Introduction

As Bubba just announced in his report will launch on August 26th. For gaming the structure will be the same as prior vendettas with dedicated gaming bins for each phase and event long. I wanted to bring back an old favorite and inject some friendly competition. I know vendetta tournaments have been pain points in past events so I wanted to make the rules clear. I also want to point out that you do not have to participate in this tournament, we have bins for a reason. As Bubba said, one participation in a bin will give you maximum participation points for that bin to your team. We will have other options in the event-long gaming bin to get participation. I would never discourage a member from participating in a competition, but tournaments of this nature are time-consuming and coordinating matches between members across the globe can be tricky. Please be respectful of your opponents' time and only sign up for this tournament if you are actually trying to win your matches.

Event Long Pazaak Tournament Sign Up

We will host a single-elimination Pazaak tournament as part of the event-long gaming bin. The tournament will be played on the https://pazaak.parsely.io/ website.

Rules to be aware of:

• Games must be played using the "Basic" card rules. Any cards in the basic set are allowed, including +/- cards.

• It is the responsibility of tournament participants to register for the https://pazaak.parsely.io/ website using their db name or some readily identifiable name prior to the start of the tournament.

• It is the responsibility of tournament participants to ensure they can access and use the https://pazaak.parsely.io/ website on their device prior to registering for the tournament.

• Tournament matches will be coordinated in the #gaming-matchmaking channel on Discord. Participants will be expected to create a GJW-Pazaak-Member1-Member2 room when they play their match for record-keeping purposes.

• Tournament participants will be expected to coordinate with their opponents and complete their matches in a timely fashion. The tournament organizer will send a match warning 24 hours prior to the match window closing; any player that does not show up ready to play in the tournament organizer-created discord party at or before the appointed time will forfeit their match. Basically, if I have to send you a match warning I'll give you a time to show up on discord one hour prior to the window closing and I will create the room for you. If you do not show up you will get a loss and possibly not receive credit for the competition if you did not complete a match. If one player shows up at the warning time and the other does not then they advance as normal in the tournament.

• Tournament participants must complete at least one match to receive participation credit for the tournament competition.

• For the purposes of this tournament a match will be "best of five" games of Pazaak. Do not confuse a hand of pazaak with a game of pazaak. A completed game of pazaak will show "You Have Been Defeated" or "You are Victorious".

• Tournament matches may be submitted to the Casual Gaming Queue for clusters but not to any GJW cluster race competitions as that would constitute double-dipping. Discord logs will be cross-checked. Practice matches outside of the tournament may be submitted to casual queue and any GJW cluster race competitions in accordance with the Rites of Combat and rules of those competitions.

If you are interested in competing then you must register prior to 11:59PM GMT / 7:59PM EDT on the 24th of August. This is to give time to set up the brackets.

Pazaak Tournament Sign Up Link

Closing

I highly encourage interested members to test out the pazaak website, share strategies, play practice rounds, plan your decks out etc. Build up hype in your war chats!

Until next time,

Rajhin Cindertail aka Turel

Fist of the Brotherhood