Texas TCG Throwdown Thursdays!

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

This is a free weekly tournament available to anyone, hosted every Thursday. Entry code for the tournament is located in #tournament-announcements on our discord server. When you join go to #choose-a-role and select the limitless role. Prizing is generously donated by sponsoring stores located within Texas.

TWM will be legal for this tournament.

This will be the last tournament in this season as we look to restructuring the tournament and gaining new and larger sponsors.

This week's sponsors:

Topshelf TCG in 120 Circle Way #1-C, Lake Jackson, TX 77566. 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.

In order to participate in this tourney you will need to enter a password that is announced every Tuesday at 1.p.m CST on our Discord server. Make sure to select the proper role!

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

PHASES (Subject to change with announcements made on the server)

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) / (Semi-finals)

• Phase 2 may become a Semi-finals phase due to lower turnouts
• Phase 2 will be 2 to 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 may be removed due to lower turnouts. This phase 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. There is a zero-tolerance on slurs and unsportsmanlike conduct.
• 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 codes available is dependant on our sponsors. If you are a judge or store that would like to increase prizing contact a mod on the discord server. 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.