Was thinking of making this thread a long time ago, but didn't because reasons.
But, now that staff seems more interested lately here is an idea that should be simple to do, and would make the game a lot more fun.

Tbh, this sounds like some e-sports stuff. Hope others will like this idea, because it would give competitive guilds something to do between gsts (hosted between gsts)

How would it work?

You will have only 3 rounds.

Each round has a time limit of 5 minutes.

The time that is left before the 5 minutes are up are added to attacking teams score.

Each team will have a chance to hold the tower first in a round for the first 2.

3rd round the tower will be neutral, whoever holds the tower the most for 5 minutes wins the round, and 2 minutes are added to their score. The comeback!

Holding team has no respawns, while the attacking team has unlimited.

Flag is at 50hp.

The team with most time clocked in advances.

How to participate?

Staff should start off by making a leaderboard that only shows up 1-2 weeks before the Tourney (like the Easter egg/Halloween candy board).

Leaderboard should be based off of hours clocked in that period of time.

Guilds participating are restricted from getting 1k hats based off their hours from the time period.

The top 64 registered guilds will compete head to head for the top prize.

I think only 15-20 members should be registered, so there can be enough top tier teams.

Same rules as gst, banned accounts can't participate, can't be in 2 teams, etc.

The Tower

Will be accessible only during the 2 weeks before tourney is over (for practice). Will be closed, until next tourney.

Flag room should be as big as castle's flag room.

Respawn point is 1 level below flag room.

Spikes, gravity, holes all great for defense.

I might make my own tower levels and post it here soon. Just for an example.

Prizes

1st place, definitely a hat ticket.

2nd place, a hat made by staff

3rd place, a hat made by staff that 2nd place did not choose.



Questions, comments, concerns?  

Can I win RGB lighting for my iPod touch  

Posted by Aaron

Can I win RGB lighting for my iPod touch

I forgot about the prizes x-x, thanks  

What fort/forts would be used for this ? I'm pretty sure they would need to make new ones special to the event which would actually be cool  

Sounds entertaining/fun and it was well written and easy to understand. <3  

Posted by Natso

What fort/forts would be used for this ? I'm pretty sure they would need to make new ones special to the event which would actually be cool

Destiny, Sards, MoD, maybe castle. Not snow, swamp, or deadwood.

Oh do you mean which fort will be used for the event? Definitely a new one, Like I said made in middle of map.

Posted by contego

Sounds entertaining/fun and it was well written and easy to understand. <3

graci tego  

Posted by Hikaru

Destiny, Sards, MoD, maybe castle. Not snow, swamp, or deadwood.

Oh do you mean which fort will be used for the event? Definitely a new one, Like I said made in middle of map.



graci tego

I mean for the actual competition when it goes down I think they should make new forts ( that will only be accessible to those in the event ) so that no one is completely " prepared " for what's coming , I believe that would truly test your team work and ability  

Posted by Natso

I mean for the actual competition when it goes down I think they should make new forts ( that will only be accessible to those in the event ) so that no one is completely " prepared " for what's coming , I believe that would truly test your team work and ability

That would be too extreme, because then it wouldn't be based on planning, knowing which spots to defend, when and where to attack from. It's better if teams can prepare.  

A hat ticket?? Can I get old GST hats? So I can impersonate 0vrl0rd Rufus?  

It'd be cool but as I said on your weather and bosses thread with the current state of the server and it's player count this would be near impossible.  

Posted by Zetectic

A hat ticket?? Can I get old GST hats? So I can impersonate 0vrl0rd Rufus?

Yeah, no. I meant more for like uploading your own hat. Since, it's not a 1k, but a prize for winning the tourney.

Posted by OG

It'd be cool but as I said on your weather and bosses thread with the current state of the server and it's player count this would be near impossible.

How so? Because of the server lag? Even if it's lagging, that doesn't stop teams from entering gst.  

Posted by Hikaru

Yeah, no. I meant more for like uploading your own hat. Since, it's not a 1k, but a prize for winning the tourney.



How so? Because of the server lag? Even if it's lagging, that doesn't stop teams from entering gst.

What we've seen in the past year is 1k hats no longer available in .gif format because it takes up to much space on the server and causes it to "lag" now imagine a whole tournament including scripts, leaderboards and level's being added and how bad it will affect the server stability, If you were on when Destiny was released you would of seen how badly it lags when the player count hits 4500 or when the GST is on, now that its summer and the server is hitting 4250+ daily its near impossible to pk, bk, spar or do anything in general add this and imagine what will happen.  

gif hats causing lag? what? source?
From what I remember, gif hats were removed, because of transparency issues, since guilds would mess up their uploads.  

I'll be honest you'd make a better dev then anyone else lmao.  

The ideasssss <3