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The Forever Open: a $100,000 level 30 Horde dueling tournament on the WoW Forever beta

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A community-run open dueling tournament on the WoW Forever beta: new Horde characters on the PvP ruleset, level 30, dueling on October 17 and 18 for a $100,000 prize pool (TimTheTatman doubled it from $50,000). Registration closed on October 2. It isn't a Blizzard event.

The Forever Open is an open-registration dueling tournament on the World of Warcraft: Forever beta, with a $100,000 prize pool: it was announced at $50,000, and TimTheTatman added another $50,000 on September 28. It was announced by Tips Out, who ran the Classic Duelers League, and it will be streamed on Esfand's and Xaryu's Twitch channels. It's a community event, not a Blizzard one: its own rules say World of Warcraft dueling "is not an officially supported Blizzard esport". Everything below comes from the tournament's official rules.

Live scoreboard: on October 17 and 18, follow the bracket with each player's class, the race for each class's $5,555 and both streams with their chat on ForeverDB's Forever Open scoreboard.

(Update, 19 October: the tournament ran on 17 and 18 October, and reports and the event's bracket say Warlockguy, playing a Warlock, won the $50,000 grand prize, beating fellow Warlock Neepzen in the final. The class prizes and the rest are in our results write-up.) Updated October 9. The prize pool is now $100,000, registration closed early on October 2, and the buff and consumable rules changed. The gold-buying row around the tournament is covered in The $100,000 Forever Open: what's confirmed, and what players are worried about.

Key dates

  • September 27: registration opens at 11am PT (1pm CT, 8pm CEST) on Raider.IO.
  • October 2: registration closed at 10am PT (12pm CT, 7pm CEST), two days earlier than first announced (October 4), after 4,000 sign-ups.
  • October 17: online check-in on Raider.IO, then the qualifiers.
  • October 18: the finals.

How to enter

  • Make a brand new Horde character on the PvP ruleset of the WoW Forever beta. Characters made before registration opened (September 27, 11am PT) can't enter.
  • Give it the last name Foreverpvp; it's required.
  • Register the character on Raider.IO.
  • Log in and ask for an invite to the guild <The Forever Open> from Admin Foreverpvp, Bog Foreverpvp, Prestige One, Admin Musashi or Magetea Foreverpvp.
  • Level it to 30 before October 17, and bring the 15 gold entry fee. You can register more characters while registration is open, but you play only one in the tournament.

Prize pool

  • $50,000 to the champion, who is crowned Death's Duelist.
  • The other $50,000 is split evenly between the best player of each class: $5,555 for each of the nine classes. For the champion's own class, that share goes to the second-best player of the class. If players tie for their class, they share it.

Format

  • Levelling: from September 27 to October 17, get your new character to level 30 and prepare.
  • Qualifiers (October 17): open to every registered, checked-in level 30 player who paid the entry fee. The organisers will publish the qualifier format at least a week before.
  • Finals (October 18): the top four players of each class meet in a bracket of best-of-three and best-of-five duel series.

Rules worth knowing before you level

  • Only your own class's self-buffs are allowed, plus items and consumables you use on yourself before the duel. World buffs and buffs from quests or open-world objectives are banned.
  • Consumables are allowed, except Magic Dust, Slumber Sand, the Furbolg Medicine Pouch, Flash Bomb, Goblin Sapper Charge, Student Fodder, non-equippable pet summons, every Fire, Nature, Frost, Arcane, Holy and Shadow protection potion, campfire buffs, and holiday buffs and consumables. Truthseeker's Bow and Green Whelp Armor are banned too. A banned item can't even be in your bags during an inspection.
  • You keep one talent build per stage (qualifiers and finals), sent in at least 24 hours before the stage starts. Legacy points are allowed.
  • You must stream your own duels on Twitch, YouTube or Kick and keep the recording.
  • Duels start 20 yards apart with no mounting, after a 10-second countdown; 60 seconds of inactivity is a delay-of-game penalty, and leaving or fleeing a duel means disqualification.
  • You can't leave the dueling area (not even to repair), and you can be offline for 3 minutes at most. Warlocks can leave once to get shards, after checking in with an admin.

The level 30 question

Blizzard raised the beta's level cap to 30 on October 2, so tournament characters can now reach the level they need.

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