This is a sequel to the Classic Swap Battle Tournament.

Use the Classic Chess army... but if all the units upgraded. And, you can swap any of the units given in the classic army with other CEO units of the same cost. You cannot reorder the units, just swap with same-cost units.

(Rules clarification: If you wanted to swap the 8 Pawn+'s to a variety of different 1-cost units that is fine. In other words if you want to swap one Pawn+ to a Slime, that doesn't require that you then have to change all your Pawn+'s to Slime.)

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
13, 8, 11, Queen+, King, 11, 8, 13

Exceptions:

• Bishop+, which I am pretending costs 11. So that slot is 11-costers instead of 12-costers. This is somewhat for variety since 12-cost units were used in the last tournament, and also because I don't think it's worth 12 in the c/f columns. If you want though, you can play a Bishop+ in the 11-cost slots.
• Queen+ is forced. We all know everyone would use Dragon+++ or the "p2w option" Angel+++ instead of the underpowered 24 cost Queen+, so no swapping that one out. (rip ArchBishop+++ owners btw)

Some units are banned. If a unit has any of these actions: magic destroy, ranged destroy, poison, void, armor, thundermark, charm, necromancy, ghostify, make sapling, and make skeleton, it is banned. Also Hostage, Chastity, Snake, Hoplite are specifically banned too.

Effectively, this bans all tiers (unless specific tier is listed) of Salamander, FireElemental, Pyromancer, FireMage, Ranger, Archer, Fireball, PoisonMage, Alchemist, Spider, Arachnid, VoidMage, Duelist, Fencer, HauntedArmor, Crusader, Phalanx, Gluttony+++, ThunderMage, Wrath, SoulFlare, Lilith, Necromancer, SoulKeeper, Dryad, Lich, Tombstone, Hostage, Chastity, Snake, Hoplite.

^{Yes, costs make some of these impossible to even play}

Okay, here are more rule changes:

• Actually, you can play Hoplite+, but only up to 4.
• (I had an Axeman limitation here, it's removed.)
• You can also play Harpy+0, Envy+++, HauntedArmor+0 (despite ban), Lust++, NullMage+++, Siren+++, Taurus+++, in the 11-slot.

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Signups: 11/8/2020 to 11/11/2020
Fights: 11/12/2020 to 11/20/2020 (can be further if fights are delayed, note that this is the ideal time for the whole tournament and not the time for each match)

After the signups I will decide who matches with who, and post in the topic + edit the post to show the matchups. These matchups can be done at any time during the fights but ideally you should match with your opponent as soon as possible. The non-instant forum structure of steemit will probably not work too well to organize matches, so please try to contact your opponent for a good time to match or use discord.

Matches will very likely be best-of-one games with double elimination (are placed into a Loser's Bracket when you first lose).

Bracket positions will be shown so people can match using the given brackets at any time even if I'm not online.

Prizes:

• 110 RP for 1st place. (110 from me, any more are sponsors)
• 60 RP for 2nd place. (60 from me, any more are sponsors)
• 35 RP for 3rd place. (35 from me, any more are sponsors)

Contestants (10):

• e3Gewinnt
• GodOfTomatoes
• F300XEN
• ryan487
• Kevin44X
• amoroc
• kriminalni_svine
• henclucky
• guhbuh
• Username_taken12

To see the matchups, check https://challonge.com/12rmbxog (it is not required to signup on challonge, this is just to see the bracket)

AFTER A MATCH, GET THE REPLAY CODE OF IT and send it privately to me in discord. As a light punishment, you will get -5 less RP if you score 1st-3rd place and one of your matches isn't saved as a replay code. Alternatively, you can post the replay code publicly if your opponent to that match agrees, but note this can give an advantage to your future opponents who can see both your army and your opponent's.

This tournament is complete.

As a bonus, everyone in this tournament that didn't get a prize, gets +4 RP for participating, and +4 for each win they got after that. All prizes have been sent.

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