2024 Istari Challenge - Hero Tournament
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:30 pm
Dear all,
After the successful testing of the new Middle-Earth (https://play.meccg.com) platform in the past months, the Organised Play committee of the Council of Elrond (CoE) have the pleasure to run the first CoE-sponsored tournament on such a platform.
This event will be a standard Swiss system format tournament following standard Council of Lorien rules (https://meccg.com/rules/tournament-policy/), but will be restricted only to the Hero alignment in order to facilitate the participation also of new or returning players. Standard CoE rulings also apply (see https://meccg.com/rules for rulings digest and collected ruling file).
- Format: The tournament will consist of 5 rounds of standard 2-deck games, with each round lasting two weeks. A schedule for the overall event is provided below.
- Deck Construction: Standard 12 hazard creature limit and 30 card sideboard size will apply. Deck integrity will be enforced automatically by the platform once you use your deck on round 1.
- Round and Game duration: Round will last two weeks, during which players will have to agree on a time to play their games. Players are free to play as long as they need to, but if time is of essence a minimum time limit of 3h should be used.
- Communications: All communication during the tournaments with and between players (pairing, reminders, clarifications etc) will take place both on discord and whatsapp, using dedicated threads and groups.
- Registration: Players will be able to register directly on the https://play.meccg.com platform, and in the process will have to provide either their discord nickname or their telephone number (or both). The link for registering is
https://play.meccg.com/tournaments/2024 ... -challenge
- Deck Choice and Locking: Once registered, players will need to select any of their decks on the play.meccg.com platform for this tournament, doing so before the registration deadline. You can update your deck any time before this deadline, but after that chosen decks will be locked for the rest of the tournament.
- Tutorials: The CoE Organised Play committee will offer tutorials for playing on play.meccg.com. Just contact the tournament organiser at sarma72@gmail.com or on discord.
= Schedule
04 March - 01 April : Registration and Deck selection (directly on https://play.meccg.com)
02 April - 14 April : Round 1
15 April - 28 April : Round 2
29 April - 12 May : Round 3
13 May - 26 May : Round 4
27 May - 9 June: Round 5
After the successful testing of the new Middle-Earth (https://play.meccg.com) platform in the past months, the Organised Play committee of the Council of Elrond (CoE) have the pleasure to run the first CoE-sponsored tournament on such a platform.
This event will be a standard Swiss system format tournament following standard Council of Lorien rules (https://meccg.com/rules/tournament-policy/), but will be restricted only to the Hero alignment in order to facilitate the participation also of new or returning players. Standard CoE rulings also apply (see https://meccg.com/rules for rulings digest and collected ruling file).
- Format: The tournament will consist of 5 rounds of standard 2-deck games, with each round lasting two weeks. A schedule for the overall event is provided below.
- Deck Construction: Standard 12 hazard creature limit and 30 card sideboard size will apply. Deck integrity will be enforced automatically by the platform once you use your deck on round 1.
- Round and Game duration: Round will last two weeks, during which players will have to agree on a time to play their games. Players are free to play as long as they need to, but if time is of essence a minimum time limit of 3h should be used.
- Communications: All communication during the tournaments with and between players (pairing, reminders, clarifications etc) will take place both on discord and whatsapp, using dedicated threads and groups.
- Registration: Players will be able to register directly on the https://play.meccg.com platform, and in the process will have to provide either their discord nickname or their telephone number (or both). The link for registering is
https://play.meccg.com/tournaments/2024 ... -challenge
- Deck Choice and Locking: Once registered, players will need to select any of their decks on the play.meccg.com platform for this tournament, doing so before the registration deadline. You can update your deck any time before this deadline, but after that chosen decks will be locked for the rest of the tournament.
- Tutorials: The CoE Organised Play committee will offer tutorials for playing on play.meccg.com. Just contact the tournament organiser at sarma72@gmail.com or on discord.
= Schedule
04 March - 01 April : Registration and Deck selection (directly on https://play.meccg.com)
02 April - 14 April : Round 1
15 April - 28 April : Round 2
29 April - 12 May : Round 3
13 May - 26 May : Round 4
27 May - 9 June: Round 5