Guild Wars 2

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[North America]

We’d like to proudly announce the first annual Dueltide tournament. Dueltide is a single-elimination 1v1 PvP tournament with a Wintersday theme hosted by Synergy. This is the first public tournament of this size that we know of using the guild hall arena. We’re looking forward to the event and hope to see it become a yearly success.

Please see the information below if you are interested in participating in the tournament. There will be a separate post later for players who are interested in spectating the tournament.

For players interested in participating, please visit our Battlefy bracket page at http://tinyurl.com/Dueltide

The proprietors of the event will work their hardest to make sure that all participants are accommodated. We will do our best to be flexible and as understanding as possible. Be patient with us and we will be patient with you.

Rules:

Upon registration, you must mail your 5g entry fee to JakBenedict.5410

You must check-in and arrive on time and ready to participate in the tournament.

Failure to check-in for the tournament on the tournament date may result in your disqualification.

Please keep in mind that the 12:00 PM start time is in Pacific time.

All of the following rules and guidelines are subject to change.

General Rules

1] All fights will be held in a 1v1 format.

2] All fights will be best 2 out of 3. A win is counted as you completely finishing the other player, not simply downing them.

3] All fights will be done in Exotic gear. Trinkets may be Ascended.

4] No Bunker builds will be allowed. This is for the sake of those participating in the tournament as well as those spectating. See the ban-list below for further details.

4a] Due to the above rule, fights will be limited to 4 minutes each. Should a fight reach time limit and both players are still standing (if one is downed, an exception will be made), the fight will be considered a draw and your next fight will be considered a tie-breaker. Should neither person finish the other in the tie-breaker, both players will be disqualified. The player that would have faced the winner of that match gets a bye.

5] Keep in mind that this will all be held in Synergy [LOL]’s Guild Hall. As such, your build must be available and complete on the PvE-version of your character. This means you must have all of your own gear, runes, sigils, specializations, etc. ready to go. In other words, you will NOT be fighting in PvP gear with amulets, etc. 6] Your entry fee of 5g must be delivered to Totem Benedict (JakBenedict.5410) by the time you register for the Tournament. If, by the time you check-in for the tournament, you have not paid your entry fee, you will not be allowed to participate.

7] You may, at any point, be asked to provide proof of your equipment.

8] Remain courteous and respectful of other participants (even your opponents) as well as spectators and the people running the event. A failure to remain respectful of other players and the guidelines listed here may result in penalization.

9] The proprietors of the event reserve the right to disqualify or eject you from the event for any misconduct or breaking of rules. Your entry fee may not be refunded.

Ban-List

Stat Combinations: Soldiers, Settlers, Clerics, Magi, Celestial, Sentinel, and any others that may be considered for bunker builds.
Skills: Rune of Humility, Rampage, Lich, Elixir X, Well of Precognition, Skills marked with a * may be equipped, but not activated. i.e., you may use Toss Elixir X, but not Elixir X itself.
Traits: Diamond Skin
Runes: Durability, Dwayna, Resistance, Ogre, Pirate

Miscellaneous Rules

1] Between fights (i.e. after your first fight against a player in a round, you realize you need an ability to counter them), you will only be allowed to swap skills or weapons.

1a] Between rounds (i.e after you have won a round and you plan on switching up your build to deal with your next opponent) you will be allowed to change gear, traits, runes, sigils, and anything included in Rule 1.

1b] You will be given 1 minute in between fights to make any changes you may need.

2] You may only play with the one class you registered for the tournament with.

3] Players will only be allowed to have a maximum of two minions. This includes those gained from Runes.

4] Necromancers will be allowed to start each fight with roughly 20% of their Life Force bar filled. Druids will be allowed to have one notch of their Celestial Force bar filled.

5] Absolutely no consumables will be allowed in the arena. This includes non-food/utility consumables like Ash Legion Spy Kits. If you have a food or utility buff prior to entering your match, your match will be postponed until the buff has worn off.

Check-ins for Dueltide will begin 1 hour before the tournament begins. Take this time to contact any of the people below in order to find out how to get into Synergy Guild Hall and clear any last minute questions or concerns.

Prizes

1st Place: 4000 Gems

2nd Place: 3000 Gems

3rd Place: 1000 Gems

Contact Info
In Order of Priority:
JakBenedict.5410
Aeromu.9134
Capulse.3542

There has been no worse time to host a 1v1 tournament. Power creep in elite specs is so real that majority of them can survive indefinitely with marauder stats.

ReaperJr.5967:

There has been no worse time to host a 1v1 tournament. Power creep in elite specs is so real that majority of them can survive indefinitely with marauder stats.

This is why there are time limits on fights. If a player cannot succeed in killing their opponent in less than four minutes, they have failed as a 1v1er.

JakBenedict.5410:

ReaperJr.5967:

There has been no worse time to host a 1v1 tournament. Power creep in elite specs is so real that majority of them can survive indefinitely with marauder stats.

This is why there are time limits on fights. If a player cannot succeed in killing their opponent in less than four minutes, they have failed as a 1v1er.

So if no one dies after time limit, both will be considered to have lost?

Can you please add a voting option for players who go over the time limit? Kind of like boxing where you can clearly see which person gave out the best blows throughout a fight. The judge (the mod’s) would elect a victor.

I feel that if I take the other person down to 20% health but I never go below 50%, then I should be the victor

Saiyan.1704:

Can you please add a voting option for players who go over the time limit? Kind of like boxing where you can clearly see which person gave out the best blows throughout a fight. The judge (the mod’s) would elect a victor.

I feel that if I take the other person down to 20% health but I never go below 50%, then I should be the victor

I actually made an addendum on the Battlefy page. There was going to be a referee in the first place, but me and my team have decided that making judgement calls based upon performance is our best bet.

Didn’t you hear that moral panic already nerfed rampage war ? You realise this means warriors can now only realistically bring 2 elites to your little shindig, SoR and headbutt, further kittening over " full physicals" zerk warriors ( who are already boned enough from this stupid and ridiculous blodge meta) You have to keep beating on the class everyone is feeling bad for right now ?

As a wearer of fully ascended traveler’s celestial ( with either zerk or rampage/sinister/celes trinks depending if playing impact/condi builds) i’m feeling triple discriminated by your ridiculous rules. While I do “wear celes”, I am mosdef not running a bunker build.

If you were serious you would wait for the post-season-balance patch before even TRYING to make some kind of tournament.

That’s my warrior’s 2 cent.

It’s also really out of spvpers way to rebuy exotic gear/runes/sigils. “as most of us are dirt poor”. There are also a lot of spvpers who just plainly do not have gear past cheap masterworks to begin with. You may want to consider doing this in a custom arena if you want more joins. Either legacy mid or forest on beach.

You need to make this convenient for players who are already concerned with farming for pips/guild ladder. Also, your prize pot will probably not even be enough to cover the cost that spvpers will use to buy the gear they need to compete in your tournament “if they even win”.

~ Not busting your balls, just pointing this out.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

It’s also really out of spvpers way to rebuy exotic gear/runes/sigils. “as most of us are dirt poor”. There are also a lot of spvpers who just plainly do not have gear past cheap masterworks to begin with. You may want to consider doing this in a custom arena if you want more joins. Either legacy mid or forest on beach.

You need to make this convenient for players who are already concerned with farming for pips/guild ladder. Also, your prize pot will probably not even be enough to cover the cost that spvpers will use to buy the gear they need to compete in your tournament “if they even win”.

~ Not busting your balls, just pointing this out.

Truthfully, most players (even PvPers. I am a HARDCORE PvPer and I certainly do) should have a set of exotics, if not the gold to get it. I also feel as though you may have a very warped sense of what a set of exotics costs. 4,000 Gems is probably enough to buy every level 80 that you have a full set of exotics.

JakBenedict.5410:

Trevor Boyer.6524:

It’s also really out of spvpers way to rebuy exotic gear/runes/sigils. “as most of us are dirt poor”. There are also a lot of spvpers who just plainly do not have gear past cheap masterworks to begin with. You may want to consider doing this in a custom arena if you want more joins. Either legacy mid or forest on beach.

You need to make this convenient for players who are already concerned with farming for pips/guild ladder. Also, your prize pot will probably not even be enough to cover the cost that spvpers will use to buy the gear they need to compete in your tournament “if they even win”.

~ Not busting your balls, just pointing this out.

Truthfully, most players (even PvPers. I am a HARDCORE PvPer and I certainly do) should have a set of exotics, if not the gold to get it. I also feel as though you may have a very warped sense of what a set of exotics costs. 4,000 Gems is probably enough to buy every level 80 that you have a full set of exotics.

No

Most players have either full ascended on characters or cheap masterworks on alts rocking trans charges until they can build worthwhile asc or grind asc box drops + forge change from pvp reward track “which happens pretty often, at least once a week”. The point is that buying exotic gear + runes, especially expensive ones, is a complete waste of gold for those who already have asc. Also, some exotic gear is NOT SO CHEAP or easy on timeframe “eh em, celestial exotics”. And ~ 4,000 gems isn’t anywhere even near what it would cost to build or buy certain exotic setups + rune/sigil configurations for certain specs in PvE.

Have you never bought gems and converted them in to gold? It isn’t as much as you’d think it is. Especially not when a berserker insignia alone will run you 9 gold and that’s not even talking inscriptions. This is even disregarding any & all mats “including ridiculously overpriced runes/sigils” used to build the rest of your setup.

Sure, some specs may get away with being cheaper but others will not. Point being: the OP really needs to bring this tournament to a 1v1 server or he won’t get Enough play to make this a thing within the spvp community.

Speaking on my own behalf, I am completely disinterested in this tournament when I normally would be very interested. The reason why is that I would rather not spend 100+ gold to rebuy temporary exotics+runes/sigils in place of my ascended, for a tournament that happens once a year, that I am obviously I am unsure of if I will win or not.

Again, not busting your balls. Just pointing out that it is rather expensive past the initial entry fee for some players.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

JakBenedict.5410:

Trevor Boyer.6524:

It’s also really out of spvpers way to rebuy exotic gear/runes/sigils. “as most of us are dirt poor”. There are also a lot of spvpers who just plainly do not have gear past cheap masterworks to begin with. You may want to consider doing this in a custom arena if you want more joins. Either legacy mid or forest on beach.

You need to make this convenient for players who are already concerned with farming for pips/guild ladder. Also, your prize pot will probably not even be enough to cover the cost that spvpers will use to buy the gear they need to compete in your tournament “if they even win”.

~ Not busting your balls, just pointing this out.

Truthfully, most players (even PvPers. I am a HARDCORE PvPer and I certainly do) should have a set of exotics, if not the gold to get it. I also feel as though you may have a very warped sense of what a set of exotics costs. 4,000 Gems is probably enough to buy every level 80 that you have a full set of exotics.

No

Most players have either full ascended on characters or cheap masterworks on alts rocking trans charges until they can build worthwhile asc or grind asc box drops + forge change from pvp reward track “which happens pretty often, at least once a week”. The point is that buying exotic gear + runes, especially expensive ones, is a complete waste of gold for those who already have asc. Also, some exotic gear is NOT SO CHEAP or easy on timeframe “eh em, celestial exotics”. And ~ 4,000 gems isn’t anywhere even near what it would cost to build or buy certain exotic setups + rune/sigil configurations for certain specs in PvE.

Have you never bought gems and converted them in to gold? It isn’t as much as you’d think it is. Especially not when a berserker insignia alone will run you 9 gold and that’s not even talking inscriptions. This is even disregarding any & all mats “including ridiculously overpriced runes/sigils” used to build the rest of your setup.

Sure, some specs may get away with being cheaper but others will not. Point being: the OP really needs to bring this tournament to a 1v1 server or he won’t get Enough play to make this a thing within the spvp community.

Speaking on my own behalf, I am completely disinterested in this tournament when I normally would be very interested. The reason why is that I would rather not spend 100+ gold to rebuy temporary exotics+runes/sigils in place of my ascended, for a tournament that happens once a year, that I am obviously I am unsure of if I will win or not.

Again, not busting your balls. Just pointing out that it is rather expensive past the initial entry fee for some players.

How do you even know what anyone else has? I have 9 toons fully geared in multiple exotics sets and many ascended of various types.

All this acquired as a wvw only roamer who NEVER does pve. Now that I’m doing spvp instead I make like 10x the amount of gold.

So what

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It about time someone did this. I really hope there’s a twitch stream of it. Maybe I’ll even sign up with my scrubbyness. Lol.

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Eddbopkins.2630:

It about time someone did this. I really hope there’s a twitch stream of it. Maybe I’ll even sign up with my scrubbyness. Lol.

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There will hopefully/most likely be a solid Twitch stream of the event! Thank you for your support.

i watched the hell out of the WoodenPotatoes one a few days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liuitvy7Z0Q