PENALTIES

These penalties below can range from an official warning to a red card and everything in between. These are mostly to do with the mismanagement of the clock in an unsportsmanlike way, which will be treated as a sportsmanship foul, and can therefore stack with other penalties that the player has received.

It is our aim to ensure that all games reach a natural conclusion, not to assign penalties to players. Please ensure that, for your sake, you are clear on how these rules work, and ask any questions that you have to achieve a complete understanding of them.

Take note that the referee corps main concern is always that games are completed naturally within the round time allocated. This of course depends on the transgression but normally the focus should always lie on games to be played even if certain penalties will apply. Everyone paid good money to be at this tournament and to play their full complement of games.

For example, someone might have modeled his entire army in a thematic way but his opponent and the referees agree it falls into the realm of modeling for advantage; the player in question does not have enough stand-ins available. Referees will force the game to be played, and at the end of the round apply any penalties that are in place for such transgressions. This way we are sure everyone gets their full complement of games under normal circumstances.

Tournament Penalties

Skirmish in the Caribbean will employ a red/yellow card system for managing player behaviour and conduct. If a player is deemed by the referees to have broken any of following rules they will be immediately subject to one of the following penalties. The application of a particular penalty is dependent upon the nature of the infraction and how many times previously the player in question has broken the tournament rules. The penalties for these offences stack if multiple violations (even if they belong to the same category) to these rules apply.

OFFICIAL WARNING

No penalty to their individual score

YELLOW CARD

-50pts to their individual score for that game

RED CARD

-100pts to their individual score for that game and immediate expulsion from the tournament

The referee crew has the right to escalate any infraction to an immediate expulsion or even life-time ban from Skirmish/War in the Caribbean tournaments depending on the gravity of the infraction and the situation that presented itself. The referee crew will motivate this decision in their post-event debrief.