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                     *** Red Baron Tournament IX ***

                             OFFICIAL RULES


 This Tournament is designed for Red Baron Mission Builder.  It will not 
 work if you have only the standard Red Baron software.  There are ten
 custom missions.  You will fly ten different Allied aircraft.  There is
 NO practice!  Each mission you fly is a valid attempt.  You MUST _score_ 
 each mission once and only once.  You MUST have ten scored missions, one for 
 each aircraft, to have a valid entry.  Instructions for scoring missions 
 are listed in rule 3 below.  There are two divisions of competition, 
 A and B.  Read all the rules below carefully, before you fly a mission!

 1) This tournament will be run on the honor system, and all participants
    are honor bound, as officers in the Royal Flying Corps, to abide
    by these rules and report all results accurately, as if you were
    under oath.  Cheaters never prosper!

 2) This ZIP is designed to be unzipped into your Red Baron directory
    using the -d option of PKUNZIP.  You should have entered the command:
    PKUNZIP -d RBTNY9 from within your Red Baron directory.  The ten 
    custom mission files will be placed into the \CUSTOM subdirectory 
    under your Red Baron directory.  When you are ready to activate the 
    Tournament mission record file, run the included batch file, RBTNY9.BAT.  
    Your current ROSTER.DAT will be copied to ROSTER.XXX, and the official 
    mission record file, ROSTER.TN9, will be copied to ROSTER.DAT.  You must 
    use the official mission record file for scorekeeping.  Once you have 
    activated the official mission record file, you are participating in the
    tournament.  You may not practice any single missions once the tournament
    is active.  You must fly the missions in order, from A to K.

 3) The procedure for flying a Tournament mission is as follows:
    a) From the MAIN MENU select SINGLE MISSION.
    b) From the SINGLE MISSION menu select FLY A CUSTOM MISSION.
    c) At the bottom of the FLY A CUSTOM MISSION menu, select REALISM PANEL.
       See rule 6 for realism settings in A and B divisions.  Set your
       OVERALL DIFFICULTY percentage accordingly.
    d) From the FLY A CUSTOM MISSION menu use the arrow keys to select your 
       next RBTNY9x missions.  Read the mission briefing before flying.
    e) At the bottom of the FLY A CUSTOM MISSION menu, select BEGIN.
    f) Answer YES to "Would you like save this mission to a tape?"
    g) Fly the mission to the best of your ability.  When the mission is over,
       decide if you want it to be one of your ten scored missions.  See 
       Rule 4 below for the differences between A and B divisions, regarding
       the scoring of missions.
    h) IMPORTANT - The way you end the mission and the menu choice you pick
       determine whether the mission will be scored or not.  The menu choices
       RESTART MISSION, ABORT MISSION, and CONTINUE FLYING will never score
       a mission.  If your mission score is greater than zero, RETURN TO BASE, 
       END MISSION, and CONTINUE (if dead) will score the mission.  Be careful
       not to score a mission you don't want scored!
    i) IMPORTANT - If you want to exit Red Baron without scoring the mission,
       press <Ctrl><Esc> and answer Y to the question EXIT TO DOS?  You may
       also exit by flying a mission to a point where you are in combat or 
       have a critically damaged aircraft.  Press <Esc> and choose ABORT 
       MISSION.  You will be taken back to the MAIN MENU where you can select 
       EXIT TO DOS. 
    j) You may choose CONTINUE FLYING from the MISSION IS OVER menu and land 
       at your home aerodrome for extra points.  Home aerodromes are listed 
       in the mission briefings.
    k) If you are NOT scoring the mission, CANCEL the save of the tape.  You
       may NOT save any unofficial tapes.  You may NOT fly a Tournament 
       mission from a saved tape in an attempt to improve your score.  All 
       Tournament missions MUST be flown from the CUSTOM MISSION menu!
    l) If you ARE scoring the mission, name the tape the same as the custom
       mission (e.g., if you flew mission RBTNY9A, name the tape RBTNY9A).
       SAVE the tape.
    j) If you ARE scoring the mission, select CONTINUE on the MISSION 
       DEBRIEFING menu.  Select OK on the CONGRATULATIONS menu.  Type your
       name (up to fifteen characters) on the ENTER YOUR PILOT'S NAME menu
       and select ACCEPT.  Do not select CANCEL if you have changed your
       mind and don't want to score the mission.  Cancel will still score
       the mission and enter (Anonymous) as the pilot name.  If you made a
       mistake, press <Ctrl><Esc> and answer Y before selecting ACCEPT.  
       The mission is officially scored once you have selected ACCEPT!

4) The Tournament consists of ten custom missions.  They are named RBTNY9A
    through RBTNY9K.  There is no RBTNY9I.  Mission briefings are displayed 
    as you use the arrow buttons on the FLY A CUSTOM MISSION menu.  You must
    fly the missions in alphabetical order.  Print the MISSIONS.TXT file for
    a brief mission summary of all missions.  Use it as a checklist to track
    which missions you have already scored.
    a) If you are flying A-division, you are allowed one attempt at each 
       mission.  You are also allowed two "mulligans", that is, opportunities 
       to start a mission over.  Once you have used up your mulligans, you are
       allowed one attempt at the remainder of your missions.  You must score
       your missions immediately upon their completion.
    b) If you are flying B-division, you are allowed three attempts at each
       mission.  There are no mulligans in B-division; you already have three
       attempts to make good on any mistakes or misfortunes.  You do not have
       to use all three attempts for a mission.  If your first or second 
       attempt was satisfactory, score it and go on to the next mission.
    Once you have scored each mission, your Tournament file is complete and 
    you may not make additional entries.  You can see which missions have 
    already been scored by selecting BEST MISSIONS on the SINGLE MISSION MENU.  
    When you are finished, there should be ten entries with your name.  Each 
    entry should have a different aircraft.

 5) At any time you may alter either of the DETAIL LEVEL settings, GROUND
    or AIRCRAFT, on the F10 PREFERENCES menu.  Lower detail (slider left)
    will improve your frame rate.  The TIME SCALE slider must be set at the 
    longest tick mark, just right of center, above the "S" in the word SCALE.  
    You may NOT change the setting of TIME SCALE while participating in the 
    Tournament.  You may set the GROUND DETAIL OFF IN COMBAT.

 6) A DIVISION: All missions must be flown at overall difficulty 100.  

    B DIVISION: All missions must be flown at overall difficulty 81*, with
    the following settings:  
    COMBAT LEVEL - STANDARD 
    FLIGHT MODEL - INTERMEDIATE
    MIDAIR COLLISIONS - OFF
    ALL OTHER REALISM SETTINGS - ON

    * Navigation allowance: If you have difficulty navigating around the
      Red Baron world, you may turn REAL NAVIGATION off, and fly at overall
      difficulty 78.  This will slightly lessen your score relative to those 
      pilots in B-division who are flying at overall difficulty 81.

 7) You may NOT alter the custom mission files in any way, either through
    Mission Builder software or sector editor software.  You may NOT look at
    Tournament custom mission files with Mission Builder software, DEBUG, or
    any other sector editor or file lister.  All missions MUST be flown with
    the limited intelligence provided in the mission briefings, and the 
    MISSIONS.TXT file included in this Tournament pack.  You are encouraged
    to print out MISSIONS.TXT for reference, and for use as a checklist of
    completed missions.  You may not alter the aircraft performance 
    specifications or weapons loadouts in any way.  All aircraft must be the 
    stock Mission Builder or Red Baron aircraft: no patched aircraft!  No
    flexible guns on fighters, no second gun on the Nieuport 28 or S.E.5a,
    no alterations to any player-flyable or non-player-flyable aircraft are
    allowed.  If you have patched your aircraft, they must be returned to
    stock performance and weaponry before starting the Tournament.
 
 8) All first, second, and third place finishers of all previous
    Red Baron Tournaments are not eligible to compete in B-division.
    These people include: Eric Pearson, Brian Hinkel, Tony Pham,
    James Johnson, Seymour Greenberg, Mark Tupper, Randall Penn,
    Steve Palmer, Ron De Iso, John Thomasovich, Vince Alonso, Ivan Luk,
    Brian Wilson, Bill Cameron, Dan Scollin, Aaron Anderson, Tris Love, 
    Bryan Uslick, Bill McNeal, and Craig Allen.  All others are eligible to 
    compete in either A or B division.  Winners of this Tournament will have 
    their names placed in this section for future Tournaments.  As Tournament
    Director, I (Bill Ciciora) will be competing in A-division for comparison 
    purposes only, and will not be eligible for prizes.

 9) IMPORTANT - Do NOT post any public messages detailing your scores,
    victories, or mission outcomes.  Such banter prior to the closing of a
    Tournament tends to discourage participation.  You will be DISQUALIFIED
    for disclosing any of your Tournament statistics prior to the Tournament
    CONference.

10) To enter, rename the Tournament ROSTER.DAT in which your ten mission
    scores have been saved to XXXXXX.DAT, where XXXXXX represents the first 
    six letters of your last name.  Upload this file to FSFORUM LIB 7, 
    Historic Air Combat.  Compuserve B protocol or Kermit protocol are 
    preferred, as they preserve the file length at 3353 bytes (this is a 
    technical issue for ease of judging the Tournament).  Select Binary as 
    your Transfer type.  In the upload description, list your full name,
    Red Baron Tournament 9, and the division, A or B, that you want to enter.
    Be sure to list the division, even if your name is listed in section 9
    above.  For the upload keywords, type "RED BARON TOURNAMENT 9 DIVISION 
    [A or B]".  For the upload title, type "Red Baron Tournament 9 entry".  
    Leave a message to SYSOP in FSFORUM Section 7 if you have problems 
    uploading.  If you have questions about rules interpretations, send EMAIL 
    to Bill Ciciora (73717,2274).

11) Entries must be uploaded by 23:59:59 Eastern Daylight Time, Friday,
    14 May 1993.  Entries received after this date/time will not qualify
    for the Tournament.  IMPORTANT - This is not necessarily your local time.
    Send a message to Bill Ciciora if you do not know the hour difference 
    between your local time and Eastern Daylight Time.  Better yet, don't 
    wait until the last minute to upload your entry.  You will be notified 
    by private message or email that your file was received.  If you are one 
    of the top three winners in either division, or a raffle prize winner
    (see rule 12 below), you will be notified to ZIP your ten Tournament 
    tapes for upload.

12) Entries will be judged by Mike Barrs, FSFORUM ASSOCIATE SYSOP.
    Winners will be chosen by the combined total of their top eight mission 
    scores.  Ties will be broken at the judge's discretion by comparing the 
    total of the bottom two mission scores, and then the value of the ninth
    place mission score.

13) Winners will be announced at the FSFORUM CONference in Room 7 on Sunday,
    16 May 1993 at 9:00pm Eastern Daylight Time.

14) Prizes (courtesy of Dynamix) will be awarded to the top three entrants
    in both divisions.  A signed copy of _Dynamix Great War Planes_ (courtesy
    of Bill Ciciora), ISBN 1-55958-157-3, will be awarded by random drawing
    at the Tournament CONference, to one entrant in each division.
    One prize per person.  Void where prohibited.

 Good luck, and have fun!

 Bill Ciciora 73717,2274
 Red Baron Tournament Coordinator

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