WBC Online Advanced Civilization Tournament

Latest Update: February 26th, 2021

Welcome to the home page of the WBC Online Advanced Civilization Tournament. The event will be hosted at http://civ.rol-play.com. This is a free site; however, registration is required. This is a direct link to the Advanced Civilization portion of the website. From this page, you can see your games, sign up for new games, and become part of the player queue.

Sign up for the 2022 tournament!

Name:	BPA register name as it will appear here.
BPA Email:
BPA Badge#:
(rol) site username/login:
If you do not get an email after submitting, please email this information directly to bpa-civ@natemac.com.

Tournament Games

(must be logged in to view)

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017

Signups

To join this tournament, you must currently be a member of the Board Game Players Association. More information can be obtained at http://www.boardgamers.org/joinindex.html

If you would like to join, please complete the form on the right hand side of this page prior to January 31st, 2021 . Be sure to include your full name, as well as user name on the site.

Tournament Structure

• Each player will be assigned to two first round games that will run concurrently. These games will be assigned randomly. Every effort will be made to make sure that you play with different players in each of these two games.
• As long as there are eight games or less total in the first round, it will be “win and you're in”. If there are more than eight games in the first round, the scores from the second game will be used to determine advancement.
  • Each player will have their score converted to a percentage of the winning players score in that game. The eight players who win a game and have the highest percentage from their second game will advance.
• Finalists will NOT be seeded this year based on the scores of games. Instead, they will be seeded as god intended: randomly.

Time Frame

Each game takes approximately four to six months to complete if everybody works to keep the games moving. Ideally, we will complete the tournament by the end of 2021. The reality is that we will probably complete the final in the spring of 2022.

Round 1: Game assignments will be done by February 7th 2021. This set of games should be completed by October 31st. Games are subject to adjudication by the GM team at any time after that date.

Final: This will begin approximately one week after the last first round game is completed.

Game Options

The rol-play website allows multiple options for playing games. The options in use for all games of this tournament are:

• 36 hour per player turn limit
• Show number of cards in each deck will be enabled
• Show position of non-tradable calamities will be disabled
• Bottom-Three shuffling of non-tradable calamities will be enabled (this is the same rule that we use at WBC)

Important Notes

• Please check the website daily. The computer system is designed to email you whenever it is your turn, but it is imperative that you log into the site to check game progress. If you are going to be away, there is a ‘game pause’ feature that can be used. Please email your GM at bpa-civ@natemac.com if you need to do this. Fair warning, however, if you do not pause a game and miss a 36 hour deadline, the system will take your action for you—or, depending on the phase, may do nothing. This is built into the website and cannot be turned off, so please pay close attention to your deadlines. Overall, if you check the site once per day, you should have no problems with the deadlines.
• The site allows players to set their times of day available to play. This has to be set to allow players to be available 24 hours per day. Otherwise, deadlines get artificially extended and this will cause unnecessary delays.
• Nothing is worse in a multi-player game than a dropout. All players who sign up will be expected to play both first round games to completion. In the unlikely event that you need to leave a game, please email the GM as early as possible.
• Any replacements added prior to the end of round six will be eligible for advancement to the final. While the help of replacement players is greatly appreciated, once round seven begins, their scores will not count towards advancement.
• Players who chronically miss turn deadlines will be subject to replacement at the discretion of the GM team.

Trades

One of the most common questions regarding online ACV is how trading works. There is a ‘trade market’ where each player can list cards they have and what they are looking for. Players will then negotiate by email. When they reach an agreement, they go onto the site and move the cards into the drop-down trade box. As soon as both players have put their cards into the trade box, the system emails them to give the results of the trade. A separate mail is sent to all other players stating that a trade was made, and what cards they say that they traded.

Special note: Once players are finished trading, they generally click "done"and take themselves out of the market. In real life, this would be like putting your hand down and walking away from the table. Once there is only one player left in the trade market, trading can end at any time (even prior to the scheduled close time) without notice.

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The GMs for this tournament:

• GM - Nathan Barhorst
• Assistant GM - Steve Cameron
• Assistant GM - Jennifer Visocnik

Useful Links

The home of online Advanced Civilization http://civ.rol-play.com/

Boardgame Players Association http://www.boardgamers.org

Advanced Civ at the geek http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/177/advanced-civilization

Advanced Civilization Rules http://civ.rol-play.com/services/help/?module=ahciv

Advanced Civilization Rules (Printable PDF) http://static.rol-play.com/ahciv/files/advcivrules.pdf