Tomato 150,000 Tourneys Celebration Outline

The Tomato managers team and ICC celebrate 150,000 tournaments held with a huge prize tourney. Available are CASH prizes worth $310.00 USD  and almost 6 years in freemonths. And that is just for one single tournament!

Date: Saturday, April 20, 2002, 15:00 EDT. Opens for joining at 14:35 EDT.

Tournament Specifications:

            Time control: 4 2 rated

            Rounds: 9

            Latejoin: until round 6, but maximum of 2 bye-point rounds.

            Style: Swiss

Rules:

No computers or human help. People who cheated in the past may be denied entry.

People who lag more than 5000 ms may be denied entry. Players are required to use Blitzin 2.31 or later in this tournament.

The tournament manager can forfeit participants who delay the tournament because of excessive latency, late starting games or a combination of those. Application and interpretation of this rule is in the sole discretion of the tournament manager. Players who are missing for 10 minutes or more, may be forfeited from their tournament, even if they finished the running round, if the tournament manager has reason to believe that they might not return for further rounds.

Prizes:

Winner: USD $120.00

2nd: USD $80.00

3^rd: USD $60.00

4^th: USD $50.00

5^th: 6 freemonths

6^th: 4 freemonths

7^th: 10^th: 2 freemonths each

11^th: 20^th: 1 freemonth each

Class prizes:

There will be classes for under-2200, under-2000, under-1800, under-1600, under-1400 and under-1200. Each class winner receives 4 freemonths, each class second 2 freemonths, each third 1 freemonth.

Rules for prizes:

Free trials are not eligible to win any prizes. Should an exempted (GM/IM) account win freemonths, that prize will be given to the next best person. Prizes are non-cumulative. Should a person win two prizes, he/she will receive the higher prize only, and the other will go to the next best player.

Special rules for class prizes (for the example of the under-1400 class prizes):

1. The blitz rating at start of the respective tourney must be below 1400.

2. The player must have played at least 50 blitz games before the start of the tourney.

3. The best blitz rating of the player must not exceed 1650 (250 points higher than the class limit). This regulation extends to any other known account the player has had on ICC in the past. There is no appeal against the decision of disqualifying a player from a class prize because of the suspicion that he had an account with a best rating above the limit in the past.

4. The player must not be caught of dumping games at ANY point in the past, as documented in his customer file. There is no appeal against the decision of disqualifying a player from a class prize because of dumping.