Summer Co-Op Bingo Tournament 2025
Rules & Guidance
The time has come this year, time to grab a partner and join together for an adventure into the great unknown! It's time for Summer Co-Op, our annual 2-player team tournament for the winner-takes-all title of Summer Co-Op Champion!
About the Tournament
Co-Op is a team event. Players will join up in teams of two, connected via lua script in Bizhawk, playing the same seed. The goal will be blackout bingo, with teams working together to light every tile on the board while they find the Four Fiends out in the world and kill them to light the Four Elemental Orbs, all so they can gain access into the Temple of Fiends Revisited. The team is done when both players have killed Chaos *and completed the bingo board* and crossed the finish line after lighting all tiles (and only the time of the second finish counts for the “team time”).
Key items, and Orbs, will be shared by the lua script (stored “in the cloud”, which we like to call the team's “bag of holding”). If a player dies (or resets) after a key item is in the bag of holding, that key item is saved and does not have to be retrieved again. Note that “save on game over” is not enabled in the flagset so gear, and levels, gained during exploration will be lost on an untimely death. Only the key items and orbs will get saved via the cloud or the flags. Make sure to save when you can.
For all bingo tiles, each tile must be handled by one single team member, for example, for “buy and hold gold, silver and copper bracelets” all three of those bracelets must be held by the same single team member. Team members will have to strategize and divide the board between them to find the best way to light the tiles.
You're out to collect treasures with your teammate and get to the end of the game first. Dig out the goods and be the big winners!
Make sure to read the General Rules and Guidance for Tournaments and Leagues before registering for this event
Tournament Details:
The Co-Op tournament is a short, streamlined event. 16 teams will face off in single-elimination bracket, playing best of three (Bo3) matches to determine who will move on. As it's single-elimination, once a team is done, they're done.
Co-op Requirements
- BizHawk: This emulator is needed to run the lua script that makes co-op possible. For best results it is recommended to have both runners using the same version. v2.4 to v2.8 appear to be the most stable versions. BizHawk v2.8
- Co-op lua script: Co-op Script [ZIP], Setup Video - (Put the LibFFRNetwork.dll in the dll folder of your bizhawk folder, and the ffr_team_v2025.lua in your lua/NES folder of your bizhawk folder.) The co-op script has been updated for 2025 to function with AirBoat, please download the new script!
- Make sure your .net framework is updated.
- A partner: If you're in need of a partner you can be added to and/or find one in the discussion channel on discord.
Important Dates:
- Signups: Sunday, June 8, 2025 through Saturday, July 5, 2025 @ 11:59 PM EDT
- Bracket Reveal: Sunday, July 6, 2025 @ 8:00 PM EDT
- Bracket of 16: July 7th, 2025 - July 13th, 2025
- Bracket of 8: July 14th, 2025 - July 20th, 2025
- Semi-finals: July 21st, 2025 - July 27th, 2025
- Finals: July 28th, 2025 - August 3rd, 2025
Tournament Schedule:
Teams will face off against one opponent team per week, fitting in their three games (assuming all three are needed) during that week span. Once they have finished their races they are welcome to schedule their next matches (as soon as their opponent is determined), but they cannot take longer than the week scheduled for each best of three (Bo3) match-up. Note: During the first couple of weeks of the tournament, not all games are guaranteed for restream. Every attempt will be made, but especially in the case of the first games of a series, those games may be held back either for a Bikke Vodcast later, or simply not restreamed at all. Players are required to keep recordings of their runs for the length of the tournament, though, and unless they mark their races as “No Restream", attempts will be made to preserve as many races as possible.
Tournament Seeding:
The tournament will be seeded via random seeding. As this year we are featuring bingo we decided to do away with the qualifiers for this year.
Tournament Flags:
Special Rules and Allowances:
- There will not be any flag options for this tournament.
- Reset buttons (hard and soft reset) may be mapped to controllers.
- Autotracking for both key items and the map is not allowed.
Tournament Staff:
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them at the @Co-Op Tournament Staff.
¶ Previous Co-Op Events
- 2024 Summer Co-Op Tournament
- 2023 Summer Co-Op Tournament
- 2022 Summer Co-Op Tournament: Explorers of Yahnikurm Desert
- 2021 Summer Co-Op Tournament
- 2020 Summer Co-Op Tournament
- 2019 Summer Co-Op Tournament
Note: No current rules documents remain for the 2019 Summer Co-Op Tournament. This page will be updated if anything is dug up for this event.