Tournament rules (updated: 2009-10-31)

1/ This tournament is open for european national teams.
Only the single best ranked team per country is invited.
Invited teams must at least have 5 members.

2/ All teams are divided into 5 divisions á max 10 teams based on their EuroRanking as of 2009-05-03. The best ranked teams goes to the highest division, the lower ranked to the lower divisions.

 
3/ A special match schema is applied for this (see below).

The matches in each division are divided into three rounds.

Matches in Round 1 starting in May 2009.

Matches in Round 2 starting in September and October 2009.
Matches in Round 3 starting in November and December 2009.

4/ In all matches: 2 simultaneous games, time control 3 days/move, no rating limitations, unlimited number of players. More detailed instructions about how to create and accept and reporting challenges will be announced before new rounds starts.

5/ Each team will get as many points as their share in % of the scores in the match. Unfinished individual games in the matches will be counted as tied. The match winner will besides this also get 20 points extra for it's victory, or 10 points extra when tied.

6/ Teams that don't send or accept challenges on time or that don't follow the rules above will get no score in such matches. Their opponent - if they report and remark about this - will be given 70 points

7/ The current results and standings as of 12th of February 2010, will be counted as the final results and standings for European League 2009.

8/ The two winners of Division 2-5 are guaranteed places in higher divisions next time. The two winners of Division 1 are guaranteed to stay in Division 1 next time. The other teams will be divided into divisions according to their current EuroRanking at that time.

9/ The winners of the divisions are the European League winners!

Some changes has been added to the rules today (2009-10-31):

5) "Unfinished individual games in the matches will be counted as tied."  and "The match winner....., or 10 points extra when tied."  Comment: Just some clarifications. This have already been applied in practise when calculating the current scores and current standings.

"7/ The current results and standings as of 13th of February 2010, will be counted as the final result and standings for European League 2009. ". Comment: A new change. No deadline was stated before. We need to break this tournament to preliminary be able starting up European League 2010 by the end of February.

Both these changes are related to make it possible to always calculate the current scores and standings and to break this tournament at very deadline even if all individual games in the matches not are ready at that moment.