The sequence of games will be Round 1 - Barcelona (map: Iberia), Round 2 - Roma (map: Italy), Round 3 - Cairo (map: Egypt - Lower), Round 4 - Niamey (Rail Africa), Round 5 - Bamako (Africa II), and Final Round - Dakar (Africa). Six rounds consisting of two games of 8 players each and a final round consisting of one 8-player game, where the winner wins the competition!
The tournament will be played on six maps: Iberia, Italy, Egypt - Lower, Rail Africa, Africa II, and Africa. The tournament will have six rounds. The first five rounds will consist of two 8-player games (1st round France, 2nd Iberia, 3rd Portugal, 4th Rail Africa, 5th Africa II).
Each player will receive points after each round: - Winner = 10 points - 2nd best = 6 pts - 3rd = 5 pts - 4th = 4 pts - 5th = 3 pts - 6th = 2 pts - 7th = 1 pt - First to lose = 0 pts
The Final Round will consist of one 8-player game in the map Africa, featuring the top 8 players so far in the competition.
Tiebreaker: An extra game on Africa II will be played after the 5th round between players that need to untie their score in order to qualify for the last game. No points will be awarded.
The winner of the Final Round will be awarded 70 points (the others will receive 6,5,4, etc. points like the other rounds) and be declared the Rally Paris-Dakar 2022 champion!
Players will be seeded into their respective games in the first round by their score at the time I confirm their presence in this tournament. Game 1 from the first round will have the best ranked player, 3rd best, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, etc. The odds. And game 2 will have the evens (2nd best, 4th, etc.). Rounds 2, 3, 4, and 5 will place the 4 best players from the previous round and the 4 worst ones in Game 1 and the others in Game 2.
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