PVP TOURNAMENT (Ranked) EVENT *UPDATED* with over 3 billion in prizes for TOP 15 Players (15mil Participation prizes for everyone else) ~Dec 09 2024 at 7PM EST @Star Forge Imperial (NOT A DUELLING TOURNAMENT)

[TheRealLilly]

*The tournament info will be updated regularly, and the prize amounts may also increase as well

TOURNAMENT UPDATES*
The teams will most likely consist of 10v10 due to the high popularity of the event.    -Nov 29 2024
Matches that last longer than 5min will no longer be decided by team damage and will now be moved to the overtime pvp area (see below)    -Dec 04 2024

Team Deathmatch - No Respawns.

The loss of ranked pvp content has affected all of us in the dedicated swtor PVP community. What's worse, is the fact that Arena PVP matchmaking only works about 10% of the time (if we're lucky).

This tournament is our attempt to bring back ranked pvp type content with balanced (player built) matchmaking where players will be individually ranked by their total match wins.
The tournament will be structured similar to "Rated Solo Shuffle" from WoW, consisting of several matches/rounds each with different teams.
Limit one character per player

For example:

Players: (a-b-c-d-e-f), Where players a and f are healers, the teams would look like this:

Round 1:  abc - def        Round 4:  ace - bdf 
Round 2:  abd - cef        Round 5:  acd - bef
 Round 3:  abe - cdf        Round 6:  aed - bcf

A "referee" will be the group leader of each team every match, who will invite the players to their respective teams, and will remain at their teams spawn area to make sure that the players who die and respawn during each round stay on their teams starting/respawn platform until the end of the round. NOTE:  Players who violate this rule will be kicked from the stronghold and invited back ONLY ONCE (A second rule violation will result in disqualification)

Each round will be 5min, if  the timer runs out then the remaining players on both teams will be saved and the match will go into overtime using the much smaller pvp area which is littered with fire traps to simulate acid which would be a nightmare for any stealth class.

The event will take place on Dec-09-2024 from 7PM Eastern until approx. 11PM Eastern

7PM - 8PM -Tournament Registration
(This will be when the tournament matchmaking will be built by the hosts) - Once you have been registered by the hosts you may do warzones/arenas to pass the time during this period
8PM -11PM+ - Tournament Matchmaking

 

TOURNAMENT PRIZE LIST
1st Place - 500mil
2-3rd Place - 250mil
4-5th Place - Master's Datacron and Equipment
6-10th Place - OEM-37x5 + RPM-13x5
11-15th Place - Choice of either {OEM-37x5} OR {RPM-13x5}
16th Place and Below - Participation prize of 15mil

*Player who attend the event with characters that they play both heals and dps with will receive CM-1337x1 as a Role-In-Need bonus reward
(This bonus reward will ONLY be awarded to players who meet a minimum heals per second threshold. In other words u must be good at heals. This will prevent dps players who are s#!t healers from screwing over their teams)
 

RSVP by emailing us your character name and it's roles+classes that you will be attending the event with at serialkillerstournament @ gmail.com
(Players who RSVP will receive an additional 10mil at the end of the tournament) -This will help us immensely

 

The Full event will be live-streamed on Lilly's twitch channel at twitch.tv/sklilly

RULES
-One character per player - changing spec/class can only be done BEFORE joining your team each round (to stop people from changing their teams comp as this event is structured as solo ranked) Changing talents and gear however is allowed

-Player who die during a round and respawn on their teams platform MUST stay on the platform until the end of the round. Breaking this rule will result in getting booted from this stronghold immediately

-Players who are caught pulling a "dancing twi'leks" will be kicked out of the tournament, and the round will restart (Sitting in stealth for an extended period of time) We won't allow any of our matches to be thrown

-'/stuck'ing is not allowed as typing /stuck in a stronghold results in your character being teleported to the stronghold entrance

-PVP Flagging - Is it allowed? F#<K yeah it's allowed, because it's so much quicker than typing get rekt m8 and a lot less toxic than calling someone trash, which makes it safer for you and your account. -> As you're probably aware, the devs take toxicness a thousand times more seriously than hacking. Being toxic in chat can get you banned in a couple of days whereas fly hacking in solo ranked takes over a month to get you banned (some of you may remember this from 5 years ago when a certain BRAT got away with blatantly fly hacking in solo ranked for a month and a half before finally getting banned for only a week)

SPECIAL NOTES:
 - If you plan on attending the event with a healer, we recommend bringing a class that you're comfortable with playing both Heals and DPS specs on.
- A sneak peek at the PVP Map that we built for this event are attached
- Video Link below screenshots on how to gain access to this area + PVP Event Map Walkthrough

 

This tournament is hosted by Serial Killers, one of the oldest dedicated PVP guilds in the game.
RIP: The Bastion
 

How to gain access to this area + PVP Event Map Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/pf4W0CPpFKo

Edited Wednesday at 12:59 PM by TheRealLilly

[Samcuu]

What server is it taking place on? Great idea btw!! Edit; nm saw it in the title. 

Edited November 20 by Samcuu

[septru]

I applaud anyone that makes community events despite the dying community. As someone who has hosted these events in the past, I know how much time, effort, and personal investment it takes. So thank you. 

 

I have a couple of questions and comments. 

(1) I don't really understand the format. Is it 1 heal, 3 dps? Or 1 heal, 1 tank, 2 dps? Or 4 dps? 

(2) The tournament is 3 hours long. 4 hours if you include registration. This is a loooooooong tournament. As someone that has hosted tournaments, I've found that most people lose interest after two. Is there any thought to shortening the tournament to 2 hours? 

(3) Do you have a discord? Can we contact you via discord instead of email? 

(4) The arena on the Skydeck of the Rishi Stronghold is extremely glitchy and bug infested. Jump, leap, and holotraverse etc. often do not work. Dsync is really bad in the stronghold. Among other issues. Is there any thought to using the arena challenges system? You could ask each healer or something to stream or something. 

[Beyrahl]

13 minutes ago, septru said:

The arena on the Skydeck of the Rishi Stronghold is extremely glitchy and bug infested. Jump, leap, and holotraverse etc. often do not work. Dsync is really bad in the stronghold. Among other issues. Is there any thought to using the arena challenges system? You could ask each healer or something to stream or something. 

Challenges really is the only option for an easily regulated community based thing.
If its fully coping solo shuffle its 2x dps, 1x healer. This would allow for a stealth spectator on both sides, though obviously depending on how hairy it can get they need to position pretty well since there's no spectator mode in general. I actually wanted to see people use this for dueling in the future because it truly mimics something you'd run into in actual gameplay. 

[TheRealLilly]

After the first like 15 minutes of the registration period you'll be free to queue for pvp while we build the teams for each round.

As for the team composition formats it all depends on how many of each role that we have available. Team compositions will be mainly heals and deeps, or all deeps. We may add a 50% prize bonus for players who can play both heals and dps, which will make matchmaking alot easier

[TheRealLilly]

https://discord.gg/k9dR87Z

[septru]

4 hours ago, TheRealLilly said:

As for the team composition formats it all depends on how many of each role that we have available. Team compositions will be mainly heals and deeps, or all deeps.

Throwing the idea out there.... You may consider making a 3v3 all dps WoW style solo shuffle tournament. That way you can use the 4th open spot, put spectators on both teams, and use PvP challenges. 

 

It's harder than you think to find people for PvP tournaments. I had an even bigger prize pool and could barely find 8 teams for my 3v3 tournament. And that was back when ranked still existed. If you don't have enough people to fill enough 4 man teams, it could be a good alternative. 

[TheRealLilly]

1 hour ago, septru said:

Throwing the idea out there.... You may consider making a 3v3 all dps WoW style solo shuffle tournament. That way you can use the 4th open spot, put spectators on both teams, and use PvP challenges. 

 

It's harder than you think to find people for PvP tournaments. I had an even bigger prize pool and could barely find 8 teams for my 3v3 tournament. And that was back when ranked still existed. If you don't have enough people to fill enough 4 man teams, it could be a good alternative. 

Not going to limit teams to max 3 or 4 players, especially if theres more than 8 players in event otherwise the number of rounds would be too high, plus its a big map. I wouldn't go higher than 8 players per team (with two healers per team) or 6 (with only one healer). Also this event was announced yesterday and 6 players have already RSVP'd,

[DirtyJedi]

Is it going to be on Twitch?

[TheRealLilly]

7 minutes ago, DirtyJedi said:

Is it going to be on Twitch?

yes

https://www.twitch.tv/sklilly

[DirtyJedi]

Awesome, Thanks!!!

[sithBracer]

I would definitely recommend making some rules for stealth in a format like this. 3 sins in voice will be able to mezz and gank players individually, go into stealth and reset after a CD is used and then do it again. With no tanks to counter them, it will be very hard for almost any team to beat such a team, especially if there is no acid.

[TheRealLilly]

We've received quite a lot of messages from people interested in attending so it's starting to look like 10v10

[TheRealLilly]

IMPORTANT TOURNAMENT UPDATES HAVE BEEN ADDED