Altador Cup VIII

New rule(s) in 2013

Tournament play is made up of five rounds. For each round, six teams will be placed into one of three brackets. During the round, every team in the bracket will play each other once.

This year, there will be four "bye" days. The bye days will happen once per round during the first four rounds, and will not fall on either the first or last day of a round.

At the conclusion of every round, each team in a bracket will be rewarded points based on how they played in comparison to the other teams in their bracket. With each subsequent round, the point values increase, allowing teams that may have gotten off to a rocky start to catch up toward the end. After all five rounds have been played, the teams. points will be tallied up and (if necessary) any ties will be broken. The following Monday, the results will be revealed and the champions will be named!

Story

Round One

• Alabriss Brakcet

The Alabriss Bracket was filled with some interesting teams, last years top6. With powerhouses like Darigan Citadel, Lost Desert and Kreludor. Teams that missed the title last year by an inch like Meridell and Mystery Island and a team that hasn't achieved very much yet: Kiko Lake. Team Kreludor suprised in their first matches, everyone expected that Derlyn Fonnets team would suffer under the Winners Curse after becoming Champion last year, but they were able to earn a hard-foughted victory against Meridell and later against Lost Desert. Lost Desert was the team that dissapointed this round, not being able to jump along on the level of the other two powerhouses. Mystery Island was constanantly swept by the rest, while Kiko Lake suprisingly did good efforts in winning. But in the end it was Layton Vickles' Darigan Citadel that really convinced and took the 1st place in the Alabriss Bracket.

Standing	Team	Points Earned	Points Total	Overall Standings
1st Place	Darigan Citadel	13	13	1st
2nd Place	Kreludor	9	9	4th
3rd Place	Meridell	6	6	7th
4th Place	Kiko Lake	4	4	10th
5th Place	Lost Desert	2	2	13th
6th Place	Mystery Island	1	1	16th

• Minitheus Brakcet

The Minitheus Bracket was compilled of the Teams from last years 7th till 12th place. These were Krawk Island, the old powerhouse. Middle-class teams like Tyrannia, Maraqua and Haunted Woods. And lesser teams like Brightvale and Terror Mountain. The Minitheus bracket was hard to figure out who would win. Completely unexpected, Tyrannia stood up as a major powerhouse, sweeping every single team in their bracket. Leaving the first place occupied since the first match. Not so very unexpected was the second place of Krawk Island and the third of Maraqua. In a short battle, Brightvale was able to capture the 4th place at the expense of Haunted Woods, who started off badly. Finally Terror Mountain dropped to be the last of the bracket.

Standing	Team	Points Earned	Points Total	Overall Standings
1st Place	Tyrannia	13	13	1st
2nd Place	Krawk Island	9	9	4th
3rd Place	Maraqua	6	6	7th
4th Place	Brightvale	4	4	10th
5th Place	Haunted Woods	2	2	13th
6th Place	Terror Mountain	1	1	16th

• Vaeolus Brakcet

The final bracket exists from teams who ended at the bottom of last years Altador Cup. These teams were Altador, Faerieland, Moltara, Shenkuu, the winner of two years ago: Virtupets and the winner of Altador Cup III: Roo Island. The expectations were sky high for Roo Island that they would recover this year from their worst ranking ever. The same counted for Shenkuu, a team that once dominated the tournament but nowadays plays very poorely. As for Altador, Moltara and Faerieland, there were no expectations. They did not perform any different last year than the years before. Virtupets always surprises. As soon as the matches started everyone was stumbled by Altadors performances, they swept every team easily and with great numbers, even Roo Island! Beyond from that everything else went completely normal. Thus Altador won the bracket, leaving Roo Island 2nd, Shenkuu became 3rd, Virtupets 4th, and Faerieland and Moltara ended the lines, respectively 5th and 6th.

Standing	Team	Points Earned	Points Total	Overall Standings
1st Place	Altador	13	13	1st
2nd Place	Roo Island	9	9	4th
3rd Place	Shenkuu	6	6	7th
4th Place	Virtupets	4	4	10th
5th Place	Faerieland	2	2	13th
6th Place	Moltara	1	1	16th

Round Two

• Alabriss Bracket

The Alabriss Bracket of round two was a fierce one. Having Tyrannia, Krawk Island, Darigan Citadel and Kreludor. But also bottom line teams Shenkuu and Virtupets. The most intersting the follow was wether Tyrannia would be able to sweep Darigan Citadel and Kreludor as well. And what sort of resistance they could offer against the newly risen Tyrannian force. The answer was nothing. Loryche's team was unbeatable again, winning with big numbers again. Suprisingly, Krawk Island also bested Darigan Citadel and Kreludor. Leaving those two on respectively place 3 and 4 in the Alabriss Bracket. Virtupets and Shenkuu didn't have much to offer else then a fight to decide who wouldn't became last. That fight was lost by Virtupets.

Standing	Team	Points Earned	Points Total	Overall Standings
1st Place	Tyrannia	17	30	1st
2nd Place	Krawk Island	14	23	4th
3rd Place	Darigan Citadel	11	24	3rd
4th Place	Kreludor	8	17	7th
5th Place	Shenkuu	5	11	12th
6th Place	Virtupets	4	8	14th

• Minitheus Bracket

The teams of the Minitheus Bracket are Altador, Roo Island, Maraqua, Terror Mountain, Mystery Island and Lost Desert. For Altador there was no new big opponent in which they could test their strength. Nonetheless they still kept on sweeping teams and making themself a big favorite for the Cup and dared challenger of Tyrannia. Roo Island achieved the 2nd place in the bracket, failing it to the mighty Altadorian Team. Maraqua became 3rd. Terror Mountain made a jump, after becoming 6th in Round One, they made it to the 4th place this Round, besting Lost Desert and Mystery Island. Two teams who perform very much under their average.

Standing	Team	Points Earned	Points Total	Overall Standings
1st Place	Altador	17	30	1st
2nd Place	Roo Island	14	23	4th
3rd Place	Maraqua	11	17	7th
4th Place	Terror Mountain	8	9	13th
5th Place	Lost Desert	5	7	15th
6th Place	Mystery Island	4	5	17th

• Vaeolus Bracket

The Vaeolus bracket was excellent opportunity for Team Meridell to catch some points, at the absence of traditional powerhouses. Because their opponents weren't very scary, besides from Haunted Woods ofcourse. Teams like Brightvale, Kiko Lake, Faerieland and Moltara. Meridell earned victory every time, however, they underestimated Haunted Woods gravely, due to this, Krell Vitor's team was able to ensure some nice victories and finishing just behind Meridell after having a rough start. Brightvale made it to the 3rd place and the Kiko's 4th again. Moltara was working very hard again to increase their reputation as the worst team ever whil Faerieland ends 5th.

Standing	Team	Points Earned	Points Total	Overall Standings
1st Place	Meridell	17	23	4th
2nd Place	Haunted Woods	14	16	9th
3rd Place	Brightvale	11	15	10th
4th Place	Kiko Lake	8	12	11th
5th Place	Faerieland	5	7	15th
6th Place	Moltara	4	5	17th

Timeline of the AC VIII

• 5/24-5/30 - Team sign-ups and practice rounds begin.
• 5/31/-6/28 - Tournament play takes place
• 6/29-6/30 - Tiebreaker played (if necessary)
• 7/1 Y15 - Altador Cup champions are announced and the Prize Shop opens.

Winners of the AC VIII

• 1st place - Tyrannia
• 2nd place - Altador
• 3rd place - Roo Island

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