TRIALS Challenge a Master, Become a Master
What is a Master?Each of the 12 Elements has a Master, which is a
forum title. Master is usually a decorated and respected veteran player who knows a lot about Elements and is skillful in PvP. Masters participate in big forum events like War, and defend their title against challengers during Trials.
Staff page has all the current Masters listed.
Link to Trials Deck Archive, and list of Masters
What are Trials?Every so often we will hold Trials, during which community members compete for a chance to challenge one of the 12 Masters. Trials have 4 parts. The first three parts are for collecting points. The one challenger from each element with the most points gets to fight for the title against the current Master. How many points you gathered during parts 1-3 determines how many upgraded cards you can use in the epic Final Battle, where the winner gets the title of Master.
Requirements for joining the Trials?Not everyone can join the Trials. There are some minimum requirements to ensure that the person is serious about becoming a Master.
- 20,000+ score in Elements
- 200+ forums posts
- Joined the forums no less than 3 months ago (at the time of signing up)
Spamming the forums to get those 200 posts is not allowed, and you have to provide a screen shot of your score if asked.
One last thing. Some people might think they are not "worthy" of becoming a Master so they skip this event. Please don't do that. This is all just for
fun, and shouldn't be taken too seriously. If you think this kind of event would be fun, I order you to participate. Like I always say, if you manage to take a title from that Master, that alone proves you have earned it.
How do I join the Trials?The 6th Trials will be handled like the 5th Trials. You will have to choose your element after Phase 1 is done. This means
there is no need to register. Registration and selecting the element for which you'd like to challenge will occur
after Phase 1 as described below.
PATH TO BECOMING A MASTERTrials have 4 different phases. Phases 1-3 are for collecting points. Last phase is Final Battle between the current Master and the most promising challenger, and the points you collected determines how many upgraded cards you can use in the fight.
PHASE 1 - Proving Your WorthinessThis phase is different in each Trial. It usually has something to do with helping out the community, but it can also be something where you show your skills as an Elements player. It's divided into 3 parts, each scoring 3 points if you complete them.
Task 1| Nicely completed | 4 points |
| Badly completed | 3 points |
| Not completed | 0 points |
Task 2| Nicely completed | 4 points |
| Badly completed | 3 points |
| Not completed | 0 points |
There will be three tasks to complete in the 6th Trials, you get to choose two. The Trial Overseer reserves the right to decided what's completed badly and what's completed nicely.
Also, 1 bonus point will be awarded to the finest 25% of the submissions, rounded.
REGISTRATION - Choose the Master you wish to challengeFollowing Phase 1 challengers choose the element for which you'd like to become Master. Priority will be given first to players with the higher Phase 1 scores and second to a combination of score/post count. This means if you have 100 million score and 100 million posts but you didn't complete both tasks during Phase 1, you may find yourself unable to register for your preferred element. If players are pushed out of the element for which they registered time will be given for them to register for a different element.
PHASE 2 - BattlesChallengers
Challengers from every element will fight each other in a mini-tournament with round-robin rules meaning each challenger fights every other challenger once. Battles are "best-of-five" with the winner gaining 2 points.
Challengers will also be given opponents from other elements to face until they have 5 players to face in total (in element + out element). Battles are "best-of-five" with the winner gaining 2 points. These extra opponents will be, if possible, the same for every person in a single trial.
| Masters
Masters will fight each other in a mini-tournament that consists of series of "best-of-five" PvP matches. Starting opponents are determined randomly. Points are rewarded based on tournament standings.
| 1st | 12 points | | 2nd | 9 points | | 3rd | 6 points | | 4th | 4 points | | 5th | 2 points | | 6th | 0 points |
Some Masters who are not keeping their title will participate in the tourney.
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PHASE 3 - Community VoteThe community votes on who they think would make the best Master. Each community member has one vote per element, and can vote for either one of the Challengers, or the current Master.
Players who can't reach the final battle anymore will be not included in the polls.
The number of points you score is based on the percentage of votes you get, rounded up. If there is a situation where rounding up would mean more than 10 points given, the player with the highest "extra" percentage of votes gets the advantage (54%/46% -> 5 points and 5 points). In case of a tie, the player with more gets the advantage (54%/44% -> 6 points and 4 points)
| 100% of votes | 10 points |
| 90% of votes | 9 points |
| 80% of votes | 8 points |
| 70% of votes | 7 points |
| 60% of votes | 6 points |
| 50% of votes | 5 points |
| 40% of votes | 4 points |
| 30% of votes | 3 points |
| 20% of votes | 2 points |
| 10% of votes | 1 points |
| 0% of votes | 0 points |
* War Bonus *Masters who were also Generals during previous War will receive extra points based on how successful they were. Challengers do not receive War bonus.
| 1st in War | 9 points |
| 2nd in War | 6 points |
| 3rd in War | 3 points |
| 4th - 6th | 1 points |
| 7th - 12th | 0 points |
TOTAL SCOREAfter phases 1-3 are over, we will count the total score.
Challengers
| PHASE 1 | | / | 10 | | PHASE 2 | | / | 10 | | PHASE 3 | | / | 10 | | | | | | | TOTAL SCORE | | / | 30 |
| Masters
| PHASE 1 | | / | 10 | | PHASE 2 | | / | 12 | | PHASE 3 | | / | 10 | War bonus | | / | 9 | | TOTAL SCORE | | / | 41 |
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One challenger from each element with the most points gets to fight for the title against the current Master.
PHASE 4 - Final BattleThe Final Battle is "best-of-nine" meaning that the player who gets 5 wins first, wins the battle. If a Master wins, he or she retains the title. If a challenger wins, he or she becomes the new Master. Each Trials winner of the past, present, and future will also be given a forum award icon.
During Final Battle deckbuilding the maximum amount of upgraded cards allowed is the number of points a player scored during phases 1-3.
If you want to see what previous Trials looked like, please visit
Trial Archive.
Thank you for reading and post any questions on this topic.
