<b>Welcome to IsoDom: Challenge!</b>
This is an open, non-elimination Round Robin-type tournament featuring weekly two-player expansion themed match-ups.
<b>Format</b>
This tournament will feature a field of 28 top Dominion players, split by seed and continent into four divisions. All players shall duke it out over the course of six weeks, each week playing a match against a different player within the division with the aim of gaining enough tournament points to win a place at the final table.
<b>Weekly Matches</b>
The IsoDom: Challenge thread will be updated every week with match-ups, current point totals and the weekly theme. Each match will consist of seven games under the following restrictions:
1) Point counter encouraged
2) 6 cards, chosen at random, in each game must belong to the current week's expansion, using the excellent option to filter cards in Isotropic
3) First player position in first game shall be chosen randomly, losing player plays first afterward. In event of a tie, random. We will use the honor system to enforce this; to ensure a random placement make sure to exit and restart Isotropic before the first game and after subsequent ties.
4)The tournament will be scored as follows: each win will be worth 2 Tournament Points, each tie 1, each loss 0.
5) Players report the outcomes of each match, including scores of each game and optional commentary to the weekly tournament thread.
<b>Final Match</b>
The final match will take place between the winners of each division, chosen with the following criteria:
1) Highest Tournament Point total
2) In the case of a tie, a best of seven match will be held to decide who will advance.
The final match will be a five game, four-player free-for-all, scored the following way: 3 Match Points for the win, 2 for second, 1 for third, 0 for last. In the case of a game ending in some kind of a tie, tying players gain the average match score of tying positions. After five games, the player with the highest Match Point total wins the tournament. In the case of a tie of match points a sudden death game will take place between the winners.
Seating position for each game of the final needs to be addressed, and I am open to suggestions about the fairest way to accomplish this.
<b>Sign Up</b>
<b><u>Everyone is encouraged to sign up</b></u>. Unfortunately there are only 27 positions open. The end goal is to have a fun and competitive tournament fielded by players who are willing to commit to see it through to the end. With this in mind, the player pool will be compiled by Mustard using all of the following criteria:
1) Participation in previous IsoDoms
2) Player Ranking
3) Forum participation
Sign-up is now open, and will end 18:00 GMT on Wednesday, March 21
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