Rock Out with the Lockout
2024 Summer Bingo Tournament
Rules & Guidance
About the Tournament
The format is, as the title implies, Lockout Bingo. For those unfamiliar, Lockout means that once a bingo tile is lit by one player, the other player cannot light it. There are two ways to win in the FFR Lockout format:
- Light a single Bingo line and then go into the Temple of Fiends Revisited (ToFR) and defeat Chaos, or
- Light 13 tiles before the other player.
As per these goals, going into ToFR is not required, but is certainly a gamble players could make to try and secure the win once they have their line. Competition, and gambles, are key to this tournament.
Important Dates:
- Sign-ups: Through June 20, 2024 @ 11:59 PM
- Round of 16: June 21-25, 2024
- Round of 8: June June 26-28, 2024
- Semi-Finals and Finals: June 29-30, 2024
Tournament Structure:
Due to the format of this year's race (Lockout, see below), there will not be any seeding races or last chance qualifiers. The bracket size will be determined by the number of participants, and all players (save one) will be randomly seeded.
The one exception would be last years Bingo Tournament winner, who will get an automatic top #1 seed in the tournament.
Bracket tracking will be done via Challonge.
Lockout Rules
As noted, the game being played is Lockout. Lockout Bingo means that once a tile is lit by one player, their opponent cannot light it. This can lead to boards where, due to layout and tiles, full bingo lines may not be available. To account for this, there are two ways to win in this tournament:
- Light a single Bingo line and then go into the Temple of Fiends Revisited (ToFR) and defeat Chaos, or
- Light 13 tiles before the other player.
Note that you cannot go to defeat Chaos (and finish up your run) until you have lit your bingo line. Chaos can only be fought after a bingo is achieved.
Bingo and Flags
Sign-Ups:
Please sign up using the Bingo Participant Form. ALL ENTRANTS MUST BE A MEMBER OF THE FFR DISCORD SERVER. Make sure to read the General Rules and Guidance for Tournaments before registering for the Bingo Tournament.
By signing up, you agree to be held to the Final Fantasy Randomizer Discord’s Code of Conduct while engaged as a participant of this event. Violations of the Code of Conduct may result in consequences ranging from a warning to bans from the discord, the tournament, all further events; these consequences may extend to other communities as well.
Broadcasting and Restreaming:
If you are being restreamed, the following Quality of Life flags will be required:
This request is to accommodate spectators who may be photosensitive. If you fail to make this accommodation, you will not be featured on future restreams unless you enable these features in your next race.
Additional Requirements:
- Due to the Bingo board (and meta game this entails), stream delay is not required. However, as always, cheating is not tolerated.
- Players will need to keep an eye on the chat in the Bingo room in case a race monitor has to let them know of an issue with a run. This could include informing them on a Bingo square issue that could require a reset and/or penalty two minutes.
The Use of Trackers:
Throughout the event runners will be able to use trackers to help track key items and locations checked. Auto trackers are allowed.
Crew and Broadcast
- Restreaming and crewing will only occur during the semi-final and final matches. If runners want to have any other race broadcast, they would be required to assemble their crew.
FAQs
Q: Why won’t there be a delay for the event?
A: The players will play on a shared bingo board. They will already get some “meta” information as their opponent fills in squares, and that’s just the nature of the game. Beyond that, because the board fills in real time, a delay would mean that we would be ten or fifteen minutes behind the board getting filled in, which would be bad for streaming. For the sake of the event, and how bingo games are normally played, we are waving the standard delay for this event.
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Q: What color choices are available for the Bingo board?
A: There are lots in ADR’s new bingo room.
Tournament Staff:
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them at: Phoenix29, adr, Chanigan, Shoombabi, LuffyDV, or JShydell. Scorekeeping is handled this tournament by DarkmoonEX.
¶ Past Bingo Events
- Summer Marathon 2024 Co-Op Bingo Race
- Winter Marathon 2023 DAB Mini-Tournament
- Summer Marathon 2023 DAB Race
- Springo Bingo 2023
- Winter Marathon 2022 DAB Mini-Tournament
- Winter DAB 2022: DAB DAB Revolution
- Winter DAB 2021
The 2023 and 2024 Summer Marathons featured only single big bingo races, not a full tournament, and as such did not have rules and guidance sheets.