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Notes from the organizer: LET'S PLAY SOME NUMBERS!

With words currently in CRISIS over the approaching loss of a third of the dictionary (fortunately the nonsense third), it's a great opportunity to embrace the timeless sanctuary of numbers.

In this edition of Your Favourite Numbers Tourney each player will nominate as many or as few variants as they wish and then play a numbers game against all other players who nominated at least one of their chosen formats. Therefore anyone who only wants to play games in one format (Normal, perhaps?, Sudden Death? Junior? Aegilops? Nice?) can do that while players who want more of a variety can get that too.

Each player will submit an ordered list of the numbers formats that they would like to play games in to me by aptomail. Then each pair of players whose lists include at least one mutually accepted format will be assigned the format that is their combined favourite, that is that which has the lowest combined rank. If this is tied then the format which they gave the most similar ranking will take precedence, if there is still a tie then I shall favour the first of the two players to send me their list.

You will have roughly six weeks to play all your games and the scoring system will be 3 points for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss, 0 for an unplayed game. These points will then be turned into a percentage of total available points to allow for the fact that not all players will play the same number of games. A tie will be split by average points difference per game played.

At the end of the round-robin the top 4 players will proceed to a seeded 4 player knock-out where they will play a best of 5 with one game in each of their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th favourite combined formats. Should they not have that many overlapping formats then their favoutie format may make a comeback, and they may play a best of 3 or best of 1, possibly in Normal format if nothing else fits the bill.

The tournament organiser will be entering, anyone who wishes to see my pre-chosen ranked format list may request it once they have submitted their own list.
Sign-up will be open until the end of July with games becoming available as soon as approved formats have been chosen.

Ran from: 19 – 28 July 2024. Format: Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 0. Completed: 0.