The Masters Tournament

[Mad Russian]

To clarify some things quickly before we go any further.

1) This is NOT A RUMBLINGS OF WAR (ROW) Tournament. That was just a very poor choice of wording on my part. This is the Masters Tournament.

2) All scenarios are submitted by the designers when they think they are playtested and balanced. I may or may not be involved in that process.

If a designer sends me his scenario and says it's ready for you guys I'll take it and give it to you.

3) None of these scenarios will have been played by anyone in the tournament. The only people not setup to play these scenarios are the designers who submit them and their playtesters. Most of the playtesting is done outside the group so for the most part even the designers inside the group haven't played them.

4) You better sharpen your skills. At least 6 other clubs may be involved. The scenarios have two criteria. They must be either CMAK or CMBB and no longer than 40 turns. Given a return rate of 1 file per day each that has the games capable of being finished in 60 days. I normally allow for 90 days per round in my tournaments. As always this tournament will have it's fair share of drop outs. If there is a drop out the games will be awarded 100-0 for the side still in. The club that has the drop out will be responsible for replacing the gamer that would have to leave for whatever reason. All games will have a single password per side so any game can be turned over to another gamer. The gamer taking over should be someone not having finished the scenario already but that would be determined on a case by case situation.

5) The entire idea is to have fun with the work of some of the best scenario designers out there. The variety of the scenarios couldn't be greater. The talent in this tournament has hand picked by the reviewers at The Scenario Depot II with their ratings on the scenarios for more than a year. Not every scenario will be for everybody. But then thats the fun of it. All gamers will play all scenarios in the tournament. Each round will see you matched with a different opponent.

6) The actual sign up is set to start on 1 September. I will give out the assignments 10 days later barring any personal RL issues of my own around that time.

Good Luck and Good Hunting.

MR