The holidays should be about love, compassion & remembering what is important in life, not knick-knacks! Support your local economy, learn crafts and when you do give gifts give ones that you know the reciever will use!
Supporting chess.com is ok of course since this seems to be a fairly "green" business. 
Best of out 15 players (wanted to go for 100 but then the tourney wouldn't start until after Xmas). Groups of five, one advances per group. Four games at a time. Max timeout % = 5.
Stay safe, healthy & happy for the rest of '08 and the years to come!