King of the Hill

[Kakerlake]

King of the Hill - Rules
Original idea by: Kakerlake   |   Developed by: Kakerlake   |   Art by: ??#4   |   Organized by: ??#5

Using a chosen set of Elements, you will fight other Elementals for the title "King of the Hill"

1. HOW TO SIGN UP?
Anyone with a forum account and at least 30 Posts can sign up for this event. Start by reading the rules very carefully. Then sign up by posting on a separate sign up topic. If you cannot find a sign up topic, this event is not currently active, and you will have to wait for it to start.

There is no maximum amount of participants for this event and no deadline for signing up. You can join anytime while the event is going on.

2. GETTING READY
Post in the Signup-Topic a reply, containing a reason why you want to join and a set of up to 3 chosen elements. If you didn't post a reason or elements, you may not join the event, because you didn't read the rules.

After signing up, the organizer will add you to the list of players and you may actively join the event in the next round.

3. BRACKETS
This event is a Battly Royale tournament.
 - Each round will last 3 Days.
 - There will be at least 10 rounds, from then on, there will be a open vote (yes/no) if the event shall be over. If by the rounds end more than 70% voted for "yes", the event is over.
 - You can gain up to 7 points each round.
 - Each victory counts as +3 points, each loss as +1 point
 - A victory against a King of the Hill counts as +4 Points, the KotH recieves no Points (Nothing special if the KotH wins)
 - You can only duell the same Elemental up to 2 times in a round.
 - You can't have more than 4 duells in a round.

At the end of the Round, the Organizer will post a new topic, containing all the current players with their Elements, Locked Cards and the KotH (Players with most Points).

4. DECKBUILDING
You may only use your chosen 3 Elements and "other" cards (shards included) when building your decks.
 - Mark has to be one of the chosen Elements.
 - You may use any card from your 3 Elements.
 - You may use as many upgraded cards, as the number of the round it is.
 - If you can't field a legal deck anymore, you may resignup and lose all progress made so far. (Your highest score will be safed, but you will start again at 0)

If an Element is locked for you, you may neither use the Mark nor any card from that Element.
If a card is locked for you, you may not use it in your Decks.

5. DUELS
You can challenge any King of the Hill member to a duell at any time. Best way to find opponents is to use the official Elements Chat (or the IRC Chat if the main chat is down), but you can also use other methods like forum PM’s etc. How you find the opponent is irrelevant as long as you both are members of King of the Hill.

Your opponent has the right to refuse your challenge if he or she is busy with other things at the time. However continuously avoiding a specific player just because you think you might lose, is not allowed. Accepting a challenge is an honorable thing to do, and we hope everyone understands that.

Duells are best-of-three. The first player who wins 2 individual duels, wins the duell.

You are not allowed to change your deck during a duell.

It's a good idea to either record the matches, or take screenshots as proof, in case something weird, like a desync error, happens. Remember, a player who gets caught cheating, will be permanently banned from all Elements community PvP events, so please play fair.

6. AFTER DUELS
Winner should post a new topic in the "Battle Results" section, along with short description of how the match went. Both the winner and the loser are required to post a picture of their used decks.

The loser has to chose 2 of his used cards (non-Pillar) of which he had at least 4 copies in the deck, those cards will be permamently locked for him and may not be used anymore in deckbuilding.
In exchange, the loser may permamently use 1 additional upgraded card.
If the loser doesn't chose 2 cards, the element of the used Mark gets permamently locked.

7. WINNER
The player who has most points at the end of the last round is the winner of the event.

8. REWARDS
The winner of the event will receive the following forum award icon: [*img]*insert awesome icon url*[/img*] and some other stuff.

[Shantu]

Hmm, I quite like it. I am a bit concerned with the 3 locked cards as it may be too much, but I haven't run any math on it, so it just looks a lot.

I have two questions:
Does the card lock take effect immediately or only at the end of the round?
Is the additional upgrade for the loser permanent?

[daccoo]

Hmm, I quite like it. I am a bit concerned with the 3 locked cards as it may be too much, but I haven't run any math on it, so it just looks a lot.

I have two questions:
Does the card lock take effect immediately or only at the end of the round?
Is the additional upgrade for the loser permanent?

Good questions.

[Kakerlake]

Hmm, I quite like it. I am a bit concerned with the 3 locked cards as it may be too much, but I haven't run any math on it, so it just looks a lot.

Thanks^^
Well, 3 cards are probably really too much. I'll lower it to 2 but add a restriction that the cards must have been used at least 4 times, to prevent the adding of 2 dead cards to scrap.

I have two questions:
Does the card lock take effect immediately or only at the end of the round?

Immediately. So if you lose with a mono with only Dim Shield and Dragon, you won't be able to have a 2nd duell with these cards.

Is the additional upgrade for the loser permanent?

Yes. So if you lose 4 times in Ronud 1 and again in Round 2, you'll have permamently +8 upps.

[Shantu]

What happens if the player has no cards that have at least 4 copies in the deck? One of his elements get locked?

[Kakerlake]

What happens if the player has no cards that have at least 4 copies in the deck? One of his elements get locked?

Yes, so one should better pay attention when building the decks.

//edit: changed rule that one may NOT change decks in a duell.

[daccoo]

What happens if the player has no cards that have at least 4 copies in the deck? One of his elements get locked?

Yes, so one should better pay attention when building the decks.

This can be intesting im more then willing to sign in if this goes tru!

[Kakerlake]

In reaction to this I added a poll.
Should I modify this event to make it more veteran-addictive?