The Jenazon Cup is a worldwide annual tournament for the game Amazons. The Cup is played via Internet. Arbitrary mixed teams with humans and computers are allowed to participate.
 
In 2002 the Jenazon Cup 2002 was a round-robbin tournament with six teams and one round per week. Altogether we had nine weeks available. To make the schedule most comfortable for the participants a flexible approach was tested: Before the start each team was allowed to nominate three weeks in which the team was not willing to play. The hope was that nevertheless a complete time table would be realizable. Indeed, things went well. The 2002 schedule was made by hand, and only recently the idea rose to design a Zillions scheduler for the task. In this Zillions realisation there are three actors:
  (i) The ''User'' enters all the time-out wishes.
  (ii) The ''Scheduler'' makes the schedule.
  (iii) The ''Controller'' controls if the schedule is ok.
The standard setting is that the Zillions engine has the role of Scheduler and Controller. However, Zillions is not a perfect Scheduler. So it makes sense to try interactive approaches. For instance, the human may create a partial starting schedule and let Zillions complete it.
 
There have been Jenazon Cups in 2001 and 2002. The event for 2003 will start in September. A Call for Participation may be found via the website http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/jenazon.
Any teams from all over the world are welcome. Deadline for applications is August 31, 2003.