Texas TCG Throwdown Thursdays!

Welcome to the weekly tournament hosted by the Texas PTCG Discord server!

This week's tournament is sponsored by Topshelf TCG in Lake Jackson, Texas. Be sure to check them out on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/topshelf.tcg.9?mibextid=ZbWKwL

Additional Prizing may be donated anonymously. Announcements will be made through our Discord server.

This is a free weekly tournament hosted every Thursday. Prizing is generously donated by sponsoring stores located within Texas.

The format for this tournament is Standard with open decklists meaning Temporal Forces is legal!

PHASES

Phase 1 (Swiss)

• Phase 1 will be 3 to 7 Swiss rounds depending on registrations. Each round will be best-of-one and 35 minutes long with a 5 minute check-in timer.

Phase 2 (Top-cut)

• Phase 2 will be 3 swiss rounds. Each round will be best-of-one and 45 minutes long with a 5 minute check-in timer.

Phase 3 (Semi Finals)

• Phase 3 will be our Semi-Finals round This round will be a best-of-three round and 60 minutes long with a 5 minute check-in timer. The loser of each match decides who goes first the following match. We encourage our top players to stream their games on our Discord so be sure to join to watch it live!

Phase 4 (Finals)

• Phase 4 will be our finals round. This round will be a best-of-three round and 75 minutes long with a 5 minute check-in timer. The loser of each match decides who goes first the following match. We encourage our finals players to stream their match on our Discord so be sure to join to watch it live!

RULES

• We ask that you join our Discord as it helps get in contact faster should an issue appear and allows you to share screenshots to our judges if necessary.
• Ties will occur when time runs out and a game still playing. If a game completes before time, but you are unable to enter the result before the timer ran out, screenshot the game result, post it on the proper channel in our Discord, and request a judge. They will determine based off the screenshot and check-in times if you completed the game before the timer ran out.
• Legal cards include only those that are available in PTCGLive for Standard play.
• We ask that you refrain from intentional slowplay and causing in-game bugs as you may receive penalties or be banned from participating in future tournaments.
• If you wish to stream your game we reccomend putting a delay on your stream for fair gameplay. We also reccomend you stream your match on our Discord server if you go to top-cut.
• Should your game ger disconnected or frozen, contact a judge as soon as possible. We may not be able to issue a tie or a loss properly without doing so.
• As always be respectful to your opponent and contact a judge for any issues in and outside the tournament involving your opponent.
• Reminder that TCGLive may have bugs. You may have to restart your game to be able to challenge your opponent!

PRIZING

While we try and keep a consistent prize pool, the amount of coded available is dependant on our sponsors. Prizing will be updated the day of the tourney each week in the event of additional donated prizing.

Prizing will go as follows:

• 1st Place - 15 code cards of the most recent set
• 2nd Place - 11 code cards of the most recent set.
• 3rd Place - 9 code cards of the most recent set.
• 4th-8th - 3 code cards of the most recent set.