Dual Element Tournament

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Board layout -> shuffle

Cards that can NOT be used during this tournament:
Parmetic Vengeress (255)
Blinding Skies (107)

Your deck may only consist of 2 elements.
Biolith is considered as 1 element.
Neutrals and spells can be used without restriction (except Blinding Skies (107) -> see banned list)

Deckswapping IS allowed
3 min turns

all players divided in 4 groups of 4 players
groups will be populated taking into account ELO ratings at end of registration

1st and 2nd place in groups advance to quarter-finals

group matches will be played in 2 games per opponent, every player can go 1st once
order of who goes 1st in what match will be pre-determined by group order (highest ranked player goes 1st in 1st match)
group matches can end in a draw (1-1)
everybody plays everybody in their group

in case of tie for number of games won, tie-breaker will be based on number of wins goind 2nd then number of losses going 1st then number of turns needed in your losses (the higher the better)

quarter-final,semi-final and final will have a 3rd game if needed with random 1st player

4 credits for winner

2 credits for runner-up

1 credit for each losing semi-finalist

A
Triforce85 (2:0 Tripaces), (2:0 DJAbacus), (2:0 tribeofmany)
TRIPACES (0:2 Triforce), (2:0 tribeofmany), (1:1 DJAbacus)
DJABACUS (2:0 luporosso), (0:2 Triforce), (2:0 tribeofmany), (1:1, tripaces)
luporosso (0:2 DJAbacus)
tribeofmany (0:2 Tripaces), (0:2 DJAbacus), (0:2 Triforce85)

B
uRbAnSpAcEmAn (2:0 tonypdh)
ColdplayDSCaru (2:0 tonypdh), (2:0, sjabth), (1:1, bountyhunter)
sjabth (0:2 ColdplayDSCaru), (1:1 tonypdh)
bountyhunter (1:1 tonypdh), , (1:1, coldplaydscaru)
tonypdh (0:2 ColdplayDSCaru), (1:1 bountyhunter), (1:1 sjabth), (0:2 urbanspaceman)

C
drizzle (1:1 solknar), (2:0 fbomb), (2:0 Onslaught), (2:0 WarBear)
Solknar (1:1 drizzle), (2:0 fbomb), (2:0 warbear)
fbomb (0:2 drizzle), (0:2 solknar)
Onslaught7 (0:2 drizzle)
warbear (0:2 drizzle), (0:2 Solknar)

D
SoDaReTuRnS2007 (1:1 internallydeluded)
Myr (2:0 internallydeluded), (2:0 newhere), (1:1 Orla30ITA)
Orla30ITA (1:1 MYR)
newhere (0:2 MYR)
internallydeluded (0:2 MYR), (1:1 SoDaReTuRnS2007)

Another fun tournament idea! I just signed up.

I have signed-up. I haven't played much recently.

what are the timescales on this? I have been out of it for a long time for a variety of reasons and work is still mega-busy, but I'd like to try and get back into EOJ if possible.

Of course, i don't want to commit to a tourney if I don't have time to play, so please let me know
cheers

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DeRodeRidder wrote:what are the timescales on this?

for the group stage you should could count about 3 weeks in total to play your other 3 opponents.

Afterwards, its max 2 weeks for every match in a direct knock-out phase.

Great idea for a tournament. I'm all in (as usual).

With Christmas just around the bend, you either get more play time or less playtime... I sadly fall in the second category. When do you think this tournament will start and finish? (Yes, I know, depends on registration and players...)

Signed up, excited for more shuffle layout. I'm going to let my stepson tonypdh sign up for this one as well now that his schoolwork is stable and doing well. I have a request that if possible we not be in the same group in the first round if at all possible. We draw from the same pool of cards so games against each other limit our play possibilities slightly. If history is any indicator, I won't make it past the first or second round and I expect about the same from him.

I'm in!

RealGambler wrote:With Christmas just around the bend, you either get more play time or less playtime... I sadly fall in the second category. When do you think this tournament will start and finish? (Yes, I know, depends on registration and players...)

Taking into account the holiday period, i'll be more flexible for the group stage when necessary AND related to players actually trying to get their matches played as well as communicating to me about it.

Great! I'll have enough time for this tournament, so im in!

i'm in

signed up as well. If it turns out there are not enough people to make even sets of 4 player groups. I'll bow out so the tourney can start as opposed to waiting for enough people to enter.

Tribe

17 subscriptions so far

let us try to make it 4 groups of 5 players for the group stage

ShadowKen wrote:let us try to make it 4 groups of 5 players for the group stage

Good idea SK to try and extend the group stages, playing up to 8 games (4 matches) certainly makes the effort put into making and testing new decks more worthwhile. The tournaments seem to be running nice and smoothly now with clear, reasonable deadlines for each stage. Well done everyone for this.

The only thing that still may need clarifying is what happens when a player forfeits part or all of their matches. Entering a 2-0 win in the tournament module during the knockout stages both won in 1 turn is a pretty straight forward way to deal with the quarter finals onwards. It becomes more complicated during the group stages especially, for example, if a player wins or draws their first match and then forfeits the rest. No need for a debate, I just think some procedure could be put in place to cover such situations.

1 more person needed for 4x5 groups!!!