Tools
Each team will receive 6 player-force cards, showing the player name and what formations each player’s force contains. Each team will also receive 6 card sleeves with a battleplan fixed to each (2 × Attack, 2 × Manoeuvre, 2 × Defend). The text will be on the inner side of the card sleeve, making it hidden when a card is in the sleeve. Before each round’s match-up, the player-force cards are put into sleeves showing the force cards, but concealing the battleplan thus the battleplan of the individual player force is hidden. The pairing will be done on a pairing mat provided by the organisers.
Process
The team with the lower ranking (Team A) chooses the table they want to play their army on and put their first army on the according spot. The higher ranked team (Team B) does the same and chooses out of one of the 5 remaining spots. For the first round the ranking of the previous ETC will be used. Countries that didn’t participate in the previous year are treated as being ranked lower than their opponent (if neither team played in the previous year, both team captains roll a D6, with the highest roll counting as the higher ranking team).
Each team puts up two armies against the one put up by their opponent.
Each team picks one of the two opponent armies to face the one they originally put up. This creates match-ups #1 and #2. The armies that were not chosen are returned to their respective team’s pools.
This process then repeats, with the higher ranked team (Team B) now putting up an army on one of the 4 remaining tables. Team A does the same out of the 3 remaining spots.
Continue the above process to form match-ups #3 and #4.
For the last two pairings, the lower ranked team (Team A) puts up one army on a table of their choice. Team B then puts up an army on the last remaining table.
Team A places its last remaining army against the one put up by Team B, and Team B does the same with the army put up by Team A, forming match-ups #5 and #6.
The battleplans are now revealed for each player/army.
Any players not paired after 15 minutes shall be randomly paired.
