Welcome to Game Day 1 of the Startup Plus League!

Anyone and everyone is welcome to sign up, as long as you can participate in both the Swiss rounds (4) and the Top Cut games (double elimination - if that happens).

The deck registration form is here

(A reminder that "local time" for this event = this)

Technical requirements

• a stable internet connection
• access to jinteki.net
• access to Discord - discordapp.com (voice communications optional but encouraged) - the tournament channel is here

Event structure:

1. Player meeting on Discord (around 15 minutes before start of Round 1)
2. 4 (four) Swiss rounds of 60 minutes maximum each. Breaks of 5-10 minutes between each round, as required, at TO's discrection.

Deckbuilding rules

Startup Plus 1.0 uses the first Startup card pool (System Gateway, System Update 2021, Ashes: Downfall, Ashes: Uprising).

The card pool follows the NISEI Startup format guidelines with the following modifications:

• Each deck can contain a non-Startup & Standard-legal ID (both for Corp and Runner) and a single playset of a non-Startup & Standard-legal card (both for Corp and Runner).
• In other words, you can build a regular Startup-legal deck that can include a full playset of a Standard-legal card as well as use any Standard-legal ID with it. That's two Standard-legal cards in your otherwise Startup-legal deck. And you can do that for both Corp and Runner - so it's up to two Standard-legal IDs as well as up to two full playsets of two different cards across your Corp/Runner deck combo.
• The deck lists for this event will not be public. Players will be encouraged to share their decks and strategies afterwards.

Season structure

The season will consist of eight (8) Game Days, announced on alwaysberunning.net.

• Players are allowed to change their decks and IDs from one Game Day to another.
• Each participant will have their Final Score calculated from their five (5) best Game Days. If a participant plays in fewer than five (5) Game Days, their Final Score will be calculated from all of their Game Days.

Streaming

There will be streaming happening, mainly via Twitch. All explicit requests to be streamed will be considered.

If you are not OK with being on the stream with your game(s), please put "DNS" at the end of your table name on jinteki.net during the tournament (but do allow spectators, for TO calls!). All requests to not be streamed will be honoured. You can absolutely change your mind about being on/off stream in between rounds - just don't forget to use the "DNS" code, it will make my life much easier, thanks!

If you want to co-stream the event, please coordinate with the TO to avoid crossing the streams (they say it's dangerous). Also, consider getting a free listing in the community directory.

Good luck & may it be fun!