses an earlier version of Flash and IE.
I have tried using version 9 of the Flash player on Windows 7 (loads of error messages, but it still pushes through), but this still doesn't help. I have also found that the error can still occur on XP.
So far, I can ALWAYS get the tournament to load at the first launch attempt after a clean install on an XP machine (but not a 7 laptop), but after that, the XP machines can also refuse to load on subsequent attempts.
I have also noted that if left, a failed load will eventually "load" of it's own accord after several minutes, in that the loading progress bar will show the process has completed, but then it will stall again, and not launch the game itself.
If the pop up IS appearing, there is generally no problem getting into the tournament again and again, even on Windows 7.
The real issue is that the pop up stops appearing, and cannot be made to start appearing again, not even with a clean reinstall.
Preservation of the popup is clearly going to be VERY important when playing a tournament, as it's the only way in at present without a hell of a lot of bother and a generous slice of luck.
For those players who CAN get in, they are up against a reduced field, making it more worthwhile than ever to play. For the casinos and MGS though, the reduced participation could cause considerable losses on these tournaments, and if they react to this by cancelling them mid way, or even 10 minutes after the have ended, they will have angry participants to deal with.
If it were not for this problem, I would be in FIRST place by now, and would probably have concentrated on only one account. I currently pursue both Dash and 32Red because I cannot know which I can get into at any one time, so need to position both as best I can.
In order to break even, 32Red need £10K worth of continues to be bought, and this may not happen.
In the last run, I actually had to use all but 10 of the 999 continues to scrape 1st place, and the player who came second also used all 999.
MGS need to fix this ASAP. It is not confined to 32Red, the same problem is occurring in other MGS casinos.
yes i used a number of continues im wondering if its ok to say it in public im a novice in tournament 
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