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EC 2003 ProtocolEach constructed tournament to be held during the 18th and 19th of October, for the European Championship, will be subject to the following rules: V:EKN
Tournament Rules
Registration The entry fee for the Spanish Qualifier and the European Championship is 10 EUR. This entry fee allow you to participate in any of those tournaments as well as in any of the constructed events held parallel to them (Shadow Twin and Investiture). Other side events have their own entry fees. The deadline for player registration will be inflexible. No player will be allowed to register after the registration deadline. In order to speed up the registration process, each player should come to the event location with his or her decklist form already filled in (which will be available here). For time-table reasons, once both the European Championship and the Spanish Qualifier have begun, no player will be allowed to join any of those tournaments. Judges Judge's Responsabilities Inquisidor General (head judge): Officially sanctioned competition requires the physical presence of a head judge during play to adjudicate disputes, interpret rules, assign penalties, and make other official decisions. The head judge may, with the tournament organizer's agreement, appoint any number of other judges to help in the performance of the head judge's duties and to perform other tasks the head judge may require. The head judge is responsible for reporting all warnings issued at the tournament to the V:EKN either directly or through the tournament organizer's event report. The head judge and the tournament organizer can be, but do not have to be, the same individual. The head judge is the final judicial authority at any V:EKN-sanctioned tournament Inquisitors (judges): All judges have the responsibility to deliver fair, impartial rulings and to assist the head judge and other tournament officials in any area that is required to ensure a smooth tournament. Judges must take action to resolve any rules infraction (whether a violation of the V:EKN Tournament Rules or the game rules) they notice or that is brought to their attention. Number and Distribution of Judges The number of judges both at the Spanish Qualifier and the European Championship will be higher than usual, since the organizers' intend is minimizing infractions during those events. And this goal can only be achieved by seeing to it that there is one judge per table: European Championship: The event organizers will do their best to assing one judge per table. If that were not possibleLa organización del torneo intentará que haya un juez u observador por mesa. Si esto no fuera posible, entonces la organización asignaría a un juez u observador por cada dos mesas. Spanish Qualifier: Since a higher amount of players is expected in this tournament than in the former, it will be almost impossible for the organizers to assign one judge per table. So the organizers will try to maximize the number of judges in order to avoid infractions. Side Events: There will only be one judge per side event. Judging Criteria Judges will be as strict as fair. The V:EKN Judges' Guidelines will be implemented according to the following criteria: The goal of the game (reminder): Players will be reminded that they must play to win.
Illegal decks: Decks will be inspected at random during the three preliminary rounds of both the Spanish Qualifier and the European Championship. And all of the finalists' decks will be inspected before the start of the final. If a player's deck is proven illegal after the third round has finished (before the start of the final), and the appropriate penalty for the infraction in the V:EKN Judges Guidelines is a game loss, judges will disqualify that player instead. The next highest ranked player in the tournament will then take his or her place in the final round. If a judges determine that a deck has been improperly reassembled (if you accidentally scoop up a Haven Uncovered on one of your minions and place it in your library resulting in a 91-card library between rounds, for instance), that deck will not be considered illegal, and that player should make any changes necessary to make the contents of the deck match what is recorded on the decklist. Deals involving Victory Points: Deals involving the distribution of victory points will require approval by a judge. For this reason, before any player makes a deal of this kind, the involved players will have to call a judge, who will determine if the deal is legal or not. This rule is not meant to penalize players making winning deals (i.e., deals giving them the game win), but to keep a close eye to those players making losing deals (i.e., deals not giving them the game win) when they actually have real chances to get more victory points by not making such deals. Self-ousts: Self-ousts of any kind should also be reported to a judge in advance. Players may not self-oust unless they have no reasonable chance to get more VPs by not self-ousting. Withdrawals: Note that a player has the option to withdraw from the game ONLY if he or she has exhausted his or her library and begins his or her turn with less than a full hand. Players who want to withdraw from a game and do not meet those requirements will have to discard all of their cards in a legal manner before announcing their withdraw. Official language: Unless each player at a given table speaks the same language, each player will have to speak English during their games. In the case that there are players who don't speak English, they should call a judge as a translator. Spectators and idle players: During the three preliminary
rounds, spectators (and players who's games have already finished)
will have to leave the room where games of the current round are
still running. However, players can continue to observe their own
games after they are ousted. ¡¡¡JUDGES WANTED!!! All of you who want to join the inquisitor ranks on the tournaments to be developed under the EC2003, should send an email to head judge damnansVTES@ono.com White Wolf will send 20 exclusive t-shirts for the judges. A list will be appointed here with the name of those who will held
the title of inquisitor at the EC2003 in this page. The t-shirts
will be given to the first 20 of them who had been appointed as
judges Judge List Inquisidor General (Main judge): List of those enlisted as judges through the registration form Inquisidores (judges): |
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