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Notes from the organizer: Creating this sign-up page on behalf of Andy SC.

Do you like playing humans? Do you like playing in tournaments? Do you like lots of games? If you’ve answered yes to at least one of those questions, this is probably the ideal tournament for you.

It's almost that time of year again for Apterous number one tournament in terms of number of fixtures - EVERYTHING COUNTS XII

Everything Counts XI had a record number of participants - 94. Can we beat that record this year or could we even reach a three figure entry total? Only time will tell.

Players will have up to and including the 2nd January to sign-up.

For anybody that is unfamiliar with Everything Counts here's how it works:

Everything Counts starts with a massive Round Robin tournament where everybody plays everybody (never actually happens) but a good chunk of games do get played. Players get 6-weeks to play their Round Robin games which will be Standard 9 games and once this stage is done, so many players will advance to the knockout stages. The number advancing will depend on how many sign-up. Points for the Round Robin stage are achieved as follows:

- 4 points for a win
- 2 points for a draw
- 1 bonus point for scoring 70+ points
- 1 bonus point for losing by 10 points or less

In the knockout stages, the bracket will be seeded based on where players finish in the Round Robin stage, i.e. 1 v 32, 2, 31, 3 v 30 and so on if it's a 32-player knockout. Each game up to and including the Semi Final in the Knockouts will be Standard 9 Best-of-3. The Grand Final will be Standard 15 Best-of-5.

That's all for now. If anybody has any questions, please feel free to ask (Andy SC, not Dave :))

Runs from: 2 December 2025 – 2 January 2026. Format: 9 Rounder. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 0. Completed: 0.