Revision as of 17:13, 8 July 2014

Currently, there are three Tournament formats being offered - Challenges, Skirmishes, and Clan Tournaments.

Tournaments differ from random battles in several ways:

• Teams can range anywhere from three to fifteen players. (Each team can also contain several 'reserve' players to swap out as needed.)
• Team members are chosen by the Team Captain (the player who created the team), rather than thrown together randomly.
• Tournaments are played at specific times, and are not available 24/7.
• Tournament battles generally last 10 minutes, not 15.
• All battles are generally played on a single map, or a small collection of maps.
• Teams are limited in types of tanks allowed. (By Tier, Type, and sometimes even model.)
• There are NO Credits or Experience rewarded after a Tournament battle.
• However, members of winning teams are rewarded with Gold at the tournament's conclusion. (The exact details of how many teams earn gold, and the amount of the winnings vary from tournament to tournament.)

Group Play

Generally, Tournaments begin with simple round-robin Group Play. Each night, teams are randomly divided into small groups, and every team battles every other team in that group once. Points are awarded on performance - 3 points for a Win, 1 point for a Draw, 0 points for a loss. At the end of Group Play, points are tallied and used to determine who continues on to the Playoffs.

Playoffs

In the Playoffs, teams are divided into Brackets. Each team in a given bracket then has 10 battles to earn three wins, with the overall winner continuing on. The losing team is then out of the Tournament. Winners then fight each other, with losers being eliminated, and so on, until an overall winner is determined. At which point, the Tournament is over and prizes are determined.

Tournament Types

Challenges

Challenges are generally built around a theme, usually based on a historical battle. Challenges last two weeks, and begin with Group Play, followed by extensive Playoffs.

Skirmishes

Skirmishes are a very popular format offered once per week. Teams can chose between Alpha (6 days) or Bravo (3 days) seeding. Skirmishes offer tremendous variety with teams of all sizes and different Tank Tiers being featured each week. Game type is either Standard or Encounter, and maps vary week to week. Generally a single map is featured, but occasionally several maps are rotated throughout the tournament.

Skirmishes offer very handsome Gold payouts making them a very popular format, with hundreds of team competing each week.

Alpha

Teams that register for Alpha seeding will play 3 days of Group Play, Monday through Wednesday of that week.

The Top 50% of point earning teams will receive a Gold Prize and then continue on to the Alpha playoff to compete for additional Gold. The Bottom 50% of point earning teams do not earn gold, but will be moved to the Bravo Playoffs, where they have a chance to earn gold instead.

Bravo

The Bravo Playoffs are made of two groups - teams that registered for Bravo only, and the Bottom 50% of point earning teams from Alpha Group Play. While the competition in Bravo is generally less, the Gold earning potential is less as well. (No Group Play Gold, and half Playoff Gold.)

Tie Breakers

Teams that register for the Alpha stage, but are on the borderline between Top 50% and Bottom 50% will generally play tie breaking rounds on Thursday evening. The winning teams will participate in the Alpha Playoffs, losing teams go to Bravo.

Skirmish Playoffs

Skirmish Playoffs consist of Friday evening, Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon, and finally Sunday evening. Once a team loses a playoff, they are done with the Skirmish.

Note that in Skirmishes, teams are divided into several groups, and teams are competing to win there individual group only. So, depending on the number of groups, there could be a dozen or so "1st Place" teams.

Clan Tournaments

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Creating a Tournament Team

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Joining a Tournament Team

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Gold Prizes

Gold prizes vary from Tournament to Tournament, and can vary from just 100 Gold per player, up to 20,000 or more per player, making Tournaments very popular amongst players. Because Gold must be rewarded manually, Wargaming does not have a set time that Gold will be paid out. But it is generally rewarded within a week of the Tournament's conclusion.