Who can enter:

The New Zealand Tantrix Championship will be held sometime in the first half of 2005 and is open to players of all standards who either live in or come from New Zealand. 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 NZ 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 NZ, i.e. mainly their evenings and weekends. In addition, if you enter this tournament you will be treated as coming from New Zealand for the purposes of deciding your eligibility to enter any other tournaments in 2005. eg. if you come from NZ but live in the USA, you can enter either the NZ or the Pan Am in 2005 but not both.

Tournament format:

There will be an initial group phase in March/April followed by a knockout phase in April/May for the top two (or more) in each group.

You will need to play about 2 matches per week on average during the group phase 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 qualify for that phase. Please do not enter the Championship unless you intend to find the time to arrange and play all of your matches.

When the tournament starts, 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 winner will be able to call themselves the 2005 New Zealand 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/s and contact/s will be announced before the start of the tournament. For now, the main contact is Steven Trezise, email tournaments@tantrix.co.uk, and assuming that a player from NZ ends up doing most of the running of the tournament, Steven 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, 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 2005 NZ 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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