Irish Warrior Tournament 17

Irish Warrior Tournament 17 was premiered in 2022, June 4th. This was the 17th Tournament, and the sixth since weaponmatt's second Total Victory in Irish Warrior Tournament 11.

## Changes This Tournament

Tournament 17 of Irish Warrior saw multiple changes on Stage 1 after the success it had in the last tournament. There had a buff on the Mystic Timbers having an extra tree stump in the middle. There had been several modifications to some obstacles like the Doughnut Dash and the Diamondback having the dismount being made easier, the Pipe Vault swapping places with the Escape Wall, while also having a shorter jump onto the pole, however the second pole was removed and instead competitors had to jump right onto the Swivel Swing. Other changes on this stage included the Buoy Tilt (while not being nerfed or buffed) being moved from the 5th obstacle to the 4th obstacle. But the biggest change on this stage overall was the only new obstacle to this stage, that being the Dragon Glider, evolving from the Baby Dragon that was there for the past five tournaments. The time limit was also changed, 5 extra seconds were added to the time limit leading to the time limit being 115 (1:55) seconds.

Stage 2 saw some major changes, with the biggest of them all being the return of the Wall Climb returning for the first time since Tournament 10. Other changes included the Ball Glider leading to the buffed Circle Twist marking the first time in Irish Warrior history that the Ball Glider leaded straight to another obstacle without a platform. This would also cause a problem for some competitors where it was told that if someone tried to wrangle the ball and the ball went to fast, instead of landing on the spokes, they could easily land on top of the circle, anyone who did that would result in a disqualification. As mentioned previously, the Circle Twist was majorly buffed, with the circles being at equal height and all of the spokes distances being further apart, further more, the distances between each circle were further apart as well meaning that people would haver to make a 180 degree rotation before transferring to each circle. Other than that, the Beam Flipper, along with the final 3 obstacles of stage 2 would remain unchanged. However, the time limit would be bumped up by 15 seconds now making the time limit 135 (2:15) seconds.

While the first 2 stages were heavily buffed, stage 3 only had 2 changes, those 2 changes were buffed versions of the Doorknob Grasper and the Pipe Bombs. With the Doorknob Grasper having 1 less doorknob bumping it down from 9 to 8 doorknobs, as well as having the dismount platform being made further away. This change was mainly due to Sonicfan10193 literally clowning the obstacle last tournament by skipping every other doorknob, and the Pipe Bombs having bigger caps on each pipe, making the chances to stick each pipe even so harder. Other than that, everything else on this stage remained unchanged.

## Results

Stage 1, while being heavily buffed, actually had the same success as the previous tournament, with 12 people beating stage one for the second tournament in a row. However, despite the success, there was still plenty of shocking failures, such as Speny37 who almost beat stage 1 in the previous tournament, go out very early on the Diamondback, SoulReaper1025 who almost beat stage one for the first time since Tournament 3, time out on the Swivel Swing, Flameosaurus going out on the new Dragon Glider which after this fail put his clear rate this era back down to 50/50, TrickyCyrus, who defeated stage 1 in the last tournament, failing on just the 4th obstacle, the Buoy Tilt, but the most disappointing fail out of all of them had to be Strafe Helix, who despite beating the final jump in previous tournament, failed yet again for the 4th time our of 6 this era and the 5th time he has failed overall as he had failed it in Tournament 9 when it was the second to last obstacle on stage 1. However despite the shocking fails, there was a lot of success in this tournament. Of the 12 clears that happened, 2 cleared for their first time, those being SunnySideSplash who cleared on his debut which has not happened since Ump Double Ump all the way back in Tournament 5, along with him, Superninjajake2 finally cleared for his first time, but cut it very close with a little over half a second left.