HELL'S PARADISE TOURNAMENT (March 1st) - $300 PRIZE ($50 per person) Read for details

[spiral rain]

⚠️ MISSION NOTICE: HELL’S PARADISE TOURNAMENT ⚠️
Sunday, March 1st @ 1pm EST

Attention Pilots!
A new battlefield has opened… and it doesn’t believe in mercy.

We are calling on the most ruthless, disciplined, and fearless mech commanders to assemble squads and fight for dominance in HELL’S PARADISE.
On this war-torn world, survival isn’t guaranteed — it’s earned.

YottyOne and Fr8TrainShane will be hosting and live commentating as teams clash in a brutal, cinematic showdown for supremacy.

Paradise was never meant to be peaceful.

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WINNING TEAM WILL RECEIVE $300, split to $50 per player (If an alternate replaces a player, they will receive the $50).

🛡 TEAM FORMATION DIRECTIVE

• Teams must consist of 6 active pilots
• Each team must name 1 Captain (team representative)
• Up to 2 alternates allowed
• If an alternate replaces a player, that original pilot may NOT return

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⚙️ TOURNAMENT BUILD RESTRICTIONS

Max Armor per Mech: 650,000

BANNED TORSOS
• Griffin
• Ares
• Ravanna

WEAPON RULES
• Shocktrains are BANNED
• Sluggers limited to 4 per mech

TITAN RESTRICTION
• Norna is NOT permitted

BANNED GEAR
• Iron Veil

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🔍 BUILD VERIFICATION & STREAMING REQUIREMENTS

• All teams must submit builds several days prior to tournament day
• Before each match, pilots must stream for build verification
• ALL players are required to stream during matches
• Production will jump between pilot POVs for broadcast viewing

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📡 BROADCAST INTEL

• Matches will be broadcast LIVE on Twitch
• Full tournament replay will be posted to YouTube after the event

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This isn’t a friendly scrim.
This is organized chaos.
This is steel vs steel under a burning sky.

If your squad believes it has what it takes… assemble your team and prepare for deployment.

🔥 HELL’S PARADISE AWAITS.

Reach out to @deep warren to register your teams.
Reach out to either @deep warren or @spiral rain for questions, or post below.

[foggy merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/bk113-ready-to-rumble-rumble-ready-michael-buffer-gif-19233819

[hexed yew]

https://tenor.com/view/my-time-has-come-gif-9231594

[sick mason]

How many squads will there be and how will the classification work?

[spiral rain]

of squads will be determined by how many squads enter. We haven't capped it yet.

define what you mean by classification?

[lusty sky]

if it's $50 per person, wouldn't the prize be 600 in total?

@spiral rain

[foggy merlin]

300

[lusty sky]

each player from both teams r placing $50 to enter

[foggy merlin]

50 per player of the winning team

x 6

300

[lusty sky]

whos funding the irl reward?

[deep warren]

Fr8 and I

[vestal edge]

Sounds fun but I would think that everyone who would play want be able to because not ALL players are not able to stream their matches or am I not understanding correctly

[spiral rain]

No entry fee - We are paying prizes out of our own pocket

[spiral rain]

Yotty and myself

[deep warren]

That’s no deal for us

[spiral rain]

Have to be able to stream so we can verify builds

[vestal edge]

I guess it makes sense that way you can see what everyone is running and make sure no cheating

[deep warren]

This is the biggest thing

[analog ledge]

More stuff like this might bring in more players...

[foggy merlin]

best out of 3 for correct?

[deep warren]

Depending on how many teams we have

If it’s more than 5 teams it’ll just be one run

[torn plaza]

date ?

[foggy merlin]

March 1st

1pm est

[analog ledge]

If more then 5 teams you should do loser bracket like it a pool turnny

[deep warren]

That’s the plan

[analog ledge]

Out curiosity how will match up be determined

[deep warren]

Draw of the hat

[dusty herald]

Zeus turret meta

[deep warren]

I’m curious to see what builds these guys bring to the table

[torn plaza]

you will see ceres and purifier but with exactly 650k armor

and varangian (which got less popular cuz of ares)

[dusty herald]

Ceres wont be there, its just badly than tyr when healing light tier bots
Purifier Zeus will be one of meta

[dark fern]

Eww Zeus

[dusty herald]

No tank
↓
Less anti armor require
↓
More anti shield build
↓
Varangian will be fine

2 my favorite build

[foggy merlin]

you can join

just bring your 6

how is it ego?

[dark fern]

XD

[foggy merlin]

ceres will have a less of use however it is going to be decent cause you can move around instead of being a sitting duck with the heal

[livid remnant]

When you know, you know

[spiral rain]

Translation: We are afraid to fight
But feel free to watch and enjoy 🙂

[livid remnant]

Are we 5 or something? Childish

[torn plaza]

not again guys please

[livid remnant]

Why would I watch

[shrewd rampart]

Lol. Why norna, griffin, and ares are banned while tank builds are allowed?

[spiral rain]

Builds have to be less than 650k armor. Not going to be that tanky.

We plan on doing many different styles of tournaments.
Some will be "Anything goes"
Some will be Level 1 Factory Bots only.
Some will be 1 Bot in your hangar, only.
Some will be all the same bot..

We're going to mix it up

[livid remnant]

Yeah surprising no ban on nanite

[spiral rain]

it was discussed for sure

[shrewd rampart]

I guess most people rely on tanks with double heals so that might be the reason for not banning them.

[foggy merlin]

even if they try to run a tank with 2x heals

shoulders and legs will be much weaker then torso

[foggy merlin]

nanite wont be op cause of the hp limter

[spiral rain]

Ravanna and Nanite is the big tank, so no Ravanna helps with that

[shrewd rampart]

Alright. I am new so still learning the ropes. I was surprised since most people including myself complain about tanks so that's why.

[spiral rain]

The total armor restriction being at 650 should eliminate most super tanks

[livid remnant]

Its still op on 650's unfortunately

[split mirage]

This thread is about the organisation of a tournament. Let’s not get into balancing discussions here. Also, please keep conversations in this thread respectful. This thread is so that ppl can ask queries about the tournament and figure out if they want to participate. If ppl want to offer their personal comments and opinions on a topic then they are welcome to do so in DM with the organisers

[split mirage]

I would like to request you to consider publishing about the tournament on the Reddit and Facebook groups as well if you haven’t done so already…it may also help to bring in more viewers to the tournament

[spiral rain]

Actually getting ready to post on Reddit as we speak

Didn't know about the Facebook so I'll add it

[dark fern]

cos norna ult is busted, griffin is gay, ares will js be abused

[rich ridge]

what server is it on

[split mirage]

USA servers

[rich ridge]

if its west i'll be fine

[sick mason]

Sorry for the very late response as I’m just waking up again, but what I mean is that wouldn’t there be tryouts or something like that depending on the person?

[split mirage]

I’m guessing that its up to the squads who register for the tournament to conduct try outs for their positions

Fr8TrainShane and Yotty are the organisers who’ve set the ground rules so that everyone is mostly at an equal footing

[sick mason]

uhuh,

continue if you’re not done.

[split mirage]

Well it’s like, and they can correct me if I’m wrong, but any 6 member squad can participate if they feel that they can compete with the conditions that have been set. It’s up to the 6 member squad to choose which player they feel would give them the best fighting chance.

But anyway, I’ll let the organisers reply 🙌

[sick mason]

ah, so there’s the problem, I’m not one of the greatest teammates to choose

[split mirage]

Neither am I but we could try and spectate this time so that we can get an idea of how competitive these tournaments are. It could help us prepare for the next one 🤞

[sick mason]

alright..

[spiral rain]

Nope no tryouts. You would just assemble a 6 person team, tell us who is on the team, and who the captain of your team is. And boom - your in 🙂

[spiral rain]

UPDATE
For those of you who do not partake in the tournament - @paper wadi is graciously donating a few codes for 10,000 coins or premium for us to give away during the stream to some viewers...... Huge thank you to the team!

[deep warren]

Big Ups!

Remember Guys, you have to submit your team Roster to me so i can start prepping your roles and get you on the list!

[brisk linden]

Ohhh I was scared for a moment

Also the 650k max armor is perfect

[north urchin]

@calm wagon here

[north urchin]

@uncut quest

[north urchin]

Someone mightve already answered this but are the leagues gonna be paired against each other and can we enter more than once with different accounts on different leagues?

[deep warren]

so its going to be six stack matching making, this will negate the pulling of different leagues.

[north urchin]

Ok thx

[deep warren]

'no worries you getting a six stack ready?

[north urchin]

Trying xD, might play on a 2nd accout so I dont get destroyed 😅

[deep warren]

accounts wont matter like i said, when you match with different leagues it will still pull you to the highest league. So if you get a team, make sure its a good one

plus its going to be a draw of a hat to figure out what teams are against what teams first

[umbral flint]

Hey just wanted a heads up, some of the Havoc players including me will be setting up a team but we will only join if these are proposed part bans:

• Ban Purifier (Torso)
• Ban Decker (Torso)
• Maybe unban Shocktrains

If we are doing a round system we would like to switch to EU servers if we lose on US servers to make it fair

[deep warren]

We had a long conversation on the parts, which we believe this will keep the playing field more streamlined.

This Event is currently based on US servers so keep that in mind. In the future we will be hosting events on different servers.

Who knows you may win with high ping!!!!!

[umbral flint]

Havoc will not be participating if our changes are not proposed, because not banning Purifiers is a bad look for the tournament in which will create unfairness for the match play

[deep warren]

650k armor cap really hinders purifier builds

[umbral flint]

Then why not ban it. You can say the same for Ravana but that was banned

[deep warren]

The cooldown was the primary focus for the ban.

[umbral flint]

Banning a robot for a short cooldown and not its invincibility and heavy resistance?

[deep warren]

CD = more resistance. The invincibility is niche

But the rules are set!!! Come join us! What’s the worse that can happen?

Your team could walk away with 300$

[umbral flint]

Raven CD = more damage

[umbral flint]

The rules are unfair though so why would I join?

[deep warren]

These parameters are to promote a more skillful approach to gameplay against hardeneds vets

[hollow moss]

Purifier skill ......

https://tenor.com/view/seriously-gif-23861497

[spiral rain]

We will be sad to not see you on the field, but hope you play in future tournaments where maybe those rule sets will be more to your liking.

Tournaments will vary

[obtuse quartz]

limiting it to US only really limits us in Havoc when primary our best players are eu

[deep warren]

This is where we are hosting this event, other events will/may change!

[spiral rain]

There are players all over the world for sure. Future tournaments may be on other servers. With different rule sets etc.

Yotty and I are funding this out of our pockets so $300/server isn't an option 🙂

[north urchin]

Ah, mb i misread something lol, thx for info

[deep warren]

No worries,

[torn plaza]

This is limiting tho, in terms of talents and amount of available teams

[brisk linden]

I look to be on a team

[sick mason]

hmm, I’m glad there’s a bit less than a month, I was worried it was soon, since I have this ares torso build, but I can’t make another build

so I can grind meanwhile

[foggy merlin]

it helps counter supressor

but not fully counters the supression effect

[spiral rain]

Not really. With these restrictions it will open it up to a larger base. Some of the more elite people will have to adjust their hangars for sure.

But this structure is by design. Well have lots of different formats hopefully. From level 1 factory bots to only one bot in a hangar etc, to anything goes.

[torn plaza]

I meant limiting it to na servers, not the module bans

If we could swap beetween na and eu during matches it would allow eu players to perform

Doubling the amount of players and teams

[livid remnant]

They prolly want streams to not look like 100ms since theyre hosting

Unfortunately most competitions work this way

[torn plaza]

Idc about the bans even if i dont understand shock ban

[livid remnant]

Unfair for one team when hosted from x, unfair to the other when hosted from y

[spiral rain]

Oh. Gotcha. Well also end up doing things for different servers if we get the interest.

This is our first big tournament outside of the US/Asia fight. Gotta start somewhere.

But we've all played on the different servers. I would use that as a reason to not play.

[livid remnant]

Lol yeah shock ban is just funny, highly skillful weapons too

[spiral rain]

Some teams may have players from Asia, US and EU. I know there is a team with players from Australia and Brazil forming. Where would they get fair servers? No perfect solution here for this type of format

[livid remnant]

Swapping between two sides of the world would maximize the fairness

[spiral rain]

We may not be doing a best of 3. Depending on # of teams. So it could be a one and done

[deep warren]

the main reason shocktrains was banned is due to how impactful a shocktrain user can be on the field. especially with the lower armor cap, shocktrains would shine in this tournament extremely easy.

imo watching people camp shocktrains is not entertaining. so take out a weapon that can hold down half/quarter of the sector.

[deep warren]

shocktrains are not high skilled weapons, get five and sit behind is not high skill gameplay. even though 4 vg builds are mind numbing unskillfull

[livid remnant]

Much harder to aim than any other weapon

Gozers might be the most difficult to trace flawlessly

[deep warren]

https://klipy.com/gifs/dead-my-honest-reaction

[sick mason]

I forgot to ask this, but how would the winning team get paid?

like Cash App or somthing?

[deep warren]

We will send digital cards out

[sick mason]

alright

[north urchin]

Is this on ranked or unranked? If assume ranked for the different maps right?

[serene wyvern]

how many rounds is there?

[spiral rain]

Correct, ranked for the extra maps

[spiral rain]

Depends on number of teams....3 or 1

[foggy merlin]

@languid nexus

[sick mason]

commander pls lemme be in yo team

I’m a great support

I have mostly heals in my hangar

[north urchin]

We only need to stream on twitch not in a discord or anything right?

[deep warren]

Twitch is preferred. During the fights fr8 will be able to focus in on individuals during the fight and we can do commentary on it

[sick mason]

how do you broadcast ps to twitch?

[deep warren]

Link your twitch within the psn account in settings, if you don’t figure it out I’ll post a video tonight on it

[sick mason]

alright

[pulsar bloom]

do you know for how long the tournament will be going ( what duration you're aiming for) as it starts at 7pm here just so I can give everybody a clear idea

And do the VC and calls have to be in english or not necessary? Do you expect to have one fluent english speaker per team ?
Sorry for all the question even thouugh I am not sure we will be able to participate (I personnally haven''t yet checked my schedule), it is just so I have a clear picture before asking the other guys fro the clan ^^

[deep warren]

we have no idea with out having a full roster currently.

[deep warren]

whatever language your team prefers is up to you guys, but i would like if you guys utilized my discord for calls, that way we can jump in chats quick to get directions over

[pulsar bloom]

I mean to aim for 4-6 hours or more 10-12 as it would change a lot being from a late night gaming to an overnight session 😅

[deep warren]

if it comes down to that we will make sure that the teams would have their play time first if they play on a different region. i think thats fair

[deep warren]

just know if you end up in the finals we may have to reschedule that fight,

[sick mason]

still going to post that vid?

[deep warren]

at work still

[spiral rain]

It doesn't need to be in English. We did a server battle with Asia and most of their coms were in Chinese. Not an issue at all

[spiral rain]

In case of lots of teams and such well end up schedule this over multiple days.

[foggy merlin]

Like from our tdm match yestraday for example

1 side pushing and the other holding/pulling other team to their spawn

I don’t mean to dis on shockies but skill wise they aint high

Easy to use and it’ll turn into a camping game if both sides use them

[dusk schooner]

Are those bans permanent or there will be some changes before the tourney?

[foggy merlin]

And it won’t be fun for the people viewing the touri cause it’ll mainly camping touri then more so semifinals and finials

[dusk schooner]

Bro, do I have to remind you how Asians play?

[spiral rain]

These are permanent for this tournament.

[dusk schooner]

So there will be no more changes?

Good

[spiral rain]

We reserve the right to add some if somethings broken. But this is pretty set for now. We won't change things last minute unless it's absolutely broke due to some update

[dusk schooner]

Kinda weird that y'all need month for such thingi but okay.
Also does it have to happen during Sunday?
Saturday would be way better ngl

[foggy merlin]

Only heard

Never seen

[spiral rain]

It's weird that we need to take the time for people to see the notice, assemble thejr teams, and get their bots settled?

I think it's a perfect time.

You are welcome to run your tournament on whatever day you like. I feel like ours will end up being multiple days anyway if we get a bunch of teams entered

[foggy merlin]

mainly US players are off during Sunday

Lots work Saturdays

[dusk schooner]

Damn, that sucks ngl

[foggy merlin]

Usally Monday to Saturday work

Then Sundays off

[golden ermine]

Yea i worked on saturday and monday so sunday is perfect for me

[north urchin]

I think you should raise the armor cap to 670,000 so my bot can fit lol

Jk jk I'll compensate xD

[north urchin]

How long do you guy estimate the tournament will last? Or will you not know till you have a set amount of groups competing?

[spiral rain]

It will come down to how many teams we end up with. The list is lower right now, but we know people are "forming" teams. and or hoping to see some rule changes that likely aren't coming - so they have to decide if they want to have fun or be stubborn

[north urchin]

Ok makes sense, thx

[spiral rain]

and don't worry - I get it. I'm legit one fo the most stubburn people around here 🙂

[deep warren]

Hey guys, if your normally a solo player but still really want to go into this tournament. let me know too! i can also build a six stack for you guys. there are other solo players curious on trying to get in!

[north urchin]

@gaunt forge Here!

[lyric blaze]

I'm available to join a team if anyone looking.... hi

[deep warren]

@lyric blaze let me see if i can build a team i think there are two more floating around that want to attend.

if any else wants to join please let me know by the 22nd

[sick mason]

I think you already know that I want to attend right?

[deep warren]

Yup

[deep warren]

Join my discord to keep up with everything

https://discord.gg/zTBX2PpJS

[deep warren]

Today is the last day for entries

[spiral rain]

Tournament Q&S Will be streamed at:

https://twitch.tv/fr8trainshane

Stream goes live at 8:50pm EST (in 5 minutes)

[plush abyss]

Hi All,

Here are the VOD(s) from the tournament from https://www.twitch.tv/fr8trainshane/videos in case you are looking to rewatch the stream. Due to some technical difficulties and stream crashes (thank you Twitch ) the stream VODs are broken up into a handful. I will just post each VOD accordingly in chronological order so you can watch the next VOD after the next one and so on.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2711143436
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2711156017
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2711161527
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2711172515
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2711201128
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2711309711
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2711321643

[foggy merlin]

id like too see a few of our matches because i didnt get too hear what yall were saying

👀

and that has made me very curiuos

and thank ya rnnado

[spiral rain]

Cutting and editing the matches, might take me another day.
But here is your first game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAFT8YRCxw

[spiral rain]

HELLS PARADISE TOURNAMENT - GAMES RECAP
Match #1: Nyxium vs. Havoc: https://youtu.be/CJBqyzYcy_A
Match #2: Eclipse vs. MDR: https://youtu.be/CtpGcmwa_Mc
Match #3: Blood & Bolts vs. Apocalyps6: https://youtu.be/4T8FGCETaC4
Match #4: Nyxium vs. GFUS: https://youtu.be/aWWWjP9oPiI
Match #5: Eclipse vs. Havoc: https://youtu.be/Q8Y2XDfS-Bc
** Match #6 - Didn't Render Properly - so I'll fix that tonight and update it **
Match #7: Havoc vs. GFUS: https://youtu.be/UnLprpI50OE
Match #8: Eclipse vs. GFUS: https://youtu.be/cU8_ZRaYCXcwiweri
Match #9: Blood & Bolts vs. Havoc: https://youtu.be/NQ2zyftl1qo
Match #10: Blood & Bolts vs. MDR: https://youtu.be/olQ0YWwzpGk
Match #11: MDR vs. GFUS: https://youtu.be/v2hhAQB9_Bk
Match #12: Eclipse vs. Apocalyps6: https://youtu.be/oUxjqCpPUIo
Match #13: Nyxsium vs. Apocalyps6: https://youtu.be/fRKa2Vxxybg
Match #14: Blood & Bolts vs. Nyxsium: https://youtu.be/xtjuNlkv2Ck

[plush abyss]

hell yeah!

final day!

[dusk schooner]

Wahhhh happened to Alphas sensor arm tho

[spiral rain]

Times subject to change
Daylight Savings time might force us to change a few match times if possible

[dusty herald]

Is it start in <t:1772989200:t>?

[spiral rain]

Matches will start at 1pm, Stream should go up at 12:30pm EST

[plush abyss]

Stream starts at <t:1772987400:t>

Matches start at <t:1772989200:t>

[dusty herald]

Can we use discord timer code next time I just wasnt sure of EST and DST..

[north urchin]

@dusk girder these are the rules

[spiral rain]

We most definitely can