Second Annual Luxtoberfest Contest and Celebration.

Sillysoft Games has announced the start of the second annual Luxtoberfest contest and celebration. The month-long festival runs through October and forms the yearly championship for the community surrounding the downloadable strategy game Lux.

Luxtoberfest features special events on every October weekend, starting and ending with Tournaments of Champions between the current highest-ranked players. Later weekends will include team play tournaments, map reviews, "Twitch Lux," "Memory Lux," and the grand finale award ceremonies.

All events will take place at 9 PM GMT time / 4 PM Eastern time / 1 PM Pacific time in a public network game of Lux marked with Luxtoberfest according to this schedule:

Saturday 1st - Luxtoberfest 2005 opening Tournament of Champions.
Sunday 2nd - Team-play tournament.

Saturday 8th - Luxtoberfest map review: play the best maps of 2005.
Sunday 9th - Twitch Lux tournament: 8 second turn time games.

Saturday 15th - Team-play tournament.
Sunday 16th - Hexathon tournament: featuring all your favorite hex maps.

Saturday 22nd - Memory Lux tournament: all players have the same color.
Sunday 23rd - History night: a journey through the historically based maps of Lux.

Saturday 29th - Tournament of Champions.
Sunday 30th - Luxtoberfest 2005 closing award ceremonies.

The grand finale of Luxtoberfest will be the October 30th award ceremonies where the winners of the yearly Lux prizes are announced. All players are asked to email their votes to lux@sillysoft.net before the end of October in the following categories:

Best Map (eligible maps)
Best AI (eligible AIs)
Best Host
Most Entertaining Player
Most Sportsmanlike Player
Rookie of the Year (only players who were around for last year's Luxtoberfest may vote for this)
Most Strategic Players (Lifetime Achievement)

Statistical prizes will also be distributed for:
Luxtoberfest Highest Ranking October Players
Most Wins
Most 6 Human Wins
Most 6 Human Wins on Non-Classic Maps

Jason's Comments: Luxtoberfest - great name