Announcing the 2005 PBW Open Tournament

[geoschmo]

Announcing the 2005 PBW Open. This will be a single elimination, head to head tournament. The tournament is open to all players and the bracket will be randomly seeded. All games will be 1 vs 1 with no AI. Matches will be set to 48 hour fully automatic turn processing on PBW. Allowances will be made for periods where you cannot play your turns, within reason, if you notify me and your opponent in advance and the absence is not too long.

Other settings optional upon agreement by the players, with the exception of the quadrant. The quadrant will be a smallish (20 to 25 systems) midlife map randomly created using the Balance Mod, with pre-set common starting positions to ensure some space between players at startup. As I will be participating in this as well as administrating it, at least for the first round I will have a non-involved third party create the map for the first round games which I will use to create the games without looking at it.

If the players cannot agree to game settings, the following default settings will apply: Stock SEIV, version 1.91 (At some point I�ll be upgrading to 1.94, when we get it setup on PBW.), No ruins, no events, 20000 ships, 20000 units. All else will be the default SEIV game settings, this includes all technologies and racial traits being allowed.

To join the tournament go to PBW and locate the �2005 PBW Open Tournament� game in the open game listing. Apply to join this game. I will allow as many players as want to join to participate in the tournament. Initially I am assuming we will get 8 players. I will randomly seed the first 8 players to join the game on PBW and remove you from the feeder game and assign you to a one on one game with your first round opponent.

If we get more than 8 players, initially I will keep the additional players as alternates in the event anyone of the original 8 players abandons their first round game. In that event the game will be restarted with the alternate player against the remaining original player.

If we get 16 players I will expand the bracket. If by some chance we get enough interest in this that we get 32 players, I will expand the bracket again. I doubt highly that this will happen though.