Council of Elrond

Here are the rules for the tournament:

Format: 2-deck general opponent.
Number of rounds: 5.
Players will have 1 week to schedule the game. If that time isnt sufficient, please let me know.
There will be no time limit during games.
Peeking on games IS NOT allowed.
Please register your decks beforehand!!
After 5 rounds, the top player will be the winner. Normal tiebreakers apply.

Prizes:

Number 18 till 5 gets a booster Freeborn. OR 1 random virtual, players choice.
Number 4 gets 2 boosters FB or 2 random virtuals, players choice.
Number 3 gets 4 boosters FB or 4 random virtuals, players choice.
Number 2 gets 8 boosters FB or 8 random virtuals, players choice.

The winner gets a full set of firstborn OR a full set of virtuals, players choice.

So far I have 18 players. People can sign up until march 29. On sunday evening I will start making pairings. Keep an eye open for those, and good luck gentlemen.

Ringbearer wrote: People can sign up until march 30. On sunday evening I will start making pairings. Keep an eye open for those, and good luck gentlemen.

if people are able to sign up till 30. march, you shouldnt make the pairings one day before (sunday is the 29th).

I made an error in dates, I wnated to let people sign up till sunday, thinking sunday was the 30rd. I will adjust the post.

Pairings for round 1:

(lots were drawn on GCCG and witnessed by karmi)

1. thorondor vs Ringbearer 2-4
2. b_took vs Jose-San 1-5
3. Beornd1963 vs Sfan 2-4
4. the Bruce vs Heiner 4-2
5. Exarkun vs domse 6-0
6. mercenario vs coro 0-6
7. marcos vs Peregrin 4-2
8. Theey vs tubulario 6-0 reg
9. sauron1976 vs Muad-Dib 0-6
10. Manuel vs Asathor 6-0

Try to have the results in at sunday, april 5th, 2200 GMT +1.

Good luck and spread the word that the games have begun!!!!

Do players wear their national colors (like in nations cup) to indicate that this is a tournament game where peeking is forbidden? To be honest I dont exactly recall all the 20 players.

That seems like a good idea. On the other hand, it's not like half the participants haven't seen me practicing with my deck in the past two weeks.

Okay, so please post your decklist. It is not fair if only half of the people know your deck.

Sounds fair to use flags. People usually know somethign special is on when people wear flags.

Sfan wrote:Okay, so please post your decklist. It is not fair if only half of the people know your deck.

I'm kind of busy with a tournament at the moment, but I should be able to find some time to post it after the tournament's over.

ExarKun 6 - domse 0

Standings:

1. 6 TP
Manuel
MuadDib
Theey
Coro
ExarKun

6. 5 TP
Jose-San

7. 4 TP
Ringbearer
the Bruce
Sfan
Marcos

11. 2 TP
Heiner
Peregrin
Beornd1963
thorondor

15. 1 Tp
b_took

16 0 TP
mercenario
Asathor
tubulario
domse
Sauron1976

Round 2: deadline 15 april, 22:00 GMT +1
Manuel vs MuadDib 0-6
Theey vs coro 0-6 reg
ExarKun vs Jose-San 0-6
Sfan vs marcos 4-2
Ringbearer vs the Bruce 6-0
b_took vs tubulario 2-4
Sauron1976 vs mercenario 4-2
Asathor vs domse
Peregrin vs Beornd1963 4-2
Heiner vs thorondor 6-0

Good luck again and remember: if you didnt have time to play, or opponent isnt responding, LET ME KNOW BEFORE DEADLINE els ethe game will be a 0-0.

Good luck again and remember: if you didnt have time to play, or opponent isnt responding, LET ME KNOW BEFORE DEADLINE els ethe game will be a 0-0.

0-0 ???

marcos wrote:

Good luck again and remember: if you didnt have time to play, or opponent isnt responding, LET ME KNOW BEFORE DEADLINE els ethe game will be a 0-0.

0-0 ???

If both players are too lazy to contact Ringbearer, I guess so . . .

marcos wrote:

Good luck again and remember: if you didnt have time to play, or opponent isnt responding, LET ME KNOW BEFORE DEADLINE els ethe game will be a 0-0.

0-0 ???

I find it as a good idea: this way even the "more active" of the two players is pushed to report the lack of responsiveness by the designed opponent. This emphasizes the organizer's role in urging the players to respect the fixed deadlines and prevents unhappy episodes that we had in the past editions of the Nations Cup, which basically arose out of misunderstandings and lack of communication. When communication is incited by the threat of a 0-0, the game is more likely to be played (or to be solved within the fixed deadline but on forfeit, which can be a painful though necessary extrema ratio). I really appreciate this measure from Bert.

As far as I'm concerned, I'll report to the organizer if my opponent doesn't respond within 24 hours to my first email.

But I'm playing this 2nd turn vs the organizer, which makes everything a little weird

@Bert: just kiddin': I know you'd respond promptly

i asked about 0-0 because i know that 1 game from the first round wasn't played, and the result given to that matchup was a 6-0, and not a 0-0... That is why it sounded weird to me, otherwise, this desition sounds ok to me