Format

The overall format is a 32-slot, single elimination bracket, with a run-off match to determine the 3rd place finisher. Each match will be a 2+2 alternate ending match according to the standard Duelist Hall grading criteria. Each competitor will have 3 days to complete their post, with a single 1-day extension available per match. There will be a maximum limit of 1000 words per post. Winners advance to the next round and eventually the last two writers standing will duke it out for bragging rights and fabulous prizes.

Qualification

The Combat Master will invite 26 members. The three basic qualifications are: you must be ACC Qualified (duh), you must have won a match since the end of the last championship, and you must be in a clan and/or in a position.

Invitations will go out in order based on a qualification score. The higher your score, the higher you are on the list. How are the scores generated? Simple. I look at every match since the end of the last championship, the Grand Master’s Invitational Tournament. Every match you won, you get a point. Every match you TO’d on your opponent, you lose a point. If a match was marked as ‘Closed’ in our system, if you completed it but lost, if anything else weird happened? No effect.

There are a lot of ties, and they’re broken in this order: by the most qualifying matches won, then by the most qualifying matches participated in, then by most recent match completed.

Additionally, each of the 6 consuls will be nominating a clan member according to whatever criteria they deem fit. All nominees must be ACC qualified before the tournament starts.