Hello all! Welcome to the rules for the crawl.akrasiac.org 2011 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Tournament. The simple part: Play on crawl.akrasiac.org or crawl.develz.org and all of your Crawl 0.9 games that start after midnight UTC on August 13 and end before midnight UTC on August 29 will count toward the tournament.
Important note to those playing on CDO: Webtiles is now updated to 0.9 and you can play tourney games on CDO in either console or webtiles! Many apologies for the delay.
For players who participated in previous tournaments, please look at the Changes section for a list of rule changes.
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 0.9 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 CAO 0.9 rcfile, 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 rcfile.
For emphasis: clan membership lines should be added to your crawl.akrasiac.org 0.9 rcfile. Even if you're playing your games on crawl.develz.org, you must add clan membership information to your crawl.akrasiac.org 0.9 rcfile.
Clan names must contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores, and hyphens. Once a player's username is in the captain's rcfile and the captain's username is in the player's rcfile 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 midnight UTC on Aug 21, 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).
25 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. For purposes of these points we say that a player wins with a god if she reaches full (******) piety with that god before reaching full piety with any other god. For Xom, you must play a Chaos Knight and never abandon Xom.
50 extra points for each consecutive (streak) win by a player with a race that has not previously been a streak win for that player.
25 extra points for each consecutive (streak) win by a player with a class that has not previously been a streak win for that player.
For every game in a streak, the start time of the game must be later than the previous 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.
RACE AND CLASS WINS
2*(48+T)/(2+R) points (rounded up) for a win with a given race if T is the total number of games won in the tournament before the start of the win in question and R of those T were with the given race. If a player wins the same race multiple times, she only gets the largest value of this bonus among the wins, not the sum. For example, if there have been 10 games won prior to the start of the win in question and 2 of them were with the same race, then the win will be worth 2*(48+10)/(2+2) = 29 additional points.
(54+T)/(2+C) points (rounded up) for a win with a given class if T is the total number of games won in the tournament before the start of the win in question and C of those T were with the given class. If a player wins the same class multiple times, she only gets the largest value of this bonus, not the sum.
For clan scoring, if a clan has multiple wins for the same race or class, only the largest value of the bonus among the wins is used, not the sum.
The current values of the bonus for each race and class will be listed on the "Species/Classes" page for your convenience.
SPECIAL WINS
5,000,000/turncount points for each player's fastest win (by turncount).
1,250,000/duration points for each player's fastest win (by realtime, measured in seconds).
200-100-50 points for first win scored.
200-100-50 points for first 15-rune victory.
200-100-50 points for longest streak of winning games, where "length" of a streak is defined as min(number of distinct races used, number of distinct classes used). Ties are broken by the first to achieve the streak.
100 bonus points for the win with the last starting time (among tournament wins) in the tournament.
40 bonus points for a win without visiting Temple, Lair, Orc, Hive, or the Vaults (LORD OF DARKNESS banner).
75 bonus points for winning NEMELEX' CHOICE characters. The first Nemelex' Choice combo is chosen at the start of the tournament, and after that each one is chosen when the previous one is won for the first time. Each combo remains valid until it has been won five times. The race/class combinations are chosen by Nemelex from those with the fewest wins in Crawl version 0.6 and newer, with no race or class repeated.
RUNES
30/N points (rounded up) each time you find a type of rune for the Nth time. (So the first silver rune you find is worth 30 points, the second silver rune is worth 15 points, the third silver rune is worth 10 points, and so on.)
HIGH SCORES
score/120,000 points for each player's highest scoring winning game.
5 points per high score in a race/class combination (HuWn, not just Hu).
5 additional points for each high score in a race/class combination that is attained by a win.
20 points per high score in a race.
10 points per high score in a class.
UNIQUES
5 points the first time you kill each unique.
50-20-10 points for the players with the 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 within clans but making the hypothetical "Best Crawl Player" award based on more "real" metrics.
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. Ties are broken by who reaches/exits the Ziggurat level first.
50-20-10 clan points for lowest XL at which a rune is picked up, not including the abyssal and slimy runes. Ties are broken by who picked up the rune first.
50-20-10 clan points for the "Most Unique Deaths" trophy: Killed by the most unique uniques. Ties are broken by who reaches that number first.
20 clan points for winning a character that was not previously won in the tournament.
2 clan points per player ghost killed while 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 the players with the most high scores in race/class combinations.
200-100-50 clan points for the clans with the most high scores in race/class combos.
100-50-20 clan points for the clans with the most unique uniques killed; ties broken by who gets that number first.
CLAN SCORING
Sum total of all individual points with the exception of "Race and class wins" points (which are computed on the level of clans as described in that section), plus the "Clan points only" trophies above.
Six players or fewer per clan.
BANNERS
Ashenzari thinks that runes are really interesting and wants players to achieve RUNIC LITERACY, finding each rune sometime during the tournament.
Beogh thinks that the only thing more important than having friends is dominating your friends, and will recognize as a SAINT the player with the highest tournament score (100 points minimum) on each clan.
Cheibriados believes in being SLOW AND STEADY and will so recognize players who are careful enough to win two games in a row.
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 becomes the Champion (******) of every god (other than Xom) over the course of the tournament.
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, snozzcumber) 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.
Jiyva thinks that it is important to be flexible and will gift players who reach experience level 9 with at least 9 distinct races and at least 9 distinct classes with a GELATINOUS BODY.
Kikubaaqudgha wants players to demonstrate their mastery over the forces of darkness without delay, and will recognise any player who wins without wasting time entering any branch as a LORD OF DARKNESS. (+40 points for each game won without entering Temple, Lair, Orc, Hive, or the Vaults.)
Lugonu, who hates the other gods, would like to award THE ATHEIST to any winning player who never worshipped a god even though having the option of doing so (not a demigod).
Makhleb wants to see bloodshed as quickly as possible and will recognise any player who reaches D:27 in no more than 27 minutes as a true SPEED DEMON.
Nemelex Xobeh wants to see players struggle and loves randomness, and so will give the NEMELEX' CHOICE award to the first five players to win each of several combos randomly chosen and announced throughout the tournament.
Okawaru is all about winning, all the time, and thus will award THE ORB to any player who successfully wins.
Sif Muna thinks that a broad base of knowledge is important and will award THE SCHOLAR to any player who raises every magic skill to 15 over the course of the tournament.
The Shining One thinks it's about time that the player DISCOVERED LANGUAGE by finding her first rune.
Trog, who hates spellcasters, would like to award THE SCYTHE to any player who kills Sigmund in the Temple before reaching experience level 10.
Vehumet wants you to LET IT END IN HELLFIRE and thus encourages you to enter one of Swamp, Snake, Shoals, Slime, Vaults, and Tomb for the first time and get the rune there... all after having picked up the Orb of Zot.
Xom is always looking for entertainment and thinks it would be hilarious to watch a player's DESCENT INTO MADNESS through 27 ziggurat levels (possibly over multiple games and multiple ziggurats).
Yredelemnul demands that clans attempt to kill every unique and will recognise success by awarding THE HARVEST to each member of such a clan.
Zin will give the ANGEL OF JUSTICE award to any player who cleanses Hell and Pandemonium by killing all the demon lords who reside there (Antaeus, Asmodeus, Cerebov, Dispater, Ereshkigal, Gloorx Vloq, Lom Lobon, and Mnoleg) over the course of the tournament.
CHANGED RULES
Some rules have been changed from the 2010 tournament. This is a list of rules differences. Changes that were already adopted in the unofficial 0.8 tournament in May 2011 are listed here as well.
[REMOVED] flags rules that existed in 2010 and are gone in this tournament.
[NEW] flags rules that are new to this tournament
[CHANGED] flags rules that have been modified for this tournament. To compare changed rules with the rules for 2010, see the 2010 rules
2*(48+T)/(2+R) points (rounded up) for a win with a given race if T is the total number of games won in the tournament before the start of the win in question and R of those T were with the given race. If a player wins the same race multiple times, she only gets the largest value of this bonus among the wins, not the sum (and the same for clans). [NEW]
(54+T)/(2+C) points (rounded up) for a win with a given class if T is the total number of games won in the tournament before the start of the win in question and C of those T were with the given class. If a player wins the same class multiple times, she only gets the largest value of this bonus, not the sum (and the same for clans). [NEW]
5,000,000/turncount points for each player's fastest win (by turncount). (Previously 200-100-50 points for the fastest three games.) [CHANGED]
1,250,000/duration points for each player's fastest win (by realtime, measured in seconds). (Previously 200-100-50 points for the fastest three games.) [CHANGED]
score/120,000 points for each player's highest scoring winning game. (Previously 200-100-50 points for the highest scoring three games.) [CHANGED]
50 extra points for each consecutive (streak) win by a player with a race that has not previously been a streak win for that player. (Previously streak points were computed differently.) [CHANGED]
25 extra points for each consecutive (streak) win by a player with a class that has not previously been a streak win for that player. (Previously streak points were computed differently.) [CHANGED]
200-100-50 points for longest streak of winning games, where "length" of a streak is defined as min(number of distinct races used, number of distinct classes used). (Previously diversity of the streak did not matter here.) [CHANGED]
25 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. For purposes of these points we say that a player wins with a god if she reaches full (******) piety with that god before reaching full piety with any other god. For Xom, you must never have worshipped another god. (Was 20 points, full piety was not required, changing gods was not allowed.) [CHANGED]
30/N points (rounded up) each time you find a type of rune for the Nth time. (Was 50 points for the first time and 1 point each time after the first.) [CHANGED]
20 points per high score in a race. (Was 10 points.) [CHANGED]
200-100-50 clan points for the players with the most high scores in race/class combinations. (Was individual points previously.) [CHANGED]
40 bonus points for a win without visiting Temple, Lair, Orc, Hive, or the Vaults (LORD OF DARKNESS banner). (Was 20 bonus points and just not visiting Lair.) [CHANGED]
75 bonus points for winning NEMELEX' CHOICE characters. The first Nemelex' Choice combo is chosen at the start of the tournament, and after that each one is chosen when the previous one is won for the first time. Each combo remains valid until it has been won five times. The race/class combinations are chosen by Nemelex from those with the fewest wins in Crawl version 0.6 and newer, with no race or class repeated. [CHANGED]
Many other banners were altered or replaced by new ones. [CHANGED]
50 extra points for a player's first all-rune victory. [REMOVED]
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. [REMOVED]
10 extra points for each non-consecutive win by a player that is a repeat race xor class of any of her prior wins. [REMOVED]
100 points for a player's first game where she destroys the Orb of Zot. [REMOVED]
200-100-50 clan points for fewest creatures killed (including by summons, &c.) in a win. [REMOVED]
10 clan points for each distinct skill raised to level 27. [REMOVED]
All points for Sprint games. [REMOVED]
CREDITS
We'd like to thank:
greensnark for writing the original tournament scripts that have been adapted for use in this tournament.
Wensley for the new banner images.
Onia, due, and purge for the old banner images.