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 2006.

Tournament format:

If we get 6-10 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 2006 Asian Tantrix Champion and 2006 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/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 2006 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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