Warlocks 2009 Tourney schedule and rules

[biologin001]

Schedule

All times are GMT +0 (Greenwich time it is). F.e. 'Starting September 9th' means 'after 00:00 of September 9th in GMT +0', and 'Till September 23th' means 'before or on 23:59 of September 23th'.

Starting August 25th till September 8th
Registration.

Starting September 9th till September 23th
Modified Swiss Round 1.

Starting September 24th till October 10th
Modified Swiss Round 2.

Starting October 12th till October 26th
Modified Swiss Round 3.

Starting October 27th till November 10th
Modified Swiss Round 4.

Starting November 10th till November 11th
Reserved

Starting November 12th till December 3rd
Semi-Finals

Starting December 4th till December 25th
Finals

Rules

Tournament is divided into 2 stages.

First stage is 4 rounds of modified swiss. That means:
1) Everybody starts with 0 points. Any win is 3 points, draw is 1 point, any lose is 0 points.
2a) Each round you are paired VS 3 (three) opponents. That's 3 simultaneous games you have to finish in two weeks. You play one game VS each of your opponents. During swiss stage you are never paired against an opponent you have already encountered in this tournament.
2b) During Swiss stage Intentional Draws are allowed. I.e. you can declare result of you game as a DRAW on mutual agreement with your opponent. If you opt for ID, your unfinished (or unstarted) game is considered as a DRAW for tournament purposes. However, you have this option only until you actually finish the match. If you have finished your match, you must report its result; reporting any result that differs from actual match result is treated as cheating.
3) After each round your score is counted. Then (unless 4 rounds are over) you are (randomly) paired VS another 3 opponents with the same score (if possible).
4) After 4 rounds of modified swiss (which means everybody gets 12 games) top-4 proceeds to the second stage - play-off. Ties are breaked based on tiebrakers (which are sum of your opponent's points). it is VERY possible that there will be more then a few people with the same score on places 3-6, so if you don't want to depend on your opponents - just win everything XD

Second stage is single elimination tournament for 4 players. 1st players (based on swiss standings) is paired VS 4th player, 2nd player is paired VS 3rd player. All matches are best of three games, i.e. you need to win 2 games to advance.

All tournament games should be friendly fast paraFC maladroit. All players in all tournament games should clearly indicate what type of game is it (f.e. say "Tournament match, group 5." or "Tournament match, play-off round 2, second game" in the beginning of the game). Winner of the game is responsible for reporting the result to a judge. If there is no winner in the game, last player to enter moves is responsible.

All players of the tournament agree to play in fast pace. Judge will monitor slow play and may issue warnings for the slow play. Multiple warnings may lead to game loss and\or to DQ from tournament.

If any match is not finished in time, Head Judge determines the match outcome based on game position AND players activity. Head Judge may announce a winner OR add some time to the match. All participants of the tournament are to completely agree with any Head Judge's decision.

Titles
There will be a handful of titles to fight for during this tournament:
1) Warlocks 2009 Tourney Champion
Doh. The actual winner of this tourney receives the title.
2) Rookie-2009
This title only for players with ELO <1700 on the moment of Tourney start. The one to finish higher in tourney standings wins the title. Think of it as a separate "standings" for new players.
3) Breakthrough-2009
For player with best standings after the tourney related to expected standings before the tourney start (which are, in turn, will be done by sorting players by ELO).

League and Clans
Tournament is not a part of the League, is not affected by any special rules, clan positions, titles, etc. However, there may be some internal clan titles\competitions at stake during the tourney, which is completely up to Clans to decide.

Tournament Officials:
Head Judge: BioLogIn
Judge: Vermont

[ExDeath]

I strongly disagree with the head judge being allowed to play in the tournament. Your integrity is not in question here, but it really is a huge conflict of interest.

[xade]

Step up to the plate then.

Honestly, I can't imagine a single person who is here that would really care.

And if it really is an issue, then make me the head judge. I'll pull out.

(Seriously, the best should be playing.)

[ExDeath]

I actually did step up to the plate and offer to take the position, but I was denied.

[biologin001]

Aug 25, 2009 4:27:11 GMT -5 ExDeath said:

I actually did step up to the plate and offer to take the position, but I was denied.

Of come on, stop twisting my words. I have never denied you from being the head judge\running the tourney, nor do I have a right to. I only mentioned that I personally don't feel like working in the team with you in this case. If you wish to run the tourney - just do it, and I'll gladly step back. I was away from internets for like 10 days we could have registration opened, you had plenty of time to announce everything you wish.

I strongly disagree with the head judge being allowed to play in the tournament.

While I'm generally agree with the idea that head judge must not be involved in the event, in this particular case we don't have a choice unless some experienced AND non-active player will come forth and run the thing. Everyone said they want a tourney, but nobody tried to do anything to make it happen so far. I'm not pregnant dogging (tm) or something, just stating the fact.

As I have already said, should you decide to be the Head Judge, I'll gladly step down. You have a plenty of possible assistants here, I guess, so why stop because of me? Take responsibility, find the team, run the tourney. Do it.

[ExDeath]

I don't think of the Head Judge as running the tournament; that's something I simply don't have time to do. Checking on players who are taking too long, making the pairings, I cannot do those things. Those are administrative things that have nothing to do with judging. A head judge's only real job is to decide matches that go to time; something which someone who is playing to win the event simply should not do. If you can't even put aside your petty personal feelings to assemble a staff, how can you judge matches impartially?

I have no stake in this tournament, nor any obligations to this community, and I am volunteering my time not to make your job easier, but out of fairness to the rest of the players in this tournament. You are denying them impartiality and putting yourself in a bad situation because of your own inability to deal with me backing out of a challenge. Get over it, man, worse things happen to you every day. Give the people a fairer tournament, and reduce the burden on yourself, it's an easy decision to make.

[biologin001]

I don't really want to turn this thread into long conversation about what one should and shouldn't be able to deal with, because this is the thread about tourney schedule and rules, so I'll try to keep it short. I'm ready to do some work (run a tourney) for warlocks community, because I like the game and so on. But I'm not dedicated enough to work with people I don't want to work with. Especially not with a person who can simple "back out" of a challenge (or maybe a Head Judge position too?) w\o any explanation.

Having said this, I'm not going to make my burden heavier by working with such person. So either someone other then me will do pairings, scorekeeping and stuff (and you or someone else will be a Head Judge), or they'll have to bear with participating Head Judge. Again, I'm not going to force anything on anyone, everybody has at least 3 choices:
1) Run a tourney by himself
2) Don't participate at all
3) Bear with a participating Head Judge
Fair enough to me.

[succat]

I agree with Spireman here. He has made everything as fair as possible and has already offered to step down if someone else wants to take his place. No one else does, though, so the role of Head Judge has fallen to him by default. There is nothing wrong with that, and like Xade said, I don't see anyone else who's actually playing that has an issue with it. Of course, now that Tourney is getting closer there is suddenly a problem.

[ourjake]

is it me or does ExDeath complain about a lot of stuff that nobody else really cares about?

1. you want to be the head judge but don't actually want to have to do anything while being it

2. only judging the matches that go to time would be superfluous and wouldn't really help "make the job easier". how many are you expecting to take that long?

3. we aren't talking about "Generic Head Judge A". if this were some big thing or had money riding on it or something it might matter, but no one here thinks Bio is going to cheat, or weight things his way, or be biased at all except you.

4. even if someone else is head judge, you're still saying that he would have to pair everyone and do all the paperwork which would be another conflict of interest (if you're going to be paranoid you should go all the way with it

firestarter: Bio has offered to do all this by himself and the very next post is a warlock that: a) doesn't intend to play b) hasn't played in a while and c) threw a fit last time they played about a judgment call of a player ON ANOTHER TEAM and then quit. and this warlock wants to call his integrity into question. (if it's a conflict of interest, it's a question of integrity).

i have one word for you sir: WHAT?

[yevaud]

I think you both sound like little girls. If you guys have personal beef, keep it personal. Like Bio said, this is a thread for tourney rules. If you guys want to duke it out, get a room. I'm sure you would even have an audience. No offense to either of you.

[nawglan]

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