(Dec 10) HC Ladder Race League with 50+ Prizes

This weekend, we're going to run a temporary three hour league with awesome prizes.

It will run from 10am to 1pm New Zealand time on Sunday (Dec 11 2011). This is 9pm-midnight UTC on Saturday December 10. 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. The league will be open for character creation at least 30 minutes before the start of the competition.

Prizes:
During the tournament, we will track the first player to complete various achievements in this league. As soon as these are achieved, they will be announced publicly for all the participants to see.

At the end of the tournament, we will award the prizes in the Hardcore league on a character that we add to your account. If you want to transfer these prizes to the Default league, then just kill that character.

As prizes are claimed, we will update this post to show what remains.

Top Prizes:

The top player of each class by experience: Demigod's Presence (Unique Amulet).

• Witch: - OHGODIMWET
• Templar: - Trophy
• Marauder: - NiTestu
• Ranger: - Kamelia
• Duelist: - Insanius_Arcade_Edition

• The first player to enter Cruel difficulty: Divine Orb - PopSecret
• The first player to enter Ruthless difficulty: Mirror of Kalandra

Full-clears:
The first player to kill all of the monsters in any of the following areas will receive the listed currency item for that area. Note that your minions count as monsters currently, so we strongly recommend avoiding minion builds if you want to win this prize. If you are in a party, then the player who gets the killing blow on the final monster gets the prize.

• (Normal) Fetid Pool: Exalted Orb - Rusher
• (Normal) Church Dungeon Level 2: Exalted Orb - Kupopu_GonnaDie
• (Normal) Dread Thicket: Exalted Orb - NiTestu
• (Cruel) Fetid Pool: Exalted Orb - iMo
• (Cruel) Church Dungeon Level 2: Exalted Orb
• (Cruel) Dread Thicket: Exalted Orb

Quests:
The first player to complete each of these quests wins the prize listed. If you're in a party then only one of you will win the prize. The player will be selected randomly.

• (Normal) Kill Hillock: Orb of Alchemy - RushLorcas
• (Normal) Give Nessa the Medicine Chest: Regal Orb - dbtr
• (Normal) Drain Submerged Passage: Orb of Alchemy - PopSecret
• (Normal) Kill the Deep Dweller: Regal Orb - RadBromance
• (Normal) Kill Brutus: 2x Orb of Alchemy - PopSecret
• (Normal) Kill Fairgraves: Chaos Sphere - Prototype_Two
• (Normal) Kill Merveil: 2x Chaos Sphere - PopSecret
• (Normal) Kill Alira: Divine Orb - PopSecret
• (Normal) Kill Oak: Divine Orb - iMo
• (Normal) Kill Kraityn: Divine Orb - PopSecret
• (Normal) Get the Combined Amulet: Regal Orb - PopSecret
• (Normal) Return Silk's Spear: Exalted Orb - PopSecret
• (Normal) Bring Baleful Gem to Gruest: Exalted Orb - FaceHumper
• (Normal) Open Cathedral of Bones: Regal Orb - PopSecret
• (Cruel) Kill Hillock: Orb of Alchemy - PopSecret
• (Cruel) Give Nessa the Medicine Chest: Regal Orb - FaceHumper
• (Cruel) Drain Submerged Passage: Orb of Alchemy - PopSecret
• (Cruel) Kill the Deep Dweller: Regal Orb - NiTestu
• (Cruel) Kill Brutus: 2x Orb of Alchemy - FaceHumper
• (Cruel) Kill Fairgraves: Chaos Sphere
• (Cruel) Kill Merveil: 2x Chaos Sphere - FaceHumper
• (Cruel) Kill Alira: Divine Orb
• (Cruel) Kill Oak: Divine Orb
• (Cruel) Kill Kraityn: Divine Orb
• (Cruel) Get the Combined Amulet: Regal Orb
• (Cruel) Return Silk's Spear: Exalted Orb
• (Cruel) Bring Baleful Gem to Gruest: Exalted Orb
• (Cruel) Open Cathedral of Bones: Regal Orb

Spot Prizes:
We'll also distribute some spot prizes randomly after the event to people who reached certain level thresholds. You can be eligible for multiple tiers of spot prizes. Winners of other categories can still win spot prizes.

Level 28+: Exalted Orb

• Trophy

Level 23+: Regal Orb (3 people receive this)

• Power_Ranger
• Sparka
• Moustache_Apocalypse

Level 18+: Orb of Alchemy (5 people receive this)

• Sorciah
• rushleague
• iMo
• TheNoxPox
• ReikouNakasawa

Miscellaneous:
The game version will be whatever the current 0.9.4 version is. Please note that because this is a hardcore league, a single death can disqualify you. STASHED ITEMS IN THIS LEAGUE WILL BE LOST

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.

Last week, IMDisappoint won a lot of prizes by rushing ahead to claim quest rewards. He played fairly and beat everyone else at this because he had no competition at that strategy.

This week, we've made the competition hardcore which of course makes the above strategy a lot more dangerous! In addition, everyone now knows of IMDisappoint's strategy from last week :)

I'm really looking forward to seeing the results of this.

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konfeta wrote:

I thought you guys were gonna vary up the times between contests so people from different timezones could have a shot at this?

Yes, but haven't yet. There are dozens more of these planned at different times. At the moment we're keeping the time constant to compare player numbers with different settings.

The league is up. Everyone create characters!

That was a very interesting event to watch. To address concerns, we're probably going to have a lot more full-clear prizes for the next event like this, as they slow down people who are in the lead. What do you guys think about an event where every area had a full-clear bounty?

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dust7 wrote:

have the prizes been given out already?

We're still working on them. This time I'm remembering the starter weapons the chars need to have to get to town alive :P

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dust7 wrote:

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Chris wrote:

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dust7 wrote:

have the prizes been given out already?

We're still working on them. This time I'm remembering the starter weapons the chars need to have to get to town alive :P

My char ThrophyPrizes already exists, from the last ladder race. It is a level 8 Marauder in HC. Could you put the prizes on him, please?

Because of the way we make the prizes, I have to give you a second prize character, sorry :)

Okay guys, prizes have been distributed! See you next time (when we vary the rules and the timezones?!)

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dust7 wrote:

By the way, do you dev guys have something like a spectator mode and watch people play?

No, we just ask them to stream and then watch that.