• Completion Criteria (CC) are conditions that have to be fulfilled for the attempt to be valid. These can be ratings, housing levels, required population level or other things... You get no bonus if you exceed these criteria, but these conditions must be achieved for your submittal to be evaluated. If the event is time-limited, your saved game must be saved before the time has expired. If the instructions are to save the game in a certian month or year, you must comply. Only submittals that have achieved the required Completion Criteria will be evaluated. Each individual event description page lists the Completion Criteria that must be achieved.

• Winning Criteria (WC) is used to evaluate the winner of the event. As long as the Completion Criteria has been achieved, the next step is to evaluate the submittal with the Winning Criteria. If there are several Winning Criteria, the subsequent criteria are used only if two or more players achieve the same result in all previous Winning Criteria.

  Example: WC1 is Prosperity, WC2 is population

• Player A has prosperity of 100 and population of 3000
• Player B has prosperity of 100 and population of 4000
• Player C has prosperity of 95 and population of 5000

Player B is the winner because he/she has achieved the same prosperity but has the higher population. Player C is third, because he/she has lower prosperity and therefore population plays no role. These criteria are generally numerical, but not always. See individual event for explanations.

• Only the criteria that are explicitly mentioned matter. The downloaded game may require 99 Palatial Estates, but that is only to block victory as the game has been designed for a different goal. Follow only the listed requirements on each individual event description page.

Scoring Methods

Expert and Novice Classes do not compete against each other in regular scoring for events. Points will be awarded in each Class for each event. Special awards will be given for overall competition and will be open for all participants.

For each event winners will be chosen for both Novice and Expert Class:

• The highest ranked 15 players (in each event, each class) receive points in the following order: 25-20-15-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.
• Each valid submittal receives one point.
• If less than 15 valid entries are received for an event, the winner still receives the 25 points, and subsequent ranked entries according to above order, but points not awarded are "'lost" (not divided among entries).
• Ties are allowed in all individual events. In case of a tie both players receive the same amount of points as if they would be the only one who finished on that place, and the subsequent places are not awarded (for example, if 2 players share 3rd place, they both get 15 points, and the next player is ranked 5th and gets 11 points).
  
  
• Important Note: Number of players and awarded points is preliminary and can be changed - please see the Competition Corner Forum for latest discussion. This scheme may be revised before Pharaoh Cup Competition 2001 begins.

Final Grand Winners

As the Pharaoh Cup Competition 2001 has fewer events than the Pharaolympics 2000, there is a greater probability of a tie in overall ranking. Ties are allowed in individual events, but not for the final prizes awarded to the 1st, 2nd or 3rd place Grand Winners. If two or more players have accumulated the same number of points the following procedure will be used to determine their order:

• Player with better individual results is ranked higher (e.g. one 2nd place and one 6th place is better than two 3rd place results, although both players have 32 points including the single point for valid entry).
• If still tied, the player who has better results in the Long Event is ranked higher.
• If still tied, the player with greater sum of population from all valid submittals is ranked higher.
• If still tied, both players are disqualified for their attempt to confuse the Competition Board :)

1st, 2nd and 3rd place final grand winners each class, Novice and Expert based on cumulative points at end of contest. Grand Winners receive adoration and honor of all Pharaoh Players!

Special Awards will also be given at the end of the contest. These awards are open for all participants and will be chosen by the Competition Board.