Notes from the organizer: It's back! Later than normal due to work commitments (thanks Rishi), it's the fifth running of Aegilopsists, so called because it's a better agent noun than "Aegilopers". This, as the name suggests, is a tournament taking place in the Aegilops variant. These will all play as 9-rounders. Because they're better then the Old 15 "Aegilops 15" format.
This is similar to, but more serious than, the once-every-10-years "Spoilers" tournament that most recently took place in 2020-21. If you played in that, or in the previous editions of Aegilopsists, then you'll know what to expect here.
Specifically, the stages are as follows:
- Qualifier - everyone plays Prune to decide seedings
- Group stage - everyone to be drawn into 4 groups, football-style (1x pot 1, 1x pot 2, etc) and play a single round-robin, with the top two or top four to qualify, depending on how many we get. (No, we're not using the new UEFA formats.)
- Quarter-finals
- Semi-finals
- Final
If we don't get an exact multiple of 4 signing up, Nude, Waldorf, and Plum will be 1st/2nd/3rd reserve, and play a qualifier themselves.
https://1drv.ms/x/c/34f814421e20776e/EbkTuMGOA9dLgc0w8Dfh_TwBFhKRZ-L49QFabTCU9cfRfQ?e=99xNAs for the league table and all things you need to know.
Not too many changes to the rules from last year, only that I will run it as a Excel document. To speed things along your qualifier against Prune will go up as soon as your sign-up is accepted.
The hall of fame is Tom Cappleman (2020), Dave Robjohns (2021), Stu Harkness (2022), and Florence C-L (2023). We have never had a repeat winner of this tournament.
Any questions, feel free to ask.
SIGN-UP DEADLINE: FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER 2024
Ran from: 22 November – 6 December 2024. Format: Aegilops 9. Matches: One-off. Approved.
Fixtures: 35. Completed: 33.
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)
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