Altador Cup XVIII (2023)

[Blue]

Okay... so that's... times 4... carry the 7... ah! Given your chosen team's performance, you've earned yourself 7840 Neopoints!

Staff Tourney Total of 55.891 this year. Not my best, but I'll take it

The AC total is a completely different kettle of fish...

Okay, so maybe you didn't exactly set this year's Altador Cup tournament on fire, but hey — at least you got in the game, and surely that's worth something!

Rank 0.

[Pickles]

July 5th:

If there's one stamp each between the two shops, and the card and coin are split, that doesn't seem like too too much to me.

I'll be shocked if they're not all in the main AC prize shop. I don't think they've ever done stamps in the Staff shop before.

But I guess we won't find out today. News is finally up, but no AC results.

ETA: July 6th:

Staff prize shop is up. None of the stamps showed up there. 1 cheap book, 5 wearables (including what looks like a blackberry-style phone), some random items, and a block figure for every competitor.
It's once again all the way at the bottom of the Staff Tournament Page.

There's currently an issue where the items are listed as R500 (the NC rarity), so they don't show up on the shop wiz. Hopefully this'll be fixed sooner than later.

ETA2: Rarity has been fixed, they're searchable on the shop wiz now.


ETA3: July 7th:

Winners are announced (it looks like they kept the same order as the stats page looked after the last day?), and prize shop is now up.

Rooligans came in 4th! Not too shabby. I appreciate having a top tier trophy this year!

A lot of the team wearables that were leaked weren't there. There were, indeed, once again, 4 album items, coming in at 175, 2800, 3150, and 3500 points.
The weapon is a bust as of this time - 15 icon, 75% air blocker, once per battle as of this time. Sigh.

Again, just obtaining All Star is not enough for all the album items. I feel like this is a big fail for TNT in not listening to feedback from last year (although at least they didn't release another super weapon on top of that?)

HOWEVER, this year, I can actually get them all on my own...but I did put in a LOT of extra effort, hoping to be able to get whatever stamps and if there was another awesome weapon, that, too. But maybe I'll also get that really adorable Maraquan Yooyu that I'm thinking realllly hard about. I'm a little salty about last year's prize shop, still, though, as having put in a super weapon in for so little really screwed everything up...and by having not done so any previous year or this year feels....off...still.

[Blue]

For your participation in this year's Altador Cup, a shiny new trophy has been added to your User Lookup. Also, your prize points are ready for you to spend in the Prize Shop. Enjoy!

Participant... 5 years running. 6 years ago was Rank I... Actually, throughout all 15 years, I appear to have been consistently a slacker. Year 1 was "Supporter", then Participant for all but 6 years (all 6 are Rank I)

I even have SIXTY SEVEN points to spend. Sweet! LOL. It's more than I deserve for the little effort I actually put in.

..so, on the main Page, it says Roo placed IV, but when you go into the prize shop, it says XI... ? weird.

[Pickles]

The weapon is a bust as of this time - 15 icon, 75% air blocker, once per battle as of this time. Sigh.

Heads up. Sometime in the last few days, this weapon was changed from once per battle to Multiuse, making it actually worthwhile! (And the price has skyrocketed accordingly.)

[Pickles]

Reminder: spend your shop points soon if you haven't already. I expect the shops to close within the next week or so, even if we haven't seen any announcements about it yet!

[Blue]

If you have still procrastinated (like I did), this is the 2nd reminder to use your points. I bought one of everything and then looked at JN pricing.

The Ivy Building Block Figurine prices have gone to insane levels, presumably on the heels of Ivy's recent announcement that she is leaving TNT...? SW prices are well over 100k. I bought a 2nd one of these to test the waters in my shop.

Assuming these are actually selling and you have a ton of Staff Tourney points to spend... the profits might be huge with this one.

[Siniri]

I need to spend my points but will have to try tomorrow. Work has been crazy, and my health has not been the best lately.

[Blue]

Prices are already coming down on the Ivy Figurine. There's one seller with 3 at 28k and one seller at 68k, but the rest are over 100k

[Pickles]

Sooooo apparently the cup has been delayed until July this year. This was announced in the AMA. I guess this is why we've seen absolutely nothing in the news in the last few weeks.

[Siniri]

I really need to redeem my prize points ASAP. I've just been so exhausted with no mental energy. Hopefully this weekend...

[Pickles]

Last chance reminder: get your points spent if you haven't already! The next AC should be starting this month!

[Siniri]

I stayed up super late Monday night to spend my points. Too many points for not enough prizes in the staff shop, and way too many expensive items in the main shop. Even at quad AS, I couldn't get most of the wearables!

[Blue]

Thanks P!

It looks like I spent all 67 of my AC points

Did manage to spend all 55886 in Staff Tourney points.

Direct links to the prize shops for anyone who needs one or both*:
AC Prize Shop: https://www.neopets.com/altador/colosseum/prizes.phtml
Staff Prize Shop: https://www.neopets.com/altador/colosseum/staff/index.phtml (at the bottom of the page)


*or you can scroll up and look at Pickles' post

[Pickles]

Apparently I beat the official reminder notice by a few hours:

Important Reminder! The Altador Cup Prize Shop will be closing soon (7/7), so remember to go use up any remaining points you may have before it closes!

I hope that we don't have a multi-week lead up like we normally do, or those who have school starting in early August will be...displeased. This is not my kids as we're already on week 5, but there may be others or teachers...

[Blue]

Apparently I beat the official reminder notice by a few hours:

Awesome! Score (another) one for P!