Hello everyone and welcome to the “Spring Cup 2025”, a tournament that is going to be held on "playstrategy.org".

🌻 REGISTRATION

Open now until Sunday, April 20th.

🌻 SYSTEM

Will be announed after the registration ends.

🌻 FORMAT

Playstrategy.org has 43 different games divided in different families. For the Spring Cup, these games have been divided in 16 different “BOXES”.

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

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 WONT BE ABLE to use that 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 tititogepi are paired for the first round:
The 4 games to play are to be as follows:

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

Let’s suppose that tititogepi 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 tititogepi will not be able to use the BOX 5 anymore, as oruro will not be able to use the BOX 3 anymore.

🌻 BLOCKING BOXES

As you might notice, this system is similar to the PlayStrategy Cup, but in this case, every player will have the chance to block two (2) Boxes which will be permanently unavailable for use by either the player or their opponents throughout the tournament.

🌻 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 (DM) or don’t answer, you should write into the forum or write direct to me.
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 @oruro is 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 5 minutes and 3 second increment (5+3)

The games must be played RATED or CASUAL

🌻 ACCOUNT, CHEATING AND FAIR PLAY

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.

Thank you for reading and good luck!

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