Announcement

2. Three Lives Open

Participation
Unlike other tournaments this tournament is open to all players, regardless of their nationality or main residence. The number of participants per class is limited to 128. If there are more than 128 registered participants, the participants will be selected by order of registration. Registration is possible from now until 15.01.2014 via the registration form on this website.

Classes
The participants choose with their registration to play in the expert or advanced class. Depending on the average performance rate (PR) in previous WBIF tournaments the following restrictions apply:

  • Participants with a PR below 7,5 have to play in the expert-class.
  • Participants with a PR of 7,5 or more are allowed to play in the expert- or advanced-class.
  • The Tournament Director may reject participants without PR for the advanced-class.

Where to play
In general the matches have to be played at GridGammon. Participants without an account at GridGammon may ask for registration with GridGammon at support@gridgammon.com making reference to the participation in this WBIF tournament.

Format
The tournament will be played in triple-K.o.-mode: Each participant plays until he has either lost 3 times and is therefore eliminated or otherwise he has won the tournament with fewer losses. The following rankings are based solely on the games actually gained, byes will be considered. There is no tie-breaker rating. All matches are played to 11 points. The pairings of rounds 1 to 3 are randomly drawn and played simultaneously. After round 3 the pairings will be drawn round after round according to the swiss system with the tournament software by Hans-Jürgen Werner. The calculated PR has no influence on the result of the tournament. In addition to the announcement please notice the tournament rules for WBIF Germany.

Shedule
The tournament will start at 20.01.2014. The simultaneous rounds 1-3 should be played within 6 weeks, each match of the subsequent rounds should be played within 3 weeks. The duration of the tournament will depend on the number of participants.

Questions
Please send your questions via e-mail to the tournament direction.