Chapter I: Cheating

If definite evidence is found of a participant cheating using tools such as Fairy Stockfish, or teaming in the case of 4pc variants, that player will be invalidated, and all losses/draws will be changed by playing against me. I will be a dummy in this oturnament. I will not participate, but I will play in place of a forfeited player. If I am not available at that timezone , in case of 4pc variants, you may set up a queue for the remaining player to join. The scoring should be explained at the Scheduling forum. There will be no warnings if there is definite evidnce, and a short interrogation if some edivence is found, not not a definite one. Semi-Anonymous will be on by default across all matches, and chats MAY NOT include stating what color someone obtains. That will be classified as cheating, and 2 offenses will lead you to a ban. First time, you have to replay the whole game again without those offenses.

THERE WILL BE NO WARNINGS ON CHEATING.

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Chapter II: Scheduling and Play Time

In the first day of the tourney, we will have Acheron and likely Chaturdrez. We expect Acheron to be played for 1 1/2 hours, and Chaturdrez for about 2. If you are not able to be online in these times in all 4 timezones for the variants you want to play, why not try other variants? If NOTHING works, the only option is forfeiting. In that case, I am very sorry. When it's any one of the 4 times, please play the games of the 2 variants as written on the main forums. I expect all 8 mini competitions of any 2 player variants, in this case Acheron to conclude in an hour and a half. If this had started in GMT 06:00, this should end in GMT 07:30.

Please post links to all the 8 mini competitions you had with 8 different players in separate forums I will designate for every one of the players. Both players on 2P variants need to post these, I will cross-check them.

After GMT 07:30 in the previous example, there will be 8 games of Chaturdrez for every player, where I will try to assign in a way you mostly play with fair-rated people, but you still get to play everybody. The scoring rubric for FFA works the exact same as the forum, 4 points for 1st, 1 point for 2nd and 3rd, and 0 points for 4th. If someone forfeits so there is a gap, please queue in the lobby, and get the respective points depending on your places. Please set rating restrictions to only accept people below 1550's.

The tournament coordinator does not have a lot of experience in FFA Time controls as I mainly play on 10|15, so I do not know how many hours 8 Chaturdrez games will take, but I assume about 2 hours if played on 5|2. Please report all games on a forum I will make titled 4PC Games Archive.

After the tournament ends, JUST FOR FUN, There will be a Fight of the Titans type of match if all 2/4 top standing players are available tp play at the same times. This is done just so that everyone may have an example of an advanced game of the respective variant for them to learn about, as the purpose of this tournament is ultimately shining a light on the unpopular variants.

Chapter III: Further Registration

Please tell me what variants you will participate and when, in accordance to the Scheduling forum. Signing up for Chaturdrez at GMT 00:00 DOES NOT MEAN you will play Chaturdrez at 0:00 GMT, but rather 02:00 GMT. You will still play Acheron at 00:00 GMT if you sign up on 00:00.

PLEASE Write down your chess.com usernames, NOT your real life name or I love f***ing pikachu??? (Someone actually wrote that in the previous poll, so I have decided to make a new one.)

https://strawpoll.com/NPgxe6EKAZ2 Please poll here, the poll on the Custom Variants club will be updated to this version. Please do this sincerely, so I can schedule the variants properly.

Chapter IV: Scoring

The scoring will be as follows:

In 2P Variants:

Wins are 3 points
Draws are 1 point
Losses will be tallied as 0
Matches will be played a in best of 3 if the players decide to play in a blitz time control, and a single game if players decide to play on a rapid time control. This is fully up to the players to decide
Rapid time controls selected may not be any slower than 10|0
Blitz time controls selected may not be any slower than 4|3
In 4P variants (if we do get them):

1st place will be 3 points
2nd place will be 2 points
3rd place will be 1 point
4th place will be 0 points
If one decides to abort a game (less than 5 moves), the whole game will need to be replayed. Repeated abort offenses will lead to a ban in this tournament.

You do not have to play everything in the tournament, only the ones you are competent at. If you only play 1 variant, your scores from the variants you did play on will be multiplied by 2. If you play 2, your scores will be multiplied by 1.25. Playing 3 or 4 variants will not have any amplifiers being applied.

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