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The tournament will start on may 23 and end on june 20 
The tournament will consist of several rounds of fire pai sho in a tournament bracket without elimination instead the final winner will be decided by a point system that rewards more points the faster you win the game. More details about how the tournament will be scored will be released in the days leading up to the tournament.

In order to participate sign up on the website and dm Turtle#9910 on discord. Thank you and good luck

Hi,

My name is Mossback (or just "Moss" for friends) and I have just finally decided myself to join the forum. I've been reading a lot lately about Pai Sho and its rules, I've watched videos, and even tried myself at a few games, but for some reason I was hesitating to join you all here.


I am not really how to go about introducing myself. I guess I'll just explain quickly where my nickname comes from and that should do it.
My friends have been calling me "Mossback" for quite some time now. I'm originally from Southern France, where the weather is hot and dry all year round. But I've always been a rain enthusiast. This search for rain has led me to move to the Western coast of Norway for a while, and then in the English Lake District. I've been constantly looking for places where it rains more than where I'm currently living (my dream would probably be to end up living in a place like Torshavn (Faroe Islands) or around Bergen (Norway)). So when my British friends, who forever dreamed of escaping the gray English skies for the sunny French beaches, figured out my motivations for moving in the UK, they started naming me "Mossback", as a person who enjoys the rainy weather so much that moss would actually end up growing on them.

So that's me.

I hope that my journey into the Pai Sho game will take me as far as possible and allow me to meet people from all corners of the world, playing a game together and many sharing a pot a tea. For as the great Iroh once said "Sharing tea with a fascinating stranger is one of life's true delights."

Hi I'm turtle nice to meet you I hope we can play a game of fire together sometime.

GET READY TO RUMBLE! 

Get ready to take part in the greatest Pai Sho event in the modern Earth Kingdom! Can you fight your way to the top and win the Heavyweight Skud Pai Sho Championship Belt? Enter now to meet new players, learn about the game, and test your skill! 

I, Cannoli, will be joining some of the best and brightest Skud players around the world (hey, that's you!) to compete for the tournament winner title! To keep me accountable in my "power" as tournament host, Prof Petruescu will be my accomplice and general handyman in organizing this tournament. While I will generally be the one to go to for any questions you might have, Petruescu will be helping out behind the scenes and will be responsible for the tasks that I will be giving up as an active participant, such as the creation of games on skudpaisho.com.

General Information

• This will be a classic, double elimination style Skud Pai Sho tournament.
  
• The winner will receive the Tournament Winner role on the official Garden Gate discord server.
  
• All games will be hosted at The Garden Gate website: skudpaisho.com.
  
• An official bracket will be hosted on Toornament.com: https://www.toornament.com/en_US/tournam...nformation
  
• Signups end and the tournament begins on Saturday, April 2nd. To make sure you properly end up in the tournament, please sign up at least 2 full days before the tournament begins!
  
• Update: Signups still end on April 2nd, but the tournament will now begin on Monday, April 5th.
  

• First, participants must register for Earth Rumble VII in the tournaments tab of skudpaisho.com.
  
• Second, participants must register for the Toornament.com bracket here: https://www.toornament.com/en_US/tournam...nformation. Participants must provide both their Garden Gate username as well as their Discord handle in order to sign up.
  

• Matches will be shown on the Toornament website bracket, and will be created at the start of each round.
  
• Rounds will last 3 days each in both brackets. In the losers bracket, players can request to begin rounds early if they wish, allowing them to better keep up with the winners bracket.
  
• In the event of a tie, if there is at least one full day remaining in the round, players may rematch if they wish. Otherwise, the total move numbers in previous games will serve as tiebreakers (the player with less total moves in the tournament will win).
  
• Unfinished games due to inactivity will be decided by hosts at the end of the round. If only one player is inactive (defined by extensive stalling of gameplay and move making, be it accidental or purposeful), they will automatically forfeit the game. If both players are completely inactive, neither will advance, and the would be opponent of the next round will get a bye. MAKE SURE TO LEAVE AT LEAST A MESSAGE IN THE CHAT BOX IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE CONSIDERED COMPLETELY INACTIVE, ESPECIALLY AS GUEST.
  
• The championships will not be based on the Grand Finals system of the last double elimination tournament. More information will be given to the finalists of the winners and losers brackets.
  
• Sandboxing, while strongly discouraged, is still technically allowed.
  
• Undos are allowed. Asking for and granting undos IS encouraged, though it is not technically required.
  
• Cursing and foul language is discouraged, though it is okay if something slips through. Outright bullying and harassment, on the other hand, will lead to immediate disqualification.
  

Hi everyone, this is Momo. 

I'm hosting a beginner's Skud tournament as you all probably know. There really aren't any requirements to join. You just have to think of yourself as a "beginner." What that means is up to you because I don't really know what defines a beginner either. I would say a rough ballpark estimate is around 30 wins in total or less than a 55 % win rate, but if you have more than that, it's fine as well. Again, the requirements aren't really set in stone. 

Make sure to join the tournament discord https://discord.gg/wvEKRz7R and sign up on the Garden Gate Website if you want to participate. 

As for prizes, this is a chill tournament, aimed at introducing more people into the world of pai sho, so there won't be any actual prizes (I also don't exactly want to invest in prizes sorry about that). Nevertheless, the tournament should still be fun! Winners get the honor of being considered a winner as well as fame, bragging rights, and... and that's about it. 

Tournament matches start Monday, February 8th. It's a double elimination bracket style tournament. Lose twice and you're out.

Rules are like all other tournament rules: 3 days for each game, sandboxing is slightly frowned upon, no collaborating with other people about your match while your game is ongoing. 

Gambling / Betting will be allowed, but only for the spectators. In other words, tournament participants cannot bet. There will be a best better award for the person with the most fake coins at the end. 

Think that's it. Let me know if you have any questions! And last but not least, good luck and have fun! 

Signing off, 
theRealMomo

The Jolly Jamboree is finally here!! The event officially starts.... now!

The Adevăr Jolly Jamboree is an open event for anyone to participate in at any time. It's not quite a tournament, where there's a single winner. Participants gain points for every game they play, and you get different prizes for reaching different point thresholds. This event is very casual, and is not something to stress over.

There are different Tiers to achieve, each one having its own prize. The first Tier is at 15 points; the second Tier is at 25 points; the third Tier is at 45 points. The first tier prize is a special role in the Adevăr server! The other two prizes are secret ?. The person with the most points will get an additional secret ? prize.

Both players must submit a link; Host submitting the link does not count for Guest's points.

The event is happening over in the official Adevăr server, you can join it here: https://discord.gg/bjUVuZR, where you'll find a channel dedicated for submitting games. There will be a pinned message in that channel outlining how to submit games. Games submitted in the TGG server will not count. Note that Adevăr Lite games will not count.

The event will end on January 6th.

With the start of the Jolly Jamboree, the Adevăr Festive tiles are now available on the site!

Special thanks to Sir Stotes for programming the custom bot used for the Jolly Jamboree.

alright my dudes, here's the lowdown on our totally righteous party we'll be hostin in the northern water tribe:
-the tourney's gonna be Skud Pai Sho rules.
-Players will join the tourney in teams of 2, like me and my bro Chan. Teams will decide who will be the "A" player and who will be the "B" player at the start of the tourney. This cannot change once the tourney has started. (you cheat and your just a big loser like those 4 idiots who wrecked the last party). 
-There's gonna be like four rounds. In these rounds, the "A" player of one team will play the "A" player of another team. Same goes for "B" players. The winner of the "A" match scores 5 points and the winner of the "B" matches scores 3 points for their team. These team matches will be chosen at random except that no double matches are gonna happen.
-The top two teams with the most points will move to the Finals. In the event of a tie the team with the least amount of losses proceeds, if still tied then most team wins, if still tied then single player with most wins. If there is still a tie then the team with the player who won his/her games in the least amount of moves proceeds.
-In the finals the "A" players face each other and the "B" players face each other. The two winners "A" and "B" whether they are teammates or not, proceed to the Grand Finals where a single Champion is crowned.
Registration closes Dec 19. and the tournament will begin December 26. If interested find yourself a teammate and message one of the tournament hosts over discord your team name and who will be player A and player B. You can message me or Chan for this, we're co-hosting the tournament. discord usernames are Pronetowander#8622 and dall(i)n#4951 . After you've messaged one of us, both teammates need to head over to skudpaisho.com and both sign up for the Chan and Ruon-Jian's Holiday Party under tournaments. 
PRIZE
The winner of the tourney will receive the rights to the official title of Hahn on the Garden Gate discord community as well as the role of Tournament Winner. There's also a mystery prize from Mimicmakings Pai sho shop. We want the prize to remain a secret so this tourney is as chill as possible. No stress, no high-stakes. Just playing pai sho!
Hahn is letting us use his house, so try to act cool.
-Ruon-Jian, out

To submit a set of tile designs to The Garden Gate, send me your tile designs in an email to SkudPaiSho [at] gmail [dot] com, be sure they follow these rules:

* Named correctly: For Skud Pai Sho tiles, they need to be named like these files: https://github.com/thejambi/SkudPaiSho/t.../tgggyatso. For Vagabond tiles, they need to be named like these files: https://github.com/thejambi/SkudPaiSho/t...ond/delion
* .png file format with transparent backgrounds, image dimensions no larger than the example image files

Making a cheap Pai Sho board

Homemade Pai Sho boards are fun and unique. Making your own will give you a special board to play on that you’ll always be proud of and it will be a great conversation piece.

Here's my DIY board:


Here’s my suggestions on how to make a Pai Sho board cheaply without the need for any tools.


Here’s what I bought to use. I will list recommendations for cheaper options later.

Sample size paint - red $3.48
Sample size paint - white $3.48
Paint pen - black $3.98
24” Pine round $11.25
Yardstick $1
Paint brush $5

Tip: Look for a set of kids paints instead to reduce the cost. Since you don't need much paint, you might find something that has enough paint and also a brush or two to use already. But by getting the sample size paints I was able to choose my colors more closely.

For finishing:
Spray Shellac: $7.98
Super fine sanding sponge: $7.38

Any kind of lacquer or fine sandpaper will work, but I had these items already.

Things I assume you have:
- Pencils
- Scrap cardboard
- Scissors or a knife

You could also use an 18” pine round, which will cost about $4 less.

When using a Pine Round for making a board, I recommend going into the store so you can choose one that looks good and lays flat. Some warp more than others or have slight cracks or nicks in the surface or edges, or simply aren’t as good looking due to knots in the wood.


# Step 1 - Find the center of the board

I was surprised when I sat down to mark the center of the board that I had no idea how to find it! Here is one way - https://www.manmadediy.com/m/how-to-find-center-circle - and I will describe another way, which is what I did.

Using paper to find the center:
I figured my pine round was not going to be a perfect circle. Here’s how I used paper to find the center of my board:

- Tape some regular paper together to have a big sheet of paper that can cover the board. You could use newspaper, scrap paper, etc. Put it over the board and mark the edges so you could line it up on there again after taking it off.
- Take off paper and fold it in half, matching up the marks of opposite sides of the board. Unfold, fold in half matching up the other corners.
- Poke a hole in the paper at the intersection of the creases from your folds. This is the center of the board.
- Put the paper back onto the board, and make a mark on the board through the hole in the center.


# Step 2 - Measure and mark the important points of the board

You’ll want to either lightly draw the grid lines now in pencil, or simply mark the important points on the board. Start with the important points.

Remember that a Pai Sho board is an 18x18 square grid that’s cut into a circle. The edge of the base grid marks the outermost edge of the board, so most of that outer edge of the grid is cut off. After being cut to a circle, all the intersections visible inside the circle are playable. See SkudPaiSho.com to take a look at the playable points that are close to the edges to see which are playable. Note that on a coordinate plane with the center of the board being (0,0), the Gates are at (0,8), (8,0), etc. being 8 points away from the center. The diagonal Garden Lines of the board go through the points just before the Gate points, (0,7), (7,0), etc. Note there is a point that is 4 points to either side of a Gate point that is just barely inside the circle, and it is a playable point. You can draw the circle of your board slightly bigger to make those points more visible.

The numbers here will be for a large size board, with 1.25” squares. For a small size board, the math is easier since the squares are 1”.

- Use a straight edge to mark the leftmost and rightmost points of the board. Mark the points that are 8.75” (7 points away) and 10” (8 points away, the Gate points) away from the center. Lightly draw a line through all of these points, through the center of the board.
- Use something that’s a right angle to draw a perpendicular line across the board from top to bottom.
- Mark the points the same distances away from the center on the new line so you have marked all four corners of the board.
- Mark the 1.25” intervals along the center lines you’ve drawn.
- Draw the diagonal Garden Lines by drawing lines through the the points 7 away from the center.
- Lightly draw the main grid lines, note that they should intersect each other and the diagonal Garden Lines at the same time, so you can use that to make your lines even.

I also marked 9 spaces from the center after marking the Gate points, which is the edge of the board. I poked a hole in a scrap piece of cardboard and measured and poked another hole 9 spaces length away (11.25"). I held one of the holes on the center of the board in order to draw a circle around the edge of the playing field.

# Step 3 - Paint!

Now tape off the areas for painting - red in the Red Gardens and Gates and then white for the White Gardens. Just wait for things to dry between painting sections or colors, depending on how you tape things off.

After painting the Gardens, I could see the faint grid lines, at least in the unpainted Neutral Garden areas. Now you need to paint over those grid lines. I used a paint pen and a scrap piece of cardboard as a straight edge, but you could paint the lines with black paint and a thin paintbrush as well.

# Step DONE!

Afterwards, I used some shellac to put a nice finish on my board, but you can be done right there and you've got yourself a board

Hello and good evening, one and all, to the All Hallow's Eve Team Tournament!

Quite the lengthy name isn't it?

Now it's a bit early for Halloween perhaps, but it lines up close enough that I am quite tickled that I get to run with it, as the tournament will start in a month's time for October 1st.

This will be a ranked 3-man team swiss tournament, where each team play matches of 3 individual games to decide which team continues on. There will not be any elimination, instead with teams playing against those with similar win numbers, and by the end you will play roughly half the teams. Teams are organised internally as well by skill. The best player plays the first board, worth 4 points, the middle player the second board, worth 3 points, and the final payer on the third board worth 2 points (Points being split for a tie). To win the team match, you need at least 5 points, which means you don't have to win all of your games to win the team game. First board win with any tie is a team win (4 + 1.5/1) Second board and a tie for first or third win is a win (3 + 2) or a third board win and two ties will net you a win (2 + 1.5 + 2). This way, the teams can have all of their members participate and be able to relax knowing that even if they aren't successful their team mates can pull through, or that even if they draw they still are getting important points for the team.

The ranked part of the tournament comes in that every individual game will be counted towards my unofficial ranking list to compare and better understand where everyone is in the community skill wise. The only thing I need to add people to the list is your garden gate name and your discord name, so it'll be as easy as pie, then everything about that is pinned in the vagabond channel in the discord.


For finding and practicing with teams, I have created a discord for it which can be found here: https://discord.gg/RYPr8dN . You can use it to organize into teams, search out people looking for teams, and so on. To register a team for the tournament, it will need a name, a colour, and at least 2 members (A team with 2 members automatically forfeits their third board). Please spend all the time up until the tournament starts to practice with your team mates, discuss your games, and polish (or learn) skills in preparation.


The requirements to register. To register for the tournament, you will have to be in the discord, register to the tournament on the skudpaisho.com website, and make a post here including your garden gate name and what team you are part of. After all the registration is done, I will see to setting up the toornament page, as well as estimating time the tournament will take.

Particular rules for the tournament include 3 days for each round, A ban on collusion or watching streams of your own game during your game, and a serious frowning on sandboxing. If a game goes over the time limit of 3 days then it will be counted as a tie, outside of an inactive player in which case it is the loss of the inactive player.

The team who comes away from the tournament with the most wins will receive a specialized prize, a trophy of specially engraved element cards (One of each element for display, not an elemental tiles deck).

Thank you all for you interest and participation going forward, this has been Aba, and I wish you all a good night.