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2012-01-29

Doors Open: 9:00 a.m.
Pastimes
8502 W Golf Rd
Niles, Illinois

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Dark Ascension Prerelease

Main Event

 

Pastimes Dark Ascension prerelease

Pastimes Dark Ascension prerelease, your first chance to play with the new set! Build your deck with 3 booster packs of the new set and 3 Innsistrad!! This will be an Everybody Wins Prerelease, and each player will get 2 packs of Dark Ascension as prize! Top 8 Finishers will *ALSO* receive a Dark Ascension Fat Pack, which can be claimed when the set releases.

Registration: 9:00 a.m.

Start Time: 10:00 a.m.

Entrance fee: $25

Format: Limited - Sealed Deck

Notes: Build your deck with 3 booster packs of Innistrad and 3 boosters of Dark Ascension!

Format Description: Main decks must contain a minimum of forty cards. There is no maximum deck size. All cards a player received but is not using in his or her main deck become that player's sideboard.

Players are not restricted to four of any one card in Limited tournament play.

Any drafted or opened cards not used in a player's Limited deck function as his or her sideboard. The sideboard may not be kept where it could be confused or switched with other cards.

Structure: Swiss

Structure Description: Most of Pastimes tournaments utilize a system of pairing called "Swiss".

The principle of a Swiss tournament is that each player will be pitted against another player who has done as well (or as poorly) as him or herself.

The first round is either drawn at random or seeded according to rating. Players who win receive a point, those who draw receive half a point and losers receive no points. Win, lose, or draw, all players proceed to the next round where winners are pitted against winners, losers are pitted against losers, and so on. In subsequent rounds, players face opponents with the same (or almost the same) score. No player is paired up against the same opponent twice however.

Here is a summary of the modified swiss pairing system:

* Round one : All players are paired randomly.
* Round two: the winners of round one will play each other, the losers of round one will play each other
* Round three: the players with 0-2 records play each other, likewise with the 1-1s, and the 2-0s.
* Round four: the 0-3s play each other, as do the 2-1s, the 1-2s, and the 3-0s.

Sometimes, however, it is not possible to pair players with exactly the same records (due to drops or draws), so you may be "paired" up or down a record.

After an amount of rounds set at the beginning of the tournament (based on the number of players), the player with the best record wins.

Number of Swiss Rounds to be played. There is a fairly set standard for the number of Swiss Rounds in an event based on the number of participants:

Attendance Number of Swiss rounds
Attendance = 9-16 Swiss Rounds = 4
Attendance = 17 - 32 Swiss Rounds = 5
Attendance = 33 - 64 Swiss Rounds = 6
Attendance = 65 - 128 Swiss Rounds = 7
Attendance = 129 - 226 Swiss Rounds = 8
Attendance = 227 - 409 Swiss Rounds = 9
Attendance = 410 or higher Swiss Rounds = 10


Prizes: Prizes will be paid in Dark Ascension Boosters. EVERYBODY WINS! Each player receives 2 packs of Dark Ascension as prize! Additionally, the Top 8 players receive a Dark Ascension Fat Pack, redeemable when the set is released.

Side Events

 

2HG Sealed Deck

Description: Explore Dark Ascension with a friend! Team up with another player in this team Sealed Deck event!

Registration: 1:00 p.m.

Event Begins: 2:00 p.m.

Entrance fee: $40 per team

Format: 2HG Limited - Sealed Deck

Notes: Each team receives 4 packs of Innistrad and 4 packs of Dark Ascension from which to build their decks.

Format Description: Each team will receive 8 packs from the current limited format. They will use these packs and any amount of basic lands to build 2 forty card decks.

Teams will play single game matches each round versus another team. Each team takes shared turns, in which both players take each phase at the same time. Attackers and blockers are declared together, and each team has a single, combined life total.

Structure: Swiss

Structure Description: Most of Pastimes tournaments utilize a system of pairing called "Swiss".

The principle of a Swiss tournament is that each player will be pitted against another player who has done as well (or as poorly) as him or herself.

The first round is either drawn at random or seeded according to rating. Players who win receive a point, those who draw receive half a point and losers receive no points. Win, lose, or draw, all players proceed to the next round where winners are pitted against winners, losers are pitted against losers, and so on. In subsequent rounds, players face opponents with the same (or almost the same) score. No player is paired up against the same opponent twice however.

Here is a summary of the modified swiss pairing system:

* Round one : All players are paired randomly.
* Round two: the winners of round one will play each other, the losers of round one will play each other
* Round three: the players with 0-2 records play each other, likewise with the 1-1s, and the 2-0s.
* Round four: the 0-3s play each other, as do the 2-1s, the 1-2s, and the 3-0s.

Sometimes, however, it is not possible to pair players with exactly the same records (due to drops or draws), so you may be "paired" up or down a record.

After an amount of rounds set at the beginning of the tournament (based on the number of players), the player with the best record wins.

Number of Swiss Rounds to be played. There is a fairly set standard for the number of Swiss Rounds in an event based on the number of participants:

Attendance Number of Swiss rounds
Attendance = 9-16 Swiss Rounds = 4
Attendance = 17 - 32 Swiss Rounds = 5
Attendance = 33 - 64 Swiss Rounds = 6
Attendance = 65 - 128 Swiss Rounds = 7
Attendance = 129 - 226 Swiss Rounds = 8
Attendance = 227 - 409 Swiss Rounds = 9
Attendance = 410 or higher Swiss Rounds = 10


Prizes: Prizes will be awarded in Dark Ascension booster packs based on attendance.

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