The Ten Official Rules
1. Registration will close in one week, on Sunday, November 27 at 11:59:59PM EST.
2. Dominion Strategy ("We", "us", "our") will make every effort to accommodate all registrations. But we reserve the right to cut off registration after a certain number if necessary, and to deregister any player suspected of registering under multiple names. People associated with Dominion Strategy (namely, theory and rrenaud) are not permitted to enter.
3. To register, you must post in <a href="
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=1017.0">this forum topic</a>, stating both your time zone and Isotropic username.
4. Players will be seeded into a single-elimination bracket. Seeds will be determined by <a href="
http://dominion.isotropic.org/leaderboard">Isotropic rankings</a> on a date of our choice. Any player who does not appear on the Isotropic leaderboard will receive either an appropriate seed based on past Isotropic leaderboard rankings, or be unseeded.
5. Every game will be a 2-player game and must be played on <a href="
http://dominion.isotropic.org">Isotropic</a>. Each round will last for one week. The first round begins on Monday, November 28 and ends on Sunday, December 4.
6. Each match will be
first to four wins (ties do not count). Players may, upon mutual consent, agree to play under any constraints they wish (e.g., with/without veto mode, sets limited to a particular expansion, with/without point counter). If the players are unable to reach an agreement, they shall play with
randomly selected cards (excluding any fan-made cards), no veto mode, identical starting hands, and the official point counter. (Although we understand the objections to point counters, we have no choice but to permit their use because we simply cannot effectively enforce otherwise.)
7. The most recent losing player should go first in the next game; Isotropic should automatically give starting position to the person who most recently lost. If the match has already been completed, however, failure to alternate starting positions is not grounds to dispute the match result. First player in the first game of the match is randomly determined.
8. Players are expected to arrange convenient times to play with their opponents. In the event of a dispute, players can provide evidence of their presence on Isotropic at the agreed-upon time by linking to an Isotropic or <a href="
http://councilroom.com">CouncilRoom</a> log of themselves playing a solitaire game at that time. If neither player submits such evidence, both will forfeit.
9. Results
must be posted in <a href="
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=1018.0">this forum topic</a> with links to Isotropic or <a href="
http://councilroom.com">CouncilRoom</a> logs. We greatly encourage players to review their games and discuss the match in the topic.
10. The winner of the tournament will receive a copy of
Dominion: Hinterlands.