Gem Cutting Event

A Controller run event that shows up on the calendar.
Watch for news and winners' listings in the Events chat.
Left

Click on the Calendar icon and scroll.
Click on the Eye icon on the left under the title of the Event to see a small story and prize list.

Make sure to set your Time Zone correctly because the calendar time for event start uses that information for each player.

Unfortunately, in game, your Time Zone does not account for the changing times in spring and fall. You must manually change it.

In the USA for 2020, Daylight Savings Time is March 8th thru November 1st.

Set your Time Zone back one hour in the spring and forward one hour in the fall.
For reference:

Eastern Time in the USA is 0500, as in the pic, when not during DST and has to manually be reset from 0400 during EDT.

Instructions appear in the Events chat:

Cuttable Zircon goes into your Inventory (note that that cuttable gem is not used for anything but this event).
You have a fixed amount of cuts to try.
+1 on score for each successful cut.
At start of event, retrieve your Cuttable Zircon from any School of Thought. Schools of Thought are at every Chariot Stop or next to any University of Thought.
The amount of Cuttable Zircon handed out is equal to 1/3 of the gem catalog list.
You may only use your given amount of Cuttable Zircon and may not use more from another player.
Each gem gets is allowed a maximum of 19 cuts.
Scoring chart is below. First cut gives 50 points, Second cut gives 33 point, etc.

Take a look at the Cut Gems page to see the different standard gem cuts.

Because of the incrementally lower score points, strategy based upon uniqueness is more important than skill.

Knowing all of the rare flaws and being able to spot them will still help.

Winner's Reports will be in the Events channel for Harvest Count, Harvest Quantity, Workers and Peers.