Yet again, I am hosting a Tournament:
DarkGaming’s Summer 2025 PvP Tournament
The format is on the above linked page, including the arenas, but here’s a rundown:
Tournament will begin 2025-08-23T20:00:00Z→2025-09-01T05:00:00Z.
It will be live streamed on my Youtube and Twitch simultaneously, I will commentate over the duels as they happen, help guide players through the pick and ban stage of the duel, and make any necessary rule calls.
Rules & Operation
Bracket
Currently, the bracket is Seeded.
What this means, is the players are ordered roughly from best to worst.
This method of tournament ensures better players go further.
This is to avoid having two of the best players in the tournament fight early, thus having someone who should do well drop out of the tournament at say 15th place.
The bracket is also Double Elimination.
What this means, is your first round loss sends you to a second bracket for you to fight through.
Losing a round in the Losers Bracket disqualifies you from the tournament.
While this means the tournament will take significantly longer, it also means that being the worst player and immediately having to fight Beetle or Solar means you don’t just get kicked out of the tournament, but rather get to go on to a second round where you will fight someone closer to your capabilities.
Whoever gets to the very end of the Losers Bracket will go on to fight the Winner of the Winners Bracket. This individual has to beat the Winner in two duels in order to win the whole tournament.
On the topic, each round of the tournament is Best of 3, meaning first player to win 2 duels vs their opponent moves forwards.
Each duel is Best of 9, meaning first player to get 5 kills on their opponent wins said duel.
The Losers Finals, and Grand Finals will all be Best of 5, or first to 3 duels.
Dueling
All duels must be made in the presence of myself!
In the event someone is not available at the time of your round on the tournament, I will move onwards to the next set of duels available.
If you do not show up, and the whole tournament is waiting on you, you will be disqualified. We will not wait on you.
When a duel is to begin, the lower seeded/ranked player will call heads or tails.
I will then flip a coin.
Whoever wins will ban a Neutral Stage first, with the loser banning second.
The remaining Neutral Stage will be used for the first duel.
Upon the first duel ending, the winner gets to ban any one duel arena.
The loser will then choose any Neutral OR Counterpick Stage from the remaining options for the next duel to be held within.
Arenas
Neutral Arenas
- Duel 1 / Autumn
- Duel 2 / Forest
- Duel 4 / OldFFA
Counterpick Arenas:
- Duel 5 / Chains
- Duel 6 / Volcano