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Announcement
05.04.2017 - 1st EBIF Tour: Online Tourney Nr. 3
Participation:
Participation is open for all persons who pay the required entrance fee of Euro 30 and allready paid the annual membership fee (details given below)
Three online Qualifiers in first 3 quarters of the year for Live Grand Final of the best 30 Players! - 2017 The Grand Live Final will be played 13th till 15th of October in Vienna. The information on the website and in our e-mails will be in German and English. Applications will be accepted from now until the deadline on the application form opposite.
The second online tournament will start on 01.06.2017 . The duration of the tournament dependents on the number of participants.
The tournament will be played in Triple-Ko - mode: Each participant plays until he has either lost 3 times and is therefore eliminated or he is the only participant with fewer defeats and wins the tournament. All pairings are played to 13 points . The pairings of rounds 1 to 3 are randomly drawn and played at the same time . Then the draw for the pairings will be made round by round according to the Swiss system tournament software by Hans-Jürgen Werner. A tie-breaker rating does not take place . The calculated performance rate has no influence on the outcome of the tournament . In addition, the EBIF tournament rules apply.
For the Grand Live Final each win from all 3 tournaments counts as 1 point, 30 players with most points qualify. In case of same number of wins, more players qualify!
All games are played to 13 points . The matches of the tournament are played with GridGammon. If a player still has no Gridgammon account, the match has to be played on Ebif Tiger. The nick name for each server (GridGammon and FIBS) is recorded and published at registration. Participants without an account at Gridgammon are asked to make a request - mentioning the participation in this EBIF Tournament - at support@gridgammon.com .
The result of the game is to be reported by e-mail - using the form on the website - to the Tournament Director . The game reports shall be attached and will be evaluated with eXtreme Gammon and results will be published .
To participate in the tournament a starting fee of 30,00 € will be charged. Payment is possible by bank transfer or Paypal - ebif@gmx.at. Please be aware that You can only particpate if You also paid the yearly EBIF membership fee: either 10 euro to EBIF - paypal: ebif@gmx.at or with discount to Your national federation!
The Winner of each online tournament gets 100 Euro. Prices for total winners of 3 online tourneys:
1. 200 EUR + free entry to final
2. 100 EUR + free entry to final
3. free entry to final
the rest is added money at the Live Final!. 10% of the entry fee is registration fee.The english EBIF-rules are applied.
Applications to the tournament possible from now on till 01.06.2017 by using the registration form on the website. Questions about the tournament please send via e-mail to the tournament director.