Silverdragon

Hello fellow Skyladies and Skylords!
We are back with a new Rookie PvP tournament!


Tournament Date
On Sunday 29.10.23 starting at 15:00 h CET.
 
Participating
Since this is a Rookie Tournament, only players with a maximum PvP rank of Fury () or below may participate.
If you are not sure, if you qualify as a rookie, feel free to sign up anyway. If we think you are too good to be a rookie, we will revoke your registration.

Format
Depending on the number of participants, the tournament will be either held in a Round Robin format (everyone plays against everyone else once) or Swiss System (A set number of rounds, a new opponent each round). In either case, the person with the most won games wins the tournament.
This means, that you do not get kicked out after loosing one or two games, but you can play the tournament until the very end!

Prize Pool
Participation Reward
Playing in the tournament will earn you 1 General Booster, even if you lose all your games!
But, if you quit the tournament before the final round, you will not get a participation reward.
Ranking Rewards
• 1st place                          6 General Booster packs + 1800 BFP
• 2nd place                         5 General Booster packs + 1000 BFP
• 3rd place                          4 General Booster packs + 800 BFP
• 4th place                          3 General Booster packs + 500 BFP
• 5th place                          2 General Booster packs + 400 BFP
• 6th place                          1 General Booster packs + 300 BFP
• 7th-8th place                   1 General Booster packs + 250 BFP
Additionally, the first 16 ranks will get a Promo Manawing!
Winning Rewards
For each game you win, you will get 1 additional General Booster (limited to up to 3 per person).
Random rewards    
Additionally, there will be a pool consisting of all PvP cards from the Rebirth edition, which will be randomly distributed between all participants!

 

Organization and sign-up
The tournament brackets will be managed by @triggz. Wwe ask you to register using the form linked below beforehand, so we can prepare the bracket accordingly:

Please use your in game account name to make communication and finding your enemy easier.
In case of problems, contact @triggz or one of the mods via Discord or ingame.


Stream
A live stream covering the tournament will take place on Eirias' channel on YouTube. Streaming will start around 14:45 h CEST (Berlin time). We will use the stream to communicate with the players, so be sure to join the stream to be notified of last minute updates. Everyone is welcome to hang out and watch the action as well!


Rules (read this!)
• Disconnection during a game results in a default loss. If both sides agree, it is possible to have a remake.
• Not showing up to your match after 15 minutes results in a default loss. The plan is to play a round of matches every ~30 mins.
• After your match, please report the result to @triggz.
• The Map Pool is: Haladur, Simai, Elyon, Lajesh, Uro and Yrmia (same pool as in ranked duel).
• The brackets for the tournament will be shuffled before the tournament starts!
Special Thanks
Special thanks @triggz who will be in charge of organizing the tournament on the event day and hyping this tournament already in advance.
Also, big thanks to @Eirias for agreeing to stream the tournament.
Thanks also to everyone, who sponsored something to the prize pool:
@LittleBird: 5000 BFP @triggz: 300 BFP and 7 General Boosters @Metagross31: Set of Rebirth Edition PvP cards @Carofex: 16x Promo Manawing The Skylords Reborn Team: The remaining General Boosters
Questions
Reply in this thread if you have questions, we will answer them as soon as possible.
Best regards,
The Skylords Reborn Team and Triggz

THIS IS A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN TOURNAMENT. WE ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE SR-TEAM.
 
Hello fellow Skyladies and Skylords!
 
We had one Skylords Open yes, but what about the second Skylords Open? Now you know about second Skylords Open!
 
Format?
The tournament will be played as a best of 3 double elimination tournament, grand finals will be best of 5, no reset.
 
Prize Pool!
1st place  - 20€ + promo Juggernaut
2nd place - 15€
3rd place - 10€
4th place - 5€
Special prize: Beat RadicalX in a best of 3 and you get 8 booster.
 
Big thanks to Nachtwolf for the € sponsoring!
Big thanks to NewGuy for the promo Juggernaut and the 8 boosters!
Prizes will be distributed via PayPal.
 
When?
On 30.01.21  starting on 3pm CET (Berlin time), the stream will start about 30 minutes in advance.
 
Organisation?
The tournament brackets will be on Challonge, so register and join the tournament there. Please use your in game account name to make communication and finding your enemy easier.
The streaming channel that will be covering the tournament is DasToggy on twitch.tv.
In case of problems contact me or one of my mods via Discord, Battleforge or in the stream.
 
Twitch mods: LynnTaki, TheFatherJack
 
 
 
Rules!
-No bugabuse, cheating or insulting the other players. Penalties may vary from a warning to default loss.
-Disconnection during a game results in a default loss. If both sides agree it is possible to have a remake.
-Not showing up to your match after 15 minutes results in a default loss. The plan is to play a round of matches every ~30 mins.
-After your match, go to Challonge and insert the result. That is done by clicking on your match and selecting the winner/stats . The brackets will be updated automatically.
-The Map Pool is:
1st round: Haladur, 2nd round: Simai, 3rd round: Wazhai, 4th: Elyon, 5th: Lajesh, 6th: Uro and 7th: Yrmia (same pool as in ranked duel). The first match of the round will be played on the fixed map, then it is losers choice.  The winning player (who won the last match in this bo3) also has to lock in his deck first.
-The brackets for the tournament will be shuffled before the tournament starts.
-Use your Battleforge name for the tournament. If your Challonge account differs from your Battleforge account name use the "Sign up with an alternate name" feature or change your name for the tournament in the settings. Finding your opponent will be a LOT easier this way.
 
 
 
Reply in this thread if you have questions, I will check it out later.
 
 
Best regards,
Toggy

I like the idea of adding community maps, but someone need to test them first  there is no official process for it yet, but feel free to suggest specific maps

If you take the right orbs/wells there are no really problems with cliffdancers on Yrmia. There are enough takeable spots. Cant remember a game where i get into really trouble against cliffdancer or something like that.
Wazhai is a bit more tricky, because its not so good to take one of the mid spots, but you need to take sure that the fire player cant reach your start base...If the cliff in front of the start bases cannot used for attacking over it with any unit/tower this map would be fine.
But all in all the most important is that generated maps will be back, because atm sometimes it feels like getting the same map again and again...because there are only 6 different.
Wazhai/Yrmia feels worser than it is atm because you get them so often.

Why is Yrmia even considered unbalanced? It is arguably the best map in terms of T1 balancing. Fire is good due to many chokepoints for effective Eruptions. Frost is hella strong due to small well distances and 75 extra void for the wall is insanely important for early scaling. Shadow is solid, because there are many paths on the map to allow unit circling and strong split attacks with motivate. Nature has some options to survive the early stage without getting locked out of the map, but probably the worst faction on this map due to its vulnerability against Phasetower. But that is 1 matchup and this is due to phasetower being broken, not due to the map being unbalanced. Frost on Haladur or Uro, Nature vs Phasetower on Whazai, that would be imbalance caused by map issues
The center of the map is not necessary to win the game as there are 7 extra wells easily contestable without going into any danger of getting cliffed. I don't think pure Fire is overpowered here at all (at least in comparison to the strength on other maps). This map even used to be my personal strongest weapon against any pure Fire player in tournaments ...   
 
For Whazai I could agree onto a removal from the ranked pool as Phasetower is completely busted on this map. 2 Port from main base to wellrange of the enemy with guaranteed map control. This simply forces almost every player to carry a turret in his ranked deck (I mean this may be a strong strategic choice on alot of other maps aswell, but you aren't forced to play turrets every time). Outside of that any sort of cliffing is very powerful on this map and may be abused by pure fire players (even Termite hill can be insanely powerful, when being used on correct positions). A rework for some elements on this map would be nice, because it has alot of interesting potential especially due to a different scaling curve of the void level (the only map with 3 starting wells, but just a few spots to take safe additional power wells), but I' not sure if this will be a possibility in the future. 
Generated maps were fun, not necessarly well balanced, but some of them had alot of interesting strategic elements and it favours different factions dependent on map size and structure (I think nature may end up suffering a little bit, but that's okay). Would be cool to see them back in the ranked pool, because it brings more diversity into games. 
TL DR
-> Yrmia is more balanced than the majority of the maps in the current pool. Sorry, but the idea of removing it is awful. 
-> Whazai is a fun map, but Phasetower and Cliffing are clearly overpowered here. A removal could be considered
-> Adding generated maps again would be very good from my perspective

Hello Skylords,
we all know that Yrmia & Wazhai are not the best balanced map and EA didnt put it out without a reason. (Pure Fire, scorched earth overall mapcontroll, cliff orb -> orb)
So instead of asking me -> start voting for a yrmia or wazhai & ranked random generated maps.
If there are "enough" votes, yrmia or wazhai will delete from the ranked pool or random generated maps can be added to the pool.
 
Hope we see generated maps again very soon !
 
Best regards,
xHighTech
 
#AddQuestion
#AddMultipleChoice
 

Congratulations to TopS3cret for winning the Stress test Open#7 :-)

Hey everyone,
Thank you all for the support and the nice words :-)
I know that excluding the top20 is not enough for some players to compete. Personally I think that if you take away the top ~8 it would already be enough since those guys really play on another level. Outside of those guys it becomes a lot more fun and possible to have a win. At least from my personal experience so let us try this tournament just without the Top 20. If there are a lot more lesser ranked guys who want to play tournaments...we might add the top 40 but as I mentioned above,most players below rank 10 are beatable. Should any of those players lose rank intentionally they will not be allowed to participate obviously.
 
Also I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the Game Masters and developers for not restarting servers when the tournaments are taking place, it has not gone unnoticed.
 
Greetings,
DasToggy