Spring Tournament 2018
Rules & Guidance
Structure
The first stage will consist of a number of swiss rounds based on the total number of entrants. Each round, players will race once against a single opponent with a similar win-loss record. After the swiss rounds, the best 8 records will advance to a best-of-3 single elimination bracket. In the very likely event that the 8th and 9th place records are the same, all players that share that record will compete in a group tie-break race to round out the bracket. Bracket seeding will be based on swiss record (but not swiss tiebreaks).
- 9 - 16 3 rounds
- 17 - 32 4 rounds
- 33+ 5 rounds
Format
- The swiss stage will play with the newest stable release of the randomizer (2.2.0). The tournament flags are: HACPHJBFYAAADA!fHPoYIB
- The bracket stage is still being discussed however the flags will show a marked increase in difficulty and become progressively more difficult as entrants approach the finals.
Shuffles
- Shops: Shuffles the contents of weapon, armor, and item shops - including the caravan.
- Magic Levels: Shuffles spell levels. Permissions to learn spells match the permission to learn the vanilla spell in each shop slot.
- Note: Keep Permissions is not utilized
- Enemy Scripts: Shuffles spell lines and skill lines within three groups of enemies (fiends, revisited fiends with chaos and warmech, all other enemies)
- Enemy Skills/Spells: Redistributes spell lines and skill lines among enemies that have either, and shuffles the spells and skills among those lines.
- Enemy Status Attacks: Shuffles which enemies have status attacks.
- Enemy Unrunnable Formations: Shuffles which battle groups are unrunnable.
- Enemy Surprise Bonus: Shuffles a value used in the chance to strike first calculation.
- Enemy Formations Frequency: Each zone’s battle groups are independently shuffled - first groups 1-4, then groups 3-8.
- RNG Table: Shuffles both the steps between encounters and the battle group sequence.
Treasures
- Treasures: Shuffles treasure chest items.
- Main NPC Items: Includes Bridge, Lute, Ship, Rod, Canoe, Cube, and Bottle in the item shuffle.
- Incentivized Locations: King, Princess, Bikke, Sarda, Sage, Robot, Caravan, Floater chest, Tail chest. (9)
- Incentivized Items: Lute, Rod, Canoe, Cube, Bottle, Crown, Floater, Slab, Tail. (9)
Map
- Castle Ordeal Pillars: Shuffles the network of warp tiles on the second floor of Ordeals.
- Open Progression: A selection of map edits that allow more exploration with fewer modes of transportation.
Scale
- Prices: 25% - 400%
- Stats: 67% - 150%
- Boost: 2.4x + 80
- Forced Party Members: 1
Conveniences
- All standard conveniences.
Bug Fixes
- All bug fixes.
Fun%
- Players are free to choose their own settings. Additionally, custom sprite sets are welcome.
Match Procedure
The tournament will use challonge for both phases, and the tiebreaker race will be organized on discord. Players will need to schedule and complete one match each week in the swiss and two or three matches each week in the bracket stage. The tiebreaker race’s date and time will be announced soon after the swiss stage ends and player availability can be considered.
Races are facilitated and timed using SpeedRunsLive, and all participants need to have accounts both with SRL and on Twitch.
If both players in a race feel the seed is difficult beyond reason, they can agree to quit and have a rematch, but that match still needs to occur before the end of the scheduled round.