Who can enter:

This tournament is open to everyone living in North, Central and South America. New and improving players are just as welcome to enter as the stronger players and you do not need an Elo rating in order to enter.

If you were born in the Americas but no longer live there, then in any one year you can enter either this tournament (if you are willing to play at times convenient for those in the Americas) or the continental championship for where you live, but not both.

Tournament format:

The tournament will be played as a 10-player all-play-all with each player playing against every other player. So you would need to arrange to play against two opponents per week on average.

If the number of entrants is high, the reigning champion and the next three entrants in the Elo seeding list will reach the all-play-all section automatically, the rest may have to play a qualifying match first.

Tournament timing:

All games should be played between Monday 16 April and Sunday 20 May where possible. Players should arrange times to play between themselves by email. It should be easier to arrange games with your opponents than in the World Championship because you will all be in similar time zones and you do not need to arrange long matches.

Anyone who has not played at least one-third of their games by the end of April risks being defaulted unless it is clear that they have already arranged most of their remaining games or are making a big effort to do so. Having said that, if you are away for a week or two during the tournament or you are having trouble arranging games for any reason, we can usually cope with this but you must keep the tournament controller fully informed in such cases.

Rules:

The standard tournament rules will apply as in previous years. However, the time limit has reduced by a minute to 15 minutes and you will be penalised for going over 14:59 this year.

Also, as an experiment, tournament points will not be rounded to the nearest whole number this year. The same underlying formula will be used but, for example, a win by three tiles will now be worth more than a win by two tiles instead of both scoring 14 TPs to 6.

Click here to see the full rules.

Entry fee / Prizes:

There is no entry fee and therefore no prizes, but if you win, you will be able to call yourself "2001 Pan-American Tantrix Champion" and hopefully will have a lot of fun playing in a really competitive tournament. So, you will be playing for 'honour' and Elo rating points, the latter helping to improve your seeding for this year's World Championship!

Elo ratings:

All games played will count towards the Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings which are used to decide seedings for future tournaments, including the World Championship, and to decide the Tournament World No. 1 player. Official ratings will be updated in June, when both the European and Pan-American Championships have finished. See Tantrix Elo ratings for the end-2000 ratings and further information.

If you have any questions before entering, please click here to email the tournament controller, Steven Trezise

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