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Ambrotos
10-11-2012, 02:51 PM
Spectator and General Rulings

Level Restrictions: 54-60 are only to be signed up for each class. Sign up period is open for Wizards and Paladins. In order to sign up you need to Private Message Sirken with a message that looks like the following

Title : Wizard: Name: Level
or
Title : Paladin: Name :Level

If you are below the level limit, but think you will attain level 54+ before the matches you can sign up for the event. In the chance you don't make the level limit, your entrance will be thrown out, and you won't be able to compete.

Sirken will respond back to each request. If you don't get a response by the day before the deadline petition in game or get a hold of Ambrotos. Entries allowed upto the day before the event.


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Anyone found attacking a GM or Guide may be banished from the Arena or death touched without warning.

The Arena is off limits to unauthorized PvP 15 minutes before and 15 minutes after the event. This is to ensure that the contestants and spectators are safe.

Spectators shall remain seated and not casting during the match. Any spell casting shall be considered aimed at a participant, and either harmful or helpful to someone in the match.

Anyone who casts any spells (including Bard songs) during a match can be death touched and removed from the Arena.

Spectators shall not use /shout for any reason, but use /ooc instead. This is so that those involved in the match can use /shout, and the /ooc channel can be turned off to reduce distraction to the contestants involved. Use of /shout at anytime can result in a silence command being issued, rendering the player unable to use any form of communication, or banishment from the Arena.

Spectators shall not interfere with this event. Severe penalties are used only when directly attacking a player involved in the match, attacking a judge during the match, or healing a player involved in a match.

The P99 staff may limit the amount of people in the zone to control conditions of lag or frame rate for the participants. The event shall start open seating, but may close off at any time. The Event Staff may use any sort of decision on who stays and who leaves to ensure the event is a success. This should not be implemented until a minimum of 150 players in the zone has been reached.

AoE Spells ARE allowed in game. This has the potential of killing off some of the younger spectators. If you are killed by one of these spells, please wait for a GM or Guide to give you a summons into the Arena.



General Combatant Rules

The top of the throne, in the throne, or behind the throne is off limits to the combatants during the matches. The four firepots are also off limits to the combatants. Use of these areas in match combat will lead to contestants being disqualified.

Starting positions are allowed anywhere that is legal (meaning not on the throne or in firepots) that is on your half of the tiles.

All participants will be debuffed before the match.

Weapons with the following spell effects attached to them will not be allowed in Best of the Best Series; Knockback, Fear, Invisibility, and Shrink.


The use of "Right Click" items is not permitted, unless specifically stated otherwise in the Class Specific Rules.

The following spell types may not be used in any of the Best of the Best Series:

Any form of Fear or Charm unless directed at a pet.

Any type of Blind spells

Gravity Flux or Invert Gravity

Any type of gate or translocation spell (Example shadowstep)
The following item types will not be allowed in the Best of the Best Series:

Any type of Artifact items

Any type of regeneration effect items. (Example Fungi Tunic)
The event staff, Due to the amount of contestants, may decide to split the combat area in half. The arena in this case will be divided making two battle areas for 2 matches to be performed at one time.

In the event that the combat exceeds 15 minutes of real time, then the Event Staff may cast an AoE Snare spell on the contestants, and the contestants are to remain snared till end of match.

The owner of the account must play the character, no "Ringers" will be allowed.

Any use of exploits or bugs will result in immediate disqualification from the event.


Class Specific Rules/Rewards

There is no entry fee for this event, and the only prizes will be titles awarded to the winners. The grand champion shall have his level 60th title given to him. Title for the 2nd place will be be the level 56 title and 3rd place will get the level 51.

A 30-second buffing period will be given before direct combat in the match.

All Armors and Weapons available to the contestant's class will be allowed. Unless it has an effect stated in General Combat rules as unusable.

All spells are allowed during this event. Unless stated to be Disallowed in General Combat rules.


These rules were used in the BoTB matches on live. Some servers did a few things differently, but this is the guide lines we will follow.

http://web.archive.org/web/200304062..._april2001.jsp

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Class Rules Wizard:

No Gflux or Invert Gravity
No Thunder Strike (Large Knockback)
No Right clicks
No Meleeing/Throwing

If there is proof given that wizards were able to use their Epic right click, it will be allowed. Until then it won't be allowed for the right click effect. The wizard would be allowed to wear the epic.



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Paladins:
No right clicks.
Lay of Hands will be reset after each match upon request.

KefkaPalazzo
10-11-2012, 02:52 PM
see ya there rogean!

Heebo
10-11-2012, 03:47 PM
When?

Sirken
10-11-2012, 04:34 PM
sign up is open from now until October 18th. the events will be held on Saturday October 20th. probably early afternoon to allow our euro pals a chance to compete at a reasonable hour as well.

<3

Sirken
10-11-2012, 04:46 PM
also, heres the list of winners so far

Bard – Fauss le Virtuose
Mage – Zephany the Arch Mage
Monk – Adriana the Grandmaster
Necros – Necrious the Warlock
Ranger – Internode the Warder
Rogue – Crazyeyes the King of Thieves
Shaman – Klubba the Oracle
Warrior – Eabon the Warlord

Cars
10-11-2012, 04:55 PM
The spell Blind was allowed back when it happened on live.

Treats
10-11-2012, 08:53 PM
Question I guess for Paladins:

Is Lay of Hands going to be reset for each duel?

I think it needs to be either allowed and reset for each duel or disallowed.

If it is allowed and not reset this would give pretty much an automatic win to anyone that has a bye (or depending on your seed -- Going first and then waiting a full hour so your Lay of Hands is reset while the next bracket winners is not.)

Lazortag
10-11-2012, 09:13 PM
Question I guess for Paladins:

Is Lay of Hands going to be reset for each duel?

I think it needs to be either allowed and reset for each duel or disallowed.

If it is allowed and not reset this would give pretty much an automatic win to anyone that has a bye (or depending on your seed -- Going first and then waiting a full hour so your Lay of Hands is reset while the next bracket winners is not.)

I think it should just be disallowed (this is functionally equivalent to allowing it for each duel, except that the fights won't take as long). Forcing it to reset is unenforceable since people could just leave the zone and get killed, or even nuke themselves to death.

Ele
10-11-2012, 09:41 PM
Wizards were not allowed to melee in the original BotB, it was a shoot out. Is that the case here too?

Ambrotos
10-11-2012, 09:56 PM
I recall on my server during wizard botb, a wizard winning their match due to melee. They both ran out of mana, and one wizard was knocked out, the other smacked them and Lady D declared them the winner. I guess this is a grey area since some servers allowed a slight deviation to rules.

As for Lay of Hands, it should be the same as the disciplines for the other melee. It's your choice to either use it, or save it.

Paladin Blind: I haven't been able to find anything about allowing Blind to be used. All rule sets state no blind spells at all. If you can find something that says otherwise we can allow it.

Ele
10-11-2012, 10:13 PM
Regarding the Wizard Epic, the first one was completed the day of the server-wide finals.

Scroll down to Sunday - November 19, 2000:
http://www.graffe.com/graffe1.0/home/archive_1100.htm

Another Graffe post, with a series of questions posted to the Harpy's Head Tavern with Lady_D's responses.
http://www.graffe.com/graffe1.0/home/daegarmo/botb111000.htm
Lady_Daegarmo,

It seems that you have failed to respond to any comments by the wizard community dealing with the absurd rules that you have proposed for the Wizard Tourney. Is this just disdain for the estate of the wizards, or contempt that we actually care about the skill of our class?

To carry forward the questions asked in the rules listing thread:

Why a "shootout" test? What tactics are there in seeing who has the fastest link to the internet? If spell selection and resist gear is all that is being tested then how can you say this is the Best of the Best?
Why no melee? Isnt this a bit biased considering the number of wizards stating that they maintained their melee skills?
Why no meeting to discuss the rules as happened for the other BoB tourneys?
Seems a bit arbitrary to impose this on the wizard community. Those seem to be the three big questions that you have failed to respond to. The question of clickable items has its defenders based on the abuses in the prior BoB. I dont like it but will conceed it as it _MAY_ unbalance a tactical test. It would be nice if you would be responsive to the wizards who will fight and die for your entertainment.

Lanath T'Vyl
Vallon Zek

The wizards are the master of Direct Damage, and doing it very fast. A shoot out style duel tests not only the skills and choices to be used by a wizard, but the situational response as well from the wizard.

This has little to do with connection speed since it is a completely spell casted event. If this were a melee event with players moving, the connection would play a far greater role.
This is a primary casters event. We don't want to see this event turning into the wizard with a GBS and a book fleeing from a wizard with a rod of annihlation for 45 minutes.
If there is a question of what the event should be, then we turn to the players. Verant has numerous GMs and Staff who play wizards, and there knowledge stated that it should be a shoot out duel.
Lady Daegarmo

baub
10-12-2012, 06:49 AM
aww no thunder strike

#1 spell

Sirken
10-12-2012, 11:52 AM
keep those sign ups coming!

Ambrotos
10-12-2012, 02:24 PM
Updated.

I'm still looking for proof that paladins were able to use blind. Every botb server wide rules state no blind allowed, due to making it have people run off the platform.

Zeelot
10-12-2012, 02:30 PM
On shadowknight botb on eqlive, the GM in charge killed me and gave me cs rez to refresh harmtouch after my first fight. Wouldn't the same have been true for paladins?

Ambrotos
10-12-2012, 02:39 PM
I think the main issue is some server event Gms did things slightly different for all servers. I can only go off of what we have as the base rule, and what was more widely known and used in the events.

We didn't reset disc abilities for Warriors, Monks, and Rogues. It was the same on live, so we kept it here.

Treats
10-12-2012, 08:36 PM
In the specific rules for the Shadowknight Best of the Best that Ele posted somewhere it stated that HarmTouch was able to be reset on request.

I'll try and find the link.

HarmTouch and Lay of Hands are a pretty overwhelming advantage when one person has it and one does not.

It's basically a guaranteed victory between two players that are close in level (possibly not with a 54 vs 60).

Class Specific Rules
There is no entry fee for this event and the only prizes will be titles awarded to the winners. Title for winning at the server level will be the level 51 title for Shadow Knights "the Reaver". The title for the 3 runners up on Test Server Finals will be the level 56 title "Revenant". The grand champion of the Test Server Finals shall have the level 60 title given to him on his own server "Grave Lord".

A 30-second buffing period will be given before direct combat in the match.

All Armors and Weapons available to the contestant's class will be allowed unless it has an effect stated in General Combat rules as unusable.

The Shadow Knights Epic weapon (Innoruuk's Curse) is allowed in this event.

Harmtouch will be reset upon request.

All spells are allowed during this event unless stated to be disallowed in General Combat rules.

http://web.archive.org/web/20011104170257/http://everquest.station.sony.com/hht/events/events_may2001_shd_rule.jsp

orsk
10-12-2012, 09:46 PM
I think the main issue is some server event Gms did things slightly different for all servers. I can only go off of what we have as the base rule, and what was more widely known and used in the events.

We didn't reset disc abilities for Warriors, Monks, and Rogues. It was the same on live, so we kept it here.

HT and LoH are not disciplines but abilities for those classes since level one. They should be allowed and refreshed for use. That would not be unfair, it would enable equality in every match and also allow for more interesting fights. Refresh HT and LoH for each fight imo

Ambrotos
10-12-2012, 10:08 PM
Updated due to Treats providing information.

Acillatem
10-14-2012, 12:25 AM
I realize it says AE spells are allowed and spectators should be careful etc, however for the WIZ BotB spectators should be forced to sit out of range otherwise it eliminates the option to use a Rain spell. Spectators "eating up" one (or all but one) of the waves pretty much makes the spell line null and void.

Giovanni
10-14-2012, 11:23 AM
May want to clarify throwing weapons for wizards between spell casts.

Sirken
10-15-2012, 12:50 PM
sign ups still open!

Sirken
10-17-2012, 09:31 PM
get signed up today!

Sirken
10-17-2012, 09:36 PM
sign up is open from now until October 18th. the events will be held on Saturday October 20th. probably early afternoon to allow our euro pals a chance to compete at a reasonable hour as well.

<3




Signups will be extended until Friday, October 19 11:59pm EST

please plan on getting to the arena on Saturday by 1pmEST, please get to the arena on time, as the first fight will start at or around 2pmEST on saturday. if you aren't there for your match, you will forfeit.

Heebo
10-18-2012, 09:50 AM
bisch, chowda, giegue.

next.
Where's JenJen with her Nostradamus-like ability to pick first round exits?

Lazortag
10-18-2012, 10:03 AM
Where's JenJen with her Nostradamus-like ability to pick first round exits?

Oh man, I totally forgot about that.

Also I predict Kalmy will at least make it to the semi finals.
edit: this was posted when there were only four paladins signed up.

Sirken
10-19-2012, 10:04 PM
Entrants as of 10-19-2012 11:00pm EST


Paladin
Kalmy 60
Folopak 60
Tumbles 59
Gadwin 60
Vonhammer 60
Sadad 60
Pint 60


Wizard
Houdiny 56
Reservoir 60
Sanluen 60
Najdorf 60
Kira 60
Anae 60
Impact 60
Neryn 60
Botnet 60
Rakpartha 60
Acillatem 60
Astizen 60
Scorchin 58
Eccezan 60
Shadane 60
Siela 60
Kamasu 60
Benjaman 60
Hookrs 60


signs up closed

Sirken
10-20-2012, 01:07 PM
Wizards

http://i45.tinypic.com/35k22y1.png

Sirken
10-20-2012, 01:08 PM
Paladins

http://i47.tinypic.com/34z0z0l.png

Versus
10-20-2012, 01:09 PM
D- job announcing when the BOTB date was!

Neryn
10-20-2012, 01:24 PM
I was expecting this to start a little later. This is saturday night here and my wife made plans. So I won't be able to attend. :(

Maybe Houdiny can take my spot.

Sirken
10-20-2012, 03:13 PM
Wizard BotB Results

1st - Eccezan
2nd - Hookrs
3rd - Benjaman
http://i49.tinypic.com/ezvhv.png

itsSergent
10-20-2012, 04:00 PM
Good job Eccezan

Sirken
10-20-2012, 05:41 PM
Pally BotB Results
1st - Sadad
2nd - Gadwin
3rd - Tumbles

http://i50.tinypic.com/2jcvi0y.png

Sirken
10-20-2012, 05:41 PM
thanks to all the spectators and participates for making this event possible, and fun!

Sirken
10-20-2012, 09:27 PM
also, did 2pmEST work well for euro and north american timezone players?