Can such a question?
And what rules this year on the tournament?
What is the accrual of points and how many seats?

RULES of WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF PROPILKKI 2010

1)  Teams are named in this thread. Players of the teams are those, who are given to me separately (also in this thread). Captains are ”contact persons” or some named non-member of team (translation problems etc). Each team have 4 players and 2 substitutes. If lower amount of players are available, when game starts, team must play by using only earlier named list of players.

2) Captains/contact persons are informed about time-schedule and IP-address and password of the games. They have to share this information with their team. USE PRIVATE MESSAGES OR E-MAIL! NOT FORUMS PUBLIC THREADS!

3) Delays or changes in time-schedule are informed to captains as soon as possible. If there are some problems with technical things, connection, important family-things of the host, there might be some changes. Spare-host is Janne Procyon, or some other member of Team Procyon, but in all other cases it is me (Mikko). If e.g. Janne can’t host game, match will be scheduled to other day.

4) Host is open 30min before start (20.30 time of Finland http://www.aika.fi/ )
And the game will start 21.00. If player is late, he can join to the rest of the matches, but there is no restarts for being late. Matches will be played Mon-Thu or Sun. There is no matches at Friday or Saturday night.

5) There will be 4 lakes in one tournament. Length of the match is always 30min. Lakes are not named before start, but large maps are preferred. There are short, about 5min break between games. Results are counted immediately after game is over. There is 30min protesting time after the results are shown. If there is something wrong, captains do the official protest and send it to me or Janne (if hosting). Procyon Products make decisions for approvals and discarding of the protests. There is no possibility to complain about decisions.

6) If connection to the game is disconnected during match, player is out of the match. If some problems occur during start for more than 3 players, there will be 1 restart. If the same player is constantly having problems with start, no restarts are performed. If the host is crashed, then there will be restart of the lake. Players must rejoin as soon as possible. If there are some other major problems, it is informed to captains as soon as possible. There will be also additional information about continuing of the game. If the kalassa.net forum is temporarily “down”, then game information is shared by e-mail to the captains of the teams.

7) Most of the games are “normal” or “all the species” type of matches, but there will be also 1 special type of match in every league. If game type is ”largest fish”, no extra point for the largest fish is given.

8 ) Points:

1 = 10 points
2 = 8
3 = 6
4 = 5
5 = 4
6 = 3
7 = 2
8 = 1

Largest fish = 1 point

Host is counting points and therefore also collecting playlog-file.  Host is not playing, he is only official referee. In cases of disturbing of other players game (e.g. drilling many holes too near), player must call referee to decide what is going on. Referee can discard the player, if some severe disturbing occurs. Too much spamming in chat is also counted as disturbing, but normal chatting is allowed and even recommended.

List of game system, match table and leagues are shown later in this thread.

9) Games are planned to be played during February 2010. Time-schedules are informed about 1 week before match. We will prefer playing during Mon- Thu. Weekends are too busy for the most of us (we are fishermen!), except Sunday.

10)  If there are 2 teams with same amount of points, positions in matches makes the difference. If  EVEN THIS did not make a difference, largest fish of the team is taken into account. If EVEN THIS did not make a difference (nearly impossible situation), I will toss a coin to find out the winner.

11) Final is played with the same system than starting leagues.

12) Chatting during games is allowed, but private messaging is preferred. In public chat, the language is ONLY English. No other languages are allowed or player will get muted.

We have no trophies sponsored for this tournament. Sometimes we have found posting of packages problematic (like my wobblers to Somm, Ukraine.. never found their way down there..). But we will see, what we can do.