In year 2020 2 qualification rounds will be held, after that players who get into top 8(16), will take part in a tournament with money prize. Two arena seasons will be also held, and those who get into top 8(16) will get their reward at the end of a season and access to the main tournament in the end of February - beginning of March. Information about rewards will appear as a separate post.
Reference information:
Battlegroup: 3.3.5a x5, x10, x100, Fun.
Seasons / qualification rounds dates:
* First arena season: 2 January - 2 April [currently active]
* First qualification round: 2 April - 2 July
* Second arena season: 2 July - 2 October
Tournaments following the results of rounds:
* First tournament: end of July - beginning of August.
* Second tournament: end of January - beginning of February.
Tournament will be held in 2v2 and 3v3 brackets, in Top-8 or Top-16 form (depending on amount of teams, that will match the requirements after qualification). Each round will last till one of a teams wins twice.
Tournament rewards:
2v2:
- 1 place: 24 000 roubles for a team (12 000 roubles to each member) + Title from Group 1 + same forum title (as an option).
- 2 place: 18 000 roubles for a team (9 000 roubles to each member) + Title from Group 2 + same forum title (as an option).
- 3 place: 14 000 roubles for a team (7 000 roubles to each member) + Title from Group 3 + same forum title (as an option).
- 4 place: 10 000 roubles for a team (5 000 roubles to each member) + Gladiator Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 5-8 places: 6 000 roubles for a team (3000 roubles to each member) + Duelist Title + same forum title (as an option).
If Top-16 will take place:
- 9-12 places: 2 000 bonuses to each member of a team + Rival Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 13-16 places: 2 000 bonuses to each member of a team + Challenger Title + same forum title (as an option).
Prize fund of 2v2 bracket: 90 000 roubles.
3v3:
- 1 place: 48 000 roubles for a team (16 000 roubles to each member) + Title from Group 1 + same forum title (as an option).
- 2 place: 36 000 roubles for a team (12 000 roubles to each member) + Title from Group 2 + same forum title (as an option).
- 3 place: 30 000 roubles for a team (10 000 roubles to each member) + Title from Group 3 + same forum title (as an option).
- 4 place: 24 000 roubles for a team (8 000 roubles to each member) + Gladiator Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 5-8 places: 18 000 roubles for a team (6 000 roubles to each member) + Duelist Title + same forum title (as an option).
If Top-16 will take place:
- 9-12 places: 2 000 bonuses to each member of a team + Rival Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 13-16 places: 2 000 bonuses to each member of a team + Challenger Title + same forum title (as an option).
Prize fund of 3v3 bracket: 210 000 roubles.
General prize fund: 300 000 roubles.
General prize fund of 2020 year: 600 000 roubles and 256 000 bonuses (2 tournaments).
Rewards for 1 and 2 arena seasons:
2x2
- 1 place: 12 000 bonuses for a team (6 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 1 + same forum title (as an option).
- 2 place: 9 000 bonuses for a team (4 500 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 2 + same forum title (as an option).
- 3 place: 7 000 bonuses for a team (3 500 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 3 + same forum title (as an option).
- 4 place: 5 000 bonuses for a team (2 500 bonuses to each member) + Gladiator Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 5-8 places: 3 000 bonuses for a team (1 500 bonuses to each member) + Duelist Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 9-12 places: 2 000 for a team (1 000 bonuses to each member) + Rival Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 13-16 places: 2 000 for a team (1 000 bonuses to each member) + Challenger Title + same forum title (as an option).
3x3
- 1 place: 24 000 bonuses for a team (8 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 1 + same forum title (as an option).
- 2 place: 18 000 bonuses for a team (6 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 2 + same forum title (as an option).
- 3 place: 15 000 bonuses for a team (5 000 bonuses to each member) + Title from Group 3 + same forum title (as an option).
- 4 place: 12 000 bonuses for a team (4 000 bonuses to each member) + Gladiator Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 5-8 places: 9 000 bonuses for a team (3 000 bonuses to each member) + Duelist Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 9-12 places: 6 000 for a team (2 000 bonuses to each member) + Rival Title + same forum title (as an option).
- 13-16 places: 3 000 for a team (1 000 bonuses to each member) + Challenger Title + same forum title (as an option).
Rewards following the qualification results for solo 1v1 and 3v3:
1v1:
- 1-4 places: 3 000 bonuses to an account + Dueslit title + same forum title (as an option).
- 5-8 places: 2 500 bonuses to an account + Rival title + same forum title (as an option).
- 9-12 places: 2 000 bonuses to an account + Challenger title + same forum title (as an option).
Solo 3v3:
- 1 place: 6 000 bonuses to an account + Title from Group 1 + same forum title (as an option).
- 2 place: 2 000 bonuses to an account + Title from Group 2 + same forum title (as an option).
- 3 place: 4 500 bonuses to an account + Title from Group 3 + same forum title (as an option).
- 4-6 place: 4 000 bonuses to an account + Gladiator title + same forum title (as an option).
- 7-8 place: 3 500 bonuses to an account + Duelist title + same forum title (as an option).
- 9-10 place: 3 000 bonuses to an account + Rival title + same forum title (as an option).
- 11-12 place: 2 500 bonuses to an account + Challenger title + same forum title (as an option).
Title groups
Group 1 titles:
- Deadly Gladiator
- Merciless Gladiator
- Vengeful Gladiator
Group 2 titles:
- Brutal Gladiator
- Wrathful Gladiator
Group 3 titles:
- Relentless Gladiator
- Furious Gladiator
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General rules:
- A player must play not less, than 20 games every calendar month of a season.
- Skipping the first month of a season is allowed.
- Players that were banned for arena violations (cheats, scripts, mmr abuse, etc.) are not considered when making the TOP.
- If a team consists only of twink characters, it is not considered when making the TOP.
- If a team lacks members in the end of a season, it is not considered when making the TOP.
- Number of battles of every team member must be at least 75% of team battles.
- It is forbidden to transfer characters to other players. Teams, that brake this rule will not be considered when making the TOP.
- If more than a half of 16 top teams will cheat - no one will get the reward in this bracket.
- The personal rating difference of team members must not be more than 300, or the team neither gets their reward nor takes part in a tournament.
- Only teams with 1800 rate and more are considered.
- All actions, that are not a normal arena play, are forbidden (for example: not entering the arena, abusing MMR, wintrading, inactivity). All of these cases will be taken to be cheating and such players will be banned.
- Bonuses at the end of the season are given to the logon account, on which your character is.
- Bonus or money reward is given only to one unique account of a player in one bracket. If a player is a member of 2+ teams, he will get reward only for one of them, the one with higher rate.
- All the teams that try to somehow get to the top with twink characters will be disqualified.
- Now all the titles (except Gladiator) got for seasons/tournaments, will be reset with the beginning of a new calendar year.
Important information about the tournaments:
- Battles will take place at current cross server and current characters, we realized special arena training mode, also games can be watched with the help of arena spectator from any realm of Logon wotlk.
- Each round will last till one of the teams wins twice (bo3), not more than three rounds can be played, fourth round is possible only in special and disputable situations. If a winner can not be found - team with higher rate will proceed with the tournament.
- If a battle lasts more than 15 minutes (launch timer when you start), it will be finished and both teams lose, if in all the three rounds fight is finished according to the lack of time, none of this pair passes to the next stage.
- After 5 minutes of a fight you will get debuff decreasing healing, after 10 minutes its effect will increase (timing may be changed).
- Those who lose in reference rounds does not leave, but gets into lower ladder, example: https://challonge.com/ru/cikt8a5m.
- Exact date and time of tournaments in each bracket will be announced in a week before the start, usually it is Friday, Saturday or Sunday, 15:00 +- GMT.
- If a player is a member of two (or more) teams of one bracket Top, he will have to choose one team to play for at a tournament (other will be disqualified).
- If a player is a member of two (or more) teams of different brackets, he can play for each team but will get his reward only for 1 bracket.
- In case of any problems of team members during the fight (freeze, game crash) if he has an evidence he is granted with an option to replay one fight, arena will be the same as before, not random.
- Payment to winners can be sent to a bank card of any country of the world, webmoney, qiwi, yandex money, not later than in a week after tournament ending.
- Setups with more than one healer are forbidden.
- Now all the titles (except Gladiator) got for seasons/tournaments, will be reset with the beginning of a new calendar year. [2]