Hi,

I did a lot of tournament organization for Vampire: the eternal struggle in the Netherlands and I have some questions about organized play for Netrunner for the future. First I appologize for not reading the entire forum, since I presume the anwsers to my questions are probably already there. Unfortunately I dont have so much time.

My questions are:

Does any of you have experience with organizing an A:N tournament and can you point out some handy pointers?

I have read the tournament rules for A:N, but did you encountered difficulties not explained in tournament rules?( http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/android-netrunner/support/ADN_Tournament_Rules.pdf )

How many rounds of play is advisable?

In case of an odd number of players, how many prestige and matchpoints do you give to the player?

In tournament play agenda points is replaced by match points, for scoring purposes not for in the match itself. Why?

Does FFG supports tournament play in the form of promotional material otherwise?

Is there a ranking system for this game? So local players can compete with player-scores across the globe?

Thanks in advance,
Oortje

oortje said:

Good to see more of the Elder Kindred Network giving this game a go.

Lessee…

No

Yes (see below)

The trick here is to accurately guess how many SE rounds to hold. You want no more than 1/3 going on to SE since Swiss does not do a very good job of ranking the middle players. Top players come out on top, bottom players come out on bottom, and the middle gets very muddy. When in doubt, send only 4 players to SE so more people can play.

Treat a bye as a crushing victory - 6 Prestige Points and 20 Match Points. You can't prove they would have done worse.

In tournament play agenda points is replaced by match points, for scoring purposes not for in the match itself. Why?

Not sure what you mean here.

Yup, they have Game Night Kits that they will sell to local retailers to host tournaments with.

Not yet.

Oh, and you want to get an account on boardgamegeek and participate on the forums there. These forums are terrible and all the real conversation about the game happens there.

I dont understand this bit:

The trick here is to accurately guess how many SE rounds to hold. You want no more than 1/3 going on to SE since Swiss does not do a very good job of ranking the middle players. Top players come out on top, bottom players come out on bottom, and the middle gets very muddy. When in doubt, send only 4 players to SE so more people can play.

What do you mean with SE? From the context I think I can make out of this that it must be something like a semi finals. Am I right?

A yes I will make an account at boardgame geeks, because this forum is slow. It takes ages to load this page.

Thanks for the pointers. They are very usefull!!

greetz!

oortje said:

Sing Elimination. After several swiss-style rounds where everybody plays, you clear the playing field except for the top players who play a ranked single elimination bracket to determine the winner.