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6th European Tantrix Championship 2004 Won by Tamás Gombkötő (HUN)
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1 Rčglement Regeln für Turniere
A bajnokságok általános szabályai also in French also in Hungarian
All the notes are on this page - if you only want a specific section, click on one of these links:
Who can enter:
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE ENTRY FORM Click here to add/change time details if you have already entered
The next European Tantrix Championship will take place in April-May 2005 with Prelims in March and is open to players of all standards who either live in Europe or who come from Europe. 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.
Please note that if you come from Europe but no longer live there, you should enter only if you are willing to play the majority of your games at times convenient to those in Europe, i.e. mainly their evenings and weekends. In addition, if you enter this tournament you will be treated as coming from the European country you register with for the purposes of deciding your eligibility to enter any other tournaments in the first half of 2005. eg. if you come from NZ but live in Europe, you can enter either the NZ or the Euro in 2005 but not both.
Tournament format:
The precise format of the 2005 Championship is subject to review once we know the number of entrants, however:
Phase 2 will be a group phase involving ten all-play-all groups of eight players each during April, so all players in this phase will get the experience of playing a few other players of various standards.
The top three (or more) in each group will qualify for Phase 3, the last 32 knockout phase, in May.
At least half of the places in Phase 2 will be filled by the entrants with the highest tournament seeding points. The remaining entrants will have to play Phase 1 preliminary matches in the second half of March in order to qualify for Phase 2. If the number of entrants is less than 120, the number of automatic qualifiers will rise and the number of Phase 1 groups will fall until each Phase 1 group remaining has at least four players.
You will need to play about 2 matches per week on average during the preliminary and main group phases and they will consist of 3 games, so they will take about an hour each. Knockout phase matches will be about twice as long and you will need to play 1-2 matches per week if you play in either of those phases. Please do not enter the Championship unless you intend to find the time to arrange and play all of your matches.
From March, 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. The rules are also available in other languages as follows: French le rčglement, 
German die Regeln and 
Hungarian, a bajnokságok általános szabályai.
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Free Entry:
There is no entry fee and the winner will be able to call themselves the 2005 European Tantrix 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 be Steven Trezise, email tournaments@tantrix.co.uk. However, a non-European player will act as the independent non-playing controller in situations where a conflict of interest might arise. In the case of disputes, the decisions of the controllers will be final. Assistant Controllers, who will be the first point of contact for players in specific sections of the draw, will 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.
Click here to send an email if you have any questions
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