HOW THIS WORKS
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-The tournament will consist of 8 Rounds, each Round lasting 5 days.
-Teams will be formed from 7 competitors, one from each of the standard divisions (D1 through D7)
-Each Round will be completely unique in both the objectives for your team and how exactly you're competing against the other teams. One week might have you facing off in head-to-head matches, while another will require some puzzle solving before you even begin to play! In any case, you will eventually be playing a song(s) to get a score(s).
-As you complete each Round your team will be rewarded with credits from the pool depending on both how well you perform compared to the other teams as well as your general performance overall.
-At the end of Round 3, the bottom half of competing teams will be eliminated. After Round 6, another cut will be made depending on how many teams I have enter. Likely, the last 2 Rounds will be played by a final 3.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
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If you participated in the Official you should be good to go as far as registration qualifications. If not, eligibility will be similar to the Official: 250 games played, an account not made 3 days ago, some forum posts here and there etc. There are two different ways to register:
1) Submit a team consisting of 7 members spanning all 7 divisions; Doing this will GUARANTEE you get to participate in the tournament. Whichever way you want to go about this is up to you: talk to them outside of FFR, try and organize stuff here in the thread, whatever. Try to limit asking for a roster spot on someone else's budding team to a minimum. I don't want people harassing others with 187 requests, just screw them and go make your own team that's totally better than theirs anyway.
2) Anyone that has expressed genuine interest in playing but is too lazy/too uncool to get on a premade team will be put into a pool with other people from your division. I will then draw out as many teams as I can with the pools that I have. If there's only 3 extra D7s but 43 people in D4, only 3 teams are getting made still. This is why I highly suggest you create a team on your own if at all possible.
To recap: Come to me with a team of 7, GUARANTEED to play. Just want to enter solo, MUCH smaller chance to play and lack of teammate choices.
BITTEN BY THE AFK BUG?
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Obviously with this being a team tournament, everyone is going to need to do their part to be successful. And obviously as humans, some people will lose interest, want to drop out, go AFK for no reason, get murdered etc. All of these things are incredibly rude to your teammates and should be avoided if possible. If something comes up and you can't participate for some reason, I will pull a sub from your division's extra entrants pool to participate in your stead. Note too that dropping out will forfeit any opportunity to earn credits for yourself.
CHEATING
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Dont do it, ass.
PRIZES
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With such a complicated mechanism of dividing the credits and the possibility of donations, I don't have a 100% exact split decided for the different Rounds. I'll be making the splits up on the fly for the most part, with each Round getting approximately 1/8th of the total credits. As always, donations will make this tournament even more super sweet than it already is!
Current Pot: 2,972,532!!
African Anger: 1,105,757
YoshL: 200,074
xXOpKillerXx: 200,072
Dynam0: 200,071
alloyus: 200,070
~Zeta~: 200,069
Dark_Chrysalis: 200,001
TC_Halogen: 200,000
Gradiant: 149,998
kjwkjw: 104,545
Lambdadelta: 100,000
DJzAIKz: 50,658
LeftyRighty: 20,000
beeattack: 15,455
portalbob340: 15,387
PhantomPuppy: 10,000
choof: 420blazeit
COMPLETE TEAMS
Free Members
TL;DR
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~Teams and stuff. Yeah!
~Join with a team of 7 (D1 to D7 each) to play for sure, or press your luck with random.org
~Unique objectives and stuff. Yeah!
~Credits and stuff. Yeah!
~Donate plz