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4th PlayStrategy Cup

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REGISTRATIONS 📋

Registrations are now open and will close on Friday, October 23rd, 2026.

To register for the tournament, simply post in this forum or send a direct message to the tournament director: @oruro.

SYSTEM ⚙️

The system of the tournament will be must likely a Round Robin tournament (could be a double round robin depending on the number of participants).

All the details of the system will depend on the number of participants, so it will announce after the registrations are closed.

The seeding will be taken according to the total of number of games played on the website at the day of registration.

FORMAT 📂

PlayStrategy has 48 different games divided in different families. For the 4th PlayStrategy Cup, these games have been divided in 15 different “BOXES”.

Box 1: GO: 19x19, 13x13, 9x9
Box 2: Lines of Action: Lines of Action and Scrambled Eggs
Box 3: Shogi: Shogi and Minishogi
Box 4: Xiangqi: Xiangqi and Mini Xiangqi
Box 5: Mancala: Oware, Togyzkumalak and Bestemshe
Box 6: Othello: Othello, Grand Othello, Octagon Otrhello and AntiOthello.
Box 7: Amazons: Amazons
Box 8: Chess 1: Standard, Chess960, No-Castling,; Three-Check, Five-Check, KotH
Box 9: Chess 2: Crazyhouse; Antichess, Horde, Racing Kings, Atomic, Monster
Box 10: Draughts 1: International, Brazilian, Russian, Pool, American/English, Spanish
Box 11: Draughts 2: BRKTHRU, Frisian, Frysk, Antidraughts, Dameo
Box 12: Backgammon: Backgammon, Nackgammon and Hyper
Box 13: Breakthrough: Breakthrough and Mini Breakthrough
Box 14: Abalone: Abalone; Grand Abalone.
Box 15: Entropy: Entropy

Two different types of games are going to be play every round, every player is in charge to choose one type of game selecting one of the Boxes mentioned above. So, every round, the players will play a total of 4 games.

Note: It is possible to have the same game chosen by both players in one round.

If you choose one BOX of games in one round, then you will not be able to use this BOX again during the entire tournament, so take your time to choose the correct one according to the opponents you will have in the tournament. This will make the strategy very important on this cup.

EXAMPLE 📌

Let’s suppose that oruro and statmatt are paired for the first round:

The 4 games to play are to be as follows:

- Two games chosen by statmatt from one of the boxes alternating colors.
- Two games chosen by oruro from one of the boxes, alternating colors.

Let’s suppose that statmatt choose Oware (BOX 5) and oruro chose Shogi (BOX 3). So, the match will consist in four games, two of Oware and two of Shogi.

Then, for the upcoming rounds, Statmatt will no longer be able to use Box 5, just as Oruro will no longer be able to select Box 3 for his games. However, if their opponents choose that box for them in future rounds, they will have to play that box again.

BLOCKING A BOX 🚫

Every player will have the chance to block Boxes which will be permanently unavailable for use by either the player or their opponents throughout the tournament. The number of blocks might have to depend on the number of players and will be announce after the registrations ended.

SCHEDULING 📅

At the beginning of every round, the pairings will be published in this forum, including the deadline.

The players that are paired must coordinate between them and schedule according to the times that suit them.
You and your opponent are in charge of scheduling the match. Your match must be played before the deadline UNLESS you let me know in advance that you are unavailable for all the proposed times and then an extension will be considered.

Both you and your opponent must provide via this forum or a direct message to the tournament director:
- The game selected according to the BOXES mentioned above.
- The times that you have agreed to play.

If your opponent does not receive Direct Messages or don’t answer, you should write into the forum or write to the tournament director.

It is the responsibility of the players to inform the tournament director the times, but specially the games chosen for the round. The tournament director will approve the games selected by the players base on the rule that the same BOX can be used just one in the tournament.

If you do not report the games chosen before the match. If for some reason the BOX of the games had been used before by the same player, the match will not count as valid and must be rescheduled. If the rescheduling gets complicated, the player that chose wrongly an already used BOX of games before in the tournament will lose the match by forfeit.

Informing via this forum or direct message to the tournament director how we avoid confusion and forfeits.

If your opponent does not show up within 15 minutes of the agreed-upon time, they will be forfeited unless they let you know beforehand that something has come up, and they will not be able to make it.

TIME CONTROL ⌛

The time control will be the default Rapid (Rabbit icon) time controls for each variant, as shown in the 'Start a Game' Form.

The games must be played RATED. If you do not play the match rated, you will need to redo it and the result of the “casual” match will not be valid.

ACCOUNT, CHEATING AND FAIR PLAY 🤝

You must use only one account for the tournament and this one must be created at least one month before the start of the registrations, that means that accounts made after September 1st, 2026 cannot participate.

Accounts that abandoned last year's tournament without providing an explanation will not be eligible to participate.

Abandoning the tournament or losing by forfeit many rounds will cause the elimination of the tournament and not be able to be eligible in similar events in the future.

If a player has at least one account banned for cheating, they are not allowed to join.

If you see someone in the tournament that you suspect has artificially changed their rating (or cheated), let me know and use the PlayStrategy report system if you consider it appropriate.

You have until 0:00 UTC on October 23th to register, after which pairings will be released and matches will begin. If you have questions. Feel free to DM the tournament director (@oruro) post it directly here.

Thank you for reading and good luck!

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