Well, I'd say that today's DT 2nd Anniversary Event Day was largely successful. Although we got off to a late start (my fault), we managed to get through all the events successfully. I'll just re-cap on each event, for those that weren't able to make it.
DT 2nd Anniversary Super DB Party: Unlike previous DB parties, we managed to spawn a very large number of MvPs in a short period of time. It's estimated that we managed to summon a total of 40-50 MvPs from ~300 DBs, which is quite impressive. Sometimes, it did get a bit out of hand, as there were times where there were two-three-four-five MVP spawned at one time. However, we were able to take care of them in the end.
The drops from the MvPs were pretty nice too, as they weren't just dropping only oridecons, eluniums, and yggdrasil berries. I'd say that this DB event was probably the best DB event we've ever had, thanks to the very high frequency of MvP summons.
DT 2nd Anniversary PvP Tournament: At first, it got off to a rocky start, as we had to do issue two re-matches for the first match, as attendees interfered with the match. However, after the first match, everything went pretty smoothly. A lot of the matches were real fun to watch, as there were a lot of skilled PvP players in this tournament.
Unfortunately, we had to disqualify both DeityLinkiroth and Kengirosumate, as both did not show up at their match. We delayed the match as far as we could, but we eventually reached a point where we had to make a decision. Also, we had to disqualify Bathory in the second round, since he did not show up for his match against Guhostsubenu. We tried to delay this match as well, but we reached a point where no more delays were possible.
Although Decker emerged victorious in the championship match, it was discovered that Decker was stacking Royal Jellies from previous matches, which was not allowed, so MunkyBeast won by default. However, what was impressive was that although Decker stated that he did not know that was a violation, MunkyBeast offered to share the Grand Prize with him, in a great show of sportmanship. Thus, MunkyBeast and Decker were both awarded 10,000,000 z.
Congratulations to both MunkyBeast and Decker. Hopefully, DT will hold more PvP Tournaments, since a lot of people said that they wished to do this more often. Decker, please contact phy for receiving your 10,000,000 z prize money. The results from the tournament can be seen below:
Round 1:
Match 01: Mr Te vs. Tarquin | Winner: Mr Te
Match 02: Decker vs. DragonSleyer | Winner: Decker
Match 03: Aladdin vs. Yoon Huh | Winner: Aladdin
Match 04: Guhosutsubenu vs. AdRakCthoros | Winner: Guhosutsubenu
Match 05: Bathory vs. ghalleon | Winner: Bathory
Match 06: ShangDynasty vs. MoonlightAngel | Winner: MoonlightAngel
Match 07: Sapiroth vs. MunkyBeast | Winner: MunkyBeast
Match 08: Jaegar vs. Dark Falco | Winner: Jaegar
Match 09: Kengirosumate vs. DeityLinkiroth | Winner: NULL (Both disqualified, as both combatants did not show.)
Round 2:
Match 10: Mr Te vs. Decker | Winner: Decker
Match 11: Aladdin vs. Guhosutsubenu | Winner: Guhosutsubenu
Match 12: MoonlightAngel vs. MunkyBeast | Winner: MunkyBeast
Match 13: Jaegar vs. NULL | Winner: Jaegar (Automatic Advance)
Match 14: Bathory vs. Guhosutsubenu | Winner: Guhosutsubenu (Bathory was disqualified, as Bathory did not show.)
Semi-Finals:
Match 15: Decker vs. Guhosutsubenu | Winner: Decker
Match 16: MunkyBeast vs. Jaegar | Winner: MunkyBeast
Championship:
Match 17: Decker vs. MunkyBeast | Winner: MunkyBeast (Decker was disqualified in violation of Rule 6 in this match.)
Winner: MunkyBeast
Runner-Up: Decker
DT 2nd Anniversary Free Item Give-Away: Originally, this was supposed to be held earlier today, but I was late getting online; I apologize about this. Fortunately, we did find time to hold this event during the PvP Tournament, while trying to stall for time for combatants that were not showing up for the tournament.
Dominating Twins: ?? Mystery ?? Announcement: As you may have heard from others, I officially announced my retirement from qRO. I'll explain more about this in another post on this and qRO's forums.
Dominating Twins: Two-Year Anniversary War of Emperium: Although the server was plagued with disconnects right before WoE started, there weren't many disconnect problems throughout WoE. They only became frequent towards the end of WoE.
For the first half of WoE, we decided to go on raids against various castles. A lot of these raids were pretty fun, as some were successful, and some were not. Still, everyone seemed to have a fun time just giving some guilds a hard time in their castles.
For the second half of WoE, we reverted back to our typical "scout easy castles, take, and defend" strategy. We managed to capture a castle in upper left Payon and defended that castle. However, Final Heaven decided to pay us a visit, with 15 minutes of WoE left. Since Final Heaven were a larger guild than us, we couldn't hold them off.
However, Final Heaven decided to gamble today, as they decided to not break the emperium until the last minute and just defend the castle. At that point, we decided to give up the castle and look for something else, but then the server disconnected. The castle in Payon was still ours, so we all rushed to that castle once the server came back up and put our defenses. Of course, Final Heaven came back to take the castle again, but the server would just disconnect just at the right time, when they were nearing the emperium. This kept occurring until WoE ended, which left us with a castle today!
Final Heaven gambled when they shouldn't have, but their loss is our gain.
Thanks to everyone who were there to make this possible!