Who can enter:

The NZ Tantrix Championship is open to everyone who lives in NZ or who comes from NZ. There is no entry fee and while there are deadlines for matches to be completed, you arrange a mutually convenient date and time for each match with your opponent. We hope all NZ Tantrix players, from the strongest to the newest, will enter!

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 - even in this tournament you might surprise yourself.

Please note that if you come from NZ but no longer live in NZ, 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 NZ evenings and weekends) and you should not also enter the continental championship for the country where you now live.

Tournament format:

The tournament will be at least partially a knockout competition, with a group section first so that everyone gets to play a few other players. The exact format will depend on the number of entrants and seedings will be used to keep the strongest players apart in the early stages whatever the format.

Knockout matches will consist of four games against the other player, generally much shorter than World Championship matches. Preliminary group matches if any will consist of one or two games against each opponent.

To allow for margins of victory, the games will be scored using the Tournament Point system. In June, there will be links on this page to fixture lists and results, which will be updated overnight (NZ time) most days.

Rules:

The standard tournament rules apply. However, the time limit has reduced by a minute to 15 minutes and you will be penalised for hitting 15:00 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 if you want to see the full rules - you can then hit the BACK button on your browser to return here.

Free Entry:

There is no entry fee and the winner will be able to call themselves the 2001 NZ Tantrix Champion, with the top players (the exact number to be decided after the entries close but before the tournament starts) qualifying for the 2001 Pacific Championship finals.

Elo ratings / Seeding method:

All games played will count towards the Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings which are to be used to decide seedings for future tournaments. See Tantrix tournament Elo ratings for further information. The seeding method is based on these ratings - see the Seeding method & list for full details. The Elo ratings will be updated and hence the seeding points finalised in the last week in May.

Final note:

The non-playing controller will be Steven Trezise, email tournaments@tantrix.co.uk In the case of disputes, the decision of the controller will be final. Assistant controllers, who may be playing in the tournament, will be appointed later.

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 can't prove it. We will not, however, abuse this right and 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. :-)

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Results and reports from the 2000 NZ Championship

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