15JUL25 - JUBILEE-YEAR FALL TOURNEY WITH DRAGONS!

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In continued celebration of Illyriad’s 15th Anniversary Jubilee year, the DEVS are pleased to announce that the upcoming seasonal Fall tournament will be enhanced to include an expansive prize pool of dragon units! 

In celebration of the Jubilee, several new content elements were added to the server, including a reworking of the Dragonkin faction and launch of a completely new Dragon faction, featuring 5 new dragon units. Since their launch, there has been growing excitement over the eventual launch of the dragon units onto the map, as well as an opportunity for players to win these units, similar to the tournament held in 2014 in celebration of King Sigurd’s 25-year reign as King of Illyria, when undead dragons were featured in the prize pool.

Eleven years later, players and alliances will once again have the opportunity to win dragon units – but this time on a much larger scale.

How the Tournament Will Work

We’re making this tournament extremely easy to understand: it will run exactly like the planned August Fall Tournament, because it is the August Fall Tournament. We’re not changing the format or rules in any way. We’re also keeping the exact same rewards (medals and totems) – we’re just adding to it with an exclusive, extra prize pool of dragons.

If you’re not a usual tournament player but will want to compete in this tournament for a chance at winning a dragon, the best place to start is GM Thundercat’s forum post on REGULAR SEASONAL TOURNAMENTS & REGIONAL TOTEMS. This tournament system has been in operation since the beginning of 2020 when the game celebrated its 10th Anniversary,  and is working very well. 

The Dragon Prizes
The original prize pool for the undead dragons was small, with only the top 3 global winners taking home 1 unit of the deadly beasts. This time around, we want to make sure that, while the winning alliance wins a truly kingly gift of dragons and the top-3 alliances are handsomely rewarded overall, other players and alliances have a chance to win a dragon as well. We’re hoping this will create a “dragon meta” period in the game, give the server a tournament that will encourage spirited participation, and lead to some exciting action!

As you can see, alliances that rank in the TOP 10 for total time on all tournament squares will win at least 1 dragon of some kind. The top 4 alliances will win dragon packages that include undead dragons as well. A table of the dragon prize pool is as follows:

Placement Living Dragons Undead Dragons Combined Attack Value
First Place 1 each of all 5 living dragons 1 dragolich 15,522
Second Place 1 each of fire wyvern, frost wyvern, green drake, and orange wyrm 1 dragon revenant 11,225
Third Place 1 each of frost wyvern, green drake, and orange wyrm 1 bone dragon 7,431
Fourth Place 1 each of green drake and orange wyrm 1 bone drake 4,712
Fifth Place 1 each of fire wyvern and orange wyrm – 2,969
Sixth Place 1 each of green drake and orange wyrm – 2,312
Seventh Place 1 fire wyvern – 1,969
Eighth Place 1 frost wyvern – 1,969
Ninth Place 1 green drake – 1,312
Tenth Place 1 orange wyrm – 1,000

Additionally, every player in a participating alliance that involved at least 1 troop in a tournament square battle will receive 1 exclusive dragon priest, the military unit of the Dragonkin faction. You must have participated in a combat event on the tournament square to be eligible. This means that it's not enough to simply occupy the square; you have to have fought on that square to get a prize if your alliance wins it. Only 1 dragon priest will be given out per qualifying participant, regardless of how many squares a player may have fought on.

The dragon prizes will be delivered to the winners’ capital cities in the usual fashion, after the conclusion of the tournament.

Expand Your Rosters to Include Newer & Unaffiliated Players
While this isn’t a requirement, we also encourage alliances to try and fill up their roster space for the tournament and get as many players involved as possible (assuming your alliance has some extra slots). We’d love to see new, smaller, and unaffiliated players get into the fun and possibly the prize pool, so keep an open mind about expanding your rosters if you have some empty slots. It’s a great way for newer players to learn more about tournament play and get exposed to what alliances have to offer.

Gentle Reminder: 2 Accounts per Player
Seeing as we’ll be giving out lots of great and powerful prizes to participants in the winning alliances, we’d like to offer a gentle reminder that players are only allowed 2 accounts in the game of Illyriad. GM Duran will be doing fresh audits leading up to and during the tournament to ensure compliance with this rule, and there will be serious consequences for players who seek to game the tournament through multiaccounting. So, let’s please avoid that nasty business and play fair. Thank you very much in advance!

We look forward to launching the tournament and seeing who comes out on top. Best of luck to all! 