we would like to announce the first test of the new automated tournament system.
We are limiting the initial tournament to 24 players. You will need to update to v1.3.4 to participate in the tournament. This tournament includes 4 historical battles that must be played from as paired games i.e. in each round you play the battle from both sides and get a total score based on the results of both games. The tournament system does not currently support DAG games but this will be coming in the future. This tournament requires you to have Field of Glory, Rise of Rome, Storm of Arrows & Immortal Fire as we want to test across all army packs. Future tournaments will often be focussed on specific periods.
The way it works is that each player has an amount of time. The time ticks down while it is your turn - wehther you are online or not. It is much like having a chess clock. The quicker you play your turns and pass them back to your opponent the more time you will have left. If you run out of time you lose. If the game does not complete, the player with the most time remaining wins.
When the tournament kicks off a draw will be done randomly & automatically. Games will be created for you and all you have to do is log in to multiplayer and play your turn. When games are completed results will get reported automatically and directly to the server. You will be able to monitor the results after each round. When a new round kicks off the draw will be drawn automatically again. When the tournament complets the player with the most points wins.
To sign up go to http://www.slitherine.com/tournaments
If all goes well we will be launching larger tournaments in the not too distant future. Imagine how cool it would be to have hundreds or thousands of players in a tournament
