(Nov 26) This weekend's 3 hour ladder event

This weekend, we're going to run a temporary three hour league with prizes to the top placed people.

It will run from 10am to 1pm New Zealand time on Sunday (Nov 27 2011). This is 9pm-midnight UTC on Saturday November 26. Here is a link for more time zone conversions.

The league will be hardcore. Characters who die will be moved out of this league and into the Default league. NEW CHARACTERS MUST BE CREATED IN THIS LEAGUE TO BE ELIGIBLE. After the end of the league, they'll be moved back into the normal Hardcore or Default league depending on whether they died. STASHED ITEMS IN THIS LEAGUE WILL BE LOST.

The game version will be whatever the current 0.9.3 version is. Please note that because this is a hardcore league, a single death can disqualify you. It's very dangerous to base your builds around nova-like skills!

Our decision on the winners is final. Bugs and mistakes will get in the way for many players and this is why we are running an event like this. If you lose your ability to participate due to a bug, please tell us about it and we'll do our best to fix it. We can't change the outcome of the event due to this.

Prizes: The top character of each class at the end of the three hours will be awarded a unique item that may only be obtained through weekly events like this one. The item is tradeable and will be given to the character that participated in the league.

The winners must be still alive at the end of the event to be eligible for prizes.

To clarify - you can use the prize on an existing character. Your competition character will be moved to the default hardcore league (because it's still alive). If you want to move the prize to the non-hardcore league, you can easily put it on a new character and kill that character.

Please tell other Beta members about this event so that they all know. You're allowed to mention it to the public, of course.

If you intend to stream your play in it, let us know so that we can compile a thread of streams for people to watch.

EDIT: We are adding an additional prize! All characters that are still alive and are level 20+ at the end of the event will be considered for a spot prize (drawn at random) which is the same unique item given to the winners. So that's the top person of each class based on experience and also one person drawn at random from the people who are level 20+ and still alive.

EDIT2:
Thanks for a great event, everyone! Jonathan and I died at level 15 but had a good time chatting with you guys and watching the race :D

Winners are:
Witch: Zealotlol (TouristII)
Templar: Yeahpete (MrPink)
Duelist: TobyTheEneMy (Winning)
Ranger: Elegia (Windi)
Marauder: Youcantaim (HulkSmashing)
Random: Yoshirouu (Racewish)

The prize is:
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Last edited by Chris on Nov 26, 2011, 7:16:07 PM
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FaceLicker wrote:
Question: How long before the start of the league will we be able to create our characters? If we cant create until after the league start then we're wasting precious seconds!


An hour, I believe.

The start time may change each week, btw.
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konfeta wrote:
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The game version will be whatever the current 0.9.3 version is. Please note that because this is a hardcore league, a single death can disqualify you. It's very dangerous to base your builds around nova-like skills!

This looks more like begging than a warning.

Are team ups allowed? IIRC, last ladder events were dominated by teams, no?


It was not really begging - I have plenty of time to nerf them before then ;)
I actually just copied the wording of that bit from the last event's post.

Teams are allowed but now monsters do more damage to teams. Only the top person of each class gets the prize.

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Xapti wrote:
When you guys (GGG) said you implemented support for PvP, did you mean cutthroat league, or just the PvP that exists currently in the game?

It would be nice to see a cutthroat ladder race, since while it would be a lot more grudge-wars and leader-killing, hence extremely random, I think it would still be loads and loads of fun.


Cutthroad is implemented, it's just not tested. Once we get time to test it quickly, we'll run an event for you guys :)
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Yoshirouu wrote:
I find this tournament rather unfair. That this gives so huge advantage for people with items in Hardcore Stach already. I gave up all my items in HC stach when I died there last week. Therefore im not gonna pracipiate. as i wont have any chance with all the gems and gears prepared in it.

Would be better if you opened a new league during this tournament/event called: Ladder Normal, Ladder Hardcore. And send people to the respective league after that..


They have no access to previous items. It's not the same league.
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The event starts in just over an hour. We're going to get some breakfast, then we'll create the league (hopefully half an hour before the event) so that people can make their characters if they want to prepare. The characters won't be able to move or play yet.

We are adding an additional prize! All characters that are still alive and are level 20+ at the end of the event will be considered for a spot prize (drawn at random) which is the same unique item given to the winners. So that's the top person of each class based on experience and also one person drawn at random from the people who are level 20+ and still alive.
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I updated the first post in the thread with the winners.
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The reason the ladder is gone for the event is because we migrated the characters into the main league after the event.

Unfortunately our ladder page just shows characters currently in the selected league.

We will have a solution to this at some point, and then we will be able to keep historical ladders.
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