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In this Main Match, complete in different time trials, then pit your times against your other players to win garnets.

Designer(s): Zero	Match Type: MM (for 7 players)
Featured in: The Genius: Tempo Up

This is a Garnet Match.

For the duration of the MainMatch:

Whenever you gain a garnet, you will gain one that decays at the end of this episode.

Whenever you lose a garnet, you will lose the garnet with the highest decay first.

When you both gain and lose garnets, only the net difference will be calculated.

In this MainMatch, players will have 48 hours to attempt 6 challenges.

Each challenge will have 2 trials.

Players will be ranked by 1-7 in each trial. Where 1 is the best ranking, and 7 the worst.

Afterwards the ranks of the trials will be combined to give a new 1-7 ranking for the challenge.

This ranking is done in the order of:

Lowest sum of Trial 1 + 2
Best placement of the 2 Trials (1st and 7th beats 2nd and 6th)
Whoever placed higher in Trial 2

Players who get Rank 1 for each challenge will earn 1 Garnet.

This means 6 garnets will be given out this way.

I will reveal how to start the challenges trials 30minutes after rules release.

Each Trial will be timed separately. Trials may be completed in multiple sittings and may be completed in any order.

However, you must start the trial within 15minutes of doing the command for its rules.

Players who don’t complete a challenge will be given a time of 1 hour for that challenge.

When you start your first challenge trials, please make a post in <#962774341681021018>.

Once you have started your Trials, you may not communicate with other players until after the 48 hours are up.

The names of the Challenges are:

Mathematics

Logic

Words

Observation

Optimisation

Estimation

After the 48 hours, players will be told their Ranks for each Challenge and may then freely communicate.

In the last 24 hours of the MainMatch, each player will assign 2 Trials for each of the other players.

You may not assign 2 Trials for the same challenge to the same player.

Not submitting will result in losing 1 garnet automatically.

For each matchup, we will compare the Ranks and declare a victor.

Each player will take part in 24 matchups.

There will be a total of 72 matchups.

This will result in each player facing each other player four times, twice with their pick and once twice with their opponents pick of challenge.

For every unique Trial you lose in a matchup, you will lose [1 Garnet + Floor (total players who beat you in that Trial/2)].

For every Matchup you win you will gain 1 Garnet.

You can go into negative garnets as a result of this, but will be reset to 0 at the start of the next episode in those cases.

MainMatch End

At the end of the MainMatch, I will reveal the result of every Trial, and then the Matchups.

The player(s) with the most garnets is declared the winner.

Tokens of Life are given out, with a Threshold of 3.

The player with the least garnets is declared the loser and elimination candidate.

If this is a tie, the players are ranked using the combined sum of all challenge Ranks, the player with the higher total becomes the Elimination Candidate.

If this is a tie still, the winner(s) decide which of the tied players becomes the elimination candidate.

Also as a note, during the trials you may not use:

The internet

Solvers

Calculators (of any form)

Timing devices (of any form)

Pre-written notes (rules section isn't during the trial)

You may use:

Pen and Paper

Programmes like Paint that let you write on images

It is recommended you do the Trials via PC

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