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Winter Cup 2025

#1

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

❄️PARTICIPANTS❄️

@oruro
@Mando
@Jisu101
@Guitar

❄️SYSTEM❄️

The system of the tournament is a double Round Robin.

❄️FORMAT❄️

Playstrategy.org has 43 different games divided in different families.

For the Winters 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 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 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 A BOX❄️

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!

#2

I ask you guys to posted the Boxes everyone block soon.

My Boxes to block are:

10. Chess 3 (Chess Variants): Crazyhouse, Horde, Racing Kings, Atomic, Monster
14. Backgammon: Backgammon, Nackgammon and Hyper

#4

Hello!
My blocked boxes are:
3. Shogi: Shogi and Minishogi
4. Xiangqi: Xiangqi and Mini Xiangqi

#5

Round 1 Result

@oruro vs. @Guitar: 6-2

oruro chose Boxes 1 and 5: Go 9x9 and Oware
Guitar chose Boxes 6 and 15: Othello and Mini Breakthrough

Thanks for the Match!

#7

In the end, Guitar and I decided to play all 8 games in one round.

Originally, I thought that we would play 6 rounds, but I guess we can try it this way to see how it goes.

The good thing about this is that the tournament is faster and lasts only 3 weeks, but on the other hand the matches are longer.

Please let me know what do you guys think about it?

#8

My blocked boxes will be:

BOX 2: LOA family
BOX 16: Abalone (as I have not have had time to read the rules yet)

#9

@Mando

Please remember to write in this forum the Boxes you want to block and schedule the match with @Jisu101

Thanks!

#10

We're scheduling, most probable date is wednesday 18 UTC (I can probably only make 4 games)
Yeah, I still need to know what boxes he will block

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