Rules of blitz-tournaments carrying out on the backgammon

Blitz-tournaments on the backgammon are held at the beforehand fixed time.

The tournament prize pool is formed from the players’ tournament deposits.

The registration beginning is 15 minutes prior to the tournament start.

There are two versions of Blitz-tournaments on our server: «Blitz-3» and «Blitz-4» (the figure means time allocated for a single game).

By results of play in a round players gain points:

1. For the victory - 1 point;
2. For the defeat - 0 points.

The draw is possible only in Narde.

Olympic system

The scheme of the tournament carrying out:

• In each qualifying round a player participates in one game. Players who won pass to the following round.
• If a player did not have an opponent in the first round then he gains 1 point in this round.

Nackgammon:

Positions definition:

1. A player won in the Final wins 1 position.
2. A player lost in the Final wins 2 position.
3. Players left the tournament at earlier stages but still found themselves in the pool of prizes, get positions: 3-4, 5-8, 9-16 etc.

The Swiss system

The scheme of the tournament carrying out:

• Narde - quantity of rounds 7, 7 minutes break is after round 4.
• The backgammon - quantity of rounds 11, 7 minutes break after 6 rounds.

Tournament conventions:

Positions definition:

1. For the position definition occupied by the player in a tournament the sum of the gained points is used. The player gained the biggest quantity of points occupies higher final position in the tournament.
2. In case two and more players have an equal quantity of points the following indicators are applied to the position definition:
   
   2.1 According to the result of the face-to-face single game if it was during the tournament.
   2.2 The Buchholz coefficient of a certain player is a sum of all opponents’ points with whom the given player played regardless the game result between them. A player with higher Buchholz Coefficient will be awarded higher final place in a tournament.
   2.3 The Berger coefficient of a certain player is a sum of all opponents’ points against whom the given player won. A player with higher Berger Coefficient will be awarded higher final place in a tournament.
   
   
3. If a player did not have an opponent in the current round then the victory is awarded to him with a result which is equal (plus) one point.
4. A player refused to continue to participate in the tournament does not participate in the positions allocation and automatically «wins» last position among the remained players regardless the quantity of the gained points.

Collusion

Players’ behaviour rules in all tournaments are regulated by Principles of fair play.

Refusal of participation in the course of a tournament

1. Refusal of the further participation in a tournament can be done by pressing the button «Participation refusal».
2. Players who finished a tournament ahead of schedule but didn’t press the button «Participation refusal» are denied the right to participate in tournaments on a certain period depending on the quantity of the violations of this rule. At first or second violations a player will be disqualified for 1 (one) month. At third and the following violations a player will be disqualified for 3 (three) months.
3. A player refused to participate in a tournament «wins» a position in the end of a tournament table regardless the quantity of the gained points.

Emergency end of a tournament

1. If 50% (or more) of the planned rounds are played then the prize pool allocation takes place according to the gained positions.
2. If less than 50% of the planned rounds are played then the tournament is considered not to be played.
3. At an emergency stop of a tournament prize will be deposited to players’ accounts within 24 hours.

Prizes allocation in tournaments can be seen on a page «Prizes allocation table».