Card-based best game

Card-based best game tournaments are a variant of best game tournaments. Most of the concepts and behavior are identical to best game tournaments. This page will only outline the differences between a regular best game tournament and a card-based best game tournament. You should read the page for best game tournaments first and then return to this page.

In a card-based best game tournament, the tournament director assembles a bank of arenas. Each player completes a "card" consisting of a set number of games. Points are awarded for each game on the card, and players are ranked based on their best card. The difference from a regular best game tournament is that in a regular best game tournament, each individual game is scoring points independently, and in a card-based best game tournament, multiple games are collected on a "card" of games, and the card is scored as a single unit. Card-based best game tournaments reward players who perform consistently well across multiple games in a row.

Recording scores

Just like a regular best game tournament, a scorekeeper can enter scores for players on the Arenas page. If a player doesn't have an active card, a new card will be created. If a player has an active card, the score will be added to that card. Once a card has been filled up, it will automatically be completed and points awarded.

A scorekeeper or the player can void the entire card. Voided cards can no longer have scores added, and they will never earn points.

If scoring mistakes are made, the tournament organizer has several options:

• Change score lets you change the score itself if it was entered wrong.

• Delete score lets you delete the score outright.

• Delete card lets you delete a card outright. This is different than a voided card because the voided card will not count against any limits.

• Un-void card lets you re-open a card that has mistakenly been voided.

Arena malfunctions

The basic flow for arena malfunctions is the same as a regular best game tournament, but it has a more significant impact on your tournament, and you should avoid arena malfunctions as much as possible.

If an arena is marked as blocked, the procedure is identical to regular best game tournaments.

If an arena is marked as deactivated, all cards that include the deactivated arena will be marked as incomplete. These incomplete cards will be re-opened one-by-one for each player and the player will have to play a replacement game before they can start a new card. Cards will automatically be opened for the player, but it's obviously very disruptive and time consuming to have players play replacement games.

Configuration options

See also: Common configuration options.

Max. number of cards

Determines how many cards a player can play in total.

Cards scoring

There are two possible options for how cards are scored. One option is that all cards are counted from each player. (This is how PAPA World Championships are scored.) Or, only the newest card is counted for each player (so a player will only ever have one card counting for points).

Number of games per card

Determines how many games must be played on each card.