HoS Hardcore Iron Man Tournament
Almost a full house!
HoS_guber goes down. =(
The winner!
Tournament Writings
(written by Woo)
INTERVIEW WITH WINNER Oomfu:Dewolfe, first of all, many congratulations to you for winning the tournament. Dewolfe:Thank you. Oomfu:What was your strategy in staying alive in this tournament? Dewolfe:I needed to level up fast to get more hitpoints. Oomfu:How do you level fast? Dewolfe:I thought the way I would go about that was to pick a barbarian. They hit harder and kill faster. They can take on more difficult opponents and stay alive longer. Oomfu:When I joined the game, you were already gone. Which map did you head straight to? Dewolfe:I went directly to the cold plains...killing monsters on the way. I wanted to take on the more difficult monsters. I was level 5 by the time I got there. Oomfu:You bypassed the horde of wendigos which killed Babe at the passage to the Cold Plains? Dewolfe:Yes, I lured them there. I lured packs of monsters to entrances and to waypoints, anticipating that others would run into them. Oomfu:And did you also take everything which might be useful to other players? Dewolfe:I took as much armour as I could find as well as all the swords. I would use the armour until it went red... then I just discarded it. I also took all health I could see, even taking it from someone else's kill. This was a HC match to the death and I needed to live and level. Oomfu:One more thing, did Brainhaze go together with you in the underground passage? Dewolfe:Yes, he did. I didn't think he would but he did. Together, we defeated the mob at the entrance, then we met up with a boss and I tried to lure it to him as often as I could. The only reason why I went in there was because there were no more monsters out there. I needed to level up more. Oomfu:And that was how Brainhaze died from a Misshapen? Dewolfe:I do believe so. I left him behind and continued to kill the other lesser monsters. Oomfu:Ok. Now to another subject. What were you planning to do with the prizes you had won yesterday? Dewolfe: The undead crown went to my collection, the shield to finish off my full set of Sigon, the sharktooth armour went to my barb who doesn't have good armour until now, and the belt...well...not sure. Oomfu:Last question, are you looking forward to another tournament in the future? Dewolfe:ABSOLUTELY. I think this one was a success. Both Dangerous Dave and Woo did a great job. INTERVIEW WITH 1ST RUNNER-UP Oomfu:Your character is Iamgonadie, right? Brainhaze:Yes. Oomfu:You achieved a respectable 2nd place in the tournament. Brainhaze:Got tough. Oomfu:I noticed you encountered some mob bosses in the Cold Plains. Brainhaze:Uhuh. Oomfu:You fought them for a few bouts, then decided to flee from them...were they too tough for you? Brainhaze:Run away attack, run attack etc. I killed one of them, but the lightning guy was too tough. I killed the goat. Seems as though everyone left the mob bosses. Oomfu:So you ran past Rakanishu and headed towards the underground passage? Brainhaze:Yes. Oomfu:At the underground passage, you were fighting what group of mobs in there with Dewolfe? Brainhaze:Umm, purple lightning thing. Oomfu:Tainted? Brainhaze:I think so. Oomfu:Yes, and then you died from a Misshapen. Do you know what happened? Brainhaze:I was doing the run and attack, run and attack thing, and I tried to finish it off to no avail. Oomfu:What happened? Brainhaze:It killed me. I had no potions. Oomfu:Ok. What were you planning to do with the prizes you had won? Brainhaze:Use them on my paladin. Oomfu:Last question. Are you looking forward to another tournament held in the future? Brainhaze:Yes, but it would be nice if there were modified rules. Like, allow us to go to town, or party up, or make everyone be the same type of character, all necro one time, all barbs etc. INTERVIEW WITH 2ND RUNNER-UP Oomfu:Stardust was MsMisery in the tournament? Brainhaze(speaking on behalf of Stardust):Yes. Oomfu:MsMisery obtained the place of 2nd runner-up in the tournament. I saw that MsMisery was the leader of the group of other players,having the highest level...how does MsMisery level so fast? Brainhaze:She kills, grabs and goes. She ran through the first area, took every key and magic item and stashed them so nobody else could find any. Oomfu:What was the lightning enchanted weapon she used as her main weapon? Brainhaze:Axe. 3-7 with 1-12 lightning. Then she put it away to keep it good enough to pk someone with it. No repairing and all. Oomfu:Which map did she find the axe in? Brainhaze:Second area. Oomfu:Cold plains? Brainhaze:Yes. Oomfu:And did she encounter the horde of wendigos that killed Babe at the entrance to the cold plains? Brainhaze:Yes, she did. She ran until she could get one of those by themselves and killed one at a time. She had a lot of potions saved up. Oomfu: Did she use this tactic to get past some of the mob bosses? Brainhaze:Yes. Oomfu:Yes, but she was slain by Rakanishu. What happened? Brainhaze:She was whacking it and before she realized what was happening, got lightning and died. Oomfu:What is she planning to do with the prizes she had won? Brainhaze:She has not decided yet. Oomfu:Last question, is she looking forward to another tournament held in the future? Brainhaze:She says why not, but this time, she will run away from Mr. green lightning. Brainhaze:
HOS members had fun in tournament Report by : Baroness Oomfu-HOD HOS recently organised a Diablo 2 tournament one fine Saturday noon Pacific time. The game was a hardcore iron man tournament where players had to stay alive in the game as long as possible without going back to town and outlast other players. The game was almost full house with Holyknight(Dangerous Dave) as referee, Mortimer(Oomfu) as commentator, Dewolfe(as himself), MsMisery(Stardust), Iamagonadie(Brainhaze), guber(Gubernatorial) and Deathmaster(Babe) as the contestants. The game started after everyone had joined the game and almost everyone started running straight towards the cold plains, killing monsters along the way. Deathmaster had a late start due to an accidental clicking on an unimportant Non-player character (NPC) which was Warriv. Not too long after the contest started, guber locked up due to lag which caused his computer to freeze and got killed by corrupt rogues near the cold plains waypoint which was near the entrance. Then guber was dropped due to timeout. As many had witnessed that his death was due to lag, everyone decided to give guber a second chance. Meanwhile, the three leading players of the tournament Dewolfe, MsMisery and Iamagonadie were ahead of the rest, taking whatever item they could find useful and Dewolfe deliberately lured some monsters towards waypoints and entrances of some maps. One group of wendigos led by a unique monster was lured to the entrance of the cold plains. Most of the players including Mortimer ran past this group but Deathmaster decided to fight this group of monsters. Unfortunately, the monsters were too much for Deathmaster to handle and to make matters worse, lag hit Deathmaster, causing Deathmaster to stand there and get killed by the monsters. Shortly afterwards, guber rejoined the game, but was far behind the other remaining contestants in terms of character level. Mortimer followed MsMisery and Iamagonadie for a while before deciding to follow Dewolfe. Mortimer moved towards a portal in the stony field, thinking Dewolfe might be there. Unfortunately, it was the portal to Tristram and it was guarded by Rakanishu (Unique carver) and his minions. Mortimer ran away but Rakanishu and his minions were equally fast, and some caught up with Mortimer when his stamina ran out. Out of desperation, Mortimer summoned 2 skeletons and 1 clay golem to defeat the pursuers. At the same time, guber was in the caves below the cold plains and was killed by a group of fallen and corrupt rogue champions, due to guber being late in using the potions. Mortimer then subsequently went back to town due to a breaking of the rule stating that non-contestants cannot kill monsters in the game. Dewolfe had to go back to town for a while due to some problems with his son in real-life and lag. After a while, Dewolfe went back to the game without talking to any NPC. MsMisery fought Rakanishu but the lightning that came out from Rakanishu with each hit from MsMisery were too much for MsMisery and MsMisery was killed. With only Dewolfe and Iamagonadie remaining, the two decided to fight the monsters in the underground passage below the stony field together. Then Dewolfe lured another pack of Misshapen towards Iamagonadie and continued elsewhere in the underground passage. Iamagonadie ran out of potions and was eventually killed by this group of Misshapen, leaving Dewolfe as the winner of this tournament. Later, all the contestants fetched their normal characters and collected their prizes which was presented by Efektifdotcom, except for Babe who refused the prizes. Three out of the five contestants planned to use their prizes they had chosen on their characters. To round it all up, all of the contestants said they had fun in the tournament and they would be looking forward to another tournament held in the future in a separate interview.
