Ladder Melee Rules

[Duel] A winner will be decided by a best of three series. A series is a first to five duels where victory is decided by a margin of two duels
[Start] Both duelers must have "go" over head before walking towards one another to duel
[Running] Point awarded to opponent
[Miss-Click] Continue fighting
[Gear Change] You may change gear twice during a set and once between each set
[Draw] If neither player survives the walk back to town then neither player is awarded a point
[Strength Glitch] Automatic disqualification is a body cannot be picked up
[Token] Automatic disqualification if a token is used mid duel
[Elemental Damage] Total maximum elemental damage may not exceed 200
[Exile/Tap] May only be used in Zeal class versus Zeal class duels. Both parties must agree to allow tap, otherwise default is non-tap
[Holyshield] May not be used prior to changing gear. Holyshield must wear off or the user may ask to be killed off to remove the casted skill before changing gear
[Chilling Armor] - May be carried over from one duel to the next by non-Zeal classes dueling a Zeal class and any mirror class duels (example: Fury class versus Fury class)
[Inner Sight] - May be cast by Jab classes versus Conc and Zeal classes. Inner Sight is not permitted versus Fury and Wolfbarb classes
[Werewolf] - May be re-cast by Fury and Wolfbarb classes versus all classes except for Conc class

Challenge System:

Want to be added to the Tournament? Post your JSP account name / Diablo account name / Character name - Class
Registration Closes March 31st
Randomly Generated Brackets Posted April 1st
Tournament Starts April 1st
Double elimination bracket format.
Duels must be completed in a timely manner

Banned Equipment

Weapons (Runeword)
Grief
Doom
Eternity

Weapons (Unique)
Cranebeak (War Spike)
Hell Slayer (Decapitator)
Messerschmidt's Reaver (Champion Axe)
Fleshripper (Fanged Knifte)
Nord's Tenderizer (Truncheon)
Demon Limb (Tyrant Club)
Baranar's Star (Devil Star)
Horizon's Tornado (Scourge)
Stormlash (Scourge)
Schaefer's Hammer (Legendary Mallet)
Windhammer (Ogre Maul)
Astreon's Iron Ward (Caduceus)
Djinn Slayer (Ataghan)
Lightsabre (Phase Blade)
Azurewrath (Phase Blade)
Frostwind (Cryptic Sword)
Flamebellow (Balrog Blade)
Demon's Arch (Balrog Spear)

Weapons (Craft/Magic/Rare/Unique)
Any weapon with poison damage (vouch civic 4 this rule update)
Any weapon with more than 200 total elemental damage
Any weapon that casts an elemental skill over Level 5
Any weapon that casts amplify curses ( same with any armor )
Any poison on gear

Armors
Nosferatu's Coil (Vampirefang Belt)
Arachnid Mesh (Spiderweb Sash)
Cleglaw's Pincers (Set gloves)
Andariel's Visage (Demonhead)
Blackhorn's Face (Death Mask)
Giant Skull (Bone Visage)
Ethereal Fort
Ethereal Stone
Ethereal Prudence
Any armor that casts slow, an elemental skill over level five or is ethereal and neither indestructible or contains a self repair mod

Prize Pool

Total: 6,000
Send Fg to Gaiseric with the log "Gm Melee" and post it in this thread to register
Winner Takes All!
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Special thank you to ^Cambria for allowing me to use his format for the Crown Melee Ladder!
Special thank you to ^dougflutie for donating 1,000 fg to the tournament!
Special thank you to ^sainel425 for donating 1,000 fg to the tournament!

This post was edited by Holy-Martyr on Mar 14 2020 06:44pm

Gonna register into this one now, just gotta make 250 fgs.

i like this, i'll prob register if i can make up the fg. always thought prudence was BS, makes it so unbalanced. gj on winning the tourney gai

3/14/2020, 6:56:01 PM Sent -250.00 (5,895.68 -> 5,645.68) to Gaiseric (8,094.70 -> 8,344.70) gm melee

Sainel425 / Sainel3 / Oort - Zeal

pumped to have support of the melee boys here thank you! These rules will make things much more balanced so a barb or a fury could participate too!

Date Amount Comment
14/03/2020, 18:59:05 -1,250.00 to Gaiseric Gm melee + pot 1k

Now who's got an exile for sale

check the amendment to tap / exile

np

dougflutie / iMAGIN / Society Zeal

Death allowed?

yes