Rite of Supremacy Tournament Sign Ups

Greetings Dark Jedi Brotherhood!

As you may have heard, we have a Rite of Supremacy that is slated to begin on May 30th. In order to allow sufficient time for members to sign up for tournaments, I am publishing the sign up forms for the two tournaments I will be running: Jedi Academy and Hearthstone “Core Set” only. Please use the link below to access the document and sign yourself up for one or both.

2021 Rite of Supremacy Bracket Sign Up

There will also be one additional competition included in the Event Long Gaming bin that is not one of these two tournaments. This is to ensure that members, both new and old, joining the event in the middle have an opportunity to at least achieve bin participation.

Hearthstone Server Update

For Hearthstone specifically, one large challenge is the split regional servers. The official answer to how to resolve this has been added to the Supported Games wiki page:

• For 1v1 matches, members may play on whatever server they choose unless otherwise stated in a competition. If you still can’t come to an agreement, the Fist or P:Fist will arbitrate for you.

Spoiler, there’s a very good chance my solution is to play half of your games on one region and half on the other. It is my preference that members can resolve these issues themselves in most situations and are free to use other agreements in Hearthstone PvP if desired by both parties.

RoC Reminders and Update

On the eve of the upcoming Rite of Supremacy, it is a good time to review the Rites of Combat for both our regular gamers and those who venture into gaming activities during the big events.

The place most people find themselves getting in trouble is PvP but it doesn’t have to be this way! Please read through all of the requirements if you are not familiar with them. The biggest items to stay away from are:

1. During the Rite, announcements of any kind are not allowed for PvP. This is in all channels and any other communication methods. I monitor the PvP queue very closely, so in the words of Obi-Wan, “Don’t try it.”
2. Do not idle in the queue. Idling semi-AFK in the PvP queue leads to a failure to accept a match and failures to accept a match lead to being banned from PvP activities.
3. Don’t be a jerk. You are going to lose matches, it is inevitable. Being a jerk about it means that you lost but also now possibly have a PvP ban or, if really bad, a referral to the Justicar.

Additionally, I’ve added wording back to the RoC regarding setting up all matches during feuds and cooperative events between multiple clans:

Section 2.4 - Setting Up Matches During Clan Feuds and Cooperative Events

a. The Rites of Combat are still enforced, along with additional requirements, during Clan Feuds and Cooperative events. Each of these events is unique and may have additional changes to the rules, beyond what is listed here. These details will be listed with the information for each Gaming Competition, so be sure to refer to those rules and guidelines as well.

b. In a joint or vs. event between two (or more) clans, all gaming submissions must contain at least one player from an opposing team for all match types (PvE, PvO and PvP).

My top goals for this event are for everyone to have fun and stay out of trouble!

Personal Thoughts on Discussion of Opinions

I’d like to put out a general call that we should all work to be more respectful of differing opinions, especially as they relate to Star Wars and Gaming, within our community. Without going off on an entire rant, I’d like to propose unofficial guidelines for how we all engage with each other:

1. I will profess my preferences as personal opinion, not fact. (Ex: I will not say, “Blue is the best color” and will instead say “Blue is my favorite color.”)
2. I will not disparage another’s opinion in order to profess my own. (Ex: Instead of saying “Blue is so much better than red because red is total garbage”, say something like “I prefer the color blue.”)
3. I will not take someone else's stated preference as a personal insult because other humans are allowed to like different things that I do. (Ex: If I prefer the color blue and someone else says “Red is my favorite color” then the easiest solution is that I simply don’t comment. For bonus points, actively engage with someone to find out why they like something different because life is more interesting when we aren’t all the same.)

If we all agree to start using these simple guidelines, we’ll find that we devolve into less arguing over items that, at the end of the day, are matters of personal preference over a family movie about space wizards and are not going to materially change anything, anywhere, ever.

In all seriousness, we’re all here to have fun so let’s try to be a little more chill with each other.

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