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Hey y’all! I’m excited to announce the new Fire Pai Sho tournament, Gathering of The Sun Warriors! In this event players will be separated into groups where only the best players will move on to the next stages.
General Information
This will be a multi-stage round-robin style tournament, with only some participants advancing from one round to the next.
The winner will receive the Tournament Winner role on the official Garden Gate discord server, and the special title “Sun Chief”
All games will be hosted at The Garden Gate website: skudpaisho.com.
How to sign up:
To register for the tournament, you must sign up in two different places:
First, you have to register for the “Gathering of Sun Warriors” at skudpaisho.com in the tournaments tab.
Second, Participants must provide their Garden Gate Username (player name at skudpaisho.com) and their discord username when they confirm with me that they’ve signed up
Tournament Format and Rules

This tournament will be split up into multiple stages. The total number of stages will depend on the size of the tournament.

For each stage, the participant pool will be split as evenly as possible into different round robin divisions. A win will be worth 1 points, draw 0.5 points, and a loss 0 points. At the end of each stage, a certain number of the highest scoring players in each division advance to the next stage, while the remaining players are eliminated. The number of players that advance to the next stage will depend on both the stage and the size of the tournament. Scores carry over from one stage to the next.

Players will have 4 days to complete each round, and in the case of an undecided game at the end of this time, the winner will be decided based on play frequency.

Follow the brackets on https://brackethq.com/dashboard/

Tournament sign up ends October 23, 12:00AM EDT

The tournament starts October 25 5:00PM EDT

I look forwards to seeing y’all in the tournament!

Welcome to the very first Gathering Around The Stone Lotus! This event is for Shi Pai Sho, a variant that’s still in development, which you can follow on The Garden Gate Discord server.

Shi Pai Sho is designed to offer freedom in both strategy and creative moves. As the name suggests, it’s centered around the theme of an eclipse. One type of eclipse affects the four elemental masters: the Dragon, Sky Bison, Koi, and Badgermole. Another type of eclipse impacts the Lotus. The goal is to capture your opponent's Lotus while protecting your own.

This is a round-robin tournament, where everyone plays against each other.

Depending on how many players we have, there will be 3 titles to win: #1 Celestial Dragon, #2 Sun Warrior, and #3 Moon Guardian.

Please confirm your participation in The Gathering Around the Stone Lotus thread and make sure to sign up.

The tournament will officially start on Saturday 28th September.

The rules are pinned in the thread.

Good luck, and enjoy!

"Dragon's shadow falls, Covering the blazing Sun, Moon retreats in fear."

[b]Hello, y'all, and welcome to the first Undergrowth Pai Sho tournament, Hidden in the Yellow Wood![/b]

I'm very excited to announce this Undergrowth Tournament! The host timezone will be EDT. Signup will start immediately and end on Tuesday, June 18, at 12:00. The tournament will begin on Wednesday, June 19, at 4:00 PM. At the end of the signups, I will announce who gets matched with who by generating it randomly. The tournament will be held in two stages. The first stage will be a group stage. The total number of competitors will be split as evenly as possible into different pools. In each pool, there will be a round-robin tournament. After the group stage, overall standings will be formed by putting together individual pools. These standings decide your seed. Your seed decides your placing for the second stage, the DE, or the Double elimination stage. The median Buchholz system will decide ties. Each round will take 72 hours, and the number of rounds will depend on how many players join. If you want to learn how to play Undergrowth, you can read this-Undergrowth-pai-sho rules. The rules are simple as long as you understand the harmony cycle! To join, go to the tournaments tab by clicking on the Garden Gate website sidebar, press Hidden in the Yellow Wood-Undergrowth Tournament, then scroll down and press Sign up. Remember, you'll have to confirm with me on Discord as well. Good luck, and I hope to see you join us!
[b]In summary-[/b]

• Host time is EDT
  
• Sign up by Tuesday, June 18, 12:00 PM
  
• The tournament starts Wednesday, June 19, 4:00 PM.
  
• Two stages
  

1. small round-robin
   
2. Double Elimination-> Grand Finals(ties are decided by former play, then median Buchholz systems)
   

• Each round will be 72 hours long.
  
• Undergrowth rules for new players! Undergrowth-pai-sho rules
  
• To join, go to the tournaments tab by clicking on the Garden Gate website sidebar, press Hidden in the Yellow Wood-Undergrowth Tournament, then scroll down and press Sign up.
  
• Confirm participation with me!
  

Heat Of Passion Fire Tournament

• Signups start now and end February 12
  
• Tournament begins February 14 
  
• The tournament will consist of teams of two
  
• The tournament will be double elimination
  
• If one player from both teams win then the tie breaker will be combined harmonies across the midlines for each team
  

Sign up in the tournaments tab at skudpaisho.com then dm me in discord @ conlen with you and your partner's garden gate username

Good luck and flameo Hotman!

Is it possible to develop a bot for the game, in case you want to play and no available players are online? I'm not sure how complex the game is for developing a bot for the game. Usually, it's possible to develop a playing bot using min-max algorithm. Too complicated games, such as Go, couldn't be played well by a computer, until Google's Alpha Go, which used machine learning.

It can be more helpful to have such concepts. I think it something that was done by older online games, like on MSN Zone (no longer done).

Are the rules making sense throughout the series? Because sometimes it's shown the game is played with tiled placed in the squares, while sometimes on line intersections (there are some snapshots in the Avatar wiki on Fandom). Is the White Lotus opening (done by the members of the White Lotus order as a secret greeting to identify members) making sense in Skud Pai Sho?

This is a question to the creator of the game - according to the creator, this game is based on the the various fan-made versions of the game existed in order to created a unified and organized version. Can you share the resources? Are the games listed on the site are those versions? Or are they unrelated? Because these versions are also made by other creator, not the creator of Skud Pai Sho.

General Information:

• This will be a standard, double elimination tournament.
  
• Grand finals will be double elimination (bracket reset if the loser's bracket champion wins the first match)
  
• The winner will receive the Tournament Winner role on the official Garden Gate Discord server, as well as the associated bragging rights.
  
• All games will be hosted on The Garden Gate website: skudpaisho.com.
  
• The official bracket for the tournament will be hosted on the Toornament website: https://play.toornament.com/en_US/tourna...030976512/
  
• Tournament participants will be required to join The Garden Gate server for at least the duration of the tournament: https://discord.gg/YqbyPTWUWg
  
• The host timezone for this tournament will be American CDT (CST after November 6th). Tournament time-sensitive information on The Garden Gate Server will be standardized to your time zone.
  
• There is a soft player cap at 64 players, though this can be modified if a significant portion of people still want to join. Claim your spot while you can!
  
• Signups end on October 15th at 7:00 pm CDT, and the tournament begins on October 16st at 5:00 pm CDT. To properly ensure that you end up in the tournament, make sure to be both signed up and confirmed into the tournament at least two days before the deadline.
  

How to sign up:
To register for the tournament, you must complete a few steps:

• First, register for the CLASH tournament at skudpaisho.com. To do so, you must first make sure you have created and/or signed into your Garden Gate account. Then, navigate to the sidebar menu, select "tournaments," select "CLASH," and scroll down to the bottom and select "sign up."
  
• Then, go to https://play.toornament.com/en_US/tourna...337781248/, create a Toornament account if you do not have one, then select "register" and fill out the required information. Note: the username you use on Toornament will often be the username participants try to find you by, so do your best to match it with your skudpaisho.com username!
  
• When registering on Toornament, participants must fill out their actual discord ID. If you do not yet have an account on discord, you must create one and join The Garden Gate server to participate in the tournament, as this is the main way for your opponents to contact you about scheduling matches:  https://discord.gg/YqbyPTWUWg
  
• Participants must also submit their country of residence/origin. This option will be set to Antarctica by default for participants who prefer not to share this information.
  
• Once all other steps are complete, go to the #tournaments channel in The Garden Gate Discord server and confirm with the host (@Cannoli#5677 or _cannoli_) that you have completed the previous steps. If you have done everything correctly, you will officially be confirmed into the tournament!
  

Tournament Format:

• This tournament will be a standard double-elimination tournament. 
  
• That means that you are in the tournament until you have lost twice. If you lose a match, make sure to still stay updated, because you will continue to have matches until you are eliminated a second time!
  
• Grand Finals will be held in a double elimination format as well, so if you come up from the loser's bracket, you have to win twice in order to win the tournament!
  
• Players fully eliminated from the tournament will have the opportunity to enter "elimination pool" matches. These matches will not influence the outcome of the tournament, but will allow for matchups between players that do not normally meet, and will allow matches to be recorded alongside the rest of the tournament.
  
• Elimination pool matches are opt-in each round. Participants do not have to play an elimination pool match every round in order to opt in, though they must opt in at least one day before the start of each round.
  

Match Format and Rules

• Match-ups will be displayed on the Toornament website brackets, and will be created and hosted on The Garden Gate website at the start of each round.
  
• The start and end of each round of matches will be announced in #tournaments on The Garden Gate Discord server.
  
• Once a round of matches begins, participants will have 3 days to complete their matches.
  
• When a match is completed, at least one player should report the result in #tournaments on discord.
  
• Matches that remain incomplete at the end of a round will be decided by the tournament host. This decision will prioritize comparative player activity/inactivity over game state in order to discourage abuse (accidental or intentional) of these time limitations.
  
• To help provide evidence of activity even when it is not your move, be sure to leave messages in the in-game chat or in the #tournaments channel on the Discord server  whenever checking up on the match, as otherwise it is difficult to tell to what extent a participant has been active in the match. The best way to avoid an inactive match is to communicate with your opponent publicly on the server and planning out how/when to play out the match. Playing correspondence without communication is valid, but it runs the risk of disqualification if the match is not finished before the end of the round. Remember, it is difficult to tell just how long a game will last! When in doubt, plan to start earlier in the round rather than later.
  
• Sandboxing is allowed, though heavy use is discouraged in the interest of faster play and general courtesy. Please do not delay games by spending excessive time in the sandbox.
  
• Undos are allowed. Asking for and granting undos is encouraged, but not strictly required.
  
• Though this tournament is competitive, participant interactions should still be respectful. Excessive trash talk, bullying, harassment, or any discriminatory behavior will lead to an instant disqualification from a match, and indeed the tournament if behavior continues/becomes notably egregious.
  

For any questions, contact @Cannoli#5677 or _cannoli_ on Discord.

Hey everyone! Welcome to the Shu Jing Ginseng Pai Sho tournament.

Both experienced and new players from near and far are invited to Shu Jing, the city where Piandao resides, to participate in this Ginseng Pai Sho tournament!

Sign ups are already open! Sign up now!
Signups end on Sunday September 3rd at 09:00PM UTC. To sign up and participate you need to complete 3 steps:
— 1: Register at skudpaisho.com in the tournaments tab to the left. Remember to log in first.
— 2: Register here at Toornament.com. Provide your skudpaisho.com username. Do it here: https://bit.ly/45MGDj7
— 3: Confirm with me, Gyatso, on Discord that you will be participating in the tournament.


Tournament Winner Prize:
— Winner will receive 'Tournament Winner(Ginseng)' role on The Garden Gate discord server.


Tournament format:
Win = 2 points | Draw = 1 point | Loss = 0 points.
— Round-robin and Bracket stages.
— Toornament.com will be used to organize this tournament.
— Players get 3 days to complete each game. Games not completed will be ruled by Gyatso.
— The top X players of each group will advance to bracket stage where they will compete for the first place of the tournament.
— If your opponent should be very inactive, make sure to notify me or write in your game chat.
— When you have completed a match, please report the result in the appropriate Forum Post on Discord.
— Make sure to get the Shu Jing Ginseng tournament role on Discord to stay updated.


Tournament rules:
— Undos are allowed.
— Cursing and foul language is discouraged, though it is okay if something slips through.
— Outright bullying, harassment, or excessive trash talk, on the other hand, will lead to immediate disqualification from the whole tournament.