ICC Help: BCC

Bullet Champion Challenge.

Every Thursday at 4pm server time, play in the BCC! The tournament consists of a 9-round swiss with a time control of 1 0, with the winner advancing to a championship series against the previous week's champion. Win the series and become the new champion!

The tournament is free to enter and open to all ratings. To join the tournament, type "tell Flash join". Log on to ICC at least 10 minutes beforehand to ensure your spot in the tournament before it starts.

Immediately after the qualifier tournament, the winner challenges the previous week's champion in a series of 1 0 playoff games. The champion will start round one as white. Whoever reaches 4.0 points first wins the challenge and becomes the week's champion. In the unlikely event where both players reach 4.0 at the same time, the previous week's champion retains his title. The manager might need to run an extra round where no games are played but a 1 point bye is given to the champion and 0 point bye to the challenger when tiebreaks give the win to challenger. The challenge will take place in the Flash bot with colors alternating every round.

If the current champion does not show up for challenge series, first and second place from the qualifier play each other in the challenge series. First place gets white in round 1 and wins the series on a 4.0 tie. This scenario also applies to the first series of the year when there is no current champion.

If, for some reason, the challenger cannot play the series, then the third place finisher will participate (or fourth if third place cannot play, etc.)

If the current champion plays and wins the qualifier tourney, the runner up plays the challenge series.

PRIZES:

Every week, the winner of the challenge series wins 7 days of free membership! In addition, the following bonuses will be awarded at the end of the year (the series runs from October 2010 till December 2011) for the players who were champion the most often:

1st: 2 months 2nd-3rd: 1 month 4th-6th: 2 weeks

IM/GM accounts can donate the prize to a friend.

For overall standings, see finger BCC.

Miscellaneous: All policies in help agreement apply: computer assistance, human assistance and account sharing are STRICTLY forbidden and will lead to disqualification in the series, as well as further sanctions laid out by ICC's Agreement and Policy rules.

Note that due to the weekly prize structure, free trials are ineligible to play in the playoff series.

For questions regarding this scheduled, please send a message to BCC.

See also: Tomato, tournaments