Hello all! Welcome to the rules for the crawl.akrasiac.org 2010 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Tournament. The simple part: Play on crawl.akrasiac.org or crawl.develz.org and all of your Crawl 0.7 games that start after midnight UTC on August 1 will count toward the tournament.
For players who participated in previous years' tournaments, please look at the Changes section for a list of rule changes from last year.
This year's tournament will include Dungeon Sprint. We'll activate Dungeon Sprint with a new Sprint map on August 15, a little before midnight UTC, and Sprint games started after August 15 0000 UTC (midnight UTC) on crawl.akrasiac.org or crawl.develz.org will be scored for the tournament.
Participants in the tournament may form clans of six or fewer players. If you wish to be a member of a clan, you need to add a line to the top of your CAO rcfile like this:
# TEAMCAPTAIN nameofcaptain
This should be the very first line of your rcfile, with no blank lines or comments appearing before this line. The # is important to make sure Crawl doesn't try to parse the team data as an option.
The team captain must have the name of her team and the other team members in her .crawlrc, like this:
# TEAMNAME nameofteam # TEAMMEMBERS player1 player2 player3 player4 player5
Again, these lines should be the very first two lines in the team captain's rcfile, with no blank lines or anything else appearing before these lines.
Note: The team captain should not include a TEAMCAPTAIN line in her .crawlrc.
For emphasis: clan membership lines should be added to your crawl.akrasiac.org .crawlrc. Even if you're playing your games on crawl.develz.org, you must add clan membership information to your crawl.akrasiac.org .crawlrc.
Clan names must contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores, and hyphens. Once a player's username is in the captain's rc and the captain's username is in the player's rc and our script checks for updates, the players will be in the same clan.
Clans may be changed by adding or removing players at any time until UTC noon Aug 16, after which clans will be effectively frozen.
WINS
100 points for a player's first win. (Since winning is kind of the goal.)
50 points for a player's second win that is not a repeat race or class of the character from her first win.
10 points for each win of a player after her first win (unless this is the second win and earned 50 points from the rule above).
50 extra points for a player's first all-rune victory.
100 extra points for each consecutive win by a player that is not a repeat race or class of any of the wins in that particular streak of wins.
30 extra points for each consecutive win by a player that is a repeat race xor class of any of the wins in that particular streak of wins.
10 extra points for each consecutive win by a player that is a repeat race and class of any of the wins in that particular streak of wins.
30 extra points for each non-consecutive win by a player that is not a repeat race or class of any of her prior wins.
10 extra points for each non-consecutive win by a player that is a repeat race xor class of any of her prior wins.
20 extra points for each win by a player with a god (including "No God") that the player did not previously win a game in the tournament with. This does not apply if you changed gods during the game.
To be clear: for streak wins, "repeat" means "in that streak;" for non-streak wins, "repeat" means "ever."
For every game in a streak, the start time of the game must be later than the prior game's end time. This will always be the case if you play all your games on one server.
If you're playing on multiple servers simultaneously, note that you cannot start game A and game B concurrently on two servers and win both in succession to earn streak points.
SPECIAL WINS
200/100/50 points for fastest win in realtime.
200/100/50 points for fastest win by turncount.
200/100/50 points for first win scored.
200/100/50 points for first 15-rune victory.
200/100/50 points for the longest streak of winning games. Ties are broken by first to achieve the streak.
100 bonus points for the win with the last starting time (among tournament wins) in the tournament (THE HARE banner).
100 bonus points for winning Nemelex' Choice characters - a character class and race combination decided at random at the beginning of each week based on a random pass over the characters with the fewest wins from games played on CAO and CDO with Crawl version 0.4 and newer. You will get 100 points each for as many wins of different Nemelex' Choices that you manage during the tournament.
20 bonus points for winning games without visiting the Lair.
RUNES
50 points each time you find each type of rune for the first time.
1 point each time you find any rune a second or later time.
HIGH SCORES
200/100/50 points for highest single game score overall.
5 points per high score in a race/class combination (HuWn, not just Hu)
5 additional points for each high score that is a win.
10 points per high score in a race.
10 points per high score in a class.
200/100/50 points for most high scores in race/class combos.
EXTRAS
100 points for a player's first game where she destroys the Orb of Zot (ROYAL JELLY banner)
UNIQUES
5 points the first time you kill each unique.
50/20/10 points for most unique uniques killed; ties broken by who gets that number first.
CLAN POINTS ONLY
These get you clan points but do not get you points toward the individual prize, encouraging specialization on clans but making the hypothetical "Best Crawl Player" award based on more "real" metrics.
200/100/50 clan points for fewest creatures killed (including by summons, &c.) in a win.
200/100/50 clan points for deepest level reached in a Ziggurat. Completing a Ziggurat level (for instance exiting to the dungeon from Zig:20) is also noted and is better than merely reaching the level.
50/20/10 clan points for lowest XL at which a rune is picked up, not including the abyssal and slimy runes.
50/20/10 clan points for "Most Unique Deaths" trophy: Killed by the most unique uniques.
20 clan points for winning a character that was not previously won in the tournament
10 clan points for winning a Sprint character that was not previously won in the tournament.
2 clan points per player ghost killed when playing
N clan points per ghost kill after dying, where N is the dying character's XL minus 5.
200/100/50 clan points for clan with most high scores in race/class combos.
100/50/20 clan points for clan with most uniques killed (or all uniques killed first)
10 clan points for each distinct skill raised to level 27.
SPRINT
Dungeon Sprint is a new addition to this year's tournament. We'll be actvating a new Sprint map shortly before midnight August 15th (i.e. at Aug 15 0000 UTC). Sprint games started on or after Aug 15 0000 UTC on the new Sprint map will be scored for the tournament.
For emphasis: Sprint games will be scored only if played on the new Sprint map, and only if started after the Sprint start time (Aug 15 0000 UTC).
Sprint games will award points only for the rules described here. Banners and other special points do not apply to Sprint.
Sprint scoring is entirely separate from regular Crawl scoring. In particular, playing Sprint games will not interrupt your Crawl streaks and winning Sprint games will not deprive you of points for winning Crawl games repeating the same species/class.
200/100/50 points for first Sprint win of the tournament. NOTE: Only the first win of a player is considered for this.
50 points for a player's first Sprint win.
20 points for a player's second and subsequent Sprint wins that do not repeat a species or a class of any of her previous wins. No extra points for Sprint streaks.
10 clan points for a Sprint win with a character (species + class) that was not previously won during the tournament (i.e. not previously won by any other player in a Sprint game started after Aug 15 0000 UTC).
CLAN SCORING
Sum total of individual points for wins, runes, and uniques, sum total of special wins points, sum total of high scores points, plus "Clan points only" trophies above.
Six players or less per clan.
SPECIAL BANNERS
Okawaru is all about winning, all the time, and thus will award THE ORB to any player who successfully wins.
Trog, who hates spellcasters, would like to award THE SCYTHE to any player who kills Sigmund twenty-seven times over the course of the month.
Makhleb thinks players shouldn't need gods to get items, and encourages the player to SHOP UNTIL YOU DROP, ending a game in which she spent at least 5000 gold in shops with 50 gold or less.
XOM PREFERS A HERETIC and thinks it would be hilarious if a player managed to renounce and mollify every god over the course of the whole month.
Nemelex wants to see players struggle and loves randomness, and so will give the NEMELEX' CHOICE award to anyone who wins an unwon combo randomly chosen and announced periodically throughout the tournament.
Vehumet hates spellcasters who make a mockery of mighty magics, and so will give you the MOOSE AND SQUIRREL award for killing Boris twice in a single game.
Sif Muna thinks it's great when a winning spellcaster shows FREE WILL and maximizes the elemental spell skill opposite from her starting class as her first maxed skill: So, for example, a player who maxed out Ice Magic as a Fire Elementalist would get this award.
Zin thinks an education is crucial to maintaining a healthy mutation-free lifestyle, and so will award any player who achieves RUNIC LITERACY, collecting each rune at least once.
The Shining One thinks it's about time that the player DISCOVERED LANGUAGE by finding her first rune.
Elyvilon thinks it's important to check out what all the gods have to offer and thus will give THE PANTHEON to any player who has worshipped all the different gods in different games (god checked at end of game) over the course of the tournament.
Kikubaaqudgha disapproves of players taking the easy route through the Lair, and will recognise any player who wins without hanging out with the distressingly cute chordates of the Lair as a LORD OF DARKNESS. (+20 points for each game won without visiting the Lair.)
Yredelemnul thinks that only living players should dabble with the undead, and so will give the GHOSTBUSTER award to anyone who kills at least ten player ghosts during the month.
Beogh believes that teamwork is important, and so will give Orcish adulation to the TOP CLAN in the tournament.
Lugonu, who hates the other gods, would like to award THE ATHEIST to any winning player who never takes a god when she had the option to do so.
Fedhas is extraordinarily fond of fruit and vegetables, and will award THE FRUIT BASKET to a player who finds every kind of fruit (pear, apple, choko, apricot, orange, banana, strawberry, rambutan, lemon, grape, sultana, lychee) over the course of the tournament. Fruits count toward the Fruit Basket when picked up - merely finding the fruit on the ground or eating it off the ground does not count.
Cheibriados deplores unseemly haste, and will award THE HARE to the player who wins the game that was started last (among winning games) in the tournament (100 points for the winning game with the latest starting time).
Jiyva relishes item destruction in all its splendid forms, and will crown ROYAL JELLY a player who destroys the Orb of Zot by dropping it in lava. (100 points for a player's first game to earn this banner).
CHANGED RULES
Some rules have been changed from last year's tournament. This is a list of rules differences between 2009 and this year's tournament.
[REMOVED] flags rules that existed in 2009 and are gone in 2010
[NEW] flags rules that are new to 2010
[CHANGED] flags rules that have been modified in 2010. To compare changed rules with the rules for 2009, see the 2009 rules
General
100 bonus points for the win with the last starting time (among tournament wins) in the tournament (THE HARE banner). [NEW]
100 points for a player's first game to destroy the Orb of Zot (ROYAL JELLY banner). [NEW]
20 bonus points for winning games without visiting the Lair (LORD OF DARKNESS banner). [NEW]
20 clan points for winning a character that was not previously won in the tournament [NEW]
50/20/10 clan points for lowest dungeon level reached at XL1. [REMOVED]
50 points each time you find each type of rune for the first time (was 10 points last year). [CHANGED]
50/20/10 points for lowest XL at which a rune is picked up, not including the abyssal and slimy runes. Last year's tournament disallowed only the abyssal rune; this year we also disallow the slimy rune (Jiyva). [CHANGED]
Sprint
Sprint scoring is entirely new to the 2010 tournament. Sprint scoring will be activated on August 15, midnight UTC, and Sprint games will be scored through to the end of the tournament.
200/100/50 points for the first Sprint wins in the tournament. Sprint scoring starts on Aug 15 at 0000 UTC. Note: only the player's first Sprint win is considered for this, so winning three Sprint games before anybody else will earn 200 points, not 200+100+50.
50 points for a player's first Sprint win.
20 points for a player's second and subsequent Sprint wins that do not repeat a species or a class of any of her previous wins. No extra points for Sprint streaks.
10 clan points for a Sprint win with a character (species + class) that was not previously won during the tournament (i.e. not previously won by any other player in a Sprint game started after Aug 15 0000 UTC).
CREDITS
We'd like to thank:
Onia for the 2009 banner images.
due and purge for the new banners for 2010.