General rules of tournament
(a) Any reference throughout the whole set of regulation to the director may be applicable to any of the assistant directors.
(b) Any reference throughout the whole set of regulation to the captain may be applicable to the lieutenant (assistant captain).
(c) Persons are referred to as “he” for a simpler text, but that may be applicable to a female person
(a) If there is a contradiction between rules and regulations in different languages, the decisive document is indicated in the tournament specificities
(b) There is an official language to any tournament, indicated in the tournament specificities. Any official should be fluent in this language, so that applies to the organizer, the tournament director and any of his assistant, all captains and lieutenants, and all team representative to the committee.
(c) There is an official map to any tournament, indicated in the tournament specificities. Any report should use these codes and they shall be accepted when orders are submitted..
(a) The organizer will launch an invitation to all the people or groups of people liable to participate to the event, specifying:
Deadline of inscription,
Date of beginning of tournament.
(b) He will also provide a link to the rules and regulations page.
(c) If, at the deadline of the registration, the necessary number teams (see next paragraph) for the event is reached the list is officially published and the registration is closed.
(d) In the contrary case the organizer will have to wait to obtain this number before proceeding further, even if it means deferring the beginning of the tournament.
(e) Any registration arrived whereas the registration process is closed gives place to setting on waiting list to mitigate a possible desistance of team.
(f) The organizer will reveal information about the players of the games only the official day of the beginning of the tournament.
(g) The choice of the name of the games is left to the organizer (he will take care to find names in relation ones with the others.)
(h) The methods of the tournament will synthesize practices of the play by mail (with or without electronic JUDGE) and of the practices of the face to face play.
(a) Participating teams will have to communicate the names, first names, nickname, ages (except for the women), nationalities and, ideally, file carried to format JPG and addresses electronic participants whom they provide, namely:
Seven (7) players engaged in the games with, for each one an allotted diplomacy country, different from that of the others,
representative (preferably not player) for the committee,
captain (preferably player),
“lieutenant”, i.e. captain-assistant who will have the same rights and duties that the latter,
At least two (2) substitutes players,
(b) The participating teams will have to also communicate to the organization a brief presentation of their team (as well as a Internet link towards the official site of the team if necessary.)
(c) The tournament may not if there is not at least seven (7) teams registered for the first round. Some tournaments may require more teams to start the prerequisite number of teams of the tournament is indicated in the tournament specificities.
(d) A player expelled from a game may not participate in any way to a following edition of the tournament.
(e) The captain of a team which had 3 or more CD (Civil Disorder) may not be captain again of a team in a following edition of the tournament.
(f) The captain of a team which had 6 or more CD (Civil Disorder) may not participate again to a following edition of the tournament.
(g) The tournament may impose some conditions on participants, admission conditions of the tournament are indicated in the tournament specificities.
(a) Participating players will have to communicate the names, first names, nickname, ages (except for the women), nationalities and, ideally, file carried to format JPG and electronic addresses:
(b) Players will be grouped in teams of 7 for the first round. These groups may be asked to provide :
for each player an allotted diplomacy country, different from that of the others,
representative (preferably not player) for the committee,
(c) The tournament may not if there is not at least forty-nine (49) players registered for the first round. Some tournaments may require more players to start the prerequisite number of players of the tournament is indicated in the tournament specificities.
(d) A player expelled from a game may not participate in any way to a following edition of the tournament.
(g) The tournament may impose some conditions on participants, admission conditions of the tournament are indicated in the tournament specificities.
The games are adjudicated by the director of tournament.
If there are too many games, or if the director may have to be replaced, the director may be assisted by one or several assistant directors, preferably covering the widest possible scope of languages (if the tournament is international).
(a) For each diplomatic country, the player making the best score on any round will earn the country title.
(b) Informally, the best players in every team of any round will be spotted.
(c) Informally, the best player of any round will be spotted.
(d) Tie breakers are defined in the tournament specificities
(a) The director or the referee of a game can issue a informal warning to a player (by a direct message with copy to his captain, lieutenant if the warned is the captain if team tournament) and inform the committee in the event of failure to abide the regulations (preferably by quoting the paragraph not respected and the identity, if it is necessary, of the author of the complaint).
(b) In the event of repetition or more serious fault, a formal warning or an expulsion could be voted by the commission. In these two cases the sanction will be published on the gazette according to usual rules.
If the warning or expulsion does not obtain the committee vote, only the plaintiff (and possibly the faulty) will be informed.
(a) The player winning the final individual round (not considering previous rounds results) will earn the individual title (if applicable, see the tournament specificities)
(b) Tie breakers are defined in the tournament specificities