Tournaments

Find out everything there is to know about the tournament system in Bomb Bots Arena!

## Tournament Types

There are three types of tournaments at the moment. These are all played out roughly in the same way with the same set of rules. The only things that are different are the rewards and the amount of players. The tournaments are:

* VS Tiny Roar
* Qualifier Tournaments
* Finals

## Phase 1

Phase 1 consists out of four matches. Players are matched against three other player with the goal of gathering points. Getting first place in a match will earn you 2 points and getting second place will earn you 1 point. Only the top 16 scoring players will be allowed to advance to Phase 2. Matching is not random. There are few rules as to how players are matched. To simplify it:

1. It tries to avoid people you already played with
2. At the same time it tries to match you with players that are having similar intermediate results as you
3. It will relax previous rules in order to fill up the match if not enough players are available.

## Phase 2

Phase 2 is a Double Elimination Bracket. Only the top two players from each match will advance to the next round and the other two will be eliminated from their bracket. Those who made it to the Winner Bracket (WB) and lose, will be placed in the Lower Bracket (LB). Those who made it to the LB and lose, will be eliminated from the tournament. Therefor it is better to be among the top 8 players of phase 1 since it allows you to lose one of your matches without eliminating you from the tournament. Below is schematic of where you'll start depending on your placement in phase 1 and how this phase is played out.

The Grand Final will either be a single match, as is the case in the Qualifier Tournaments, or a Best of Three. in which three rounds will be played where your final position each round will earn you points:

* 7 Points for 1st place
* 3 Points for 2nd place
* 1 Point for 3rd place
* 0 Points for 4th place

The player with the most points after three rounds will be the winner of the tournament. Any tiebreaker will be resolved by the sum of the kills and if these are the same then the sum of survived frames will decide the winner. In those very rare instances that even this is not enough to decide the winner, the system decide who wins a match by random chance.

## Finals Rewards

First place will win a seasonal bot part. If all bot parts al already owned, one will receive 40

## Tournament Time-Zone Table

This section contains a tournament week-schedule for every time-zone. You can use this as a quick reference to see at which date/time a certain tournament takes place.

UTC -10: HST - Hawaiian Standard Time

UTC -9:30:

UTC -9: AKST - Alaska Standard Time

UTC -8: PST - Pacific Standard Time

UTC -7: MST - Mountain Standard Time

UTC -6: CST - Central Standard Time

UTC -5: EST - Eastern Standard Time

UTC -4: AST - Atlantic Standard Time

UTC -3:30:

UTC: WET - Western-European Time, GMT - Greenwich Mean Time

UTC +1: CET - Central European Time

UTC +2: EET - Eastern European Time

UTC +3:

UTC +3:30:

UTC +4:

UTC +4:30:

UTC +5:

UTC +5:30: IST – Indian Standard Time

UTC +5:45:

UTC +6:

UTC +6:30:

UTC +7:

UTC +8: AWST - Australian Western Standard Time

UTC +8:30:

UTC +8:45:

UTC +9:

UTC +9:30: ACST - Australian Central Standard Time

UTC +10: AEST - Australian Eastern Standard Time

UTC +10:30:

UTC +11:

UTC +11:30:

UTC +12:

UTC +12:45:

## Loading Screen Messages

When clicking "SHOW ARENA", "SHOW BRACKET" or any of the two "SCOREBOARD" buttons, you will see a quick loading screen that contains one of the following messages:

* SPINNING TO WIN
* INSERT COIN TO CONTINUE
* CARVING DATA INTO STONE
* RUSHING B... DATABASE
* IT'S STILL FASTER THAN YOU CAN DRAW IT
* SHOVELLING COAL INTO THE SERVER
* PRESSING RANDOM BUTTONS
* ENTERING CHEAT CODES
* WE DON'T NEED A HEALER FOR THIS. RIGHT?
* TAKE A MOMENT AND WIN OUR LOVELY PRIZES
* STOP POKING ME
* WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB
* DISPATCHING CARRIER PIGEONS
* TAMING DELIVERY HORSE

## Promotional Tournaments

The winners of the gift-cards were:

Congratulations!

Below is a list of all the rewards obtainable: