Qualifier Start Date: Wednesday, October 22nd 2014
Qualifier Start Time: 17:00 GMT / 13:00 EDT
Stars to Qualify: 200
Tournament Start Date: Friday, October 24th 2014
Tournament Start Time: 17:00 GMT / 13:00 EDT
Tournament Duration: 3 Days
Tournament update Thread:.
<click here>Tournament Results...
Tournament Notes: This was an EPIC tournament. By the time it ended we would see first place change leaders 6 times, we'd see 2 different guilds SMASH a record, there would be many sleepless nights, a guild leader would leave his guild & the game forever & we'd see one guild become the first ever to win a fourth golden ring...
Following the winners pattern I pointed out in my
tournament 13 update (ie. Dread wins, Russia wins, Dread wins, Russia wins...), it was Dread Dungeons turn to win this tournament. However, due to the not-so-secret alliance between Skar Tactics & Russia, where they agreed to team up & alternate each guild winning, early on it looked like we might break that pattern and finally have a new winner, Skar Tactics in T14.
Skar Tacics certainly was confident they were going to win before the tournament started. One of it's members even was so bold as to create a thread to taunt Dread Dungeons basically claiming that the winner was predetermined & the "REAL" contest was going to be an internal competition for top spot inside the Skarussia guild.
Subject: skarussia epic tournament!Nighteyes/Nosy wrote:Just to make it clear this thread is for the tourny inside skarussia not for hc. If after the tournament dd members want to post their top star earners to see where they would fair in this epic alliance of star champions I will allow it.
Perhaps because of the smack talk or maybe just because they were well rested, Dread Dungeons came out strong taking the early lead, but Skar Tactics put up one hell of a fight & we saw the lead change 6 different times...

In the end tho Dread Dungeons was just too determined & they took the win. Giving them their fourth gold ring & becoming the first guild to do so.
No let's talk numbers... Before this tournament the most stars ever earned by a guild was 176,579 in
Tournament 10 partly helped by a
reduced minion summoning time boost that was in effect...

This tournaments saw not one, but two guilds not only beat that record but SMASH it. Both Skar Tactics and Dread Dungeons set a new bar by pulling in 245,978 stars & 258,245 stars respectively. To make this feat even more impressive, they both did it without any promotion going on to make star acquisition easier.
(Source threads:
<here> &
<here>)
One must feel a little bad for Skar Tactics. They did an incredible job working together & they pulled in some incredible numbers only to come up short of winning their third ring. Any other tournament they would have ran away with a first place victory, but not this one. Because of this heartbreaking defeat or perhaps for other reasons, at the end of tournament 14 the leader of Skar Tactics (also named Skar Tactics) quit the game forever. Saying only that the game was too demanding & took him away from his real life responsibilities too much.
I wish you well Skar. You have accomplished a lot here. You WILL be remembered & missed, but you made the right call. When this game starts affecting your real life it's time to put it away.

Skar Tactics is now being lead by Vera (dungeon name GOLDDUST) from the
GOLDDUST guild. Vera is a hell of a gal & I'm sure she will lead well in her new top guild.
On a different topic... Sadly this is probably the last tournament that we will see numbers like we did here. At the conclusion of tournament 14
update 4.2 came out and it was announced that the gem prize for winning ALL brackets would be greatly decreased from this point on.
Subject: Tournament PayoutsDKDev_Chris wrote:As promised, here are the new Tournament rewards with update 4.2. Again, this does not include Blitz Tournament rewards, but rather the “normal” Tournaments that occur every other week.
Elite bracket:
1st: 15,000 Gems / 2,000 Dreadstones
2nd: 10,000 Gems / 1,600 Dreadstones
3rd: 5,000 Gems / 1,300 Dreadstones
4-10th: 500 Gems / 1,000 Dreadstones
11-20th: 250 Gems / 750 Dreadstones
21-25th: 100 Gems / 400 Dreadstones
Normal brackets:
1st: 5,000 Gems / 600 Dreadstones
2nd: 3,500 Gems / 480 Dreadstones
3rd: 2,000 Gems / 390 Dreadstones
4-10th: 150 Gems / 300 Dreadstones
11-25th: 100 Gems / 225 Dreadstones
26-40th: 50 Gems / 150 Dreadstones
Lottery: 5,000 Gems / 1,250 Dreadstones
It is unlikely that the guilds that compete in the Horny Bracket will ever be willing to spend the gems necessary to get record breaking totals like we saw here when the prize they are awarded for doing so has been reduced so much. I suppose time will tell.
Now for the breakdown of the stars earned inside the winning guild...



Also, even tho they didn't win, Skar Tactics DID put up record breaking numbers too so I feel it's only right to at the very least give some recognition to that guild's top star earners...

Curious about the other tournament winners?
<Click Here>AUTHOR'S NOTES: It is my hope to record a complete & accurate accounting of each tournament in question. As I am only one individual however, with only my own personally experiences in these tournaments I am sure to miss some stories that others may wish to have recorded. Please PM me if you find any corrections that need to be made or if you have any additional content you feel is missing.