Hi folks!
Due to my long disconnection from the internet, the traditional GCCG individual world championships 2006 tournament has been in the postponed mode for a long time. But now the situation has changed. I got pretty stable Internet now and can organize it finally.
Better now than never. So here it comes:
Format: Two deck general opponent, 1.5h time limit, 3-5 rounds swiss depending on the number of participants.
Fee: none
Prizes: nice extra title to your gccg info line.
Registration: from 60min before the event until the event starts.
How: Use /rd and /rd2 commands to register your playdecks.
Note: At the beginning of the event before pairings I list all the participants. Please take care that you check that i haven't missed your registration.
Result Page: http://www.akustiko.fi/~wigy/meccg/
When: Sat 10th Feb 16:00 GMT; Sun 11th Feb 14:00 GMT (rounds 3-5).
Other: Just in case, my phone number is +27 76 535 2948. My internet has failed me once and it was incridible hailstorm here. I don't expect problems, but I need one or two players volunteerning to be ready working as a backup doing pairings and recording scores if that happens.
Comments about time or format? What do you people think about optional finals and seminfinals? I.e. rounds 1-3 are swiss and round 4 is for semifinals for top 4 and round 5 is for final?
I am waiting some comments and until the format and dates are fixed, i'll mail the official announcement here and the mailing list.
Update: canged dates to the acutal.
GCCG Championships 2006
Moderators: Jambo, Moderators
GCCG Championships 2006
Last edited by wigy on Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:29 am, edited 2 times in total.
The US is not on the list of potential nations where the champion
arises from. They do not usually qualify to the final rounds on big
events.
However, of course, i want to see also weaker players
participating. So please feel free to make your own proposal. Note
that I have to go to work on Monday, so staying up late on Sunday is
out of question.
arises from. They do not usually qualify to the final rounds on big
events.
However, of course, i want to see also weaker players
participating. So please feel free to make your own proposal. Note
that I have to go to work on Monday, so staying up late on Sunday is
out of question.
Re: GCCG Championships 2006
That totally depends on the number of players. You should have the normal amount of Swiss rounds as specified in the CoL tournament policy, otherwise it wouldn't be fair. I think better keep this tournament Swiss only, as there will probably be a lot of players.wigy wrote:What do you people think about optional finals and seminfinals? I.e. rounds 1-3 are swiss and round 4 is for semifinals for top 4 and round 5 is for final?
The topic for this says GCCG World Championship not GCCG European Championship. If you wanted to exclude the US from playing you should have made that clear in the beginning.wigy wrote:The US is not on the list of potential nations where the champion
arises from. They do not usually qualify to the final rounds on big
events.
That being said, why have it all over 1 weekend? Why not break it up like the nations cup? That format seemed to work. Where opponents met and figured out a time to play.
It will be a tournament in the traditional sense. So, we just need to find schedule that fits reasonably well to the majority. Still, waiting for concrete examples. I don't want to start iterating wrong answers myself. Put down dates/times please and i'll find the some kind of compromise between.Sauron wrote:The topic for this says GCCG World Championship not GCCG European Championship. If you wanted to exclude the US from playing you should have made that clear in the beginning.wigy wrote:The US is not on the list of potential nations where the champion
arises from. They do not usually qualify to the final rounds on big
events.
That being said, why have it all over 1 weekend? Why not break it up like the nations cup? That format seemed to work. Where opponents met and figured out a time to play.
I managed to dig schedule for 2005:
Rounds 1-2 (or 1-3) Saturday Sep 3th 17:00- GMT
Rounds 3-4 (or 4-5) Sunday Sep 4th 17:00- GMT
Does this one sound better? I'd like to make Sunday earlier.
I also found that time limit was 1h20min last time. Any thoughts?
One must note, that the anyone is welcome to play in the tournament, but it is NOT the right place to learn gccg usage. You should learn that well before participating. If you are not yet familiar with interface, then forgive me, but i'll have to ask those to wait until next year. If you want to measure your gccg-skills, just play a test game and check if you can call council approximately in the time limit. Hopefully there will be lot of other activities without time limit also in the future. But THIS ONE, is the contest for GCCG-users.
Rounds 1-2 (or 1-3) Saturday Sep 3th 17:00- GMT
Rounds 3-4 (or 4-5) Sunday Sep 4th 17:00- GMT
Does this one sound better? I'd like to make Sunday earlier.
I also found that time limit was 1h20min last time. Any thoughts?
One must note, that the anyone is welcome to play in the tournament, but it is NOT the right place to learn gccg usage. You should learn that well before participating. If you are not yet familiar with interface, then forgive me, but i'll have to ask those to wait until next year. If you want to measure your gccg-skills, just play a test game and check if you can call council approximately in the time limit. Hopefully there will be lot of other activities without time limit also in the future. But THIS ONE, is the contest for GCCG-users.