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Registering 2026 PSMVC

Rules:
Welcome to the Play-Strategy Multi Variant Championship
I used to think to let this get into 4 sites(Lichess,Lidraughts,Lishogi and Pychess) to let More Variants be here,
but now,Playstrategy do it all.
For some reasons(Such as Balancy and No Classical itself,if there's not only classical),I'll update these variants for the Championship:
Go Family: Go 13*13,9*9
LOA:Scrambled Eggs
Shogi:MiniShogi
Xiangqi:MiniXiangqi
Mancala:Oware/Bestemshe
Othello: Grand,Octagon/Antiothello
Amazons: Amazons itself
Chess Variants:
3+,5+/KotH/Antichess/Crazyhouse/Horde/Racing Kings/Atomic/Monster
International Draughts Variants:
Antidraughts/BRKTHRU
Locational Draughts Itself & its variants:
Brazilian,Russian,Pool/Frisian,Frysk/American-English,Spanish
Breakthrough: Breakthrough itself
Abalone: Grand Abalone
Total 24 Game families(using ',' is a family,using'/' is between families)
You can totally block 3 Families,if you block one 1-variant Family then you only used 0.5 family.
Each Player has to choose families to block and publish them here with your Registering message.
The tournament will be like this:
8 people will be seperate into 2 parts,A group and B group
Each group will have 4 people,then swiss in the group part,
such as :
@chen-rcc , @oruro , @Jheps and @statmatt has go into A group
@Zhukov , @XBLAAAA , @ll and @vincent has go into B group
and @chen-rcc needs to get played with @oruro @Jheps and @statmatt,
Win gain 2 points,Draw gain 1 and lose gain 0;
Win a small game gain 2 small points,Draw gain 1;

The 1st in each group will get into 2nd round ,
then matches are like this:
A1 - B2/A2 - B1(winner will gain a ticket to the 2nd round)
A3 - B4/A4 - B3(loser will be eliminated)
and then
loser of(A1 - B2) - winner of(A3 - B4)
loser of(A2 - B1) - winner of(A4 - B3)
Winner go to the next round,another 4 ppl swiss,
And then the first 2 people will get into the grand finals.(1st in the swiss will get 2 in lead)

Match Regulations:
in a match A vs B
A choose 2 variants that haven't been blocked(the 2 variants can't be in the same family)
B choose 2 variants that haven't been blocked(the 2 variants can't be in the same family)
then for each variant,play 2 matches,the first to get 4.5 points win.
Tiebreak rules will be announced when the elimination comes.
And Clock for each variant:
6 + 0:Grand Othello,Grand Abalone,Octagon Othello
5 + 1:Breakthrough,All International Draughts Variants,Scrambled Eggs
4 + 3:Amazons
3 + 2:all(Locational Draughts Itself & its variants[except frysk],chess variants),Mini Xiangqi,Oware,Bestemshe
2 + 1:Frysk
3|10:Go 9*9,Minishogi
5|10:Go 13*13

Registeration is opened until September 31st.

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