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The World Tantrix Championship is open to everyone. There is no entry fee and no specific date or time for each match, instead you arrange games with your opponents and there is a deadline for each round. Even if you are new to Tantrix, if you enter now, you have plenty of time to become a proficient player before August - and with the chance factor in Tantrix, there is always a chance of springing a surprise, even against the top players.
Assuming you make progress in the event, you will need to play an average of one match every week between August and November, but do not worry if you are on holiday for a week or two during that period - we can allow for that if you let us know in advance. If you are away for much longer than a week, you might need to hunt for the local internet café or find a friend with a computer for a game or two but that is not always necessary.
Tournament format:
The main tournament will be a knockout competition, with the strongest players seeded to avoid each other in the early rounds. There will probably be 128 players in the main draw again. Depending on the number of entrants, some of these players (at least 32, probably 64) will qualify for the main draw automatically based on their tournament seeding points at the end of July (see below) while the lower-ranked entrants will need to qualify by playing in a preliminary group in August, which should be able to fit in around holidays because it will have a long deadline.
Matches will consist of three games against each of a number of opponents in the preliminary groups (such matches usually take about an hour to play), rising to six games per match in the early rounds of the main draw and again from the quarter-finals onwards up to 9 games in the Final. To allow for margins of victory, the games will be scored on the Tournament Point system, which means that (for example) in a 6 game match, 2 very big wins, a draw and 3 small losses can sometimes be just enough to win.
When the tournament starts, there will be links on this page to fixture lists and results, which will be updated frequently.
Rules:
The standard tournament rules apply, with time penalties if a player takes 15 minutes or more for a game and scoring using the Tournament Point system. Click to see the full rules in English, in French, in German or in Hungarian - they include notes on how to arrange games, what to do if an opponent does not show up and so on. There is now a shortened summary of the rules in English too.
Free Entry / Prizes:
There is no entry fee.
As well as the prestigious title of 2004 World Tantrix Champion, there will be a trophy to keep for a year. There may be another prize too, if so that will be confirmed nearer the start of the tournament. However, most people play in Tantrix tournaments to have fun (the World Championship is the biggest event of the year in the Tantrix lobby, and there is always a real buzz in the lobby while it is on!) and to find out how good they really are, so it is important to maintain the integrity of the tournament. Hence, we do not seek to award big prizes for online tournaments 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:
In the case of disputes, the decision of the controller will be final. Controllers may play in the tournament, but no controller will be responsible for the section of the draw in which they are playing. In the final stages, the controller will be someone who has already been knocked out.
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 prove it. We will not, however, abuse this right. In previous tournaments it has not been necessary to make use of it and we very much hope that will continue to be the case.:-)
Click here to send an email if you have any questions
Click here to find out all about last year's World Championship
Eleanor Gordon's multi-lingual Tantrix phrasebook