The Magus Cup Rules and Regulations

[Tainted Bushido]

The Magus Cup was the first Althanas tournament held exclusively for newer players. Named after Althanas legend Dark Magus, the tournament places level 2 and below players against each other in traditional one on one combat. This year we expand on that concept by introducing the new players to the veteran ones to truly find out which generation has the best writers.

Number of Players Allowed: 30 (15 each bracket)

Registration begins: NOW!

Basic Rules:

• There will be two brackets, one for new players and one for the veterans. Whether one is "new" or a "veteran" will be determined primarily by his join date and secondarily by his level. The join date cut off is January 1st, 2008, but if that person's character is over level 3, the tournament staff reserves the right to "bump" him to the "veteran" bracket or vice versa (for older players with low leveled characters)
• To register, please post the word "Registered" as a response to the Registration Thread, found here. Please include your join date and level as a reference. You can find your registration date by viewing your profile and clicking the "statistics" tab.
• Registration will last one week or until all 30 spots are filled. Please note that new secondary characters are allowed to participate, but the staff reserves the right to "bump" characters of veteran players to the "veteran" bracket.
• Standard Althanas battle rules apply, including the 10 post requirement. Battles under 10 posts will not be judged and awards will not be given (though a winning player will be selected). Extended absences will also result in the loss of points.
• The player with the highest score advances to the next round.
• Match-ups will be determined randomly at the beginning of the tournament.
• The first player to post will determine the setting for the battle.
• Each battle will last two weeks.
• There will also be special battles held throughout the tournament, evidenced by the lack of a perfect square for participation.
• In the final round, the winner of each bracket will duel for the championship. The losing semi-finalists will battle for third place.

Rewards: The winner receives 5000 EXP, the second place finisher will earn 2500 EXP and third place finisher will receive 1250 EXP.

Please ask any relevant questions within this thread. We will answer them as we can get to them.

[Requiem of Insanity]

So this is in fact not a round robin, but a first in first out style, where the loser is dropped from the tournament? In other more blunt words:

Two players post a kick ass titanic battle, and a loser is declared.

Two players don't post, but one posted more. One advanced, the other never showed up.

The person who participated is SOL and knocked out of the tournament, and the player who didn't even break a sweat advanced.

Am I correct on this?

[Tainted Bushido]

Yes. I understand the frustration, we're hoping that won't occur again this tournament. There was a rather large drop out rate after the first round of the last tournament, I believe due to the players not understanding the judging system.

[Abomination]

What's all the IC reasoning behind this? First posts are gonna be pretty dull if I don't know why/how I'm here.

[Visla Eraclaire]

I'm kind of staggered that we're starting a new tournament right on the heels of the ToC...

One young wastrel says to another, "Bro, let's go get tanked!" while his friend is still wretching from the last evening's activities.

That being said, I did register and hopefully your optimism about participation is not ill-founded.

[Mikeavelli]

Near as I can tell, the previous tournament was an "invitational" designed specifically to attract people who aren't regulars at Althanas.

Most of the people who just stopped posting went on to never post at Althanas again.

Meanwhile, most of the people signing up for this one are regulars, and should be sticking around regardless. We'll get a few dropouts due to being to busy in the real world (which always trumps online) but the flat out disappearing from ToC shouldn't be a bit problem.

[Tainted Bushido]

What's all the IC reasoning behind this? First posts are gonna be pretty dull if I don't know why/how I'm here.

We're leaving this open to you ala the Althanaversary tournament. Have the fights take place in the Citadel, in Fallien, anywhere you need them to. I had Mage Hunter go on a hunting spree through Radasanth.

[Abomination]

Well, that's a cop-out, since 90% of the tournaments run on that rhetoric and they produce some pretty lame reasoning for how/why the people are even there. Some people like competition, not just deciding to murder a random person and then moving on to the next random person, why even bother calling it a tournament at that point?

flat out disappearing from ToC shouldn't be a bit problem.

If I know anything from history, roughly 50% of the people will drop out regardless of circumstances. All of the 2v2 tournaments were very haphazard in attendance.

[Tainted Bushido]

I assure you, this will be the last tournament that uses this "cop out" for awhile. The other tournaments will have the stories you were looking for.

[Petoux]

When does the tourny start?