• What is Supernova Tournament?

• The Supernova Tournament is a double-elimination tournament run by The 81-Square Universe. It is the first minor title in The 81-Square Universe Championships.
  
• The winner will be named with the title "Supernova" (新星 in Japanese kanji), to determine the greatest of the "new stars" in the shogi world..
  
• It is played by all players in one tournament.
  
• The winner of the tournament becomes the Supernova. Unlike in the major titles, the Supernova is still required play in all rounds of the following Supernova term. There is no title match. The finals will be played in a 5 game match.
• The finals will be played between the winner of the Winner's Bracket and the winner of the Loser's Bracket. The winner of the Winner's Bracket begins the finals with one win counted towards the match; so the Winner's Bracket winner must win 2 games to become the Supernova and the Loser's Bracket winner must win 3 games to become the Supernova.
• The tournament is only for newer or weaker players. Players who have taken or challenged a title, won a tournament, qualified for A-Class in 81-Ou League, or qualified for ranks over 2-Dan may not participate.
  

• Rules

• Player must try to arrange the game schedule with the opponent within the recommended time period, which is specified for each game in the tournament. (1 game per week per player in average)
  
• If your opponent doesn't respond at all to your schedule arrangement offer, you may declare a win by default.
• If the two players seem to be unable to arrange the schedule despite that both players are clearly willing to, (due to time difference, or both players' being too busy, etc.), they may discuss delaying the schedule with the administrator.
• If both players don't seem to be willing to arrange the schedule, the administrator may declare both players' loss by default. (which means a win by default for the player who is to play against the winner of the two in the next stage.)
• A draw should be resolved with a re-match.
  
• Player can be seeded in the next term according to his/her results in the previous term.