Well firstly, welcome back to the community
However, in future you might consider asking these questions in either
Planetarion Discussions or
Planetarion Help Desk ; General Discussions (despite the name) is more or less seperate to the planetarion community, and is inhabited by nasty people who more or less hate life and all things living
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To answer your question directly, i dont believe that there are any speedgames immediately planned; they tend to occurr between rounds and we are presently about half? way through R18? at the moment.
But feel free to sign up in the main universe now, find some contacts of people on IRC and join an alliance now in preperation for next round - and then start the round fully from the front foot
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Best of luck.