Maximum of 40 players.
All rounds will be 4-player games, With four players second and third places after each game will get one strike, fourth place will get two strikes, with three players second places get one strike, third place get two strikes.
Depending on what comes first eight rounds will be played towards the finals or the round which is underway at 16:00 hrs will be the last before the final series. Best eight will continue, if there are players with the same number of wins on the eighth and ninth rank all players with that number of wins will play extra for a tie-breaker. Finals will be two four-player groups of which the loser of each game is out, next will be two three-player games of which the loser of each game is out. The remaining four players will play one final game.
In the case there are (far) less players at the start than forty and to make sure there are still eight players after the initial eight rounds the number of strikes may be adjusted.