Guild Wars 2

Announcing the Guild Wars 2 Trio Challenge Competitive PvE Tournament!

When: March 28 and 29 at 11am EST (GMT -5)

Where: www.twitch.tv/nike_dnt

The Teams: Teams will register with three members and one alternate. Prior to, or during, the tournament, the alternate may take the place of any player who is unavailable. Prize support for the teams will be distributed among three players.

Registration: The tournament will have open registration for up to 16 interested teams. Guilds may fill multiple teams if they have sufficient members; however the additional teams must use a different designation. Register in the official registration thread at (http://dtguilds.com/forum/m/6563292/viewthread/18674672-guild-wars-2-trio-challenge-registration-thread).

Initial seeding, as well as any necessary byes, will be determined at random based on Challonge.com bracket software. Seeding and byes will be shown via live stream after the close of registration.

The Format: The teams will be paired up prior to each round for a best of three dungeon path speed run contest. The three paths for the round will be selected at random from the pool of eligible dungeon paths. No team will be required to run a specific path two rounds in a row. The semi-finals will be best of five and the finals will be best of seven.

The teams will begin their run at a synchronized time using (www.time.gov). The team which finishes the path with the lowest time will be the winner of that path. The first team to win a majority advances to the next round.

The runs will be broadcast live on (http://www.twitch.tv/nike_dnt). At least one member of each team must be able to stream in order for a team to participate.
The dungeon runs will be regulated and timed according to the GW2Dungeons.net restricted rule set.

If a team cause –intentionally or otherwise- a scripted event to bug a dungeon and prevent further progress or to unfairly advance progress, that team will be disqualified and their opponents will get a win for that path. In order to prevent excessive “unintentional” script bugs from occurring, the following paths are banned: Ascalonian Catacombs Path 2, Sorrow’s Embrace Path 2. Other paths which have script bugs have known workarounds to avoid the bug.

Final judgement for any disputed results or questions will rest with gw2dungeons.net admin staff.

Questions or Help: Should you have any questions regarding any aspect of the tournament, please post them in the official tournament thread on the Death and Taxes forum (www.dtguilds.com) or post right here!

If you would like to donate prize support (gems, gold, gemstore items) please contact the event host in game @ (nike porphyrogenita.8137) or via the DnT Forums.

Prize Pool: Each member of the winning team will receive 2000 gems, the second place team will receive 800 gems per player.

The current gold prize pool is 3,000g to be distributed among the top 4 teams.

And more to come!

• REGISTRATION ENDS MARCH 20 AT SERVER RESET *

Paths: The following are the dungeon paths that will be randomly selected for the tournament. Excluded are all paths with known bugs (ACp2, SEp2), boring story modes (COE, Arah) and paths that cannot be completed with less than 4 players (Arah p1, CoFp1, TA Aetherpath). For AC, TA and SE their story modes have been included to ensure 3 paths of the dungeon are possible.

The paths for each round will be randomly generated prior to that round from the following pool:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nJzoBBM9gHwhv6O1Gtq17LshhJIAHZthFrRlvcooI6Q/edit?usp=sharing

Too bad kitten paths are allowed while ac p2 is forbidden.

Are classes clocked upon registering, or we’re allowed to swap classes for each path?

Can swap whenever you want.

I know Dub. Detha AI too hard to fix I guess.

Crucible of Eternity Laser Trap qualifies as 3 man able?

(( I know it can be done i just wanted to confirm))

Ropechef.6192:

Crucible of Eternity Laser Trap qualifies as 3 man able?

(( I know it can be done i just wanted to confirm))

Yes, assuming they don’t change the blink to hit two switches at once trick. If they do patch that for some weird reason we’ll remove COE, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Based on feedback from Snow Crows, Sorrow’s Embrace story mode will be removed due to extremely high bug out potential and replacing it with HotW story mode.

Due to insane demand, we are increasing the field to 20 teams.

We are full at 20 confirmed teams! Any team further who registers will be given priority status in case there is a drop.

Updated prize pool to 3k gold which works out to be 500g per player to the winning team.

Expanded field to 24 teams. Remember the current bracket is not final, the seeds will be reshuffled on March 20.

The current broadcast plan will be to broadcast half of the matches in the preliminary round while doing another “off camera” so we can get twice as many matches done in the prelims. We will also be able to then show every match up in the quarterfinals. It will still be a long day even with that, but should set up the semi finals and finals on sunday pretty awesomely.

I just want to add that I am 99% certain for AC p2, the method to prevent detha from bugging is to not aggro anything before triggering Detha to go into the circle event. You can guarantee this by killing the oozes/gravelings that got aggroed or by stealthing into the room.

Yeah, it hasnt happened to me in ages, but its a genuine concern especially since not everybody is going to use a thief for every path. I think we gain more than we lose by excluding it.

For SE p3, is ranging the clown car in the middle level considered safe spotting?

I would say not.

Quotes from gw2dungeons:

Sorrow’s Embrace

Path 3: Destroying the Dredge Carrier from the ledge is allowed.

Also a good time to point out, rules questions should be directed to Wethospu and/or the certified record approvers. Those folks are the final say in what is and isn’t allowed in the restricted ruleset.

One month left to register. We are currently capped at 24 teams but you can be sure somebody is going to drop before March 20 so interested teams should still enter.

Registration closes today. Going to live stream the brackets @ 6:30pm EST tonight.

Are videos of the runs available somewhere? Lots of trio records there.

Wethospu.6437:

Are videos of the runs available somewhere? Lots of trio records there.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXb625IE1vjylfTRW3-B6Lg

Brazil has highlights of the whole tournament but they aren’t editted path by path. I know a few guilds uploaded some of their very fast practice runs but I don’t think I saw any of them claim them as a record even though they are.

It would be super nice to have a fleshed out trio record board for the next tournament so we have times to aim for and get record setting hype.

Just a comment. In my previous game for their tournaments they did Individual ranking. Even with the team events. They gave winners so many points, second so many and so on. When 1v1 tourney’s happened samething. 2v2 tourneys same thing, 5v5 tourneys same thing. Individual players rose to the top having placed or won in all categories. I always thought it was pretty cool having ranking on players vs just teams. It’d be neat to have the same thing for these. Place in the 5 man tourney get 5 points for a win, 4 for 2nd 3 for third, 2 for 4th, and 1 for 5th, same thing for 3 man tourneys. Rank the players not the team. Use those ranking and accumulative rankings to placement in successive tournaments.

I don’t know, just a comment about how I thought it was cool done in a previous game.

Good idea Jerus…

http://www.dtguilds.com/forum/m/6563292/viewthread/21531347-competitive-pve-tournament-series-individual-leaderboard

Current leaderboard after 3 tournaments. I would add the fractal tournament KING did but I dont have any of the player or team data.

Wow EU too strong, NA needs to step up. q.q

Had the thought that this leaderboard will be the best way to seed future tournaments fairly. Just add up the total points of the members of the team and the highest points is #1 seed and so on. That’s probably the fairest and least arbitrary system I can think of.

Anyone see any flaws in that?

That’s exactly what I was thinking with it. Looks great too, The EU is strong, that’s true. Hopefully one of these days I’ll be able to compete, until then I’ll enjoy watching