V:EKN Championship Tournaments

Each year, the V:EKN organizes invitational Continental Championship tournaments. Players receive invitations by doing well in any of a series of qualifying events held around the world.

2009

The V:EKN is coordinating four invitational V:TES continental championship tournaments in 2009, in Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

How to Qualify

To play in a championship tournament, players will first have to qualify.

• Anyone who played in the finals of a Continental Championship in 2008 is automatically qualified in 2009.
• The top 25% of players in constructed Continental Qualifying events qualify. The threshold for “Last Chance Qualifiers” on the weekends of the Championships is 33%.
• For the Australian Championship: 50% of the players (round up) up to a maximum of 10 players, qualify.
• If multiple players tie for a qualifier spot, then all the tied players qualify.
• To reward the organizers who put so much time and effort into organizing these events, the organizers for regional continental qualifiers automatically qualify.
• Finalists of constructed National Championship events qualify for the Continental Champions.

All qualifier tournaments are handled equally regardless of order. Players who qualify in one qualifier are not handled any differently in other qualifiers. They can continue to qualify in each qualifier in which they play.

Mini-Qualifiers

Once each calendar year, a Prince may run a Mini-Qualifier - a tournament where the winner wins a qualifying spot for that year's Continental Championships. This is in addition to the current Continental Qualifier system, and does not replace it. Unlike a normal qualifier, the tournament organizer for this event does not automatically qualify. Furthermore, organizers for mini-qualifiers are not allowed to play in the tournament as the events are still qualifier tournaments.

• Event Format

  Mini-Qualifiers are constructed deck tournaments. The Mini-Qualifiers are open to all players.

• Qualifying

  The minimum attendance at the Mini-Qualifier in order to award the qualifying spot is 12 players (minimum possible for 3 tables, and avoids 11-player events). If the tournament does not get at least 12 players, that Prince may run one more Mini-Qualifier that calendar year.

  The qualifying spot is awarded to the winner of the tournament.

• V:EKN Issues

  No additional prize support will be created or distributed for these events (i.e. if you want a qualifier t-shirt, go to a qualifier).

  Archon forms for Mini-Qualifiers are to be sent to vtesratings@volunteer.white-wolf.com.

  Oscar Garza (orgplay@white-wolf.com) will in charge of event verification, and will be free to delegate work to National Coordinators and Princes (reporting back to Oscar).

Championship Format

There are two formats for the championship tournaments. Each Championship will be run in one of these formats.

Standard Championship Format

The standard format is a normal 3-round tournament with a final round, following the standard V:EKN rules for constructed deck tournaments (but in which only qualified players are allowed to play, of course).

Tiered Championship Format