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Fantasy Flight Games’® Organized Play or Android: Netrunner will ollow the organization and rules provided in thisdocument. Please remember that these tournaments aredesigned or players who want to celebrate and enjoy the mostchallenging aspects o Android: Netrunner . Players should berespectul to others and ollow the instructions set orth in thisdocument and by their tournament organizer. Additions sincethe last update appear in blue text.

Player Conduct

Card Interpretations and RulesSanctioned tournaments are played using the most recent rulesset and the most recently updated ocial FAQ document,which can be ound on the Android: Netrunner support page atwww.antasyightgames.com.Remember the golden rule wheninterpreting card eects and interactions: i the text o a carddirectly conicts with the rules o the game, the card text takesprecedence.

Te tournament organizer (“O”) is the nal authority or allcard interpretations at that event.

Unsportsmanlike ConductPlayers are expected to behave in a mature and consideratemanner, and to play within the rules and not abuse them.Tis prohibits maintaining an illegal game state, colludingwith another player, behaving inappropriately, scouting decks,articially manuacturing the results o a match, treating anopponent with a lack o courtesy or respect, etc. Te O, at hisor her sole discretion, may remove players rom the tournamentor unsportsmanlike conduct.

CheatingCheating will not be tolerated. Te O reviews all cheating

allegations, and he or she can immediately remove an oendingplayer rom the tournament i he or she believes that player hascheated.

Slow PlayPlayers must play in a timely ashion regardless o thecomplexity o the game situation and adhere to time limitsspecied in the tournament. Players must maintain a pace toallow the match to be nished within the announced time limit.Stalling is not acceptable. Players may request a O to watchtheir game or slow play.

Pregame Information

Corporation and Runner DecksEach player must bring both 1 Corporation and 1 Runner deck to a tournament. Players will play both decks against eachopponent.

Authorized CardsAll Android: Netrunner cards produced by Fantasy Flight

Games are legal or sanctioned play (unless banned). No othercards or proxy cards are permitted. In North America, cards arelegal upon their release. Competitors outside North Americashould check with their O to determine which cards aretournament legal.

Card SleevesFor all ocially sanctioned regional, national, and worldchampionship events, players are required to use protectivesleeves or their decks. Sleeves or each deck must all beidentical and cards must be placed in these sleeves in anidentical manner. I a player’s deck contains alternate artcards, the sleeves must be art sleeves or opaque. Players can

use dierent sleeves or their Corporation and Runner decks.Cards that are not shued into a deck, such as identity or click tracker cards, are not required to be sleeved. No card sleevesare required or local events, but players are encouraged to usesleeves to protect their cards.

Deck RestrictionsWhen building a deck or organized play, players must observethe ollowing restrictions:

• A deck must be associated with a single identity card,and cannot contain ewer cards than the minimum deck size value listed on the chosen identity card. Tere is

no maximum deck size, but the deck must be able to besuciently randomized in a short period o time. Identity cards, reerence cards, and click tracker cards are nevercounted as part o a deck and do not count against theminimum deck size.

• A deck cannot have more than three copies o a single card(by title) in it.

• A deck associated with a Runner identity can never containCorporation cards, and vice versa.

• A deck cannot contain out-o-action cards with a totalinuence value that exceeds the inuence limit listed on the

chosen identity card. Cards that match the action o theidentity card do not count against this limit.

• A Corporation deck must have a specic number o agendapoints in it based on the size o the deck, as ollows:

- 40 to 44 cards requires 18 or 19 agenda points.- 45 to 49 cards requires 20 or 21 agenda points.

- 50 to 54 cards requires 22 or 23 agenda points.

For decks larger than this, add 2 additional agenda points tothe 54 card deck requirements each time the number o cardsin the deck reaches a multiple o 5 (55, 60, 65, etc.).



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Deck ListsPlayers are required to submit a deck list or each o their decksin order to enter an ocially sanctioned regional, national, orworld championship event. Decklists must detail the name andquantity o each card in the deck. No substitutions o cards areallowed during the entire tournament.

TokensPlayers are responsible to bring their own tokens ortournament play.

Miscellany

Card Shufing Decks must be randomized by some orm o shuing prior tothe start o every game and whenever instruction requires it.Each time a deck is randomized, the opponent must be given anopportunity to shue and/or cut the cards as well.

Open InformationTe number o cards in a player’s hand or deck, and the numbero credits in his credit pool, are open inormation.

Taking NotesPlayers are not allowed to take notes to aid memory orgameplay, whether physically or digitally, during a tournamentmatch. Reerencing outside material and inormation during amatch is also prohibited, except or ocial rule documents.

Tournament Organizer Participation

Te O may participate in a tournament or which he or sheis responsible only i there is a second tournament organizerpresent. Tis second O must be present and announced at thebeginning o the tournament, and is responsible or all rulings

or games in which the primary O is playing.

Tournament and Match Structure

Tournament FormatsAll ocially sanctioned tournaments or Android: Netrunner will use the ollowing ormat:

• Swiss Format

• 65 minute rounds (the O may adjust this time by +/- 10minutes at his discretion beore the tournament begins)

• Match play consisting o two games

Match StructureA match consists o two games. Players alternate playingCorporation and Runner during a match. For the rst game o a match, the players must decide who will play Corporation andwho will play Runner by using a random method (such as a dieroll or coin ip). Te winner o this random method chooseswhich side to play.

Afer drawing his or her starting hand, the Corporation mustdecide rst whether to take his or her mulligan, ollowed by the

Runner.

Winning MatchesTe winner o each match is the player with the most matchpoints at the conclusion o the match.

Te winner o a game scores 10 match points. Te loser o agame scores match points equal to the number o agenda pointshe or she had at the time the game ended.

At the conclusion o the match each player totals up the matchpoints he or she scored in both games, and the player with thehighest total wins the match.

PrestigeAt the conclusion o each match, players are awarded prestigebased on their results. For each game a player wins duringhis or her match, he or she gains 2 prestige. Te winner o thematch also gains an additional 2 prestige. Tus, the potentialmaximum amount o prestige that a player can gain each roundis 6. Remember that you still gain prestige or winning a game,even i you lose the match.

Example: Kevin just nished playing his match against Jasmine,and each player won a single game. Tis means that they each

gain 2 prestige. In order to gure out who won the match, they total up their match points rom both games. Kevin won the rst

game (10 points) but lost the second game with only 3 agenda points. Tis gives him a total o 13 match points. Jasmine lost the rst game but had 5 agenda points when she did, and won thesecond game (10 points). Tis gives her 15 match points. Jasminewins the match and gains 2 additional prestige.

In the case o a tied match, players split the prestige or thatmatch (each gaining 1 prestige).



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Going to TimePlayers play both games over the course o 65 minutes. Tesecond game is not started until the rst game is completed.

I time is called and neither player has achieved victory inthe current game, then play continues until both players havecompleted one turn. I victory has still not been achieved aferthe nal turn, then no one wins the game and the playersscore match points based on the number o agenda points they

currently have. Players then total up their match points likenormal to see who won the match.

In the case o an unfnished game, players split the prestigeor that game (each gaining 1 prestige).

Example: Simon and Doc are unable to nish their current gamein time. Simon is taking his turn when time is called, and so the

game is completed afer Doc’s next turn. At that point Simon has6 agenda points and Doc has 4, so Simon scores 6 points or thematch, and Doc scores 4. Each player also gains 1 prestige or theunnished game, even though Simon had more agenda ponts.

I the players have not started the second game o a matchwhen time is called, then they do not gain any prestige romthat game. A game is not considered to have started until theCorporation draws 1 card rom R&D at the beginning o hisrst turn.

Tournament StructureEach tournament round, players gain prestige based on theresults o their games and match. Afer a predeterminednumber o tournament rounds (depending on the eld sizeand time constraints o the tournament), either a tournamentchampion is declared or there is a cut to a single-eliminationbracket. Te elimination bracket is generally used or larger

tournaments.

I there is no elimination bracket, then the player with themost prestige afer all tournament rounds are completed isthe winner o the tournament, with ties broken by total matchpoints accrued during the tournament.

I there is an elimination bracket, the players with the mostprestige (usually a top 4 or top 8) will be seeded and pairedup in order to determine the tournament champion. Tenumber o players who make the cut must be determined andannounced beore the start o the tournament. Each player’sorder o nish in the preliminary rounds determines his or her

seeding in the elimination brackets: the player who qualieswith the most prestige in the preliminary rounds will play against the player who qualied with the least prestige in thepreliminary rounds, the player with the second most prestigewill play against the player with the second least prestige, andso on. ies are broken by strength o schedule rst (totalling upthe prestige o each player’s opponents) and then by a player’stotal match points accrued during the tournament. A playeradvances in the championship bracket with a match win, a

player is eliminated rom contention with a match loss. In thecase o a match tie, the higher seed advances.

When the nal 2 participants compete in the championshipmatch, there is no time limit. Te winner o this nal matchis the tournament champion. In the case o a match tie, theplayers randomly choose sides as i they were starting a new match and play a third game. Te winner o this third gamewins the championship match and the tournament.

Note that in elimination play, the match can be decided beorecompleting the second game. I this happens there is no need tocomplete the second game.

Netrunner is a M o R. alsorian Games, Inc. Android is M & © 2013 Fantasy Flight Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Netrunner is licensed by Wizards o the Coast LLC. © 2013Wizards. Wizards o the Coast and its logo are property o Wizards o the Coast LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries. Android , Fantasy Flight Games, Fantasy Flight Supply, and the FFGlogo are trademarks o Fantasy Flight Publishing, Inc. Living Card Game, LCG, and the LCG logo are registered trademarks o Fantasy Flight Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Fantasy Flight Games is located at 1975 West County Road B2, Suite 1, Roseville, MN 55113, U.S.A., and can be reached by telephone at 651-639-1905. Retain this inormation or your records.

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