zadokk
as long as I have an even number of teams, we are good!
But in later stages of tournaments some teams won't be able to compete
FE if we start with 120 teams, nex stage 60 , next 30, next 15 - so at this point there will be 7 games and 1 team without opponents

      Straszyk well, it's a swiss system. So all people stay in the tournament. So all teams will play 7 games. It is of course possible that some teams will drop out during the tournaments. In that case it is possible we have an odd number of teams. In that case the last team will have a bye. So no opponents. This means they got 3 points, and do not have to play that round.

          Oh man! Shame to me , Facepalm etc
          The words "single elimination" stuck in my head and i didnt see it reffers to last 8, oh man,
          I feel stupid, I know what it swiss , but somehow my mind didnt see those words in description....
          Sry for confusion....

            And there we go...gl all!!! an amazing 122 teams from 36 countries

              zadokk this is a great effort, thanks for organizing! Super excited about the tournament!

                Curious what's the reason for the no-team-pacts rule? To mitigate potential imbalance caused by randomness in military cards? So that one team gets all the pacts and gets a big advantage?

                Straszyk that's a great suggestion! That's a rule that WILL be overlooked otherwise.

                    Goldan Hi Goldan, well there was a discussion on the discord channel about pacts. First i was thinking to allow them, but after good arguments from very good players, I decided to forbid it.
                    The main arguments:

                    • in fact we play a 2p game (2 teams) and in 2P there are no pacts.
                    • pacts from the point of design give you a bonus, but also something to an opponent. With pacts however in one team, you got double bonus, which seems too strong
                    • some pacts will really be way too strong, so the luck factor will be too deterministic. fe. open borders, scientific corperation, international tourism...

                      So our opponents have already offered and accepted a pact during our first match, Group 17. Is there anything that we need to do? I'm guessing there is no way to revert this?

                      schwam Ow that is unfortunate. Reverting is not possible. Maybe if they cancel the pact immediatly and it did not effect the game a lot and you are ok with that...if not, it is a game loss.

                          schwam Thanks to this comment I realized that there is this new rule, which was different when the tournament was first created. My guess is that there will be many people thinking it's allowed as they will not re-read the tournament rules..

                          zadokk
                          is there a way to push a communication to all participants?

                          Also somehow I don't see my current opponents in the gdoc. Is it complete?

                          And thanks a lot for creating this tournament, I'm anticipating lots of fun! 😊

                                FoLKeN91 Hi, the only way to communicate is via this board, or via the google doc or in discord.
                                On the google doc, i see your teams and opponents. on the tab pairings round 1, you see your match on table 37. Then on the teams tab, you see team 111 team plitch with the two members.

                                But the pact issue is a tough one...probably one thing to improve. Pajada asked if cge could remove the pacts from the draw deck, but that was not possible so easily...

                                    Pact between team members also in Group 22. We decided that canceling asap is fine and we go on from there.

                                    Eepogi great if you can solve it in a smooth way like this...tx a lot

                                        I canceled the pact in our game against schwam, they very helpfully noted the rule in the game chat, since obviously we were not aware of it. We didn't win any colonies, but it's possible I kept stones from the extra boxes on the turn it was active.

                                        guppyfry Nice that you are all so sportmanslike! great

                                            We messed up and as i noticed we're not the first ones to do so. We completely missed the no-pacts-to-teammates rule and I offered Naval Trade Agreement to my teammate and he accepted. Fortunately, there was absolutely nothing that changed the match in any way. My teammate hasn't played his turn yet, so if he cancels it immediately, is it fine to continue the game?

                                              wittr Sure, indeed...it is also first round, so rules are friendly at the moment. It is a bit a mess the no pact rule...but indeed cancel it asap.