Dipsters Fall No-Press Tournament

Hi Everyone:

We are beginning registration for the Dipsters Group Fall No-Press Tournament
which will start in September.

To register, fill out the online registration form at:

http://www.dipsters.org/dnp.html

The Tournament Director is Jonathan Powles, whom you may write at
[email protected].

TOURNAMENT RULES:
(NOTE: The TD may amend these rules as he sees fit
prior to competition)

To join this tournament, you must have an ontime record
on the judges of 90% or better.

In this tournament, each player plays seven games
(one as each different power) and accumulates points
from the outcome of each game.

Points from each game are awarded on this basis:
Win =3D 6.00 pt
2WD =3D 2.50 pt
3WD =3D 1.33 pt
4WD =3D 0.75 pt
5WD =3D 0.40 pt
6WD =3D 0.16 pt
7WD =3D 0.00 pt
loss =3D -1.00 pt

When all tournament games have been completed, the
player with the most points is the tournament champion.

HOUSE RULES AND SPECIAL RULES:

This is also a fast-paced Dipsters Group game.

This game is conducted under standard EP House Rules:
http://www.diplom.org/DipPouch/Email/ep.house.rules.txt

The following special rules also govern this game:

1. Do not abandon this game. A willing abandonment
or CD will result in being ejected from this
tournament and from the Dipsters Group as well.

2. This game requires that you maintain a decent
ontime ratio. Do not hold up the game by being late.
In the interest of maintaining timely play for all
players in this game, the GM must record a game
ejection on the Dipsters Group record of any player
who has been late more than 20% of the time in
this game and has already been late 4 times or more.
Chronic or excessive lateness by any player may
result in his being ejected from this tournament
and from the Dipsters Group as well.

3. This game has an automatic 6-year draw clock.
If no SC has changed possession after 6 consecutive
game years, the GM may end this game in a DIAS
Draw without a prior announcement of his intention
to set the draw clock.

4. If you need an absence during the game, you should
do this on your own by submitting a 'set absence'
command to the judge in the following format:

'Set Absence Jan 01 00:00 TO Jan 06 23:59'

Just be sure that you have requested your absence
well before you need it because the judge will not
accept an absence request that falls within any
current season.

5. Since this is a no-press gunboat tournament, you
must keep your anonymity through the end of the
tournament and you should not discuss this game until
it has been completed.

Alan Mennel



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