How to run an Are You the Traitor? Tournament

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The procedure for running a tournament for Are You a Traitor? are similar to those that shaped the game itself:

• There is no elimination of players until the tournament is over. Specifically, there are no finals with only a limited number of players.
• The exact standing of the players are not known until the end.

How to:

1. Divide the participants up as evenly as possible into tables of six or seven. If necessary, tables of five are preferable to tables of eight.
   • 12: 6, 6
   • 13: 6, 7
   • 14: 7, 7
   • 15: 5, 5, 5
2. The tournament consists of however many rounds can be played within the allotted time. At Origins '09, each round for three six-player tables took just over 20 minutes, including shuffling players between rounds. There was some initial organizational overhead at the beginning and some time to award the medallion at the end, so five rounds were played.
3. Games are played at each table until one player has a more points of "treasure" over 10 than anyone else at the table.
4. The winner at each table is given a random treasure from a treasure deck from which all the Gilded Statues, all the Golden Rings and two of the Chests of Copper have been removed. After the winner's treasure is recorded it is returned to the deck. The participants are allowed to discuss their treasure totals, but the tournament official(s) must keep the totals hidden.
5. Between rounds players should be rotated among the tables. At Origins '09, it was pretty easy to develop a rotation plan on-the-fly. It wouldn't be horrible to just do random assignments of tables for each round. e.g. Assign each player a card from a deck of regular playing cards; shuffle those cards; the first six go to table A; the next seven to table B, etc.
6. Whoever has the highest treasure point total at the end of the tournament is the declared the tournament winner. Tiebreakers:
   1. The highest number of wins.
   2. Whichever player won most often when the tied players met.
   3. Play one more round with enough extra players to have a six player game. The tie breaker is the player (out of the original tieing players) that has the highest treasure point total in that last game.
   4. Whoever has the most number of treasure in that extra game.
   5. Fisticuffs.