I actually managed to play this game. That is an accomplishment in itself. The boredom I feel when I am moving a horde of workers improving marginal cities is huge. What I should have done was to have spent some more time planning before I actually started to play. I should have KNOWN that the normal culture buildings would not have been enough to get to 10K culture. I should have been more brave when poaching. As it was now, I didn't poach unless I could expand the city. I am fairly vertain my 26 tiles per city will be the most of any in this tournament game.
I am fairly certain I will not enter any game with a lot of AIs and/or workers for a long time to come, even though this was a fairly enteraining scenario. I did learn a lot ofhow to do things while I played. To bad I did learn it the hard way mostly.
Thanks to the crew for putting up the machinery allowing us to play.
Grimjack