I am calling all alliances who wish to participate in an alliance vs alliance tournament, details outlined below. This is a hold the square type of tournament but with a difference to make it more exciting and different from the server run tournaments. It will begin on the 11^th of August and will run until all but one alliance has been knocked out of the competition.

How does it work?

Alliances choose squares to defend for the duration of the tournament; this number is determined by the alliances population at the beginning of the tournament. If you are required to defend multiple squares then you must have at least a twenty square distance between any two squares. Each alliance then has to attack and occupy other squares to try and knock other alliances out of the competition. Each alliance gets to choose the location of their squares and these will be kept secret from all other alliances until the beginning of the tournament. Please refer to the below list for how many squares each population has to defend.

Alliance population                                          Number of squares to defend

pop <1.5M                                                       One

1.5M< pop >3M                                                Two

3M< pop >4.5M                                                Three

4.5M< pop >6M                                                Four

6M< pop >8M                                                   Five

8M< pop >10M                                                 Six

10M< pop >12M                                               Seven

12M< pop                                                         Eight

The aim is to attack other alliance’s squares and gain time on those squares in order to knock that alliance out of the competition. An alliance is knocked out when they have lost control of their squares for a total of fourteen days (20160 minutes). Once this has been achieved that alliance is knocked out of the tournament and cannot attack another alliance’s squares and all of its own squares are removed from the playing board. Bear in mind that this time does not have to be on one square, if the alliance has more than one square then it is fourteen days over all of them. Likewise it does not have to be fourteen days straight but each occupation will accumulate time against the defending alliance.

What are the prizes?

I have a prize pool of 80k horses, 60k livestock, 50k swords, 70k bows, 80k spears, 20k saddles, 30k books, 50k leather armour, 60k chain armour, 35k plate armour, 80k beer, 1 cask of wine, 30 draught horses, 2.5k riding horse, 1.4k reinforced leather armour and 170M gold.

This prize pool will be split into prizes for the top two alliances, the alliance who occupies an opposing square for the longest time (continuous) and best single player kill ratio. I will also be awarding a medal to the most valuable player from the top three alliances; this will be decided by the alliances themselves.

I would very much welcome, and be very grateful for, any donations of goods so that I can create better prizes and different kinds of awards for those that are participating (this is everything that I have in storage). If you wish to donate some prestige as well to help create some medals for the winners of one of the awards please send me an igm and we can discuss the best way to go about this.

How do I enter?

If you are interested in entering please send me an igm with a list of the squares that you will be defending in the tournament. I will provide a list at the bottom of this post that shows all of the alliances that have entered and I would ask that you drop any NAP’s and Confed’s that you have with fellow competitors otherwise you will not be able to attack each other.

How are the squares monitored?

I will then release a list of these squares once the tournament begins noting which alliance is defending which squares. I will also provide a list showing the occupation times on each square and a count for how long each alliance has left until they are knocked out of the competition. To be able to do this I would ask that one player from each alliance forwards me every battle report that their alliance receives (I should only receive the same battle report twice, once from the defending alliance and once from the attacking alliance). This is so that I can work out the occupation times and also to run a few stats for the tournament. I would ask that you send them with a certain subject heading format so that I can easily identify them, the format is shown below.

Subject: (square location) (attacking alliance) (defending alliance) (change in occupation)

Eg.

If alliance A attacks alliance B on square xxx/-yyy and alliance A gains control of the square after the attack the subject header would look like xxx/-yyy A B Change.

If alliance A attacks alliance B on square xxx/-yyy and alliance A does NOT gain control of the square after the attack the subject header would look like xxx/-yyy A B.

I will be relying heavily on these mails as I cannot monitor every square that is in use and therefore I rely on your honesty in regards to when a square changes ownership and also when your troops leave the square, even if there is no battle!

Can I also ask for one or two more players to help me to crunch the numbers so that everyone can view a more updated version of the standings as I cannot guarantee enough time to go through all of the changes more than once a day, plus it will help to give the participating alliances quicker updates. It would not be a difficult job to do, just entering some numbers into a spreadsheet, but will be quite time consuming. If you are interested please send me an igm and I will provide all of the information the you require, I don’t think I will be able to run the tournament without at least one person helping me on this as I will not have the time to keep all of the data updated properly by myself.

So if your alliance is interested in participating please send me an igm with the squares that you are defending and I will register you. Also if you have any queries about anything in regards to the tournament feel free to contact me and I will be more than willing to answer them for you. On a final note if there is any disputes in regards to the tournament please refer them to me and I will deal with them as I see fit!

I look forward to seeing you all out on the field participating!

Regards,

Altrix

p.s. If I have forgotten anything feel free to point it out to me :)