[FOW ]Bolzano Mid War Madness - Information and Rules

#####Please be aware#####
Because the tournament takes place in a german speaking ex austrian region of Italy,
swastikas and Runes are strictly forbidden. Please find a solution to avoid or at least cover any nazi symbols...


Entry fee
Please transfer the money within 07.02.2016 using this Bank Information

N. Reddig
IBAN: IT80 B058 5658 1600 5757 1260 920
Reference: (Your Name) - (Your Nickname) - Midwar Madness

Or use paypal: DaNilz@me.com (use "send money to friends or family")

Tournament location
The event will take place at the Parkhotel Werth Businessresort at Bolzano St. Jakob perfectly situated if you arrive by car, using the A22.
www.hotelwerth.com

Participants of the tournament get these special prices
Singleroom: 70€
Doubleroom: 110€

If you prefer something more economical have a look at Hotel Alpenrose http://goo.gl/BRUvwL
If you prefer something more luxurious have a look here http://goo.gl/1H8FrN

What's included in the tournament fee?
- Entrance to the site
- Coffeebreak each day with water, coffee and snacks
- 2 printed lists for you and your opponent

Food
There is a lot of restaurants around. We are in negotiation with some place nearby to offer a warm lunch for 10€ per person.
We will let you know.

Lists
- All the Lists that are available and approved by Battlefront until 31.01.16 are allowed
- All MidWar- and rules updates are valid
- No MidWar Monsters
- All MidWar Warriors are allowed
- 1.650 points


Sending in lists
- Please send us your list as a pdf made from Forces (www.forces.flamesofwar.com)
- If you can't use forces for what ever reasons, pls. send us an email containing all information necessary to rebuild it
- Deadline is 15.02. 23:59 o'clock. Send them to danilz@me.com
- All players that send in their lists within the scheduled deadline receive an extra tournament-point, valid for the ranking
- The lists will be controlled and published at least o week prior to the tournament to give every player the possibility to do some special rules and anti tactics research


Missions
- We will randomly use 4 missions out of the ETC 2016 mission pool.
- If that isn't announced until end of January we will instead choose them following the official rules of Circuito Italiano (see pdf: http://www.fowitalia.com/ewExternalFiles/Regolamento_GIOC_CN_quartaedizione-4.pdf) <= translation is made and waiting for being uploaded


Games
The duration of a game is 2:45h, starting from the official announcement that game has begun.
There will be an overtime period of 15 minutes to even out turns if necessary.

This time is divided by:
- 15 minutes for each player’s deployment
- 2h actual game time
- additional 15 minutes to even out turns

All platoons not deployed after the initial time period start the game in scattered reserves, following the normal rules and coming from the back of the player’s deployment-zone. If there is no back, randomly choose one of the sides where your zone is touching the border (i.e. "Surrounded")

If two fortified lists meet, they do ALWAYS play the mission „No Man’s Land“


Minimum number of turns
If a mission having winning conditions like i.e. „from turn six on…“ is played and after end of playing time this turn-limit is not reached, BOTH players calculate point like having lost. (P. 275)


Schedule

27.02.2016
09:00 Quick welcome and pairing
09:30 First Game
12:30 Lunch
13:30 2nd. Game
16:30 End of day 1
18:30 Diner together and (maybe) party

28.02.2016
09:30 First Game
12:30 Lunch
13:30 2nd. Game
16:45 Winner ceremony
17:15 End of tournament


Pairing
Pairings are made following the swiss chess system (1st vs. 2nd, 3rd vs. 4th…) with these modifications:

Turn 1: Pairings are made randomly. As far as possible, the organizer tries to pair each player with an opponent not from his family club, city or clique.
Turn 2-3: The organizer tries to pair each player with an opponent not from his family club, city or clique, by making minor changes (i.e. 1st vs. 3rd and 2nd vs. 4th…)
Turn 4: In the last turn, games are paired in a way that (again: as far as possible) the players within the first 6 ranks don’t play an opponent from the same family, club, city or clique.


Role of the organizers and referees
Organizers and/or referees that want to participate at a tournament and the whole championship may do so, but have to send in their lists at another organizer who does NOT play this event before they do receive any other players list. Missions must be chosen randomly at the tournament site.


Referees
The amount of referees needed to be present at an events depends on how many players are there.
- 1 referee if there are no more then 10 players
- 2 referees from 11 to 16 players
- 3 referees starting from 17 players


Rules
- Please have a look at the actual "Lessons from the front" rule clarifications http://www.flamesofwar.com/Portals/0/Documents/LessonsFromTheFront.pdf
- all rule-changes made until end of January will be valid
- this tournament will use the ETC rules pack 2016, unless otherwise stated, the national CI-rules will overwrite these rules in case of interference
DOWNLOAD THE RULES IN ENGLISH: http://workupload.com/file/LY1Bkecp

National Ranking
Each player earns points for the Campionato Italiano (Italian Championship) basing on his tournament rankings following the Battlefront given point system.

These points are calculated as follows:

- 76+(number of players at this tournament)/2+5 bonus points (valid only for the christmas tournament in Rome and the final tournament in Florence).
- The final rankings consider the 4 best single rankings a player has achieved. If he has only played 1-3 tournaments, he enters the rankings with these points.


Validity for the national ranking
This tournament need to have at least 8 players to be valid for the main ranking (these 8 players have to be physically present at the tournament site).