$5 PRIZE TOURNAMENT

A.  ELIGIBILITY

1. Participation in this event is limited to registered members of ICC with paid or free human accounts that are in good standing.  Trial accounts, computer accounts, and app accounts are not eligible to participate.
2. Participation in this event requires the use of the most recent version of BlitzIn, Dasher, or ICC for Mac.  No other interfaces are allowed in this event.
3. Participation in this event requires that the real names of the participants be made publicly available.  This is necessary both for awarding prizes and for maintaining the integrity of the event.  Registering to play in this event authorizes ICC to publish your real name and any likeness you have provided, in information and/or publicity regarding this event.  Accounts without the real name of the account holder are ineligible to participate and will be disqualified.
4. Accounts and players that have a history of disruptive activity in past ICC tournaments, or of rating abuse at any time, may be excluded at the discretion of the tournament manager.
5. Participants in this event must, prior to playing, log onto their ICC Store account, using their ICC username and password at https://store.chessclub.com/paid-tournament to purchase entry into the event.  The entry fee is 5 United States dollars ($5) or 150 ICC Store credits.

B.  RULES OF PLAY

1. The tournament will be 7 rounds.
2. No bye points will be awarded for rounds not played due to latejoining.  
3. The time control for each game will be 3 0 (three minutes for each player for the entire game)
4. The Swiss pairing system will be used for this tournament.
5. Players are prohibited from giving takebacks or moretime during the tournament.
6. Players are expected to use the same computer for all games played in the tournament.
7. All participants are expected to be familiar with the rules of chess used on the ICC server.  In particular, participants should be aware of the ICC rules for draws and how to claim a draw if such a claim is necessary to invoke a particular draw rule.  To that end, each participant is encouraged to review the rules at  https://www.chessclub.com/user/help/draw
8. The tournament manager may, at his or her discretion, refuse to allow a player to enter the tournament or eject a player from the tournament, for any reason, including, but not limited to: connection problems, excessive lag, failure to start tournament games promptly, failure to resume tournament games promptly, disruptive behavior in the tournament channel, suspicion that the player is receiving outside assistance, suspicion that the player is using computer assistance, or discovery that the account or player has a previous history of violating ICC rules. The manager is not obligated to disclose the reason for his or her decision, and his or her decision is final. There is no process for appeal.

In the event a player is ejected from the tournament by the manager, the manager may, at his or her discretion, rule the game in the running round in which the player was ejected, as lost for the ejected player and won for their opponent.  However results for any previous rounds will stand.

C.  PRIZES

Prizes will be paid in ICC Store credit issued to the prize winners accounts within five business days of completion of the tournament. Members who accumulate 1500 or more store credits will have the option of redeeming them for cash.  1500 credits is equal to 50 U.S. dollars.  To redeem your points for cash after reaching 1500 or more store credits, send an email to BrianSP@chessclub.com.

•  To be eligible for ‘under’ prizes, a player must start the tournament with a blitz rating based on 50 or more games and the account must have first been used at least 60 days prior to the start of the tournament. The player must not have had a Blitz rating more than 200 points above the ‘under’ rating in the past 3 years, based on the rating graph, and must at no point have had a rating more than 300 points above the ‘under’ limit on the account being used, or on any other account the player has used, to be eligible. In the event a player has had a rating reset, the player’s rating, both before and after the reset, may be considered to determine prize eligibility. An account may be disqualified from eligibility for the ‘under’ prizes if there is a history of rating manipulation or rating abuse on the account or any past account used by the same player. ICC reserves the right to assign a floor on the rating of any account, or to place a limit on the number ‘under’ prizes any account or player may win over an interval of time, for the purposes of this and other prize tournaments.
   
• No player may win more than one prize in the tournament. In the event a player is eligible for more than one prize, the player will be awarded the prize that results in the player getting the most store credit for which they are eligible.  In the event of a tie that results in players splitting combined prizes, only one prize per player may be combined for splitting, and ‘under’ prizes can be pooled with place prizes if the result increases the amount of store credit earned by the ‘under’ prize recipient.
   
• Random consolation prizes will be awarded based on random numbers generated for players at the end of the tournament, as part of the tiebreaking system The numbers will be treated as if they start with a decimal point, and the highest five numbers, for players who won no other prize, will determine the consolation prize winners. This means that 84395 is considered a higher number than 462771 for the purpose of determining the consolation prize winners. The five ‘Random consolation prizes’ will be awarded in the amount of 1.5% of the entry fee pool each. Players who win ‘place’ or ‘under’ prizes, or any fraction of a ‘place’ or ‘under’ prize, will not be eligible to win a ‘Random consolation’ prize.
   
• This type of event is a new ICC feature. For this reason, ICC reserves the right to modify these rules, in the future, for the sake of fairness to either ICC or its members.
  
  
  This type of event is a new ICC feature.  For this reason, ICC reserves the right to modify these rules, in the future, for the sake of fairness to either ICC or its members.