We are happy to welcome you at the greatest event of the passing year!
The year of 2013 which brought us a variety of great events is coming to an end but there's still something special we have been keeping in our secret labs.
An event that is rather short yet superior to anything else that you've ever seen in Toribash.
Why are we so sure about that?
The Aikido World Championship has outstanding prizes, uses one of the most beloved mods of Toribash and is determined to make you feel nervous as if you were at a real martial arts championship.
Aikido World Championship lasts for one day only.
No more months-lasting events that make you bored a week after their beginning!
During that day, a number of knockout tournaments will be hosted where everyone will be allowed to try their best and make an attempt to win.
Winners of these tournaments will be gathered once all knockouts are over and will duel to death.
Sounds intriguing? Then here are all the details.
How it will run
On December 28th, Saturday, a room called "nabiaikido" will be set up. UPDATE: don't spam connects after the tourney has started, you won't be able to enter. Wait until the next tourney starts
UPDATE 2: Rooms aren't lagging anymore, correct room names are broadcasted some minutes before each tournament start
Once it is set at midnight (0 GMT), a non-stop marathon of 16 knockout tournaments held in aikido.tbm will be hosted which will last for 12 hours Times may vary depending on knockout tournaments' length
After that, at 5 PM (0 GMT), we'll pass on to the next championship phase which consists of a number of duels.
Here participants will be put in a ladder and fight until there are only 4 players left.
(Access to these rooms will be restricted but all matches will be streamed at our twitch channel (will be announced a bit later) so don't worry!)
The final of Aikido World Championship is the all against all stage.
4 remaining players will face each other in first-to-3 duels.
This will last for as long as it takes for these die-hards to smash every last joint out of their opponents.
The player with the best Win/Loss ratio will become the honourable Aikido World Championship 2013 Victor.
Rules
Make sure you read them!
I. General rules of Aikido World Championship 2013:
The mod for all games of Aikido World Championship 2013 is aikido.tbm
All players with no limitations on QI are allowed to take part in the event.
Insulting, or any other sort of flaming is strictly forbidden. Players who disobey this rule will be instantly disqualified.
All fighting techniques are allowed.
II. Rules for the first phase of Aikido World Championship 2013:
Each player is allowed to take part in one knockout tournament only.
IPs of players who have already played will be blocked on the event server after each tournament's end.
Only the knockout winner will proceed to the second phase of the event.
In case of ping, players are allowed to get back into the tournament unless they are late for their fight.
AFK players are not allowed to get back into the fighting queue after the beginning of the tournament.
All knockout tournaments during this phase have prizes of 10,000 TC for first place and 6,000 TC for second place.
III. Rules for the second phase of Aikido World Championship 2013:
Only phase one's knockout tournaments' winners are allowed to take part.
The second phase consists of first-to-3 duels.
Participants will play their duels in special rooms where they will be supervised by staff members.
A ladder will be built (random seed) which will be used up to the end of the phase to determine competitors' opponents.
If one of players disconnects during a fight (after the second turn), he loses his fight.
When disconnected during a duel, player has 5 minutes to get back into the room. If he is absent for a longer period, the duel is considered to be won by the opponent.
Account sharing is strictly forbidden.
IV. Rules for the final phase of Aikido World Championship 2013:
Only four remaining players from the second phase are allowed to take part.
Final phase consists of six first-to-3 duels.
Participants will play their duels in special rooms where they will be supervised by staff members.
If one of players disconnects during a fight (after the second turn), he loses his fight.
When disconnected during a duel, player has 10 minutes to get back into the room. If he is absent for a longer period, the duel is considered to be won by the opponent.
Account sharing is strictly forbidden.
Winners are determined by their Win/Loss ratio.
If it is impossible to choose winners after the end of 6 duels due to the same Win/Loss ratio, additional games will be played.
V. Receiving prizes:
To be able to receive the $1000 which is awarded to the champion, a player will need to have an account at PayPal.
* Notice that the transaction fees will have to be paid by the recipient so the actual amount of money you will receive will be a bit smaller.
TC prize and item prizes do not require any QI. However, custom-named items are untradeable and will always stay on winners' accounts.
Prizes
Yeah, they are awesome!
Third place: Custom-named color set of your choice
Second place: Custom-named color set of your choice and 700000 TC
First place: One thousand US dollars
Start time for different timezones:
Los Angeles, USA: Dec 27th, 4 PM (16.00)
New York, USA: Dec 27th, 7 PM (19.00)
London, England: Dec 28th, 12 AM (00.00)
Berlin, Germany: Dec 28th, 1 AM (01.00)
Moscow, Russia: Dec 28th, 4 AM (04.00)
Yekaterinburg, Russia: Dec 28th, 6 AM (06.00)
Beijin, China: Dec 28th, 8 AM (08.00)
Sydney, Australia: Dec 28th, 11 AM (11.00)
Auckland, New Zealand: Dec 28th, 1 PM (13.00)
Can you post up the times in all the gmts and what do you mean custom-named colored set. And can you just get tc of that 1000 usd if you don't have paypal?
I was just ingame trying to develop a shovel opener, but I know I'll never be able to do it... I'm just gonna play fair and hope my opponent does the same.
can we all make an agreement to play like true gentlemen just like team aikido big dojo and agree to do no shovles?
How about ... shovel only?
Oblivion: that wasn't hilarious
Oblivion: it was brilliantly complex though
Oblivion: hands down man
Oblivion: today I genuinely believe more than I ever did before
Oblivion: that you are better than me
Oblivion: gg NutHug