Secura, this thread is in no way a dig against you or anyone else. We've observed a sort of "hosting creep" for several months now in which almost every single host was taking more and more time per phase and games eventually just started slogging along and this lethargic pace became the norm. If anything, what we're doing is correcting our own mistake by not enforcing our own deadline rules and not seeing this as a potential consequence towards adopting a calendar system (since extended, drawn-out games no longer held anyone else up).