Year 1005 Championship Games Schedule!
Hi folks!
With preparations for the Year 1000 celebrations well underway (see Announce #5757 for the initial calendar, see UPCOMING, and see Jurixe to submit stories of your own or risk Skye’s wrath!), we’re now ready to announce the schedule for the Year 1005 Championship Games!
For those unfamiliar, this auspicious contest pits the very best of Achaea against one another for the chance to win the Staff of Nicator (a weapon that confers several powerful bonuses to the wielder), access to the Keep at Nicator’s Crossing, and their choice of either 2000 credits, or one year of Iron Elite Membership and a trip to the Artefact Vault. It is a test of not only strength and fortitude but ingenuity, creativity, knowledge of the land and its secrets, and of course the all important social skills!
Prizes will also rain down upon those who don’t manage to take first place, with a host of credits and other awards on offer! Placing in the top ten in any of the Championship events will earn championship points (towards the overall winner) and credits.
Before getting into the dates, we have some updates and format changes to announce:
– XP Events will be returning to the 3 x 12 hour windows format of some previous games. Contenders will still have up to six hours’ total hunting time, but it must take place during one of these three scheduled windows.
* Note: We felt that opening the event for a whole week put a massive burden on players to be able to log in at all sorts of unsociable hours, either to try gaming the best timezone or to interfere with others doing the same. This way everyone gets a break from the stress and can plan accordingly without major disruptions.
– Gear will be disabled entirely for competitors in the XP Event.
– The Race Around the World will now feature three separate ship races on three different courses instead of one singular massive track. Winners will be averaged from their placings in all three.
* Note: The enormous single track was very tedious for observers and contenders and very hard to come back from if you made a mistake or fell behind early in the game. We believe this is much more interesting.
– A bug with riddle talk availability should now be fixed, allowing all teams to use it instead of only the main contender.
– Bugs and questions can be submitted via CHAMPBUG and CHAMPFAQ respectively!
Onto the schedule!
SUN, 17th May at 22:00 – Championship Race Around the World
TUE, 19th May from 12:00 – 23:59 – Championship XP Event Window 1
THU, 21st May from 00:00 – 11:59 – Championship XP Event Window 2
SAT, 23rd May from 15:00 – 02:59 – Championship XP Event Window 3
SUN, 24th May at 15:00 – Championship Worldgames
FRI, 29th May at 23:00 – Championship Riddles
SAT, 30th May at 16:00 – Championship Twins Tournament
SAT, 30th May at 23:00 – Staff Ceremony(*)
(*) As always, this is dependent on the winner’s availability.
Helpfiles for all of the above also exist for your perusal – HELP WORLDGAMES, HELP TWINS, HELP RIDDLES, HELP WORLDRACE, HELP XPEVENT.
UPCOMING has all these dates, and bugs or questions can be submitted via CHAMPBUG and CHAMPFAQ respectively!
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