I am pleased to announce what I think is fDS's first sponsored tournament.
As such, the winner of this tournament will receive a prize from Kristine Anderson at
Board Game Geek and the
Board Game Geek Store. and The prize will be a
"care" package of Dominion promo cards. I personally have used the BGG Store to buy promos and was extremely pleased with the price, the shipping and the customer service received.
This competition will begin the day after IsoDom 5 ends. Note that this is not the sign up page.
Sign-ups will be posted later this week. This tournament will have a hard cap but I am not sure what cap that will be, and will be single elimination.
Rules
1. The winner of this tournament will receive a prize from the Board Game Geek Store.
2. Single elimination tournament. All rounds are best out of 5. Seeds will be determined by
mafia wins and isotropic rank.
3. There will be a hard cap on this tournament that will be determined later. I want to avoid having first round byes, so it will likely be a set cap of 32, 64, 128, etc. This means sign up early!
4. Only forum members with a registration date prior to
this post will be eligible to enter. Sorry if you are a lurker and want to enter. Maybe you should create an account now for a chance to compete next time (if there is a next time). Priority will be given on a mix of first come first serve basis, prior fDS tournament participation, isotropic rank and forum participation.
5. Players will play with randomized kingdoms using isotropic's nifty feature. That means no set kingdoms or required cards. Players will play with
veto mode off,
official point tracker on, and
identical starting hands on. The use of the point counter plug-in will be voted on by the # of participants in PMs to me prior to the start of the tournament. Participants that do not care can simply not PM me, and anyone that doesn't PM me will be considered as such. After that decision is reached it is not allowed, even if both players want it. Obviously I can't monitor this, so I guess if you both want to use it I have no way of knowing... O well.
6. This tournament will have 7-day rounds. In the first round both players have two (2) days to contact each other after the official start day. If
no contact is established with a player, the non-showing player will forfeit their spot. This spot will then be filled by a new player (again first come first serve) who can play in a time slot determined beforehand by the original opponent.
6b. In subsequent rounds, players again have two days to contact each other to determine a time to play. If in any round a consensus on when to play can't be reach then (further rules to come here).
7. After the first round any complete no shows will result in a forfeit for the non-showing player and a victory for the winning player. Not showing for 30 minutes after a designated time is grounds for a forfeit. Please save all PMs and use a screen shot of the lobby (secret chamber everyone!) with a timestamp to verify.
8. Wins will be recorded by posting logs--as is the usual format for fDS tournaments--commentary on these logs is encouraged but not required.
9.
If isotropic shuts down in the midst of this tournament there will be a hiatus and the tournament will start two weeks after the fun-socket game is made available to the public. If participants choose not to become Goko members they will be disqualified from the tournament and their respective opponent will advance instead. (Of course all of this is slightly subject to change as we learn more about FunSockets, especially in regard to how cards will be available within Goko).
9b. If for some reason isotropic is unavailable due to computer issues using Goko instead is permitted
if both players are Goko beta testing members. In this case please copy the log into a pm as well as posting it. I am not sure if Goko saves old logs in the same way isotropic does. If one player is on Goko, but the other is not the game must be rescheduled on isotropic.
10. If the winner of the tournament decides to not accept the prize and only wants the bragging rights then the prize will go to the second place participant. If the 2nd place participant does not accept it the prize it will go to 3rd place and so forth.
11. The prize is only available to participants living in the United States. Players living outside are allowed to play in the tournament but cannot receive the prize. (However, if non-US residents are willing to pay shipping and handling for the prize, there may be an exception made to this rule but I need to check before I promise anything).
12. The ultimate winner of the prize will need to send me a mailing address which I will forward onto Kristine who will mail the prize.
This thread is intended to announce the tournament and be open for suggestions, comments or questions.
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