Objective

Defeat Big Prize

Rules

No Tats
No Decay

Prizes

Big Prize*: be the first to defeat the target char and win!

Also Ran**: beat the target char get 1m

Participation prize***: 100k

*winners will receive both the character and tattoo, other items are not included
**must kill target within 24 hours of the first defeat
***50% of the top mpr is considered participation

Misc Info

Start Date: Dec 27th, Noon
End Date: Jan 27th, Noon (or earlier)
Start BA: 200
BA Cap: None
Starting EXP: 35m

how big is the tat?

Great, an anti-me tourney :). No one will beat the Titan! :)

A Steel Familiar lvl 7,210,986 owned by TourneyPrizes (Big Prize)

I'll give it a shot even though i sucked in the last tourney, but this time i will have more time.

35 mil starting exp. That's 2.9xx mil starting levels. O.0

and 1000% bonus, gonna be fun :)

Auctions okay?

Never played in a tournament with starting exp before so here's a question. Can I spread out the starting exp on different minions or is it concentrated on 1 minion?

^

last time it was on the first minion you hire

alright thanks

Only for your first minion. :)

*whew* Spent most of the morning thinking of strategy for this target! I'll be fighting in this tourney as well!

Too soon :\, makes it less fun for me if I decide to do it.

Too soon :\, makes it less fun for me if I decide to do it.

I agree i wish we had a few more days notice

A few more nights of good sleep would have been nice, heheh.

I should have suggested Slayer keep the No whining rule

Are you whining about us whining, novice? rofl

Yes

I'd like to see a few more people in on a tournament where the part of the prize sells to the store for 20m CB.

i would and have suggested making the participation prize participation based rather than performance based...that should be a good start!

If you're not performing, you're not truly p[articipating ~_^

Yeah. sucks there's 20+ million to the first place but then second place gets nothing. I liked the last tourney prize awards :), where one - five got a pretty decent prize.

thbbt

I'll also give it a try. I was close last tourney :)

I will not be joining... Titan is my friend.

Lol, thanks Tal :)

boooooo friendship!!!

GO WINNING!

it is much more fun to have both more performers and participants though and if we can encourage more to participate then over time they will become better. if we cannot get them to try though then they will never move up to the next level.

we have about two hundred active players and in the last tournament a total of ten prizes were handed out including six for participation. there was a few more though that burned at least 50 percent of the top ba and i believe that is a better benchmark for participation.

if it were truly a participation bonus i believe it would also encourage people to not retire their characters once they are out of the running. ; )

I'm in. Good luck, everyone.

Soul Crusher

win cast Dispel Magic on all enemy Minions (586,500)

win cast Dispel Magic on all enemy Minions (586,500)
you cast Ablative Shield on all friendly Minions (1987961)
win cast Guardian Angel on all friendly Minions (?)
prize cast Ablative Shield on all friendly Minions (4158129)

stats for AS

The target is pretty tough. My mageseeker is the second biggest in the game (over 200 mill NW), with 7 mill strength behind it and 9 mill HP. I almost lose. Nice big GA.

A decent DM might do the trick in making that right, but then the other stats will be compromised.

Alatar Gloves does mean AMF might be more useful...

By the statement "no tats", this includes lesser tattoos as well.

Right, and I would like to come out now and confess that I used a lesser tattoo for a while on my tourney fighter. I'm kind of rusty on the whole tournament thing, and the rules kind of slipped my mind. I was politely notified by another player that I was in violation of the rules, so I immediately sold it back to the store where I got it.

Disqualify me as you will, but I'd like to play around with a low-level strat for a while, so if it's possible just rename the team to indicate disqualification so I can use it as a test team until the tourney ends. I'll still use it, I just won't be competing with it (and I wouldn't have won anyway).

On the other hand, my ELB archer (which has a huge DM) makes pretty short work of it in the minimum possible time (5 rounds for 5 minions).
DM+SoD will probably also do the trick quite nicely (probably even better), I assume.

Just tested out the Target with my regular char FGoD. I have the same results as sickone, I also happen to have a pretty decent DM. Hope the Info helps you T-Heads bouncing off this Titan :-)

Then again, both ELB users are using a TOA with its bonus to PTH, str and (not needed) dexterity.

This allows one to put a lot more xp into DM and HP.

T characters will not have that luxury.

That was my thoughts Ranger, on the surface, an archer strat seems ideal, but that does need a lot of xp and NW to compensate without a ToA.

I do have a feeling that the winner will be the person who manages to get their hands on a HoC.

Heh.

I have an interesting idea that might work. I'll just say it involves heavy AC and DM.

Just letting people know that they could start now and still stand just about the same chance of winning as those already in it... Plenty of time, a huge bonus, a big chunk to start with, and the path has been laid already, let's get some more people in this! ^_^

Only a few more days to get in on the action before catching up gets hard! =-O

I am going to have to agree with Hatch...I had a slow start and have slept a lot since it is holidays. I am doing well and i sorta suck.

A good attempt could be in the ranks within a week.

Tournament Scores

Fee-fi-fo-fum (3295900)  
[T38] Sickone (3211336)  
Bah Humbug (3191611)  
{T48}Newlin (3179693)  
HatchetPrize (3129771)  

Minions PR

Joel's team (1198753)  
A Shade of Hulk (1152771)  
Okay T48 (1144728)  
HatchetPrize (1109137)  
AK{T48} (1100873)  

uhh what are these?

fancy bump

I win in 10 rounds :)

With your tournament character? :p

Also, participation based on BA spent as opposed to MPR isn't a half-bad idea.

Also, I'll offer free unretiring for those with 5 parties who don't want to retire one to enter. Retire one, enter, and I'll unretire for free at the end of the tournament.

Good idea, I think all admins should offer this :)

If we sell items to tourney characters, can they sell them back at the end of the tourney?

Not sure if it's allowed...

http://www.carnageblender.com/wiki/Tournament+Information#0

2/3 down, 1/3 to go... think anybody will manage to beat it in time ? :)

My money is on Hatch!

I believe that it's been stated that the tourney will not end without a winner

Thats what we said last time though, and 4 people pulled it off :)

last time the bonus is 10x of what it is now :)

Most likely due to novice increasing the bonus for the last part of the tourney.

I think Hatch will be able to beat it in 5-7 days at the rate he is beating characters up.

Things would have been perfect last time if I hadn't caved and raised the bonus...

at least one or two of them woulda won. If i recall correctly, the bonus was doubled with like 4-5 days left, and the first winner got it the day after the bonus was doubled. If one person could've done it in the time given, then everybody could have. Granted, all 5 prizes wouldn't have been given out last tourney, but hey, "go big or go home", right?



My actual money is too, but I'm still seeing you as slightly ahead of me :P We've been neck and neck the whole way through though you got a slightly better start on things. It's definitely an interesting run to say the least ^_^

Novicesucks defeated Big Prize after 7 rounds of combat




I mean, technically, I did it. I just, you know, had some help :P

*So no one gets in a huff*

I used my real character to damage Big Prize first, then won with my Tourney character. Not actually trying to win, just thought it'd be fun to see if it worked XD

If you would have waited longer for responses I am sure someone would have gone crazy over it! :P lol

In other words, you start out with 840k MPR so if you grow half as fast, you'll still be able to grab this ;)

The current top MRI is 2M. Starting with 840k is almost there.

Bah Humbug defeated Big Prize after 7 rounds of combat
Physical
Bah Humbug Big Prize
Ranged Hits / Shots / Avg Damage 13 / 13 / 237,152 0 / 0 / 0
Melee Hits / Blows / Avg Damage 1 / 1 / 246,288 0 / 0 / 0
Magical
Bah Humbug Big Prize
Enchantments Cast 0 0
DD Cast / Avg Damage 6 / 3,600 11 / 324,671

Rewards
Cash (total) $6,733
XP (per minion) 2470
Bonuses
Challenge bonus 100%
Tournament bonus 1000%

You have $66,765.

Play-by-play:
Off On On non-win

Post-battle stats
Evil Santa The April Fool Fat Easter Bunny
Experience 26,063 26,066 26,061
Hit Points 3,873 -964,524 -338,388
Strength 1,345,385 20 112
Dexterity 392 20 95
Armor Class 38 -5 157
Ranged Base to-Hit 100
Ranged Bonus to-Hit 57
Direct Damage 55,905
Damage Inflicted 3,329,275 43,205 0


Play-by-play
Bah Humbug Big Prize
Evil Santa cast Dispel Magic on all enemy Minions (4,505,356)
The April Fool cast Dispel Magic on all enemy Minions (5,082,566)
win cast Dispel Magic on all enemy Minions (586,500)
you's Ablative Shield fizzles under Dispel Magic
win's Guardian Angel fizzles under Dispel Magic
prize's Ablative Shield fizzles under Dispel Magic

Ranged Combat
The April Fool's Fireball hit you [1343], win [1060], win's familiar [1386], big [1693], prize [1078]
win's familiar's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [240399]
big's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [115691]

R.I.P. you, win, prize

Evil Santa shot win's familiar [190991]
Evil Santa hit win's familiar [182653]
Evil Santa hit win's familiar [179752]
The April Fool's Fireball hit win's familiar [1893], big [2864]
win's familiar's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [208207]
big's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [213809]


Evil Santa hit win's familiar [288129]
Evil Santa shot win's familiar [280651]
Evil Santa hit win's familiar [292309]
The April Fool's Fireball hit win's familiar [3672], big [3307]
win's familiar's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [296238]
big's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [148911]


Evil Santa hit win's familiar [230774]
Evil Santa struck deep into win's familiar [246949]
Evil Santa cries "Ho Ho Ha!"
The April Fool's Fireball hit big [3811]
win's familiar's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [347322]
big's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [169483]

R.I.P. win's familiar

Evil Santa hit big [288374]
Evil Santa shot big [226349]
The April Fool's Fireball hit big [8070]
big's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [308645]


Evil Santa shot big [215169]
Evil Santa shot big [237044]
Evil Santa shot big [223843]
The April Fool's Fireball hit big [13028]
big's Magic Missile hit Fat Easter Bunny [558137]

R.I.P. Fat Easter Bunny

Melee Combat
Evil Santa struck deep into big [246288]
Evil Santa cries "Ho Ho Ha!"
big's Magic Missile hit The April Fool [964544]

R.I.P. The April Fool R.I.P. big

Winner!

We'll use a BA usage participation prize in this tourney, so you can probably still get enough BA in to get a prize if you aren't already there! Just need at least 65% of the BA that the top MPR character has used. (Participation prize was also doubled, see wiki)

If anyone else can defeat the character by 12:00 Noon tomorrow, they will earn 1m!

woot!

I put all my rares into auctions.

Great job, Ranger!

I see your auctions have a 2 day duration...
... I wonder what will happen to them when the tournament is over in 1 day :)

That being said, I doubt I have any chance of beating the target in the next 24h with the strategy I am using now (which, to be honest, was tailored to beat other tournament members, and it did that very good, hehe)... so I'll be throwing my rare gear into auctions very soon too.
Just waiting for an answer first about what happens to an auction when the character issuing it force-retires with the tournament, just so I know if I can select a long duration to give everybody a fair chance, or if I have to adjust duration down to under 23h.

The items stay in auctions.

When placing items in auction with your Tournament character, the items will stay in auctions for their duration, even if the character is retired.

The same applies to rental items and loaned items when we ban a cheater (most of the times)

Congrats ranger, I don't have the DM yet to beat the target fast enough.

really well done!

Yes,

The biggest problem I saw looking at BP was the huge GA and AS.

The only way to get such a huge DM to dispel them was to use my first minion for most of the DM.

Once I was able to obtain a MgS in auctions as well as an EH, and hire my first minion, the rest was just waiting to get enough levels to have strength to use an ELB.

I doubt using only DD, it would be possible to beat BP even in 6 weeks of playing.

Very well done Ranger, way to go man!! :D

The tournament will end on the 24th, maybe we will test the new features after noon tomorrow.

Shouldn't we have it end on the 22nd then?

Nope.

Why did you auctions your rares? Why not DE all of your items and buy as many rares as possible?

Congrats man! I hope I helped keep it interesting ^_^

To get them back into the game, as a T character I took them out.

Nothing wrong with that.

<3 for rarer "rares" :D

(one of the) last Tournament(s) in which this is possible / applicable though :)

I know, I agree Shade, it's sad.

Why is it sad?

The new T store will enable the admins to make better and fairer tourneys.

but it will no longer be able to take from the flood of "rares"

Game over?

Speaking of which...we might have a problem in a couple days since Sickone is auctioning stuff for 5 days+, and the tourney is gonna retire his character in 2 days.

Even if a character is retired, unless his items are reset, the items in auctions are just fine.

I've been reading the rules about tournaments, I thought that tourny characters can only auction base item ? but it seems like there's few pretty high nw items being auctioned by tourny character.

Do you agree with me? I think not, I don't really mind this fix.

I don't really like it, a great source of profit just disappeared.

an injustice source of profit will disappear. And yes, I've also profited from this from time to time but entering a tournament should profit you a little bit instead now. :)

In other words: work for yo' money!

I also have profited from tournaments.

And I think this T store is an incredible addition.

So the participation prize is 100k, or the 200k mentioned as being applied retroactively in the T49 thread ?

200k