Preliminary Rounds
We will prefer five-player games, with four players where necessary
The following boards will be used (subject to availability), with the
original power plant deck except where noted:
Heat 1 - USA or France or China
Heat 2 - Germany (Deck 2) or Benelux or Korea
Heat 3 - USA (Deck 2) or Italy or Central Europe
Boards using Deck 2 will play Variant 1 of the new deck.
Remove plants 52, 54, 57, and 60.
A player who provides the EnBW edition of the game may request to play
on the Baden-Wurttemberg board in any of the preliminary rounds.
The top five players will advance to the final, to be played on the
Korea map. If a semi-final is required, it will use Germany.
Rule Change
Do not collect income the final round of the game.
Errata
Plant 29 (in the original deck) powers 4 cities.
Clarifications
Randomly determine the initial player order. Then each player (in
order) selects one region to be in play. You may select any region with
the caveat that all regions must be contiguous when the last player has
selected.
In a four-player game, randomly remove 4 plants (face down) from the
deck before putting plant 13 (or 11) on top.
When the Step 3 card is revealed, immediately shuffle the remainder of
the deck, except when playing China.
The FAQs available here shall be in effect:
http://www.2f-spiele.de/spiele/faq/faq_frames_eng.htm
Money is hidden.
Tiebreakers:
In each game, players are ranked by the number of cities supplied with
power. Tie breakers are: first most money; then most cities; then
highest-numbered power plant.
For the purpose of ranking players in the tournament according to
"closest percentage to first", your official score in a game shall be:
number of cities powered times 1000, plus remaining money (up to a
maximum of $999).
Map Errata:
- When playing the Benelux map, during Stages 1 & 2, the discard and replacement of the lowest power plant at the same time as the highest power plant is placed at the bottom of the deck: both plants will be removed, and then two replacements will be drawn from the deck.
- When playing the Benelux map, the purple area (Luxembourg) is considered to be part of the dark blue area, and so there are only 5 areas on this map.
Time Limit Adjudication
Any game that is not finished 15 minutes prior to the end of the time
slot is subject to adjudication by the GM.