Description

Important infos

Anyone can participate, you just need to be available at the indicated time (2023/12/03 2PM UTC+1) and for around 3hours

You have to be connected and present on discord using the above link, app access instructions will be given on discord.

Another time slot available on Saturday: https://tourney.mindbug.me/tournament/54

Details

The top 4 of this tournament will be qualified for the Mindbug 2023 World Championship (2 qualified if 32 or less players, 1 if 16 or less)

For entering the tournament, you'll need to provide your Discord ID in your profile : click on your account in the top right corner, then click on profile, then "edit" and add your discord ID. If you did not provide it, your opponent will not be able to contact you and you will be forfeited. You also need to join the official Discord server following this link, you'll receive information about how to access the app for the tournament in a dedicated channel: https://discord.gg/n57N2Uvx4w

Matches will be played on the official Mindbug app prototype which is currently in pre-alpha version for Android, iOS, Windows and Linux. Participants will be granted a temporary access for the tournament. Instructions will be given to the participants directly on Discord.

Format

The tournament will take place in a Swiss round format of 4 rounds. Matches will be played in a best-of-3-games format. Round will last 45 mins to 1h, if you did not manage to complete your match under 45 minutes, you'll be contacted by a referee that will take the final decision regarding the result of your ongoing match.

The ranking of the qualifier will be made following these tiebreaker in order : 1) Number of points of the player (1 point for a win, 0.5 point for a draw, 0 point for a loss) 2) Average percentage of win of all the player's opponents 3) Games win percentage of the player 4) Games win percentage of all the player's opponents 5) In the unlikely case of a perfect tie, a ranking of tied players will be chosen at random.

The tournament may have a playoff phase, to decide the only winner of the tournament. No reward decided yet, may come later.

Matches

Games must be played with the World Championship card pool: First Contact set EXCEPT Giraffodile (47 cards) + 1 copy of each card from the First Contact add-on pack (12 cards), using the original ruleset. To do so, simply use the game code given when your match is announced in the settings menu of the online application.

Match support

1) We had a bug on the app which had an impact on the result of our match. Please ping "@BatTotoro" on Discord as soon as you had this kind of bug, please provide screenshots too. You can then decide with your opponent if you want to replay the match or ignore the bug. In case of disagreement, please contact "@BatTotoro" on Discord.

2) We need more time to finish our match A referee will contact you if you did not register your score at the time the current swiss round should end. Referee will have the full power of taking the decision on how to process.

3) I have not been able to contact my opponent Please keep record of all communication as the match will be considered a draw unless you can prove your opponent was suitably unavailable. Then contact the referee channel as soon as you feel your opponent is not online. If your opponent do not show up before the first 10min after the round has been generated but show up later, you start the match with 1 point. If your opponent did not show up 20min after the start of the round, you take the win.

4) My opponent and I have a disagreement about who won after the match has already finished. It is hoped that players will be honest about match wins and losses however, it is difficult for tournament organizers to intervene without evidence or proof. Players may wish to take screenshots to track game wins/losses or use other tracking tools to prevent disagreement. There is no way to rollback a game, so any misclick will be counted as a normal play.