Entry fee for World Championship is at

only 30 Euro!

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During the year every player has a total amount of expenses of more or less 150 Euro, but effective costs of only ~50 Euro.

Costs can not be told exactly, because they depend on every players personal shipping prices in his country.

Playing the Preliminary Round on your continent you will have small shipping costs to the players next to you, one time per month. And these expenses are not really expenses, because while you (for example "Player 4") pay around 15 euros for shipping your played puzzle to Player 5, you will get a puzzle from "Player 3" without paying this puzzle. At the end of Preliminary Round (after 8 Continental Rounds in August) you will get back your puzzle that has done a round on your continent.

So there are effective only one time 15 Euro real expenses beside entry fee of 30 Euro.

And you will enjoy at least 8 puzzles. Rising to Intermediate Round or Finals you can get up to 11 puzzles and 12 times tournament fun for your money!!!

Because shipping costs to the next player will always be more or less the money if you bought a puzzle, and you will get so 7 puzzles of the other players.

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The incompareable higher costs are on the organizer's side...

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The organizer gets 30 Euro from 40 players (5 continents with 8 players) = 1200 Euro and his expenses during the tournament are...

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Annual payment for zoom at 140 euro...  15 Puzzles for Intermediate Round, 8 Puzzles for Quarter-Finals, 4 Puzzles for Semi-Finals and 4 four Finals.
All together then 31 Puzzles (guessed 15 Euro/Puzzle) and 31 International shipping costs (guessed 22 Euro/Player) makes 37x31 = 1147+140 = € 1287.

And little prizes for our Puzzle Champion and Places 2 and 3 will cost around 200 Euro.

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Means that from your 30 Euro stays no one single cent in the organizer's wallet! On the contrary! The organizer pays in our example calculation also around 300 Euro from his own money he got for the World Puzzle Days.

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But what would be life worth without fun?

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P.S.: Puzzles in Preliminary Round chosen by the players have to be new. NO FLEA MARKET GARBAGE FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP! You also would like to get a good puzzle from the player before you. And it should be highbrow but also not too difficult to master assembly in 12 hours also by slower players! So if you are a "Speedy Gonzalez" of puzzle players, be fair and choose a normal puzzle, not a black and white puzzle every player needs at least 20 hours to assemble it. Make your friends happy and choose a not every day seen puzzle, really worthy to be one of a Puzzle-Championship.

Next point... Cheating playing the puzzle already once before the Play Day... Cheating is only avoidable by allowing it as "Training for every player".
Every sportsman has his trainings session. So why not a puzzle player also? So why not you also? And if you may do it, it is no longer cheating if another player does it also. On the contrary! Try your next puzzle once before next Play Day!  Formula 1 racers, skiers, swimmers, runners,... all have their training before. This is meant only for Preliminary Round! From Intermediate Round on you get a manufacturer sealed puzzle and you must keep it closed until Play Day and open it only live on cam showing this to the moderator. -- Keep the puzzle's parcel always to forward it after Play Day to the next player. Puzzles should be forwarded within the next 3 days after Play Day to avoid that one player doesn't get his puzzle until next Play Day, in case parcel services are working slowly!!! Every player has 2 "Joker Days" in Preliminary Round to play his puzzle on another day during the first week after Play Day, in case he is on holiday, ill or any other reason. After two of such cases puzzle time for non-playing players will be 13 hours 20 minutes (800:00 minutes). For all players who need more than 12 hours for assembly we write 12 hours 30 minutes (750:00 minutes). Of course Jokers must be taken also by live-video.

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So what costs participation for you all things considered?

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• In worst case you fall out of the tournament after the Preliminary Round and you invest 8 times ~15 Euro (paid easily monthly from January to August!) and you get 7 puzzles on loan "for free to play" and 8 times tournament fun.

• In best case you will play until the Finals and all you invest is 12 times ~7.50 Euro. You'll get 4 brand new puzzles of a value of ~60 euro and after Preliminary Round costs will no longer raise, puzzles will be paid always by the organizer. So at the end you will have expenses of ~7.50 per tournament fun (12x!).

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The 120 Euro for shipping during the Preliminary Round are calculated with 8x15 Euro. This is "more or less"! If you ship a puzzle inner the USA or inner Mexico it may be less. And if you have to ship a puzzle from the USA to Mexico or viceversa, it could be these 15. The organizer will try to set the 8 players on each continent in an order to avoid shipping the puzzles further than necessary all over the continent.

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So every player has to agree with a payment of 8 monthly shipping costs to the next player during the month of January to August!

Subscriptions have to be realized (inclusive payment!) until October 1. Only 8 players of every continent can be accepted.

So places are well limited and if you want to be part of this new fun, don't wait too long! For payment information please click here.