Announcing the Australian and New Zealand Asynchronous Competition

The Australia and New Zealand Asynchronous Competition is an online tournament that will begin on May 1st, wherein Kiwi and Aussie Netrunners will battle it out on Jinteki.net for the top spot. Terrific prizes are up for grabs, with all participants (irrespective of placing) snagging a set of beautiful custom art Runner identities, courtesy of the remarkably talented Taylor Ruddle.

The rules:

• Every week you will get paired with one other player, it is up to you to organise both games in that week with that player. There will be 5-7 weeks of this (depending on tournament turnout), where each of these rounds will act as the swiss-pairings to find the cut.
• Games are played on http://www.jinteki.net (or on the test server if it is down).
• If both (or neither) players have made a good faith effort to find a time but cannot make it work, then rounds will be declared a loss, otherwise wins are to whomever made the effort.
• Decks can change every week of swiss pairings, but decks must be finalised if you make the Elimination cut.
• Top 8 cut based on Swiss pairings will have online matches every week until a winner is determined
• Otherwise standard Netrunner rules apply. New MWL is in effect, and tournament conduct is expected to be followed.

Fees:

• There is an entry fee of $15 (New Zealand Dollars) ($20 NZD for participants outside of Australia and New Zealand)
• Additional postage for playmats will be required from people who qualify for them (Estimated $7 NZ)

Prizes:

• Every participant will receive a set of professionally printed and cut custom punk art prizes courtesy of Taylor Ruddle.
• The wonderful folks from The Winning Agenda have kindly donated us some of their tokens as prizes for the top 4.
• Playmats (Chronos Protocol Tour, Day Job, Project Beale, Freelancer) for the top 4 players.
• Promo alternate art cards to be distributed to players the top 8 (Adonis Campaign, Noise, Swordsman, Reina, Ken, Chaos Theory, NBN Making news, Same Old Thing, Hedge Fund, Wall of Static, Acrylic Chaos Theory, Pad Campaign)