Sissukoni XI - The Best Finnish ASL Tournament

For the 11th time, Self-Rally Platoon organises the Finnish ASL tournament. This year we revisit the beautiful island of Kuivasaari in front of Helsinki. This location is a perfect ASL tournament site: a quiet and isolated area where no half-nude females, night clubs or other sins distract you from the holy game of ASL [EXC: Jesus, he can walk on the water and/or turn water to wine].

As usual, all the brave Finnish ASL players will be present. Some years, some daring foreigners have participated the tournament, too. Melvin Falk has never won this tournament. His best achievement so far has been Bronze in 2003. Lars Thuring did win one year (but that was like before 9/11).

* On the island, nobody hears you scream (when you roll boxcars) *
~ Tag Line
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When?

Friday August 14 - Sunday August 16, 2009. The programme starts at 1800 hrs on Friday and the last round ends at 1600 hrs on Sunday.

Friday

18:00 Transportation from Katajanokka to Kuivasaari

19:00-20:00 Tour on Kuivasaari fort

20:00-> Round 1

Saturday

08:00-13:00 Round 2

13:00-17:30 Round 3

17:30-18:00 Self-rally Platoon Ry Annual Meeting

18:30-> Round 4

Sunday

08:00-16:00 Round 5

16:00 prize ceremonies

Where?

Kuivasaari of Helsinki. As the location is an island surrounded by a water obstacle, we have transportation arranged from Katajanokka, downtown Helsinki.

The location is military area. In case you are a foreigner (you don't hold a Finnish passport), we kindly ask you to provide to provide our tournament master your name, nationality and passport number.

Scenarios?

The tournament scenario for each round are:

Round 1: Hakkaa Päälle (Friday 20:00)

* HP12 Stopped Cold
* HP25 Grafström Raid
* HP28 Torment at Tormua

Round 2: Axis Minors (Saturday 08:00)

* SP137 The Bozoki relay
* RPT2 Kerepesi Cemetery
* RPT9 Shelling the Shivash

Round 3: Japanese (Saturday 13:00)

* Buck4 Flamin' Frank
* SP144 One More Day of Freedom
* SP153 The Wrong Side of Victory

Round 4: Italians (Saturday 18:30)

* DB015 Smashing the semoventi
* AP27 All Rods Lead to Rome
* FrF14 Patton Breaks loose

Round 5: Waffen SS (Sunday 08:00)

* DB067 Let's Dance
* WP5 The last assault
* WCW7 Eye of the Tiger

How to Participate?

Drop a line to the tournament master to pre-register.

The tournament fee is 5 EUR for the 2009 supporters of Self-Rally Platoon Ry, and 10 EUR for others. The fee covers the participation in the tournament and breakfast on Saturnday and Sunday mornings. Finns pay the fee directly to our bank account - write "Sissukoni 2009" in the message; if you are a God-damn foreigner, you may pay cash on arrival.

The accommodation is what ever you like: a sleeping bag, or a blanket does just fine. Mind that there are no shops / restaurants / wild animals on the island. Therefore, you will need to pack something to eat for the whole tournament. However, contact our tournament master to check for the availability of shared meals

More information?

Drop a line to Mikko Lukkari, the tournament master: SissukoniXI at lukkari dot org

Tournament Rules

This tournament has five rounds: one on Friday, three on Saturday and one on Sunday. Each round has three scenarios. The scenarios used on each round will be made public on 31st of July 2009, at which point all registered attendees will be mailed an info package containing the scenarios.

Players are paired based on the Finnish ASL ELO ranking as per morning 8.00 of August 14, 2009, and you generally play with someone else in the tournament with same amount of wins as you have. If you do not have a Finnish ASL ELO ranking, do not worry, we will take care of you anyway.

Scenarios and sides are decided so that each player chooses one scenario he doesn't want to play and gives one of the remaining two an advantage. There are three possible outcomes:

* Players eliminate different scenarios, then you will play the remaining scenario
* Players eliminate same scenario, but they give advantage to different scenarios. Players then dice to decide which one is played
* Players favor the same scenario, so the favored scenario is played.

After the scenario has been chosen, players dice for sides.

Players should agree if they use IIFT or IFT before they select the scenario.

We hope that you observe the time limits for each round while playing. If players do not finish the scenario on time, the organizers will have to decide who the winner is after evaluating each player's positions. We do not like judging scenarios, but we will do it if to keep rounds exceeding the allowed time. This is very important and is strictly enforced on rounds 2 and 3

All players should use some kind of dice rolling equipment (a glass, cup or a tower) instead of free hand rolling. Absolutely no commentary on other scenarios being played is allowed.

The tournament results are defined by score. The players scores one point per each win. If the score is tie we follow the following tie-breakers:

1. Buchholz rating: the scores of the player's opponents (higher opponent score wins lower opponent score).

2. Head-to-head play: If two players' Buchholtz comparison was even and players played against each other in the tournament, the winner is higher ranked.

3. Lottery: If two players' Buchholtz comparison was even and players did played against each other in the tournament, the winner is the one rolling lower in a single DR.