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Starting from 24th of july, Atlantica Online Europe will be running its "fair" PvP Tournament.

Why "fair" ? Because every participants will have the same level/skills/gear (all level 121 with +3 equipment).
They will fight on a dedicated server, and will be able to choose their entire formation (main character of their choice + all mercenaries available).
Remember GNGWC? Well, it's about the same, but an improved version.

40 players among the 3 European servers have been selected through a special event (basically: winning "torches" during Free League, whatever their level/division).
By the way, it will be possible to watch the battles through a live stream, published by the GMs!

Once again*, Atlantica Europe is organizing another original (and more "human") event, and I wish them the best with this one!

I'll update this post with the schedule as soon as I have confirmation, but usually live stream will occur from 24th of July, at 8pm GMT+1.

Streams are available everyday at 8pm GMT+1 on the Atlantica Online twitch channel:
http://www.twitch.tv/atlanticaonline or http://www.twitch.tv/nxmelody
The first week starts slowly with pool fights, from 1st of August it becomes serious with the best players!

* Despite running the same game, AO-Europe has always distinguished itself with their "homemade" events, and a GM team much more present/available (that's one of the advantage to have only 3 servers to manage).

Cool
I wish IndoAO GMs would work like European's.
all they do is just adding unimportant new servers which isn't helping lagging problems at all x_x
btw muwing, what 'torches' did you mean?

It sucks even more when you're european but you play international ao anyway....

wow cool!!!

will be watchin ^^

so like....even lvl 20's can join??

Sounds realy nice, but the idea will be shot down really quick.

Choosing whatever mercs you want and fixed level is all good, but let's not forget that in every patch Atlantica gets there's a prefered and more efficient strategy, and therefore, a prefered main and mercs to run it. If we see people who know how to play, we'll see pretty much the same formation in the last few matches.

totally agree with rhyzon.
1st is cookie cutter strategy,
then snipe,
then main sword pain from rend + edge, (even better after warlord)
then only in between (when some skills gt nerf and some improve) then we see a little change, and more main emerge (main gun, main staff. meh. just a moment.
main spear pop out. mass AP drain, stun combos. only main musician can counter it.
new patch. sword/muscian talent boost skills power. but wat. main axe become a more painful main. with those axe combos it juz break down front row easily.
well if follow the kao trend, (currently, we are), after axe being nerf spear will emerge again, with the spear that has a prov effect of flamespear it become 1 mighty weapon... for this particular. individual main to win.

shouldnt all main be strong? why favour on 1 particular main only? are they thinking oh, main spears have been waited for a long decade before they finally have the chance, so we must let them b the dominating ones for v long. the very truth is, the mains that win isnt the one who remain as this main for a long time but amnesia following the trend in order to win.

instead of bringing more and more new mains/mercs, they should reflect on current situation now.. theres way too much inflexibility, too much 'useful to useless' stuffs.

@Muwing: The PvP tournament starts tomorrow Click to see the announcement

@ArchDemon & coolgyal: Between 7. Jun. and 11. Jul. everyone Div. 8 or higher received an item called "torch" for each win in free league. Top 40 torch-collectors are qualified to participate in the tournament Click for event announcement | Click to see top 40

If you want to watch: Click for livestream

@ThePingu: Thanks!

By the way, regarding the balancing issue, all characters will be level 121 with dragon god +3 equipment, what allows more diversity than the usual highly enhanced evil/pegasus gear on Titan (in particular: AoE / DoT are more viable).

But the most important is the possibility for (almost) anymore to fight fairly, it's so unique that any player really interested in PvP can only be excited about this event (and curiously, many high level players / Titan winners on Atlantica Europe didn't even tried to be qualified ).

I'm not surprised or curious, likely they know they would suck without any gear advantage and so did not participate.

Your assumptions are quite biased. You should get a grasp of the qualification rules of the European PvP tournament first - the torches are not easily obtained since you have to invest a LOT of time into the free league fights. There are basically 3 Free League times (12:00, 16:00, 0:00) that are out of question for someone who works or studys. Colosseum fights and Auto-league don't count. I leave home at 7 AM and go to bed at 11 PM. The only possible Free League time for me (and quite a bunch others) is 20:00, which I usually did for my diary. Now compare this time schedule with someone with, let's say, more "free time", who is capable to do all 4 Free Leagues. Even if I win all 6 fights, that guy could win only half of his fights but still have twice as many torches in the end. And get qualified.

I just wanted to point it out since it's very rude to assume that Titan Winners are too afraid to participate because of no gear advantage.


Sincerely,

a player from AO Europe