Tournament on Serenno / Legends A tournament on Serenno served as a test between the best bounty hunters in the galaxy to see who would earn the honor of kidnapping Supreme Chancellor Palpatine . Prelude . After the supposed death of Obi - Wan Kenobi , he disguised himself as Rako Hardeen , a marksman from Concord Dawn . He joined forces with Moralo Eval and Cad Bane and escaped the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center and stole a ship that took them to Nal Hutta . There , the trio got new outfits and Kenobi , disguised as Hardeen , went to get a new ship while Bane and Eval got blasters . Bane attempted to leave Hardeen behind but due to Hardeen placing a tracking device on the ship , the ship was shot down , leaving the two other hunters to rely on Hardeen to get them off the planet . Hardeen bought a new ship and they flew to Orondia where they were attacked by Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano where a showdown started , leaving Anakin injured and the bounty hunters to get away . The contestants . While picking out the team to assist Count Dooku and Moralo Eval in their plot to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine , they needed the best so they brought in twelve of the best bounty hunters in the whole galaxy . Although twelve of them came , only five would emerge from the Box alive . The tournament . When arriving on Serenno , Bane , Eval , and Hardeen were welcomed by Count Dooku who asked Eval to ready the contestants for the challenge . Hardeen and Bane , along with ten other bounty hunters named Sixtat , Embo , Twazzi , Mantu , Jakoli , Kiera Swan , Onca , Bulduga , Derrown , and Sinrich were chosen to compete in the Box , a structure designed by Eval to test the hunters . The number of contestants was brought down to eleven due to Bane shooting Bulduga to take his hat . The hunters were deprived of their weapons and together , the eleven entered the Box . The first task . On entering the box , the floor opened up allowing Dioxis , a poisonous gas , into the room . Hardeen warned everyone to get back and as the eleven were backing away , Sixtat tripped over a rising platform and got back onto it saying it was every man for himself . The platforms continued to rise higher towards the ceiling , nearly crushing Twazzi . Hardeen volunteered to go down and scout the area due to his helmet ' s ventilation being able to protect him for a little while . Hardeen found the hole into the floor and jumped down and found a tunnel that lead to the next room . He called for the others to follow and the other ten did so , allowing the first task to take no casualties . The second task . The eleven hunters entered a second darkened room where Eval congratulated them for surviving the first task but said that the second test would take a few . Soon ledges in the wall started to swing out with lightsaber resembling swords sticking out . The hunters did their best to avoid them but Onca , the brother of the late Bulduga , was caught between several walls and came close to being stabbed through the head all though the sword stopped several inches in front of him . Another ledge however began to poke out with a sword at the end , killing Onca instantly . Hardeen noticed a pattern to the ledges and told everyone to follow him , however two more hunters were downed in the competition . Sinrich was strangled by Embo for stealing a bounty from him earlier that year and when Kiera Swan was about to jump onto a ledge she was stabbed through the back by a sword . The other eight hunters made their way out of the room and on to the next room , thanks to Hardeen . Count Dooku and Moralo Eval who were watching from Dooku ' s palace were amazed by Hardeen and Eval wanted to see what would happen when Hardeen wasn ' t the reason for the others survival . The third task . The eight remaining hunters climbed into a room where ray shields were covering the walls . A button to deactivate the shields was on the other side of the shields and an electrolytic serum sample in a syringe that would allow the taker to pass through the shields was put in the middle of the room which would be fatal to all but one of the contestants . The hunters went to examine the room but soon platforms began to rise up and the hunters climbed onto them . The Rodian Jakoli turned to run for the platform but the ray shields covered the floor which electrocuted him . More platforms rose up to the button and Derrown was discovered to be the one who could take the serum . The Parwan took it and went to deactivate the shields as the platforms began to fall and the shields closed in . Mantu was hit in the shoulder by the shields and fell but managed to grab another platform to stay away from the shields . The platform Mantu was using for footing began to go down and he fell . Hardeen tried to grab him but Mantu hit the shield and was electrocuted . With the shields about to close in on the survivors , Derrown deactivated the shields and the last six proceeded to the next room . Dooku , becoming more impressed by Hardeen every task began to think about putting Hardeen in charge instead of Eval , much to Eval ' s anger . The fourth task . The survivors , made up of Hardeen , Cad Bane , Twazzi , Embo , Sixtat , and Derrown made it to a room with a floor covered with flamethrowers and only the six standing on a platform above the fire . Eval came into the room to explain the next task was to test sniper skills . He let a target go around the room that had to be hit three times and gave the survivors a sniper which Sixtat took . Sixtat shot the target twice and missed the final shot and the platform collapsed under him , sending him falling to the flames . Hardeen took the sniper and fired at the targets , hitting each one . Eval raised a new platform higher up with Derrown , Embo , Cad Bane , and Twazzi on it and Hardeen ' s platform was turned into a single line and he was told to shoot five targets . Hardeen succeeded in hitting four but the gun ran out of power , much to Eval ' s happiness . Eval attempted to drop Hardeen to the flames but he was saved by Bane , who told Eval if he wanted to kill Hardeen he should do it like a man . Dooku agreed with this and dropped Eval onto the floor of the room and removed all of the flamethrowers except for the ones lining the room . Eval attempted to fight unfairly , calling in probe droids and bringing up a maze in the floor and attempting to burn Hardeen . Hardeen escaped and got the upper hand in the fight . Dooku told Hardeen to finish Eval but Hardeen spared him . Dooku was disappointed in Hardeen , but still congratulated the hunters for surviving the box , and decided to put Cad Bane in charge and along with Bane and Hardeen , Embo , Derrown , and Twazzi became the team to kidnap Palpatine . Aftermath . The true purpose behind the challenge was not to assemble an elite team of bounty hunters . In actuality , it was a diversion from Dooku ' s real plan to kidnap Palpatine . Dooku suspected that the Jedi would attempt to infiltrate his conspiracy , and the challenge was a means of exposing any Jedi spies .