Preliminary Fluff

Azure skies, blue waters, bright sunshine, lush jungles: Welcome to the Rainbow Islands, a small tropical archipelago located northeast of Lustria. Each year, wizards and other magic users of all colours and trades from all over the world gather in the capital of Habantanamo to hold their annual fair to discuss, amongst other things, the latest developments in the fields of sorcery, witchcraft, necromancy, demonology and warpstone technology, trade enchanted items as well as magical treasure and demonstrate enchanting and conjuring skills.

Naturally, all of this is just a cheap excuse to get away from wives, families, breeders, slaves, demons and animated furry things that make 'eek' when you poke them for a month and celebrate one of the world's most spectacular mega events instead, which, purely coincidentally of course, happens to run exactly at the same time as the congress:

The Rainbow Islands Championship

Similar to the colorful assortment of the Wizard Covenant's participants, this tournament is renowned for its unrivaled diversity:

In order to ensure maximum revenues from cable vision broadcasting, ticket sales, media coverage and sponsoring, the most famous and popular teams from all races are given a shot at the trophy (most elves, by far the wealthiest group of the audience, wouldn't want to view endless brawls between orcs and "dorfs", therefore a considerable number of their teams unfortunately needs to be invited too. On second thought though, can there be a more blissful moment than witnessing soft elf-flesh dismantled between the razor sharp claws of one of Khorne's chaos warriors?). However, only the most illustrious, glorious and successful teams of each race can expect an invitation!

The Rainbow Challenge itself is played as a knock-out tournament with 64 teams, seeded randomly. However, no bracket of 16 teams can contain more than 1 team from any given race.

Not only does the winning team earn glory and treasure, but also a magic item of unmatched craftsmanship! As usual, outstanding players who win one of the 5 categories will be rewarded magnificently as well.

Format / Qualifying

 - Coaches can apply with as many teams as they want
   (not more than 1 team from any given race, obviously)

 - The first team a coach applies with, is considered
   their favourite and will be preferred if possible

 - Participating teams are selected by FF (working down
   the participant's list from highest FF downwards)

 - A soon as a team is selected, all other teams of that
   coach are discarded

 - As soon as a race has 4 participants, all other teams
   of that race are discarded (if possible)

 - 64 teams overall

 - Once the tournament has been created, make sure that no
   bracket of 16 teams contains more than 1 team from each
   race (to sort teams properly is not as difficult as it
   might seem at a first glance, just use FF for team score
   and add 100 for the preferred team).

 - Should there not be enough applications for less popular
   races, a 5th (or, if necessary 6th, 7th etc) slot for
   other races will appear. However, races will still be
   allocated as diversely as possible. Should by these means
   2 or more teams of the same race appear in the same bracket,
   they have to face each other in the first round.

Team Prizes (not cumulative)

 Champion       +5   100k   Magic Item
 Runner-up      +2    50k
 Semifinalist   +1    20k

 Magic Item (determine randomly):

 Talisman of Strength: ST+1
 Circlet of Agility  : AG+1
 Lightning Boots     : MA+1
 Amulet of Protection: AV+1

 The item can be given to any player of the winning team.
 It is "soulbound" and therefore not transferable. It
 must be allocated previous to the next game - it can not
 be retained.

Player Awards (cumulative)

 Most SPPs overall : FF+1 / Any one skill
 Most touchdowns   : FF+1 / Any one AG or GE skill
 Most completions  : FF+1 / Any one PA or GE skill
 Most casualties   : FF+1 / Any one ST or GE skill
 Most interceptions: FF+1 / Any one AG or GE skill
 Rookie Award      : FF+1 / Any one GE skill
 Larsson Award     : FF+1 per Larsson

 - the player may pick any one eligible skill of choice for free
   (skill, not trait)

 Note: All prizes are allocated after the tournament has finished

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