This event will be a standard Swiss system format tournament following standard CoE Tournament Policies except that it will be restricted to Hero alignments. It follows on the steps of the very successful 2024 edition that saw the participation of 46 players.
Standard CoE rulings also apply (see https://meccg.com/rules for rulings digest and collected ruling file and https://www.councilofelrond.org/rules/ for the latest unified booklet), and players are encouraged to peruse these documents together to resolve doubts during their games.
- Format: The tournament will consist of 5 rounds of standard 2-deck games, with each round lasting two weeks. A schedule for the overall event is provided below.
- Deck Construction: Standard 12 hazard creature limit and 30 card sideboard size will apply. Deck integrity will be enforced automatically by the platform once you use your deck on round 1.
- Mulligan: For this tournament we will allow/test the following use of mulligan. After drafting and drawing your opening hand, both players have the option of one mulligan before dice are rolled to determine who will be going first. The mulligan process works as follow: shuffle your hand into the deck, draw a new hand of 8 cards, reveal 2 cards and shuffled them back into the deck, staying with an opening hand of 6 cards.
- Round and Game duration: Round will last two weeks, during which players will have to agree on a time to play their games. Players are free to play as long as they need to, but if time is of essence a minimum time limit of 2h30 should be used.
- Communications: All communication during the tournaments with and between players (pairing, reminders, clarifications etc) will take place both on discord and whatsapp, using dedicated threads and groups.
- Registration: Players will be able to register directly on the https://play.meccg.com platform, and in the process will have to provide either their discord nickname or their telephone number (or both). The link for registering is https://play.meccg.com/tournaments/ista ... lenge-2025
- Deck Choice and Locking: Once registered, players will need to select any of their decks on the play.meccg.com platform for this tournament, doing so before the registration deadline. You can update your deck any time before this deadline, but after that chosen decks will be locked for the rest of the tournament.
- Tutorials: The CoE Organised Play committee will offer tutorials for playing on Middle-earth. Just contact the tournament organiser at sarma72@gmail.com or on discord.
Schedule
16 May - 31 May Registration & Deck Construction
02 Jun - 15 Jun : Round 1
16 Jun - 29 Jun : Round 2
30 Jun - 13 Jul : Round 3
14 May - 27 Jul : Round 4
28 Jul - 10 Aug: Round 5 (extra round if needed)
