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H.

After being a part of running the tournament for almost 2 years straight, I just needed a break for a while.  I really enjoyed participating in ROOT for almost that entire time, and expect that I'll return after another month or two off.

P.S.  I applaud your effort here to reach out to more players, and commend the job you have done since coming on board the leadership team of ROOT.

If your RTS and Hamachi are working, then joining the tournament is easy. All you have to do is post in the Redemption Online Official Tournament forum (located in the Official Tournaments forum) that you want to join. Then, read the rules in that forum, and you can play. A brief summary of how it works:

Each month is a new, four-week tournament. During week 1, you are randomly paired with an opponent for an official "swiss" game (swiss referring to the swiss style of tournament setup--which is the same as normal Redemption tournaments). In following weeks, you are paired with the person closest to you in the rankings, assuming you haven't played each other during the month. You may also, once a week, issue a challenge to any other player that A) you haven't played in a Swiss game that month B) has not been challenged by another player that week and C) that you haven't challenged in a previous week. The swiss games and challenges that you issue each count for three tournament points. You may also earn tournament points by playing bonus games. Bonus games are games you can play whenever you want during the week with any other player--even ones you have played before in the tournament. You get 2 tournament points for each bonus game that you win, and 1 point for each game you lose, with a maximum of two possible bonus points per week. Thus each week you can earn up to 8 tournament points: 3 each from the swiss and challenge games, and 2 bonus points.

When you have swiss or challenge games in a week, you usually PM your opponent to set up a time.

At the end of the four weeks, the winner is the person with the most tournament points (with tiebreakers explained in the rules).

You can join this month's tournament if you'd like, but week 2 just started so you would get a bye for your swiss game. You could still play bonus and challenge games if you would like though. PM me if you need any more info. Hopefully you can join!

F.) Well, sorta.  Prizes never motivated me that much, but all that work for the possibility of one pack?  Geez...
G.) I've got three difficult classes this semester.  This may change in the future
H.) Last time I was going to try ROOT, things didn't go so well.  I'm unsure of trying it again.
I.) I don't think I'm good enough to play ROOT just yet.

pfft please im in root this month and im the worst player here 

G/H: Yay college.

F(I may be playing but prizes are a good idea.)

G)   Trust me, I was super tempted this month with the low amount of players.  However, there was no way I could swing the time without ghosting or my education suffering.

I greatly miss RTS/ROOT.  It made me a much better player, and it helped me stay on top of the current rules, combos, and decks.

There's dozens of deck combinations one can make in Redemption, and I've only played a few.  What use is it playing ROOT when I only know how to play one or two types of decks?

What better way to learn? Last month was my first month playing RooT since Disciples came out and the reason I joined was not to win every game, but to learn different deck types and find out what type of deck suited me best. I found a combination I liked and this month I am aiming to place in top 3. What RooT helped with is making sure I had guaranteed opponents instead of just hoping someone was able to play when I wanted to test a deck.

All the cool kids are doing it.
Only noobs get viruses, I have Norton!
The internet told me to.

4 people, 2 of which do ROOT?
That's not what I mean,
I mean it is really easy to get viruses on other people's computers on yours when you share a network.

lrn2meme

Quote from: The M on December 07, 2010, 03:10:19 PM

4 people, 2 of which do ROOT?
That's not what I mean,
I mean it is really easy to get viruses on other people's computers on yours when you share a network.

Not really. Especially if you properly protect your computer.

Quote from: Rawrlolsauce! on December 07, 2010, 02:03:58 PM

Only noobs get viruses, I have Norton!

Norton and McAfee suck and actually can give you viruses. I use Avira alongside Spybot and never get viruses unless I purposely download and execute one. Which I do on occasion to keep my l33t tech skills at peak. If you REALLY want to feel safe, Avira + Spybot + Sygate Personal Firewall (only for XP)

I've got Norton, McAfee, Malware, Spyware, Firewall, Wareware, and Warewalls!
But my dad doesn't think it is good enough!