We’re very excited to announce that we have our nearing the deadline of our first project milestone: hosting our very own local tournament using a closed alpha version of Tournology! After many long weekends and after hours development, we’ve ready to let a few of the locals kick the tires on our project.

Pitchology, a local Pitch card game tournament, is set for November 22, 2008. We’ll be playing the Oklahoma Ten Point Pitch variety, a variant popular in our neck of the woods. Keep reading for the full ruleset.

Given the scale of participants this time around, we’ll be sending invitations to known interested parties. If you’d like to participate in future open tournaments, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed to be notified of new events and project status updates!

Pitchology will be a small tournament to grease the wheels on the core features: score entry and winner promotion. The Tournament will be a Round Robin split into two groups, with the top team from each group moving to a Single Elimination final playoff round.

For the pitch specialists in the audience, the house rules will be:

• First to 52 points (Teams needn’t bid to win)
• Negative scores shoot the moon to 0
• There will be no time limits on rounds, but teams are asked to keep things moving along.

“…all players are dealt nine cards and everybody draws back to six cards. The winner of the bid will go through the undealt cards one at a time until the hand has six trump. The remaining cards are then given to the partner to go through. If the partner is full of trump, the remaining cards can be given back to the winner of the bid. If anyone has more than six trump in their hand, a non-point trump can be ‘buried’ on the first trick. If a player ends up with more than six point cards in their hand, the hand is considered a mis-deal.”
Source: Wikipedia