Asian and African Tantrix Championships
won by Yoseph Phillips (ISR) / Tom Cunningham (RSA)

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The Asian and African Tantrix Championships, played online, were open to all Tantrix players living in or coming from Asia or Africa. This was a new tournament to give players in Africa and Asia the same chance to play in a regional tournament as enjoyed by players in other parts of the world. It also celebrated the fact that Tantrix is now on sale in Israel, Singapore and Japan, which should mean that this tournament will grow quite quickly over the next few years, making 2004 the best chance to win it! This tournament was guaranteed to run if there were at least six players, including more than one from each of these two continents, with the highest placed player from each continent becoming that continent's champion.

The Asian Championship was won by Yoseph Phillips ISR with an amazing 18 game wins out of 18 and Tom Cunningham RSA won the African Championship. Entrants came from the following countries:

Asia:  4 1     Africa:  3

THE DRAW, RESULTS and PLAYER DETAILS

Final RESULTS
HALL OF FAME - top three in all Tantrix tournaments

LIST OF ENTRANTS, ratings, past performances, etc in seeding order

Click here to email Paul Smith, the assistant controller for this tournament
Click here to email Steven Trezise, the overall controller (but please try Paul first)

OTHER USEFUL PAGES
Tantrix strategy advice and hints
Tournament World Records
General tournament seeding list and Elo ratings
Top threes - all Tantrix tournaments

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Entering the next African/Asian Championship - Apr-May 2005 - Notes

All the notes are on this page - if you only want a specific section, click on one of these links:

Who can enter?    Tournament format    Rules
Free entry    Elo ratings/Seeding method    Final note

Who can enter:

The Asian and African Tantrix Championships are open to players of all standards who either live in or come Asia or Africa. There is no entry fee and while there are deadlines for matches to be completed, there are no fixed match times - you arrange a mutually convenient date and time for each match with your opponents.

Even if you are new to Tantrix, this is a good chance to start getting in some tournament practice in time for the World Championship later in the year, though you might even surprise yourself in this tournament.

Please note that if you come from Africa or Asia but no longer live there, if you enter this tournament you will be treated as coming from the country you register with for the purposes of deciding your eligibility to enter any other tournaments in 2005.

Tournament format:

If we get 8-10 entrants, the tournament will probably be a round robin (where each player plays one 3-game match against each other player), with players arranging matches with each other for any time in April or May. This means that if you are away for 2 or 3 weeks during that time, you should still be ok to enter.

Please do not enter the Championship unless you intend to find the time to arrange and play all of your matches.

From April, there will be links on this page to fixture lists and results, which will be updated every day or two.


Rules:

The standard tournament rules apply eg. the time limit is 15 minutes per player per game and matches are scored using tournament points, which are mainly based on who wins and loses each game but also make some allowance for margins of victory.

Click here if you want to see the full rules or click here for just a summary of the main rules. .

Free Entry:

There is no entry fee and the winners will be able to call themselves the 2005 Asian Tantrix Champion and 2005 African Champion. In order to maintain the integrity of online tournaments, we do not seek to award big prizes in order to avoid increasing any temptation for people to try to cheat.

Elo ratings / Seeding method:

All games played will count towards the Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings which are the main factor in deciding seedings for future tournaments. See the
Elo seeding list page for details, but please note that you do NOT need to have an Elo rating in order to enter.

Final note:

The main tournament controller and contact will probably be Steven Trezise, email
tournaments@tantrix.co.uk. In the case of disputes, the decision of the controller will be final. Assistant Controllers, who will be the first point of contact for players in specific sections of the draw, may be appointed later.

To avoid chaos, we have to reserve the right to default at our discretion people whom we have very good reason to think are either cheating or not making an effort to arrange a match, even if (given the nature of the Internet) we cannot conclusively prove it. We will not, however, abuse this right and it is only ever used in extreme circumstances.

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE ENTRY FORM

Click here to add/change time details if you have already entered
Click here to send an email if you have any questions


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