Kathy Upton (AUS) beat Zoltán Németh (HUN) in the Plate Final by 62.2-37.8 TPs. It was a remarkable performance by both players - Kathy won six consecutive matches after losing in WTC R1 and the Plate preliminary round and needing a 'lucky loser' place to even get into Plate R1, and Zoltán because the WTC was his first individual tournament. Stacy Henwood (NZL) came 3rd, coming back from two games down to beat Fany Buisan (FRA) by 57.4-42.6 TPs. Many thanks to Pepe & Stefan for doing the Plate results.
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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 game, instead you arrange games with your opponent and there is a deadline for each round. We hope all Tantrix players, from the strongest to the newest, will enter!
Even if you are new to Tantrix, if you enter now, you have plenty of time to become a proficient player - and with 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 or two between the end of August and mid-November, but don't 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 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 tournament will be a knockout competition, with the strongest players seeded to avoid each other in the early rounds. This year, by popular demand, all players will start in Round 1 and there will be 128 players in the main draw. If there are more than 128 entrants, the lowest-ranked entrants will be asked to play a preliminary round match between the closing date for entries on 17 August and the start of Round 1 on 31 August.
Matches will consist of five games against the other player in Round 1 (such matches usually take 1-2 hours and players often agree to play them over two sessions), rising in the later rounds - 5 in R2, 6 in R3 & R4, 7 in the QFs, 8 in the SFs and 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 5 game match, 2 very big wins 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 2002 World Tantrix Champion, there is a trophy to keep for a year, the (in)famous feeding kiwi on tiptoe you can see on the right. There may be another prize too, if so that will be confirmed nearer the start of the tournament. 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:
It is currently envisaged that all games played will count towards the Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings which will be used to decide seedings for future tournaments. See Tantrix Elo ratings for further information. When the seeding points table is updated in August there will be some changes in the calculation - see the Seeding method & list for details. We will revert to the system of using the higher of Elo seeding points or (2 * lobby ranking at 31 July - 250) to decide seedings this year. This means that seeding points, based on play under tournament conditions, are by far the most important factor, but also means that tournament débutants with very high lobby rankings should still end up in the top half of the seeding list and will as a result avoid the seeded players in Round 1.
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.:-)
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