Tournament Starting Information

This is the starting information about The Spring Qualification of the 5th Online Renju Class Tournament.
Below is a list of people who signed up. They have been sorted by their Renjuclass rating. And then re-sorted by special formula, to give each player about the same average difficulty level of opponents. That way the system is the fairest.

Order    Student ID         Rating   No
1        FIFAWORLDCUP       2008     1
2        HEX77              1820     6
3        shustrik           1775     7
4        endlessroad        1700     12
5        Xespok             1700     13
6        mayhem             1700     18
7        sweet_bess         1700     19
8        fallnavy           1700     24
9        concord2497        1650     25
10       virag              1910     2
11       Padovan            1865     5
12       nick_hopper        1740     8
13       wolfzhou           1700     11
14       sunrain            1700     14
15       tianxia            1700     17
16       celie              1700     20
17       mcmanus            1700     23
18       Basilisk           1647     26
19       Fermat             1910     3
20       strul              1873     4
21       slamduk            1712     9
22       swordblue          1700     10
23       Aurora             1700     15
24       Chucky             1700     16
25       H8                 1700     21
26       bm                 1700     22
27       bentley            1614     27
28       Andry              1519     28

RULES
All the players MUST read the tournament rules very carefully. The tournament rules are published in Tournament page.


THE TOURNAMENT WILL BEGIN ON APRIL 12, 2004, at 4 p.m. GMT.

Each player will play 20 games in the tournament - 10 games with players before him in the list, and 10 games with players after him in the list.
The list is circular, which means, for example, if the player is somewhere in the bottom of the list, and does not have 10 names below him, then he gets the missing opponents from the top of the list. For example, if player's number is 23, then his opponents are: 13-22, 24,25,26,27,28,1,2,3,4,5.

OPENING THE GAME
All games are opened automatically by server, so the players do not need to do anything to start them. You simply login to tournament server, and start playing.


FORBIDDEN MOVES AND 5 IN A ROW
Since our game server is new and not fully developed, it does not have the check of forbidden moves and 5 in a row. Therefore, the players must self check the forbidden moves and 5 in a row (if occurs). The player MUST resign the game when opponent had gotten 5 in a row.
If the player plays to the forbidden point, the opponent should tell about that the player, giving him/her the chance to resign decently. If the player does not respond or refuses to resign then the opponent should turn to referees and the referees will make the judgement.


Feel free to use Tournament Message Board as well as Chat Board of each game window to communicate with other tournament players. The messages for referees should be sent by email. In addition they can also be posted to message board.

Please read the Tournament Messages board in our website at least once every day (if possible) to get all the information from referee or from other tournament players.