Regarding the ZB issue, we've reached a (hopefully) fair conclusion.
ZB will be given a second chance. destructor asked for mercy and for him to have the 43rd position, so we'll do that. We're not giving any more second chances of course - if the recording doesn't average 95% speed or better, it won't be accepted. There'll be no more bending of the rules now that the qualifier is over.
For ZB and possibly a couple others with slower computers to fairly compete in future rounds, we've decided to add one more accepted version of WolfMAME for the tournament -
WolfMAME Plus 0.71. Being that it's a much older version of MAME, there should be some decent speed gains with it. And unlike recent versions of MAME, disabling sound in this version can give significant speedups depending on the game. We must stress however that we have not thoroughly tested this version at all with any of the tourney games. Also note that this version does not create .wlf files. If you are getting 100% speed on the tourney games already, please continue to use versions 0.101 and 0.106. This older version should only be used as a last resort for those on slow computers.
The first elimination round will begin shortly.
EDIT: I'll unlock this now just in case there's any need for future Shock Troopers discussion ;)