• No turks/koreans
• No spying

Penalties:

• Using wrong nickname: -1 point
• Using player that isn't signed up: admin loss
• Not showing up twice: admin loss
• Spying: admin loss
• Game(s) not played before deadline: admin loss (team decided for each case individually)
• Not restoring within 20mins: admin loss
• Team not able to play 1 game in first 3 weeks: auto-boot and possible replacement added

Extended version:
Changes from last season are in blue.

Important:
When a game drops it has to be restored and recorded with ZD Soft Game Recorder.
More information about this program in this topic.

General Rules:

• Map used: Any normal michi map can be used, with the standard number of resources. Download best michi (flat) or trevor's map with hills here: Download (right click --> save as)
• No turks/koreans
• Groupphase -->play-offs.
• Teams and clans allowed.
• You must have at least 3-4 active players in your team.
• Games will be 3v3 with standard michi settings . 2v2 will be allowed, but only when there is absolutely no way of getting 3 players and only when your opponent agrees.
• If a player lags, and can't fix it, that team has to get another player. If they can't they will have to reschedule. When there's not enough time for that, admin loss to the lagging team.
• A win gives you 3 points and a loss 1 point.
• You get 1 week(7 days) to play one gameround.
• Any form of spying is banned. This includes farm spying to scout where your opponents are located, and palisade scouting or any other building used to spy - any player caught spying will result in an admin loss. Researching 'Spies' is still allowed of course.
• Reveal map:explored
• No time limit.
• You can reschedule when: players don’t show up on the scheduled date. This may happen time/round. Not showing up more then once will mean you will lose the game automatically.
• If somebody drops from the game you must restore within 20 min. If the game hasn't reached the 20 minutes mark, you can restart the game. If a player from the same team drops 2 times they lose automatically. If the other team cant restore, they will lose the game. ( Make sure you have "multi" folder in your "Save Game" folder)
• All matches have to be played on IGZones
• If a team was not able to play 3 matches in a row, it is automatically kicked from the league.
• Not playing or scheduling will result in an admin loss, including playoffs games.
• Fairplay and behaviour - we will not tolerate flaming. It will result in a ban on the forums, or from the tournament depending on the severity
• Double clanning/teaming will result in a 2 season ban
• Each round in the groupphase will consist of 1 game, the playoffs will be best of 3 games.

'Fair map':
when the game has started and you see you got a bad map (missing boars/sheep/gold surrounded by wood etc.) you can ask for a restart. But only within 5 minutes. Everyone has to accept this if the one with the problems wants to restart. If the opposing team rejects this, they will lose one point. If the player with the problem wants to continue, you are free to do that. But you can not claim a rematch afterwards because "you had a bad map".
By 'unfair' we mean limited resources because of the map setup (less boars/deer/sheep/gold/stone) including inequal length of the trade route. This means if team A and B both have shorter routes than in a 'normal' game, they should still continue because there's no difference between the routes of the teams itsself.
About taking points from the opposing team:
If team B is sure the map is fair for both teams, team B can decide not to restart. If the staff checks the rec game and we see team A did indeed have less boars, then team B will get the penalty. If we see team A is claiming problems which ain't true --> they will get the penalty. So it's at your own risk.
When posting the result of the match, post all rec games. Which means you also post the rec game in which you decide to restart.

Play-offs:
The teams who end first or second in the groupphase will continue to the play-offs. The team that finishes 1st in one league will play the team that finishes 2nd in the other league. 1st group A 2nd group D | 1st group B 2nd group C | 1st group C 2nd group B | 1st group D 2nd group A.
When two clans have the same amount of points at the end of the groupphase, they have to play a tiebreak game to decide who continues to the play-offs.
For example: if the 2nd and 3rd team both have 15 points, they will have to play against each other to decide who continues.
When the 1st and 2nd team have the same amount of points, the result between those two teams will count to decide who finishes first in their league.
For example: Team 1 and 2 are at the top of the league and both got 15 points, but team 1 beat team 2. In this case team 1 will finish 1st, and team 2 will be 2nd.

Signup rules
There will be two time frames in which we will check all teams to see if they are still active and willing to participate.
This is to prevent dropouts. See the signup topic for more information.
 
Last update: 2/11/2008


Prize: (thanks to IGZ for enabling  us to reward IGZ points)

• First place: 50% of donations +100 euro + IGZ points
• 2nd place: 30% + IGZ points
• 3rd place: 20% + IGZ points
• 4th place: IGZ points