Get ready for Duelyst’s first ever World Championship Circuit, which we’re kicking off on the first day of August! This longstanding event will stretch all the way into May of the next year, when sixteen players from around the globe, who we’re officially calling Grandmasters, will battle at Duelyst’s largest, most prestigious tournament of the year, the Duelyst World Championship!
In order to become a Grandmaster and receive an invitation to the World Championship, however, players will first have to earn their way through the many months of competition that’ll precede this grand tournament. The World Championship Circuit is filled with opportunities through which players can prove their worth and conquer the title of Grandmaster.
Be it by competing in the Ranked Ladder, by joining Counterplay Games’ Season Qualifiers and Duelyst Opens or by participating in Sanctioned Community Tournaments, players are going to fight for Circuit Points and directly battle for seats at the World Championship.
This is the first part of a series of articles that’ll cover all the specifics to the World Championship Circuit. Stay tuned for upcoming news over the next few weeks when more details will be revealed!
CIRCUIT POINTS STRUCTURE
Players will be able to obtain Circuit Points for the Duelyst World Championship by competing in the ladder, through Official Counterplay Tournaments or the many Sanctioned Community Tournaments. Points are distributed according to performance, so the better you do, the more points you get!
Circuit Points will be accumulated and tracked in two different ways, throughout the entire circuit as well as during each in-game monthly season for eight consecutive months. These two separate scoreboards will track players’ current and long term progress and help determine some of the World Championship’s participants as explained further down below.
There are a total of four different ways in which players can obtain Circuit Points, and as you’ll read later on we made sure to give everyone a chance to fight for a seat at the Duelyst World Championship! In other words, seasoned veterans and newcomers alike are all going to have a shot to prove their worth, earn the title of Grandmaster and join us at the World Championship!
Before we explain how each point-giving event is going to work, here’s a detailed look at how many Circuit Points each of them will provide:
QUALIFYING FOR THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
RANKED LADDER
The Ranked Ladder is a valuable and important part of the competitive experience, and so players who fight for the top Ladder rankings will be rewarded Circuit Points at the end of every month of the Official Circuit based on their final standing at the moment the monthly season resets. Every in-game monthly season starts on the first day of each month and ends at midnight (GMT) on the last day of that same month.
In order to ensure a fair competition for all players who decide to invest their time and resources into climbing the ladder we’ll update the way in which the S-Rank ladder works before the Circuit begins to certify that the fight for Ladder rankings remains competitive throughout the entire monthly season.
SEASON QUALIFIERS
From September on, during the first weekend of every month for eight months, we’re going to host a Season Qualifier that’ll feature the previous monthly season’s top players. These online tournaments will also award Circuit Points and the player that wins the Season Qualifier will be crowned Grandmaster and receive an invitation to the Duelyst World Championship!
After the last Season Qualifier is played in April there’ll be a total of eight Grandmasters qualified through this tournament. More information and details on the Season Qualifiers actual format will be released later on as part of this article series.
HOW CAN I JOIN A QUALIFIER?
Every Season Qualifier we’ll invite the 50 players who’ve earned the largest amount of Circuit Points during that month. In other words, August’s Season Qualifier is going to be played by the 50 players who scored the largest amount of Circuit Points during August’s monthly season. This tournament will take place during the first weekend of September.
Keep in mind that even though we keep track of every player’s total amount of Circuit Points, Season Qualifiers only take into account players’ Circuit Points accumulated during that month.
DUELYST OPENS
Free-for-all tournaments, each of the four Duelyst Opens will give every player a chance to fight for a slot at Duelyst’s 2016 World Championship. Anyone can join and compete at these events, which means Duelyst Opens are expected to be very crowded and tough to battle through. Taking that into account we’re adding a prize purse to this event on top of the seat at the World Championship that’ll be awarded for the champion.
The first Duelyst Open is going to take place in August. After that every other month there’ll be a new edition of this tournament. Further details will be revealed in an upcoming article.
SANCTIONED TOURNAMENTS
These are the community run tournaments sanctioned by Counterplay Games to distribute Circuit Points. Such events will have to follow and be in accordance to a list of requirements in order to be eligible to award Circuit Points. These measures are designed to ensure a fair and competitive tournament experience that also can’t be exploited. To learn what those requirements are make sure to read the article on Sanctioned Community Tournaments.
PLAYERS
Players can participate in as many tournaments as they want to, but are only eligible to win Circuit Points from one source each week. The event that gives them the most Circuit Points will be the one counted towards their total and monthly score.
TOURNAMENT ORGANIZERS
We’re empowering community organizers with Circuit Points to reward players with during solo tournaments. To ensure fairness and competitiveness in such events we’re releasing a list of requirements and a form organizers will have to fill in and follow before they can receive Circuit Points.
DUELYST PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Twelve out of sixteen slots at the Duelyst World Championship will be awarded to the champions of the Season Qualifiers and Duelyst Opens. After March’s Season Qualifier is concluded we are going to tally players’ total number of Circuit Points accumulated throughout the entire circuit as there’ll be no more points-giving events for the Duelyst 2016 World Championship Circuit.
The player who’s amassed the highest amount of Circuit Points will be declared Player of the Year and receive the title of Grandmaster, earning an invitation to the Duelyst World Championship. The remaining three slots will be fought for over two different tournaments, whose format and rules are going to be revealed in the next article of this series covering the structure of Duelyst’s 2016 World Championship Circuit.
That concludes the first part of the article series we’re releasing to cover all aspects and details of Duelyst’s 2016 World Championship Circuit. Stay tuned for more exciting information on the Duelyst World Championship and qualifying events!
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