Stratego Online 2018

Dear Stratego Players,

the Gravon Stratego Online Championship will start at 1st of April. Below you find the

tournament rules and the most important links. In addition we will post the results for

a better overview at a special "result-site". The tourney-organization is done by our users

• Flame04
• Henry
• Major_Nelson
• Overlord

(thanks for that) May the best win! - the gravon admin team

General:

• Eligible to participate are all players:
  • with an unbanned nick name
  • who are not banned for Gravon tournaments
  • who provide a valid email adress to the organiser
• please notice, that we only allow one player from each ip adress. Thus, if several players (e.g.: father, son, brother etc.) play from one household, only one can join the tournament.

• The tournament will start with a group stage followed by a knock out system for the last sixteen.
• Please join the the tournament only, if you can play the whole competition.
• Joining the tournament with more than one nick (double-nick) will cause a Gravon and tournament banning.
• Leaving the tournament after the start without any notice will cause a tournament banning.

Games setting:

• Games count only for the tournament, if they are played in the tournament rooms.
• Tournament rooms are the (green) Stratego rooms: 401 - 415 => Tourney Room 1 - 15
• The settings in these rooms are adjust to:
  • Ranking disabled
  • Bronstein clock 12 min / 50 min / 4 sec. (ISF Setting)
  • Games are viewable

Group stage

• the tournament starts with 8 groups (A-H) a 4 players (see table below)
• in case of less than 32 players the groups are adapted
• within one group all play all twice (game + rematch) - so each players plays 8 games in total
• best 2 scorer of each group go to knock out system
  • in case of equal points after all games its up to:
  • direct comparison, then
  • Play-off game (1 game)
• all games must be played within 3 weeks (see time table below)

Groups / Gruppen

• Placing the groups is based on the 2018 overall rating: see table below - from March 27, 2018
  • in case that a player does not has a ranking at all, he gets a fixed rating of 600. Placing is then by application date.

• Groups will be made like this (where P1= highest in rank etc.) In case of more than 32 players as shown below(in parentheses

Scoring group stage

• 6 points for win, 3 for draw and 1 for loss. Each matchup within a group will be 2 games.

Scoring Knock Out system

• 1 point for win, 0.5 for draw and 0 for loss.
• first to two points advances to next round.
• in case of a 2-2 tie additional matches are played until there is a winner.
• players have 1 week for all games - (see time table below)

Schedule / appointsments

• the players are responsible for their schedule
• all appointments have to be made within the forum in the threat for each group
• appointments outside the forum do not count

• in case that 2 players cannot agree on a fixed appointment, they have to play at the mandority date
• mandority date is the last sunday at the end of the group stage (see time table below) at 8:00 pm utc
• a player can only play one match (game + regame) at the mandority date
  • in case that a player has to play more than 1 opponent at the mandority date, he loses all games

• in case that a player does not show up to an appointment, the present player wins the match after 15 mins waiting
  • in group stage => 6:1
• in case that both players does not show up, both get a loss
  • in group stage => 0:0
• same rules for the mandority date

• if a player does not post (legal) appointments, the tourney-organization can declair a loss to the player

• please notice the several time zones within the player field - be sure that both talk about the same time zone
• (it is advised to post GMT times)

Game Rules

• the players agree on blue or red pieces
• the settings in the tourney rooms are fixed
• please notice, that the "bronstein modus" can cause a draw by timeout, if a player has more personal time than the game time
  • this is by the rules and not unfair. for more information click here
• visitors are not allowed to talk within a match. Fair Play please!
• violating the Gravon terms & conditions can cause a tournament bann.
• the winner post the result in the forum, in case of a draw both players post the result

Tournament Organization

• Organization is done by flame04 - henry - Major_Nelson and Overlord
• the tourney-organization is allowed to join the tournament.
• In case that the rules do not cover a situation, the tourney-organization will post a decision for the players.
• In case that the tourney organization is involved, spion or stratego will post a decision.
• All decisions of the tourney-organization are final.

Links

• Subsequent the schedule and links as far as known
• Please notice the mandority date at last sunday of the weeks.

Player Ranking 27.04.2013

• Subsequent the rating of the players, which is relevant for the Group-Stage.

• zurück ins / back to Forum

Substitute:

Achtelfinale - Finale / Last sixteen - final