Weekly Mld Tournaments Thursdays & Saturdays - Topic

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Mar 31 2022 03:58am

MLD TOURNAMENTS THREAD TOPIC

In an attempt to grow the Mid Level Dueling community (MLD - Level 49) I have started hosting weekly MLD (Level 49) Tournaments
At this time these tournaments are hosted on EU but I am not adverse to hosting events on America (weekends) based on request/demand
These events are currently hosted on Thursday and Saturday Evenings (EU)
The Tournaments fall under the larger umbrella of LLD101 (Low Level Dueling) which hosts regular tournaments and events for the brackets Level 9 - 49 via this site and other platforms
The MLD Tournaments referenced in this topic are hosted on the arena.gl site under events here: https://arena.gl/clubs/LLD101/events

Rules

The rules for MLD have been designed so as to ensure that each of the 7 classes can win a tournament (provided the character is built right, piloted by a skilled player and with a bit of luck in avoiding a hard counter) and the evidence for this is the results from the MLD tournaments hosted on EU over the last decade where all 7 classes competed and won. Noting the various changes between D2LOD and D2R and with the upcoming changes expected in patch 2.4, the rules will need tweaks from time to time and this will be dealt with as more tournaments are completed. There are several skilled players interested in MLD and able to play multiple builds and therefore the ability to balance the classes to enable each class to win a tournament is in our hands. A brief comment: We do not allow telestaffs in these tournaments (except for Ele Druid). This obviously causes problems in the Barb vs Sorc matchup and this match can be considered a hard counter in this regard (But please accept that there are hard counters at all dueling brackets).

The current ruleset (which will be updated and posted in this thread as more tournaments are completed when balancing issues are identified and resolved). Rules in red are additions to the Ruleset since the commencement of these tournaments.

Guides

I am in the process of re-writing the D2LOD Guides but for the time being, for anyone interested in LLD the old guides are here: https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=84940990
My preliminary drafts for D2R are here: https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=91773363&f=87
I will probably post all the guides on another platform first and once I am happy with same I will dump them in JSP.

Tournament Winners

We have up to this point hosted 4 MLD Tournaments, 3 of which are complete

Tournament 1 Winner:

Snatch

(EsBlizz)
Tournament 2 Winner:

Octogenarian

(ESFB)
Tournament 3 Winner:

Chum

(Barb)
Tournament 4 Winner:

Ferdia

Bowa)
Tournament 5 Winner:

Ferdia

(Bowa)
Tournament 6 Winner:

Ferdia

(Barb)

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 2 2022 03:35pm