Official Cavalry Tournament 8/28/15

[Auphilia]

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Rules:

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1. All participants must ride a mount.
2. Dismounted participants must switch to their sidearm weapon which can be no greater than 100 length.
3. Participants are restricted to their team's theme and must use the uniformed armor.
4. Skipped-the-Fun characters only.
5. A maximum of 1 horse ranged player per team.
6. All participants must uphold maximum integrity and be respectful to each other.

Failure to adhere to any rules will result in immediate disqualification and public flogging.

Summary & Information:

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The tournament will take place on Friday, August 28, 2015 at 7:00PM EST.

Every participant will be added to a completely random team of knights so everyone has a fair chance to win and no one has to go around recruiting a team. Anyone is welcome to join, NA, EU, wherever. There will be no discrimination in this tournament. Each team will have a unique theme which only affects the armor worn, and all weapons are allowed, with the exception of sidearms being no greater than 100 length.

The teams will be created and announced on the day of the tournament (out of the present players only) and participants will be given 1 hour in FFA to practice, coordinate, discuss strategy, etc. At the end of the hour there will be a single round FFA in which the last knight standing will win glory for themselves and a prize. After the FFA, the tournament will begin. The full event will last 9 or 10 matches with a single round for each match.

The tournament will have an official Teamspeak server with announcers and judges. Address: 173.254.41.101
If you choose not to join the Teamspeak then you must pay close attention to admin chat during the event.

Prizes:

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The champion team will receive full nobility as knights as well as 2 million gold and a special item*.
The team in second place will receive 1 million gold.
The most distinguished knight of each team will receive 35m experience. (To be determined by judges, not exclusively K/D ratio).
The FFA winner will receive 1 heirloom point.
Announcers & Judges will each receive 300k gold for services.

Lastly, every participant will receive 150k gold to cover the cost of their travels and purchased equipment as well as souvenirs and tavern debts.

* Details on the special item will be announced at a later date ;)

Volunteers:

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Announcer 1: OPEN
Announcer 2: OPEN
Announcer 3: OPEN
Judge 1: OPEN
Judge 2: OPEN
Judge 3: OPEN

Anyone can apply. Just post that you are interested and I'll PM you.
Requirements: Teamspeak - Working Microphone - Fluent English Speech
Announcers & Judges must complete a short interview before being accepted.

Knight Orders & Uniforms:

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The Knights of the North: Mail Hauberk
The Riverlords: Scale Armor
The Sunspear Riders: Saracen Lamellar Cuirass
The Stormlords: Yellow Tunic Over Mail
The Order of the Red Lion: Red Palace Guard Armor
The Knights of Thorns: Green Brigandine over Aketon


Only leather boots and gloves are allowed.
Knights may ride any horse or wear any helmet.

Bracket:

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The second tier match is a three-way battle royale (with cheese) and the victor will move on, runner up will move to the special lower bracket, and the first team eliminated will join the lower bracket normally.
The small crown is a special event if the lower bracket team beats the previously undefeated team. Instead of another round, the champions will be determined by a series of jousts. Each team will send one knight to joust until he or she is defeated and then replace them with another knight. The last knight standing claims victory for their team.

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[Seren]

You have my lance, m'lord.  It'll be a great event!  Count me in.

[imisshotmail]

stupid bad tournament. use rules of the last one

[Auphilia]

I can see you struggled to put those...sentences together, so it is only fair that I reply. This tournament is not designed for everyone. It gives no advantage to tryhards with full loomed everything. It gives no advantage to me or my friends who could have formed an elite cavalry team. It gives no advantage to anyone, and everyone, good or bad, can join it with an equal chance of winning. If you are use to having an 80% chance to win things that you join, I'm sorry but you won't find that here. This is the only tournament that a new player has a chance to meet new friends, learn a bit about the game and the community, and if luck is on their side, actually win.

[pepejul]

I want to participate ! Great idea !

[Ostulor]

I like the Game of Thrones influence quite a bit, good luck with the tourny Auph.

[MiniPrima]

Just converted time to my place, can't join

[Bryggan]

I will happily join this tourney, and am so damn glad you are doing this.  Oddly enough, it happens when I'm not in camp.  So please, sign me up for whomever!

[ANGLO_SAXON]

Sign me up!

[Auphilia]

I'm glad people are interested lol 

Just to clarify, there are no sign ups.

You just show up during the time of the event and those who wish to participate will be asked to spawn (the rest stay in spectator mode) and I make the teams then and there.

Just make sure you vote at the top of this post so we can get an idea of how large the teams will be.


Anyone can still apply for being an announcer or judge (if no one does then we won't use TS I suppose - and I'll have to find an admin to help judge...or do the roles myself).

[Novamere]

Looks very well put together i got some questions though, do you still have me on steam?

[Gryph_Hawkshade]

Voting is closed, im so dere for dis cav crazy boogy woogy dough.

[Auphilia]

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Added a new poll that doesn't expire until the 28th. Please re-vote.


I sent you a steam request Knightmare.

[ImElias]

I'd certainly be interested in this, cavalry is fun business.

[Keshian_]

Sounds fun but im working till 8:30 east coast time