It doesn’t seem to be broken, so I am not going to fix it. Thank you to Michael McKibbin, who has volunteered to serve as an assistant GM and run an event demo so we can enter the event as a Class B and allow for more entrants. The event will be true Swiss, all players are welcome to play in as many rounds as you wish even if you have no chance to win the event. As long as we have an even number of players, I will make you a match.

We will use the extra cards. We will not use the Chinese Civil War variant. Continued from last year: We have previously had several games that were ties or near ties, which messes up the schedule. The China Card will now be worth one-half point in final scoring, so there cannot be any ties.

We had no games that had to be adjudicated last year because they ran over time. To continue this, I am keeping the playing time at three and one-half hours and scheduling rounds four hours apart. This means that Round 5 will be played Tuesday Morning. Please make your room and travel arrangements accordingly if you plan to play in all five rounds.

The tiebreaker for final ranking will continue to be the AREA rating of the opponents each player has defeated. The comment was made last year that this penalized players whose random opponents were all low rated, giving some skilled players little chance to take a prize through no fault of their own. We will therefore seed opponents in Rounds 4 and 5 by giving players with low three round tiebreaker totals a chance to play higher ranked opponents while players with high three round totals will play lower ranked opponents, in an effort to equalize the chances of success for everybody.

There will be no bidding for sides, we will attempt to have all players play both sides equally in the first four rounds and have random matches for side in Round 5

On to Seven Springs!

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