Who can enter:

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 relatively new to Tantrix, Phase 1 (before the very top players join the competition) should not be too daunting and with the element of chance in Tantrix, there is always a possibility of springing a surprise later in the Championship, even against the best players in the world.

In Phase 1 of the tournament (for those outside the top 64 entrants on the seeding list), you will need to play about four short matches between mid-August and mid-September and if you make it through to Phase 2 (the knockout phase), you will need to play an average of one 6-game match every ten days or so for as long as you survive in the tournament, between mid-September and the start of December.

If you are on holiday during that period, it is usually possible to work around that if you given those involved plenty of advance notice. However, if you are away for longer than a week in Phase 2 or for longer than about two weeks in Phase 1, you might need to find the local internet café or make alternative arrangements for some games.


Tournament format:

The main phase of the tournament will be a knockout competition, with the strongest players seeded to avoid each other in the early rounds.

As usual, there will be 128 players in the Phase 2 knockout draw. Depending on the number of entrants, at least 64 of these entrants will qualify for Phase 2 automatically based on their tournament seeding points in the 31 July seeding list (see below), while the lower-rated entrants will need to qualify for Phase 2 by playing in a Phase 1 qualifying group.

Matches in Phase 1 will consist of four games against each opponent in your group (such matches usually take just over an hour to play though may take up to two hours), rising to six games per match in the early rounds of the main draw and rising again from the quarter-finals onwards up to nine games in the Final. Games can be spread over two or more sessions.

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, two very big wins, a draw and three small losses can sometimes be just enough to win.

When the tournament starts, you will be able to use the links at the top of this page to find details of your opponents and results, which will be updated automatically.

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 règlement
German die Regeln
Hungarian a bajnokságok általános szabályai.