SpeedGaming Live
2024 Online & In-Person Events
Rules & Guidance
Welcome to the 2024 SpeedGaming Live Events. These tournaments are hosted by SpeedGaming, and while FFR is assisting with the running and overseeing of the event, do note that this is first and foremost SpeedGaming's tournament. It's a great outreach event for FFR, and a great way for us to show off the Randomizer to a wider audience.
The SGL FFR events are for-cash tournaments. Any cash contributed to the pool by the end of the online and on-site tournaments (respectively) will be split among the winning players (based on how much money is in the pool and how many players are signed up. That said, while the events are for a cash prize, and you may contribute, FFR in no way is encouraging, or requiring, any players to contribute to the event's cash pool. You may play for free and are not limited, in any way, as to how much you can win other than your final placement in the tournament.
Please make sure to read the FFR General Rules & Guidance for Tournaments and Leagues, as well as these rules, before participating.
¶ Online Event
About the Tournament
The tournament itself will be a double-elimination (winners and losers) bracket consisting of 1v1 matches. It will be preceded by a week of qualifiers before the event. Three async races will be held and two are required for placement into brackets. Each race will open at 10:00 AM EDT on its selected day and will stay open for 36 hours. Times will be tabulated, and runners will be placed based on a scored average of their top two runs (with the times being translated into points and weighted based on the fastest run of that race).
Note: Sign-ups are not required. If you show up and run two qualifier races, you are officially able to participate.
Once players are placed into brackets, games win/lose only, and you play until you're out (or you win it all).
Important Dates:
- Qualifiers:
- Sunday, August 18, 2024
- Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- Thursday, August 22, 2024
- Official Start of Brackets: Saturday, August 24, 2023
Tournament Structure:
Qualifiers
The first leg of the tournament will be the “qualifiers”. These are standard group races of the flags for the event. An async seed will be rolled and placed in the #sgl-leaderboard channel oin the FFR discord. Players will run their race and submit times via the SGL Async Score Submission Form. Once all scores are in and the leaderboard is closed, points will be tabulated. The player with the highest score will be given a 0, and all other racers will find get a score based on their time differential to the leader's time, converted into points. That will work as:
- Your time - Winner's time = Time Differential
- Minutes will be converted into full points, 1 point per minute.
- Seconds will be converted into fractional points, with: (Total Seconds / 60) * 100.
Points are capped at 20. DNFs and DQs will also get 20s.
Please only run the async races once. You must broadcast your async run (on twitch, for verification, if needed) and we do ask that you play fairly and honorably and do not practice the seeds before your “official” run. You may practice the flags but not the specific seed.
Brackets
We will use a double-elimination bracket for the event. All players will be seeded in (based on their scores from qualifiers) with highest seed facing lowest seed, next highest seed facing next lowest seed, and so forth. In the event we have an uneven number of players for a standard (8 players, 16 players, 32 players, etc.) bracket, the top seeds will get bye placement the first week, and all other seeding will be adjusted accordingly to make the bracket “work”.
Races will be 1v1 and Best of 1 matches, except for Finals which will be Best of 3 (with a bracket score reset). There will be no Bronze Medal Match required.
As it is double-elim, losing players from the main bracket will be seeded into the “losers bracket” to face off against each other. A loss in the losers bracket will eliminate you from the event. At the end of the tournament, the finalists in the winners and losers brackets will face each other in the Finals matches to determine the overall winner.
The Flags
The online tournament this year will use a single flagset for the whole event. It was voted on by the players and (barring any glaring issues between the start of sign-ups and the end of the event) will not change during the course of the event. These flags are based on the Multiverse flags from the Lefeinian League: Season 3.
- FFR SGL Online “Multiverse” Flags (v4.8.3)
Prize Split
Assuming 16 or less players, the split of the pot for the online event will be 60/40 for 1st place/2nd place. This could change with more participants in the tournament.
Notes for Players
You are allowed to use the Blurse Spoilers tool for these races. Characters will start with key items, and recruits will come with them as well. Knowing what classes have what items available to them is an important part of the strategy of these races.
Drafting and Other Allowances:
Due to the party being forced at start up, party drafting will not be available during this event.
Additional Flag Changes Allowed During the Event:
Players may also choose to modify the flags with the below set of approved changes (and only this approved changes):
- Scale:
- Encounter Rates:
- Overworld Encounter Rate can be increased (but not decreased) by up to 0.30x (cap of 0.70x).
- Dungeon Encounter Rate can be increased (but not decreased) by up to 0.20x (cap of 0.80x).
- Encounter Rates:
- Maps:
- Dungeons:
- Sky Castle 4F: Change Vanilla to Teleporters or Maze
- Generated Waterfall may be turned on.
- Flip Dungeons Horizontally and/or Vertically may be turned on.
- Swap Stair Locations may be turned on.
- Dungeons:
- Treasures:
- Trapped Chests:
- All flags in this sub-section may be turned on.
- Trapped Chests:
- Enemies:
- Warmech:
- Change Vanilla to either Required or Patrolling.
- Astos:
- Buffed may be turned on.
- Shuffled Location may be turned on.
- Warmech:
- Adjustments
- RNG:
- Fix Missing Battle RNG Entry may be turned on.
- SetRNG may be turned on.
- RNG:
The SGL staffer gatekeeping the race room will confirm all changes agreed upon before they roll the seed.
Registration:
Pre-registration is not required for this event. Simply show up and play in the qualifiers to “register”. That said, all entrants must be members of the FFR Discord.
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, and/or all further events; these consequences may extend to other communities as well.
Scheduling Matches:
The tournament bracket will be held on Challonge for scorekeeping purposes. We will have a scheduling sheet available during the event. All races will be streamed on SpeedGaming's channels, and will be placed on their scheduling form.
Because it's upper and lower brackets, please make sure to schedule your matches quickly and efficiently. Three days is the expected turn around from knowing your opponent to having your match on the books, ready to go.
Broadcasting and Restreaming:
When 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.
SG may request that your stream outputs be resized to be less taxing on the restreamer’s resources.
The Use of Trackers:
Throughout the SGL 2023 runners will be able to use trackers to help track key items and locations checked. Auto-tracking of locations is prohibited. Trackers which update entrances based on user input, though, are allowed.
Tournament Staff:
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them at DarkmoonEX.
¶ In-Person Event
About the Tournament
The in-person event will be handled on site at the Hyatt Washington Dulles in Herndon, Virginia, from October 3rd to 6th. The FFR tournament will be run at the same time as other tournaments (ALttPR, OoTR, etc.) and, as such, tournament space, and broadcast time, will be at a premium. Players will need to find their opponents, schedule their matches, and keep the schedule moving so that the tournament is completed within the four days of SGL.
Tournament Structure:
The tournament will be double-elim, best-of-one races, with the finals being best-of-three (with no bonus provided to the Winner's Bracket leader). Everyone will get at least two games to play before being eliminated.
Lower Bracket races likely will not be broadcast, up to and including Lower Semis. Upper Quarters, Upper Semis, both bracket Finals, and the Grand Finals will be broadcast.
Prize Split
Assuming 16 or less players, the split of the pot for the on-site event will be 60/40 for 1st place/2nd place. This could change with more participants in the tournament.
The Flags
On-site flags will us the Fall League 2024 Week 3 flags, as the event overlaps with Fall League during that week.
- SG Live In-Person / Fall League Week 3: Chaos's Long Rampage
Sign-Ups:
Any player may sign up for the FFR tournament if they have paid to be at SpeedGaming Live 2024. If you have registered for the event, let the FFR tournament staff know and they will add you to the Challonge bracket.
Tournament Staff:
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them at DarkmoonEX.
¶ Previous SpeedGaming Live Events
- 2023 SpeedGaming Live: Online & On-Site Tournament
- 2022 SpeedGaming Live: On-Site Tournament
- 2022 SpeedGaming Live: Online Tournament
- 2021 SpeedGaming Live: Online Tournament
- 2020 SpeedGaming Live: Online Tournament
Note: Due to COVID-19 SpeedGaming did not host a live, on-site tournament in 2020 or 2021. Additionally, FFR did not participate in an on-site tournament in the 2019 SGL event. We did stream a series of races, “The Road to SG Live”, but those were for fun, in the lead up to a showcase race we ran as part of the SGL Marathon.