My Vote:

4

Reasoning:

- Most people wanted 12 games and I'm one of them.
- It's unnecessary to have 2 idle months if games can be played on that time.
- With 12 games, we get a clearer winner (it wasn't a problem in 2011 because ppipper dominated, but without domination, more games have more chances to show clarity; and second place didn't play first place in 2011).
- Round Robin would be my dream scenario, and 12 games is closer to that than 10 games; the more games the better.

That eliminated option 1 and 2 because they have 10 players.

- If round times are set from the start, it will cause wasted time between rounds, because if a round is over 2 weeks before start date, there's nothing to do on those 2 weeks but waiting.
- In the first WBCCC, rounds times were announced a few days before the end of a round, and it worked.
- For people wanting to avoid playing across Xmas and having 12 players, announcing the rounds dynamically will almost guarantee that the games will not cross Xmas.
- With round times confirmed before the start of the tournament and 12 players, the games of November-December are going to overlap with the planning/discussion/sign ups of WBCCC III. Announcing the rounds dynamically will add 2 or three weeks of time between the end of WBCCC II and the start of WBCCC III for a better scheduling.

That eliminates option 3, leaving 4 as my only option.

One thing that I can not work out with how the voting is going so far.

In the previous poll on when to decide round start times, the vote was tied 8 all between at the start of the tournament and just before a round finishes. Now almost all of those who have voted are choosing just before a round finishes. What happened to the others?