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$520 DST Speedrun Community Tournament!


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I am extremely proud to announce that the next tournament courtesy of the DST Speedrun.com community is starting on November 1st and will run until December 2nd. This tournament will be HUGE, with a total prize pool of $520 split across a variety of prizes.

In this challenge, players will be tasked with killing as many bosses as possible within the first 10 days in any of 3 seeds that have been picked out by the organizers, each one boasting its own set of benefits and challenges to overcome. Players will be allowed to compete in Solo and Duo categories. You're not allowed to pick Wolfgang or pick 2 of the same character (in case of Duo) so players will have to get creative and adapt without having immediate access to high DPS, and take advantage of potential synergies between different characters.

To make things more interesting, runners will be able to use the plus start setting in this tournament. This gives them 3 entire chests full of goodies right at the start of the game to get prepared faster. In addition to that, many world settings will be allowed to be changed at the runners' discretion in order to access more bosses, such as starting season and the presence of wild rifts.

The prizes will be divided as follows, courtesy of @Carrion_DS, @Pixil, @MrMNWorm and @mr. brj

SOLO:
1st Place Winner: $120 USD
2nd Place: $65 USD
3rd Place: $35 USD

DUO:
1st Place Winner: $130 USD
2nd Place: $70 USD
3rd Place: $40 USD

(Prizes are split between both participants)

And since this tournament is for everyone to participate, we will also be handing out three $20 USD consolation prizes, which will be given out at the end of the tournament to three random participants who submitted a run but didn't win. This means everyone has a chance to win something, so you don't lose anything by submitting a run!

The seeds will be revealed inside the DST Speedrun.com Discord once the tournament starts. If you're interested in participating, join via the following link: https://discord.gg/HhGVQ3puyF

We hope to see you there!image.jpeg.a50f44d8b386c1d8f0524b4a997ff628.jpeg

askin questions:

in what way money? why? because money alone is worthless if one dont say what it is, paypal? steam wallet? european conversion?

what about wigfrid? clearly she just has some free damage aswell in fact she might be better then wolfgang given she can just make simple stuff

treeguards are seen as bosse in game despite many probably not so thinkin so, you could totaly just spam treeguards as woodie...how are you planning to counter act the instand meta of boss kill numbers if woodie does his thing?

why not just share the seeds here? i want to experince the world looks of your pickings

no i have absolutly no interest of joining anyways, got too many idle discords on my left as it is no need to join another one, i am simply askin because there importand lack of informations

5 minutes ago, Echsrick said:
  1. in what way money? why? because money alone is worthless if one dont say what it is, paypal? steam wallet? european conversion?
  2. what about wigfrid? clearly she just has some free damage aswell in fact she might be better then wolfgang given she can just make simple stuff
  3. treeguards are seen as bosse in game despite many probably not so thinkin so, you could totaly just spam treeguards as woodie...how are you planning to counter act the instand meta of boss kill numbers if woodie does his thing?
  4. why not just share the seeds here? i want to experince the world looks of your pickings
  1. If it's anything like last tourney, payment methods are determined per user. Paypal is one option but it's not the only option. The initial currency is USD if that helps.
  2. She's allowed, her speedrun times aren't as fast as you might think. My understanding is that Wolfgang was banned so that players didn't feel they need to play Wolfgang to achieve a good time.
  3. Duplicate boss kills don't award additional points.
  4. Seeds aren't even on the discord yet, they'll go live when the tournament starts (I have no clue if they'll be shared here or not when that happens though).
9 hours ago, Echsrick said:

askin questions:

in what way money? why? because money alone is worthless if one dont say what it is, paypal? steam wallet? european conversion?

what about wigfrid? clearly she just has some free damage aswell in fact she might be better then wolfgang given she can just make simple stuff

treeguards are seen as bosse in game despite many probably not so thinkin so, you could totaly just spam treeguards as woodie...how are you planning to counter act the instand meta of boss kill numbers if woodie does his thing?

why not just share the seeds here? i want to experince the world looks of your pickings

All of these rules are explained in further detail in the server

18 hours ago, A4FE said:

cmon one of y'all make me proud :excitement:

I've changed my mind. I'll make ME proud.

If one of y'all interested in trying duos for this, let me know! I'm US East. :greedy_dollars:

Oh, and if any of y'all don't think you'll play, pour all the WACK strats you want to see in here! fr im gonna need the advantages i can get lol

OH ALSO I CAN SHARE THE SEEDS WHEN I JOIN THAT DISCORD LOL

i wanna try winona so you winona nutjobs help me cook :distrust:

 

The tournament has officially started and the seeds are now available! Since some people were interested in seeing what the seeds have to offer, here are some screenshots from the tournament seeds:

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(Miner's camp set piece with a shadow manipulator)

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(Alchemy engine next to queen's gathering set piece)

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(Boons containing a morning star, moggles, log suit, cane, boomerang, a grass suit and twigs, and a set piece with ice hounds and an ice staff next to spawn next to oasis)

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(Cave entrances to ruins with labyrinth and a connected atrium nearby)

 

Best of luck to all runners!

4 minutes ago, Tranoze said:

Can you define what is boss? Cus woodie can spawn 50 treeguard and kill them over and over and over and over...

Each boss only counts once for the purposes of this tournament; from the official rules the list of unique bosses are as follows:

Spoiler

The following enemies will be counted as 1 boss for the purposes of the tournament. Each unique entry on this list will count as a boss only once in each run; for example, killing 10 spider queens will only count as having killed 1.
-Ancient Guardian
-Antlion
-Bee Queen
-Celestial Champion (each of its 3 phases counts as a separate boss)
-Crab King (Without Pearl’s Pearl)
-Deerclops
-Dragonfly
-Eye of Terror
-Frostjaw ("Defeated" animation counts as killing him)
-Great Depths Worm
-Ink Blight Trio (Shriek, Rasp and Jitters; point is given when all 3 from the same group are killed)
-Klaus
-Lord of the Fruit Flies
-Malbatross
-Nightmare Werepig ("Defeated" animation counts as killing him)
-Poison Birchnut Tree
-Possessed Deerclops
-Possessed Varg
-Reanimated Skeleton (Forest and Cave versions count as the same boss for the purposes of this tournament; Forest Skeleton must be killed and not die to sunlight)
-Scrappy Werepig ("Defeated" animation counts as killing him)
-Shadow Pieces (Any combination counts as one boss; point is given when the shadow atrium is dropped)
-Spider Queen
-Toadstool (Regular version)
-Treeguard (All variants count as the same boss)
-Wrathful Rabbit King

Additionally, the following enemies will be considered as "upgraded versions" of some of the previous enemies and will thus count as 2 bosses, while replacing an existing boss. For example, killing Ancient Fuelweaver will give you 2 points, but doing so will count as also having killed a Reanimated Skeleton. Therefore, killing any of the following bosses means you won't get any points for killing the bosses they replace.
-Ancient Fuelweaver (Replaces Reanimated Skeleton; must give full set of drops)
-Crab King (Pearled, replaces non-pearled)
-Twins of Terror (Replaces Eye of Terror; the Shield of Terror must drop for it to count)
-Misery Toadstool (Replaces regular Toadstool)

 

I'd like to remind anyone who might be undecided about participating that all you have to do to be included in the raffle for the consolation prizes is submit a valid run, this means even if you submit a video of you taking 10 days to kill a treeguard that's all you need to participate for any of the three $20 consolation prizes, so you don't lose anything by giving the tournament a shot regardless of your skill level!

19 hours ago, Guille6785 said:

I'd like to remind anyone who might be undecided about participating that all you have to do to be included in the raffle for the consolation prizes is submit a valid run, this means even if you submit a video of you taking 10 days to kill a treeguard that's all you need to participate for any of the three $20 consolation prizes, so you don't lose anything by giving the tournament a shot regardless of your skill level!

I think it would be cool if the more bosses you killed, the higher odds of getting the consolation prizes. 

4 hours ago, Jakepeng99 said:

I think it would be cool if the more bosses you killed, the higher odds of getting the consolation prizes. 

the consolation prizes are an incentive for less skilled players to still try the tournament, that'd just make them prizes for 4th and 5th place basically

1 hour ago, Guille6785 said:

the consolation prizes are an incentive for less skilled players to still try the tournament, that'd just make them prizes for 4th and 5th place basically

Not really because it just raises the odds, not guarintees it.

On 10/30/2024 at 10:57 PM, Guille6785 said:

many world settings will be allowed to be changed at the runners' discretion in order to access more bosses, such as starting season and the presence of wild rifts.

Interesting

On 10/30/2024 at 10:57 PM, Guille6785 said:

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You should make a numbered list and a rules section that is shorter and easier to read, here is my helping hand at it:

Rules:

  1. $520 split prize pool
  2. Solo and Duo categories
  3. Starts on November 1st and will run until December 2nd
  4. 10 in-game day time limit
  5. A choice of 3 map seeds
  6. Wolfgang banned
  7. Duo category must be two different characters
  8. Plus start for 3 extra loot chests
  9. Starting season can be chosen
  10. Runners may start with hard-mode rifts enabled
18 hours ago, Guille6785 said:

these aren't the rules, those are in the discord server

Yes, I tried to summarize them from your main post here on the forums

Can you post the ones from discord?

People usually read only the shortest version of the text they find

5 hours ago, loopuleasa said:

Yes, I tried to summarize them from your main post here on the forums

Can you post the ones from discord?

People usually read only the shortest version of the text they find

The rules are too long to post here since they cover every detail so I recommend people join the discord if they're interested in submitting a run

6 minutes ago, Guille6785 said:

The rules are too long to post here since they cover every detail so I recommend people join the discord if they're interested in submitting a run

Yep, that's true, but from my experience a short list of the rules is very worthwhile to compile as literally 95% of people stop reading unless a summary is found when confronted with a large text in the first 3 seconds

Since some runners have been struggling to find time to practice, I've decided to extend the deadline of the tournament by 2 weeks. The new deadline is on December 16th. Hope to see some more submissions in that timeframe!

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