[Tournament] Codex Asynchronous Fall Swiss 2016 - Complete!

The Codex Asynchronous Fall Swiss tournament for 2016 is now in progress!

This will be a swiss tournament, one match per week, with a grace period if your match doesn’t finish on time. First match will be paired on the first day of Fall: Thursday September 22.

[details=Nit-picky details of how pairings will work]Each round, pairings will be assigned as follows:
If a match between two players who each have two losses is not completed when the next round is paired, a proxy of “the winner of x vs y” will be paired for the next round in lieu of either participant.
When the delayed match completes, the proxy will be replaced by the actual winner.
This proxy is considered to have the combined opponent and bye history of both players, for purposes of making pairings.
Deliberately delaying a match in an attempt to affect your pairing for the next round is considered Cheating, and is punishable by being disqualified from the tournament. Yes, this is technically “not enforceable” but it’s still illegal. Don’t do it.
If the number of players is odd, a bye (which counts as a win) will be assigned to the player who:
Has had the fewest byes in the tournament (normally zero)
Has played against all other players, or so many of the other players that a bye is needed to avoid a re-match elsewhere in the tournament (probably won’t happen)
Has the most losses
Has played against the fewest remaining players (this helps minimize re-matches, while also keeping more players in the tournament longer)
Was picked randomly from among players tied for criteria #4
Each player will be paired with another player who
They have been paired against the fewest times (normally zero)
Has the same number of losses
An unfinished match is not counted as a loss for players with fewer than two losses
Is randomly selected
I reserve the option to hand-craft pairings and/or the bye if necessary to minimize the number of re-matches. This manual manipulation will not result in someone getting a second bye unless all players have had a bye.[/details]

General Rules / How Things Work:

  1. The player who goes first in each round will be pre-determined
  2. If one player has gone first fewer times in the tournament (not counting BYEs), that player goes first, otherwise, the first player is decided randomly.
  3. The first player is responsible for creating the game thread.
  4. Tag @EricF when a winner has been determined.
  5. CAS tournaments use a “three strikes” rule - any player who has three losses will be automatically dropped from the tournament. Players may also drop at any time.
  6. There is no “cut” - the last player standing wins the event. Thanks to the “three strikes” rule, the field should narrow towards the end, and culminate in an exciting final few matches.
  7. Matches are 1 game.
  8. The default will be to play all matches as play-by-post within the forum, but a match may be played in an alternate format (in person, on an alternate platform, via snail-mail, whatever) by mutual agreement, until the field is reduced to four or fewer players.
  9. Each player will select one deck (three specs plus applicable starter) to be run for the entire tournament
  10. I am accepting volunteers to help Judge the event. @zhavier is an authorized judge.
  11. If any rulings are necessary, any single Judge who is not participating in that match may make a ruling.
  12. Rulings are subject to appeal only if the judge making the ruling is wrong about the facts of the game (eg, forgetting that a Building Inspector is in play, or the Shrine of Forbidden Lore only makes Demons unstoppable by units) or the rules/FAQ as noted at rules — Sirlin.Net — Game Design and/or the Rulings thread.
  13. Please note this suggested format, and include hand, tech and worker decisions either in a spoiler, or in a linked source that I can get to. For games involving me, you can send a private link to a different judge
  14. Matches posted every Thursday. Matches that are not progressing may be given an adjudicated result.

[details=Details of unfinished match adjudication]1. Matches where Player 1 has posted their 5th turn by Wednesday will not be adjudicated until the following Monday
2. Matches where Player 1 has posted their 10th turn on that Monday (11 days after pairings) will not be adjudicated until Thursday.
3. Matches subject to adjudication may have a Win declared for the player who is, in the judgement of the Judges,
a. “going to win” (having clear hand/tech spoilers is helpful for determining this)
b. Less responsible for the delay of game, OR
c. For no-one, if prior arrangements were made, or the match result isn’t critical for making the next round of pairings, or if a “catch up” week is coming up.[/details]

[details=Nit-picky details about correcting game errors]In the event of a game error, one of three fixes will be implemented:

  1. If a unit, hero, or building took the wrong amount of damage, and changing it to the correct amount does not cause anything to leave play or not leave play, then the damage will be corrected.
    1a. If not enough gold was spent, and the excess was floated, the gold total will be corrected. If too much gold was spent, the excess will be refunded. The possibility of theft (red starter, Anarchy, or Law) does not impact this, as both players are responsible for maintaining the game state. An actually executed theft (or failure to steal after taking the appropriate action) forecloses this remedy.
  2. The game will be backed up to the turn of the error. In this case, having the decisions / game state noted is important for re-constructing things. Any random events that are undone (eg, drawing cards) must be re-randomized, regardless of the size or type of error. Normally the entire turn containing the error will be backed up and re-done, but if knowledge has been gained, or cards drawn, and the error occurred after the new information was gained, the Judge must only back up to the point where new information was revealed.
  3. If neither of the above apply. the game will be left as-is, if I feel a backup cannot be performed (for example, an error occurs on Turn 2, and it is now Turn 4, both players have made decisions, reshuffled, etc. based on the incorrect game state).
    Regardless of remedy, players should feel free to use any information disclosed by their opponent’s error in making gameplay choices. For example, an opponent’s tech choice revealed via a card illegally played and then returned to hand.
  4. In the case of repeated errors, or errors where the gamestate cannot be recovered, a game loss may be given if the error was substantial.[/details]

I will endeavor to post new pairings every Thursday, but the “tournament week” is considered to be from one pairings post to the next. Pairings will not be made on November 3 (as a “catch up” week), nor November 24th (for Thanksgiving).

Late signups will be accepted without penalty until the second set of pairings are made. Signups after that may occur, but will be given one loss for each full tournament week that has elapsed.

You may change your submitted deck up through Sept 21.

List of players:

  1. Marto ([Necro]/Blood/Truth)
  2. StrixVaria (Mono Red)
  3. Zejety ([Finesse]/Discipline/Strength)
  4. cstick ([Demon]/Law/Anarchy)
  5. Pooh_Bear (Mono Black)
  6. Mooseknuckles ([Growth]/Necro/Strength)
  7. FrozenStorm ([Past]/Peace/Anarchy)
  8. Anemone (Mono Black)
  9. Barrelfish ([Necro]/Blood/Growth)
  10. EricF ([Past]/Peace/Anarchy)
  11. Khel ([Feral]/Peace/Blood)
  12. CarpeGuitarrem (Mono Red)
  13. Alhazard ([Necro]/Blood/Truth)
  14. Swagmaster_Turtle (Mono White)
  15. zhavier (Mono Green)
  16. Castanietzsche (Mono Blue)
  17. PointyFinger (Mono Red)
  18. Bomber678 ([Feral]/Strength/Truth)
  19. RealPiHalbe (Mono Black)
  20. Drakona ([Fire]/Blood/Finesse)
  21. bravo840 ([Necro]/Blood/Ninjitsu)
  22. jasonwocky (Mono Purple)
  23. lettucemode (Mono Green)
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Looks like we’ll need some new formatting for this new site, spoilers are TOUGH to read :wink:

Also we’ll need to figure out how private messages work (I’m not finding it), so I’ll reply here that I’m in, and message a deck choice once I figure out how to message!

Messaging is not available for fresh users, as an anti-spambot measure - you have to hang out and read / write some posts before it gives you the ability to do that.

Spoiler Text

Play around with the

[details=Hide Details]This text will be hidden[/details] option, and see if there is something that looks better


Maybe add a horizontal line after it, which might help?

Are you actually clicking the spoilers? If you click them it’s pretty easy to read.

I am clicking to read them, they just aren’t boxed in / have a darkened bg to give good context where they start / stop like before :wink:


Flanked by Lines and inside blurred spoiler

Perhaps this will work better? Just spoiler on its own is a little too revealing I think no?


I don’t think spoiler serves a purpose if you are using the details tag. The lines are probably good to use with the spoiler to give clear definition though.

Also I will play.

In. I’ll message my deck once I’m allowed to send PMs :slight_smile:

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In.

10char

It serves an aesthetic purpose that differentiates it from the rest of the text :wink: Double-secure also? lol

I’m in. Haven’t decided on a deck yet.
A tournament invites to play what one is already good at, but these tournaments are also a consistent way to practice new factions…

I haven’t played a single game of codex yet (still waiting for my copy to arrive) so I don’t think it’s time to take part in a tournament yet.
I think a good understanding of the rules and a little knowlege about the different cards is nice to be able to play a game in a different way than in person. I’m having a hard time to grasp all the info in a play by forum thread, but I hope that will change once I have a few games under my belt.

But even though I will not participate in this tournament I wanted to say thanks for organizing this!
I hope it will be followed by a bunch of other tournaments. :trophy:

And GLHF to everyone playing :slight_smile:

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I hope to be more confident by that time, although I am pretty new now. Worst case, I’ll get some good experience, right?

So I’m in. I’ll hold off on picking a deck yet, though. I’ll PM you before the cutoff.

Hey, I’m new here. I have 8 games under my belt and would like to join. How many posts do I have to write before I can write @EricF a private message?

https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924

Relevant bit:

A user gains trust level 1 (and ability to PM) after any of the following:

  • entering at least 5 topics
  • reading at least 30 posts
  • spend a total of 10 minutes reading posts
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Thank you, that is very helpful. So, I’ll browse the forum a bit. I need some time to make up my mind on the deck, anyways.

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10 days to go before we begin!

I’m in !

I’ll MP my deck as soon as I can :slight_smile:

For those of you who don’t have your deck submitted yet, you’ve got 1 week.

Similar to one of the players above, I have maybe 3 games of codex played with neutral factions only. That being said, I am a competitive card game player and enjoy learning on the fly. My shipping estimate is arrival tommorow so I will be able to get a few games in before the 22nd, but my real question is:

Am I welcome in this tournament as a less knowledgeable player? I would rather lose three rounds in a row than not play at all.

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The more the merrier, I always say! :smiley:

I would suggest you try a play by forum casual match, I’m sure you could find an opponent. The format does not appeal to everyone.