Announcing: The Grand PVP Tournament!

xrazamax

Announcing: The Great PvP Tournament!

There will be a Grand PvP Extravaganza coming to Millennium City!


This event will take place over several different days. During this time there will be several small tournaments umbrella'd under one larger "tournament" season.These small events will have specific rules that contestants must follow in order to compete in them. There will be prizes for each tournament as well as larger prizes for overall performance at the end of the Tournament Season. The specific rules for the overall Tournament Season and the specific events will be laid out in the very near future.



Examples for some of these Tournaments would be level limits (i.e. Under 23 only), specific passives only (i.e. offensive passives only Tournament), Gear specific Tournaments (Samurai, Armadillo, or Cyber gear only), or Team tournaments (which can also have further specific rules). Lastly, there will be a few "Anything goes" events.

Only a Player's best performances at the end of the Tournament season will count towards their standings at the end of the PvP season (how many events you need to qualify is TBD). Therefore, if you miss events you will still be able to compete for first place at the end of the season, and if you wish to not participate or do poorly in a few events, you will not be eliminated.

What you can do to help RIGHT NOW

Please give us your suggestions!

> Where would you like to have the tournaments held?

> What kind of events would you like to see (or not see) and be interested competing in?

> Do you have any concerns or ideas to make things run smoothly?

> What sort of prizes would you like to see or would compel you to enter?

> Would you like to help or be involved as an observer or official of some kind?

Make a post and let us know!

As of now, the rules for the tournament and the specific rules for the events are being finalized, but this is your chance to chime in, and to spread the word! Let spread some holiday cheer with a few well placed holds and crits! :biggrin:

xrazamax

Reserved for reasons

xrazamax

Reserved for other reasons

stergiosman

Hey! Awesome to have a tourney, I will join as many of those mini tourneys as I can, but mind you, I am mostly on at european times and usually during weekends.

I could also help in any way you need me to, I'm @redsymbol in game.

xrazamax

stergiosman wrote: »

Hey! Awesome to have a tourney, I will join as many of those mini tourneys as I can, but mind you, I am mostly on at european times and usually during weekends.

I could also help in any way you need me to, I'm @redsymbol in game.

Part of the idea of having multiple smaller tournaments that go towards an overall standing is so the events can be held at different times. That way, players all over the world can compete

spinnytop

xrazamax wrote: »

> Do you have any concerns or ideas to make things run smoothly?

Hide.


The pros are coming.

stergiosman

xrazamax wrote: »

Part of the idea of having multiple smaller tournaments that go towards an overall standing is so the events can be held at different times. That way, players all over the world can compete

Awesome! I will help in any way I can when I'm on.

theravenforce

Heya, nice to see someone else doing a community event this year!

I ran The Cosmic Key Event earlier this year, had a good turn out for all three parts, particularly the PvP part of the event.

I was helped by a PvPer (oobtree) to enforce the rules of no device using and everyone seemed to take to that pretty well.

I held the PvP tournament part of the event in the Arena part of the Powerhouse, as it can be used for team pvping outside of the five arenas.

I'd be happy to help out if you haven't already got a list of people to assist.

The link I've put in this post has a link to the 2013 event as well as the prize lists they both had if you'd like an idea of prizes you might consider.

I know that items such as Depleted Uranium Cores, Vehicles (maybe not so much now), Cosmic Keys, Resources go down quite well.

If you feel like PMing me you can do so via forums of message me in game:

Mentella@ravenforce

aiqa

Nice idea
I'd like to see a melee only tournament (meaning the only way you're allowed to affect the other player in any way is with a power that is tagged melee, or lunges).

xcaligax

I am interested.

Caliga approves.

dragonfist8

yep, we figured making something like this, will allow everyone to both compete against one another and have a good deal of fun in the process. Theirs nothing wrong with being a bit competitive and were hoping to see that with this, but to also keep it friendly. At the moment, smaller details are being worked out, prizes are being gathered and were obtaining information from everybody else.....This may turn out to be a complete success even and can be something we do again in the near future

mrhinkypunk

Hm this sounds interesting, I could pop on again to help out if needed at all. The one thing would be attempting to get enough people coming to do each thing.

dragonfist8

indeed, we'll be advertising a ton in game and making sure the info is passed through out the SG's also. The more help, the better....we'll need people talking about this to raise awareness

spinnytop

Spinny's pro tip for the day: Don't invest in salt, there's going to be a surplus soon.

englishdamsel

I'd be interested in anything that gets lower level, queued PvP active again.

leewill

I would be interested in participating and/or helping with this. PvP is sorely lacking in this game, and if we want it, seems we'll have to take matters into our own hands. I think tournaments are a much better test of your skill and build ability than just dueling some random opponent who will most likely whine like a little girl when they lose. I don't play as much as some people, but I'd like to be informed of the upcoming events and give some input if it's wanted. I'm @leewill in the game. I'm mostly on nights and weekends and I'm on EST.
Oh, and I've always thought the Mystic Foundry would be a great place to have a dueling tourney, but I don't know if you can duel inside it or not. How about a magic-only tourney in there, or the offensive passive-only category?

oddbirdy

I think it's a great idea. I'd love to be in a team PVP tournament.

xrazamax

Just a heads up: The first round of tournaments will probably consist of level restricted, Offensive passives only, and ATs. The exact rules will be posted in one of the two "reserved" post. Also, the tournament probably wont start until after the 11th. Need to get it all set up and make sure it starts without a hitch. We'd hate to have people confused by rules or be caught in a situation where we don't run the tournament fairly.

mrhinkypunk

xrazamax wrote: »

Just a heads up: The first round of tournaments will probably consist of level restricted, Offensive passives only, and ATs. The exact rules will be posted in one of the two "reserved" post. Also, the tournament probably wont start until after the 11th. Need to get it all set up and make sure it starts without a hitch. We'd hate to have people confused by rules or be caught in a situation where we don't run the tournament fairly.

The problem is with offensive passives only is that night warrior hands down beats other passives PvP wise. For the small damage loss to one damage type you get the damage increase to EVERYTHING and you get two new powers (stealth and shadow strike). Even if SS isn't allowed you generally have a massive upper hand with the passive over other offensive passives. And this is coming from someone who almost always uses offensive passives in PvP, usually trying to avoid using NW.

spinnytop

mrhinkypunk wrote: »

The problem is with offensive passives only is that night warrior hands down beats other passives PvP wise. For the small damage loss to one damage type you get the damage increase to EVERYTHING and you get two new powers (stealth and shadow strike). Even if SS isn't allowed you generally have a massive upper hand with the passive over other offensive passives. And this is coming from someone who almost always uses offensive passives in PvP, usually trying to avoid using NW.

The beginning of the end.


All player-run pvp in Champions Online must eventually come face to face with the monumental question....... how do we make this fair?

chalupaoffury

pbaoes?

We've hit the scissors rock paper dilemma I think. I'd be down for this.

stergiosman

mrhinkypunk wrote: »

The problem is with offensive passives only is that night warrior hands down beats other passives PvP wise. For the small damage loss to one damage type you get the damage increase to EVERYTHING and you get two new powers (stealth and shadow strike). Even if SS isn't allowed you generally have a massive upper hand with the passive over other offensive passives. And this is coming from someone who almost always uses offensive passives in PvP, usually trying to avoid using NW.

Agreed, then again, stealth becomes a problem, because no offensive passive without stealth can compete against an offensive passive build with smoke nade/EM, unless they have perception gear, which would turn this into a vet-only event.

fookila

Ahhhh, good times for PvP CC...

xrazamax

Should we amend a no stealth rule? Or whatever you guys have in mind. I may change it, there is time to change the line up, however I feel that an Offensive passives only rule set would be a fun thing to have. I would prefer that we come up with a way to do offensive passives that people agree with that is fair and FUN.


That said, this has made me consider posting all the variations of rules that we are considering so that people can comment and discuss them BEFORE the actual tournament. I will try to do so tomorrow (even though I should be studying for finals instead. )