CASCADIA TOURNAMENT RULES:
All aBOARD EXPO is like stepping into the serene beauty of Cascadia, but with a whole lot more dice and meeples! It’s the perfect place for gamers to come together, enjoy the games they love, and connect with new friends—just like how you carefully piece together habitats and wildlife. We’re all about building a vibrant community, where competition is friendly, and the experience is as rewarding as completing that perfect nature corridor. Sure, it’s a tournament, but much like Cascadia, it’s all about balance: kindness, fair play, and making sure everyone has a great time!
Reference: World Series of Board Gaming
Minimum Players: 8
Maximum Players: 16
Time Limit: 1 hour per round
SET UP:
Promotional wildlife scoring cards will not be used.
Seating, start player, starter tiles, and scoring cards will be selected at random. Habitat and keystone tiles will be shuffled and distributed from a pile.
Wildlife tokens will be placed, whenever necessary, from left to right, with the rightmost being located beside the pool of nature tokens.
All players should confirm that all required wildlife tokens are in the drawbag before the start of the game.
TOURNAMENT RULES:
Placements in each swiss round will be given tournament points as follows: +6, +4, +2, +0 (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th)
The Top 4 for Finals will be determined by the highest ranking tournament total score. Ties will be broken by most 1sts, then most 2nds, then most 3rds. If there are ties, the next tiebreaker will be the total raw game score from the 3 Preliminary games.
All wildlife tokens shall be drawn one at a time.
If more than one is ever drawn at once, then all of those tokens will be placed back in the drawbag, with another player having the opportunity to shake the bag before a single replacement tile is drawn.
Once a pair of token and tile has been taken from the center, players are not allowed to exchange it.
Players must finalize their placements before the next player can take their turn. Players are encouraged to announce that they have ended their turn as courtesy.
Players must clearly announce use of their nature token on their turn.
Players must clearly announce if they will be resolving overpopulation.
TIME LIMIT:
The time limit for each match is 1 hour. If players are still in the game after 1 hour has elapsed, they finish the round (so that everyone plays the same number of rounds), and we will then proceed to scoring.
It is encouraged for players to perform their turns in a timely manner. If a player exceeds the time allocation for their turn (3 minutes), he/she will be given a warning by a Judge to finish his/her turn promptly. Else, the leftmost tile will be taken and added by the Judge to the player's largest applicable terrain type and the animal pair will be returned to the bag.
TIE BREAKER:
Ties within games will be broken by the following:
- The player with the most nature tokens (base game rules).
- The player with the most number of largest habitat corridors.
- The player with the most tiles from their largest habitat corridor.
- The player who went later in the turn order.
PRIZE:
- Winner: Cascadia Trophy + 10K Gaming Library Gift Certificate
- 2nd: Lootprints Inserts + Nocturne*
- 3rd: Cascadia: Rolling Hills*
- 4th: Cascadia: Rolling Rivers*
- Participation: All Aboard XP Voucher
*All Games are Retail Edition
