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This page is dedicated to tournaments for the game Myth II: Soulblighter, organised by members of the Myth Community

The second of the Myth series, originally created by Bungie and later maintained by Take 2 Games (now called Take 2 Interactive), Myth II: Soulblighter was by far the most popular and played host to many tournaments. Most tournaments were played in '2-team', individual 'free for all', or '1 versus 1' formats. Other formats, such as team 'free for all', '2 versus 2', '3 versus 3' and cooperative formats have also been used, but less frequently. Some of the tournaments, such as the co-operative ones or Online Gaming Ladder were more competitions than tournaments but are worthy of note in this article.

Please note this article is incomplete, and does not include non-standard Myth II maps. While it includes 3rd party maps, they are all based on Bungie's original unit tagset. This is because classifying tournaments would be far too difficult if many other types were included.

Contents 1 Myth World Cup 2 Full-Team Tournaments 2.1 Major League Myth 2.2 IFR 2.3 Online Gaming Ladder (February - April 1999 ) 2.4 Cloudspine Combat (March - April 1999) 2.5 The Forge League (TFL) (July - August 1999) 2.6 Culloden Hill (May - August 1999) 2.7 Myth World Cup 1999 (MWC99) (May - August 1999) 2.8 Major League Myth 2 2.9 National Myth League (NML) (Janruay - April 2000) 2.10 Myth World Cup 2000 (MWC00) (May - August 2000) 2.11 National Myth League 2 (NML2) (August - December 2000) 2.12 Desert Fox 2.13 Champions of Myth (CoM) (December 2000 - March 2001) 2.14 The Blood Tournament (TBT) (March - May 2001) 2.15 Myth World Cup 2001 (MWC01) (May - August 2001) 2.16 For Unlawful Carnage Killing 2.17 The Fall Classic (TFC) (November 2002 - January 2003) 2.18 Myth World Cup 2003 (MWC03) (May - August 2003) 2.19 The Fall Classic 2 (TFC2) (October - January 2004) 2.20 Myth World Cup 2004 (MWC04) (May - August 2004) 2.21 Seeker Starpower Tournament (September 2004 - January 2005) 2.22 Myth World Cup 2005 (MWC05) (June - September 2005) 2.23 Myth World Cup 2006 (MWC06) (May - August 2006) 2.24 Myth World Cup 2007 (MWC07) 3 Free For All (FFA) 3.1 The National Mac Gaming Championship - San Fransisco 1999 Series (NMGC99) (January 1999) 3.2 Trial By Combat (January - March 1999) 3.3 Seven Phoenix Rising (March 1999) 3.4 Trial By Combat - Clan Plaid Sub Tournament (March 1999) 3.5 Dwarven Chronicles (March - April 1999) 3.6 Argh 3.7 Shogun (February - May 2000) 3.8 Fields of Carnage (FoC) (November - December 2000) 3.9 WIFFA 2000 (November 2000) 3.10 Pie Fucking (December 2000 - January 2001) 3.11 Clash of the Titans (January - March 2001) 3.12 oPoP: odiferous Pile of PoOp (oPoP) (January - April 2001) 3.13 MCC Invitational: Blind and other Odities (March - April 2001) 3.14 Fast and Furious 3.15 The All Koth Tournament (March - April 2001) 3.16 April Fewlz (April 2001) 3.17 Tourney of Ass 3.18 The Golden Days 3.19 Over the Top (June - August 2001) 3.20 MCC Invitational II: A Mythilogical Adventure (January - March 2002) 3.21 PlayMyth.net's Show n Play Tournament (August 2002) 3.22 Shogun 2 (February - May 2003) 3.23 The Myth Forums FFA Tournament (February - March 2003) 3.24 oPoP2: Full Throttle (July - September 2003) 3.25 miniMax 1 (October 2003) 3.26 miniMax 2 (November 2003) 3.27 miniMax 3 (December 2003) 3.28 miniMax 4: oPoP2.9 (December 2003) 3.29 miniMax (October - December 2003) 3.30 oPop3: Down and Dirty (December 2003 - February 2004) 3.31 oPoP4: Summer Omythiad (June - August 2004) 3.32 oPoP5: Pimpin ain't ez (January - February 2005) 3.33 FFAGE (February 2005) 3.34 MCC Invitational 3: Nostalgia (March - May 2005) 3.35 Hangover Special (February 2006) 3.36 Mr. Crypants Spunktakular FFA Tournament (February 2006) 3.37 Suicidal Final Art (Winter 2006 - 2007 [unconfirmed]) 4 Team Free For All Tournaments 4.1 (Clever Name Here) 4.2 The Great Fetacular (January - February 2001) 4.3 Limbs Heads and Smoking Craters (November - December 2001) 4.4 Fields of Carnage 2 (July - August 2004) 5 1 versus 1 (1v1) Tournaments 5.1 Champion (February - May 1999) 5.2 Body Count Everywhere (May 1999) 5.3 The Bloody Depths (November - December 2000) 5.4 1 on 1 (January - April 2001) 5.5 The Bloody Depths 2 (April - June 2001) 5.6 Perfect 1v1 tournament (July - October 2003) 5.7 Beat the Butcher (November 2004) 5.8 Se7en Penis Rising - 1v1 Tournament (August - September 2005) 5.9 M-1 Grand Prix 2005 (December 2005) 5.10 Chohan's 1v1 Tournament (June - August 2006) 5.11 M2SBR 1v1 5.12 Death Before Dishonor (DBD): Taste My Blade 6 2 versus 2 (2v2) Tournaments 6.1 The National Mac Gaming Championships - San Fransisco 1999 Series (NMGC99) (February 1999) 6.2 Myth II Tag Team World Championships (March - May 1999) 6.3 M2SBR (February - April 2001) 6.4 Giant Fighting Grounds Gold Tournament 2003: Summer of the Dawgs (July 2003) 6.5 Death Before Dishonor (DBD): Comrade In Arms 7 3 versus 3 (3v3) Tournaments 7.1 Slaughtered in Style 7.2 Slaughtered in Style 2 (April - August 2000) 7.3 The Super Tournament (April - June 2001) 7.4 Back to School Bash (August 2001) 8 Co-operative Tournaments 8.1 Myth 2 Done Quick (MDQ) (December 1998 - October 1999) 8.2 Myth Master Challenge (MMC) (January 1999 - September 2002) 8.3 MariusNet/Myth Forums Co-op Challenge (May 2002 - 2005) 8.4 MariusNet One Year Anniversary Co-op Challenge (August 2002) 8.5 MariusNet Myth Five Year Anniversary Co-op Challenge (November 2002) 8.6 Myth Speed Running / Myth Done Quick 2 (MSR/MDQ2) (August 2002 - August 2004) 8.7 Mazzarin's Demise coop challenge (Mazzarin's Demise III) (May 2003) 8.8 Mazzarin's Demise coop challenge (Mazzarin's Demise IV) (January 2004) 8.9 Mazzarin's Demise coop challenge (Mazzarin's Demise V (v2)) (September 2005) 8.10 Llancarfan Tulkas Challenge (March - April 2006) 8.11 Mazzarin's Demise coop challenge (Mazzarin's Demise VI (v1 and v2)) (September 2006) 8.12 Grave Tidings (October 2006 - ) 9 Combination Tournaments 9.1 The Master's Tournament (1999) 9.2 Tournament of Heroes (Late 1999 - January 2000) 9.3 MilleniOni Tournament (December 2000 - February 2001) 9.4 M-1 Grand Prix 2004 (September 2004) 9.5 The Valor Tournament (August - November 2006) 9.6 The Valor Tournament 2 10 Other 10.1 The Myth II Handbook Humor contest (UNKNOWN DATE - October 1999) 10.2 The Mill Contest (January - June 2000) 10.3 RMA Map-Making Contest 2003 (April - September 2003) 10.4 Lugas' Screenshot Contest (September 2006) 11 Eras 11.1 Early history, and Civil Order/Street Fighters 11.2 Men of Rohan 11.3 Late Bungie/Early PlayMyth: Northern Paladins 11.4 2004: Brills Meets Evil 11.5 The Current State of Myth

[edit] Myth World Cup

The largest tournament of any given year, and one of the longest running series (one a year since 1998 other than 2002). Discussed in depth on Main Myth World Cup article. MWC is a full-team tournament, so is also listed in the 2-team tournaments list below.

[edit] Full-Team Tournaments

Full-Team Tournaments are a series of myth games played between two teams at a time (similar to any real world team sporting tournament (ex. World Cup). Full-Team Tournaments are the most popular tournament type on Myth, because they allow order/clan play and allow weaker players to have a role without an individual player's skill level being as major a win/lose factor as it would be in smaller teams, or if they played on their own. Because of this, MWC has always been a full-team tournament.

Notable tournament series includes (detailed further up the page), Major League Myth, National Myth League - but Myth World Cup has always dominated the scene.

[edit] Major League Myth

• Tournament Organiser: Moridin CP
• Winners: 1st place: Evil Inc. 2nd place: Madrigal Chamber of Commerce
• Comments: First order tournament on Myth II. Started just like the first order tournament of Myth 1, with Evil Inc. winning in an undefeated season.

[edit] IFR

• Tournament Organiser: 'Unknown'
• Winners: 1st place: Civil Order, 2nd place: WFL
• Comments: Second remembered 2-team tournament for Myth II was a complete failure, it closed after two weeks. The man in charge only communicated via e-mail and was never seen online.

[edit] Online Gaming Ladder (February - April 1999 )

• Tournament Organisers: Ravager
• Winners: 1st place: Civil Order, 2nd place: BMF, 3rd place: The Companions (best overall records)
• Comments: Orders issued challenges to other orders positioned above them in an effort to climb to the top spot. Challengers chose one of the three battles to be waged, while the challenged team picked the other. For the final game, the challenged chose the map, and the challenger picked the game.

[edit] Cloudspine Combat (March - April 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: 'Unknown'
• Winners: 1st place: AkA
• Comments: Won by a combination of Myth: The Fallen Lords desert orders, that later became the renowned Glue the Moose. Played entirely on the Clash in the Cloudspine/Cracks in the Cloudspine maps. This tournament was very small and thus is not considered a gap in Civil Order's claim of winning 'the first seven team tournaments after IFR' in the form of Civil Order and Street Fighters (this claim included a 3v3 tournament).

[edit] The Forge League (TFL) (July - August 1999)

• Tournament Organisers: Rolling rock
• Winners: 1st place: Civil Order, 2nd place: The Companions
• Comments: Tournament that began Civil Order's domination of the Myth tournament scene.

[edit] Culloden Hill (May - August 1999)

• Tournament Organisers: Abaddon Desf, Gunda
• Winners: 1st place: Civil Order, 2nd place: The Companions
• Comments: The finals were a rematch of the TFL (The Forge League) tournament's finals, with Civil winning again - on a map neither team had any practise on. The teams were split up by what computer system the majority of them played on - the system their team represented. Civil Order won the Mac side of the competition, while The Companions won for PCs (Windows).

[edit] Myth World Cup 1999 (MWC99) (May - August 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Butcher
• Winners: 1st place: Civil Order, 2nd place: BMF, 3rd place: The Alliance, 4th place: Glue the Moose
• Comments: Inspired by Butcher's previous Myth: The Fallen Lords tournament 'TFL98: Myth World Cup', this successor tournament was said by many to the greatest order tournament in Myth II history and turned MWC into an annual tradition. Known for sponsors/prizes, size (largest number of teams in a 2-team tournament, ever) and a very rapidly updated website. The finals lasted 15 games and 7 hours.
• MWC99 Site
• See also MWC99

[edit] Major League Myth 2

• Tournament Organiser: Moridin CP
• Winners: 1st place: Civil order, 2nd place: Wolf Pack
• Comments: The second season of Major League Myth started up a short while after MWC99. Leaving right where they left off, Civil Order moved to the finals and defeated Wolf Pack.

[edit] National Myth League (NML) (Janruay - April 2000)

• Tournament Organiser: Rolling Rock
• Winners: 1st place: Street Fighters, 2nd place: Random Oblivion
• Comments: for the first time since NML1, Civil Order didn't enter a team tournament...or did they? Unknown 'Newcomers' to Myth, the Street Fighters turned some heads and moved straight to the finals. Their opponents were Random Oblivion a team no one expected to be in the finals. This win was the 'first' Street Fighters victory. Voted at some point mid-tournament as 'most successful Myth II tournament yet'. Street Fighters later admitted to being Civil Order.
• National Myth League Site

[edit] Myth World Cup 2000 (MWC00) (May - August 2000)

• Tournament Organiser: Stinger et al
• Winners:: 1st place: Street Fighters, 2nd place: Ginslingers, 3rd place: The Spanish Inquisition, 4th place: Ancrik
• Comments: Attempted to surpass MWC99 in gameplay and coverage. An intense gaming ride, but not quite as huge as MWC99 and with fewer sponsors, it was a successful tournament. The finals saw two orders under assumed names and themes fight to win. After a 10 game match, Street Fighters won gaining their second MWC victory (their previous being MWC99 under the name of Civil Order for which they were more famous). This was also Street Fighter's 2nd win under their new pseudonym (the first win was The National Myth League tournament).
• MWC2000 Site
• See also MWC00

[edit] National Myth League 2 (NML2) (August - December 2000)

• Tournament Organisers: Rolling Rock, Wight Slayer, Sam Stone
• Winners: 1st place: Men of Rohan, 2nd place: Old Skool Wankers, 3rd place: Glue the Moose, 4th place: Ninth Circle of Hell, 5th place: Cagey Inquisition
• Comments: A remake of the highly popular original league. Expanded for more competition, the formula of home maps and league play, fast web-page updates and laid back officiating made it a success once again. Civil Order's last big tournament. Without guttermouth or ruiner, it was the only time (in the 2-team arena) the team failed to win a tournament after their original IFR debut (other than the Cloudspine Combat tournament which Civil did not enter and was very small scale) - the team made do with Phod trying to hold together the empire that was civil, but he as well as the majority of the team was not seen of again after.

[edit] Desert Fox

• Tournament Organisers: Unknown
• Winners: 1st place: Men of Rohan, 2nd place: Glue the Moose
• Comments: In a tournament that saw more forfeits than games, MoR played GtM and won a title.

[edit] Champions of Myth (CoM) (December 2000 - March 2001)

• Tournament Organisers: Strike
• Winners: 1st place: Northern Paladins
• Comments: Round 1 was plagued by mass forefits as Myth teams began to go inactive. Strike was criticised for this - an event beyond his control. Nearer the end, the tournament took better shape as only dedicated teams remained. The tournament that began Np's reign of terror.

[edit] The Blood Tournament (TBT) (March - May 2001)

• Tournament Organisers: Sir Mick, Red Phoenix, Zarmis, Skeletor
• Winners: 1st place: Northern Paladins, 2nd place: The Wight Foundation
• Comments: Started as a 16 team invitational tournament. Supposedly only the best Bungie.net teams were to be invited to play. The tournament had a well designed website but was plagued by lack of updates as the tournament wore on.

[edit] Myth World Cup 2001 (MWC01) (May - August 2001)

• Tournament Organisers: Wight Slayer, Sam Stone et al
• Winners: 1st place: Northern Paladins, 2nd place: Team Angry Face, 3rd place: Monkey Island, 4th place: Cirque du Soulblighter
• Comments: This MWC tried to focus on web-site design, development and automation to provide up to date statistics and maximum player involvement. It had a smaller contestant pool than previous MWCs by a large margin but still played host to more than 64 fairly solid teams and was an overall success. The tournament turned into a battle between established champions of Myth tournaments, Northern Paladins, and specially created for MWC, Team Angry Face. The only major setback in the tournament involved problems with the sponsors providing prizes.
• MWC01 Site
• See also MWC01

[edit] For Unlawful Carnage Killing

• Tournament Organisers: Pagan God, Limp
• Winners: 1st place: Northern Paladins, 2nd place: D0ng B0mb (a syn and cacra team), 3rd place: Thundercox
• Comments: A low quality tournament. Pagan God disappeared halfway through, forcing Limp to take control and finish it. Myth's decline had set in and many teams forfeited.

[edit] The Fall Classic (TFC) (November 2002 - January 2003)

• Tournament Organisers: PlayMyth Administrators (PMA)
• Winners: 1st place: Northern Paladins, 2nd place: Blood Pact (a mixture of players from aesir and syn), 3rd place: Thundercox, 4th place: The Syndicate
• Comments: A tournament that the PMA used to try and get Mythers back online afte the death of Bungie.net. Largely successful in its aims, but competition was still sparse. In a year lacking a Myth World Cup, it was the largest 2-team tournament of 2002. Considered by some to be worthy of the title MWC02.
• PlayMyth.net

[edit] Myth World Cup 2003 (MWC03) (May - August 2003)

• Tournament Organisers: grim et al
• Winners: 1st place: BIAUIHYAC, 2nd place: Northern Paladins, 3rd place: Swedish Meatballs, 4th place: Thundercox
• Comments: After the lack of an MWC02 (largely due to the lack of Bungie.net's server), a group of Myth fans attempted to bring the traditional annual tournament back to Myth. MWC03 had less than half the number of teams as MWC01, but was successful all the same - despite being the first MWC with no prizes whatsoever. BIAUIHYAC, a team composed of former SSHL regulars and their friends won over an (allegedly) weakened Northern Paladins team. In the finals match, Np lacked both Rabican and Dante - key players forced away from the game by the army.
• See also MWC03

[edit] The Fall Classic 2 (TFC2) (October - January 2004)

• Tournament Organisers: Nitro
• Winners: 1st place: Brills Meets Evil, 2nd place: The Fucking Sorcerers, 3rd place: Northern Paladins, 4th place: No Mercy
• Comments: successful follow up to TFC, this time not run by the PMA. Small number of teams (16), but very competitive. It was the first time a weighted pool system was used (later employed in MWC05) and had awards for the players with best stats - something akin to the 'Wightymeter' used for MWC04 and MWC06. The tournament included an 'all star' match, something that has yet to be done elsewhere within Myth II Tournaments though people have tried to organise them. The prize for best ratios went to Shaitan, who received the money late despite Nitro posting it when it was due. Someone posted an article under the name 'penile erection' thought their identity was never discovered.
• TFC2 Site

[edit] Myth World Cup 2004 (MWC04) (May - August 2004)

• Tournament Organisers: Grim et al
• Winners: 1st place: Brills Meets Evil, 2nd place: Northern Paladins, 3rd place: Martial Arts Guru's, 4th place: NFD ft. fcomm,
• Comments: Known for its $1000US prize, the reign of BME as the greatest but most controversial MWC winners and for seeing Np forced to second for the second time in a row. Grim became the first MWC organiser to run MWC twice (unless you include Butcher for working on the Myth: The Fallen Lords MWC as well). After the tournament, the MWC04 site became host to a variety of Myth content, including the TFC2/MWC01 tournament site archives and several articles. Commentary on the tournament was given by the flame-war driven online newspaper 'god's corner'.
• MWC04 Site
• god's corner
• See also MWC04

[edit] Seeker Starpower Tournament (September 2004 - January 2005)

• Tournament Organisers: Seeker, Tainted Bliss, Ludde et al
• Winners: 1st place: The Casket Lottery, 2nd place: Thundercox, 3rd place: Crik Mercenary Squad, 4th place: Unemployed Minorities
• Comments: This was the last Myth 2 tournament to have been completed as of May 2006. The tournament had an automated scheduling system, something that appears to have been a first for Myth. Making frequent references to a player's 'star power', which is similar to playing skill but not quite (its impossible to word it exactly). The tournament finished as quickly as it could given circumstances surrounding its creation. One of the more article-filled tournaments.

[edit] Myth World Cup 2005 (MWC05) (June - September 2005)

• Tournament Organisers: Mad Dog, Cheezefist
• Winners: 2nd place: Thundercox, 2nd place: BIAUIHYAC2, 3rd place: Hand of Allah, 4th place: Unholy Alliance
• Comments: First MWC never to have the finals played, and plagued by forefits. A result of many players being banned suddenly and a lot of players no longer caring about the game. Famed teams like Glue the Moose and Northern Paladins signed up as 'forefit teams'. Predicted as unbeatable, Unholy Alliance (successor team to the previous MWC's winners BME) failed to win with less than half of the original team returning - despite doing well all the same.
• MWC05 Site
• See also MWC05

[edit] Myth World Cup 2006 (MWC06) (May - August 2006)

• Tournament Organisers: Grim, Wight Slayer, Nitro
• Winners: 1st place: Northern Pallywankers, 2nd place: Thundercox, 3rd place: Brills Meets Evil, 4th place: The F'ing Sorcerers (BIA3)
• Comments: Run by Grim (of MWC03/04 fame), making him the only person to have run three MWCs (Butcher held the record, at two before this). Veterans Nitro and Wight Slayer have returned to the TO field to support Grim and the tournament had 32 teams - more than last year's 30. This is probably because of the US$1000 prize, which helped a lot in the growth of the community that surrounded MWC04. Np won, after their frustrating performances 2003 - 2004 against surprise finalists Thundercox. The tournament was one of the smoothest MWCs ever and a huge return to form after MWC05. It had several surprises and was one of the 'nicest' MWCs yet - much less arguing than previous years.
• MWC06 Site
• See also MWC06

[edit] Myth World Cup 2007 (MWC07)

• Tournament Organiers: Undecided
• Comments: Next in the annual largest full-team tournament, the community assumes someone will organise it but no information has surfaced yet.

[edit] Free For All (FFA)

Please note the winners of many ffa tournaments have had to play each other in a 1 on 1 match. These are still listed as ffa tournaments, and the way the final games worked is not always listed. Also, some winners played representing players who could not turn up, or had to drop. Usually these tournaments involved 4 - 6 players per map, with less as a pool continued.

Most notable tournament series was oPoP, which had five different incarnations.

[edit] The National Mac Gaming Championship - San Fransisco 1999 Series (NMGC99) (January 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Unknown
• Winners: 1st place: Freewill, 2nd place: Syckboy, 3rd place: Meat Popsicle, 4th place: Fodder
• Comments: Not a Myth-specific tournament, but a general Mac-only tournament which included a Myth II division both for individual and team play. Small (32 player) due to the fact that players had to reach San Fransisco to play, but smoothly run.
• NMGC99 Site

[edit] Trial By Combat (January - March 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Butcher
• Winners: 1st place: Ananab Tilps/Scorpio/My Modem is on Fire (tie), 4th place: Aegis, 5th place: Phos, 6th place: RZA
• Comments: Myth 2 inaugural FFA tournament, TBC is the only known tournament in Myth history to see 3 people tie for 1st place. With this event Tilps, Scorpio and Modem would move on to stake their claims as some of the best all around players on bungie.net. Rather than progress to Sudden Death or similar, Butcher let all three players claim victory.

[edit] Seven Phoenix Rising (March 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Organised by Bungie (creators of the Myth series)
• Winners: 1st place: Voodoo, 2nd place: Flatbread, 3rd place: Scorpio
• Comments: The only Bungie tournament, and the only ffa tournament they sponsored for Myth II. As this was a theme tournament (Heron Guard competition at Muirthemne), players were asked to come up with creative Heron Guard style names for themselves. The finals saw 6 players fighting on a Bungie map made specifically for the finals with units named after the finalists' Heron Guards. At the end there was a tie, followed by a tiebreaker game where Voodoo defeated Flatbread and lay claim to his infamous Myrkridia statue. Other prizes were also given out, and even those who merely got to round 2 (that is, the two top players out of three 6-player FFA games in the first round) received 30% off coupons to be used at the Bungie store.
• Bungie.net

[edit] Trial By Combat - Clan Plaid Sub Tournament (March 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Ramses II (main tournament by Butcher)
• Winners: 1st place: MrWuf, 2nd place: Cavos, 3rd place: Conner, 4th place: YSD
• Comments: During Clan Plaid's first East Coast Gathering several of them had games to play for the Trial by Combat tournament. Conner, Cavos, Muffinhead, Black Cat, YSD and MrWuf took part in 5 games. In the main tournament, Conner backed out so YSD took his place and progressed to the next stage in the main part of Butcher's tournament.
• Clan Plaid Site
• Clan Plaid East Coast Gathering I Site

[edit] Dwarven Chronicles (March - April 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Black Death
• Winners: 1st place: Odin, 2nd place: Derfel, 3rd place BathTub Gin, 4th place: Themrsgo, 5th place: Zor Prime
• Comments: Few details available, but appears to have run smoothly.

[edit] Argh

• Tournament Organiser: Tahngarth
• Winners: 1st place: Carnage, 2nd place: Scorpio/Odysseus (tie), 4th place: My modem is on fire, 5th place: Hitlow, 6th place: Taranto
• Comments: FFA tournament by Tahngarth that occurred after MWC99. Fairly large size of ~200 and possibly the last tournament where the Scorpio and Modem duo would participate. A relatively short 4 game match, but still close with a 2nd place tie. Included 1 on 1 matches as well as free for all.

[edit] Shogun (February - May 2000)

• Tournament Organiser: Codetoad
• Winners: 1st place: Olympus, 2nd place: Predator, 3rd place: Ashen, 4th place: Mechjock, 5th place: Phod, 6th place: Pinion
• Comments: Set up in Trial By Combat style, this tournament saw some of the most innovative play in a very long time. In the end, Olympus beat out 5 other opponents, one even being his own ordermate, to be known as the Myth Shogun.

[edit] Fields of Carnage (FoC) (November - December 2000)

• Tournament Organiser: Wight Slayer
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Bathtub Gin, 3rd place: Mechjock, 4th place: Abaddon, 5th place: Akira, 6th place: Myrkridon
• Comments: A tournament that was definitely one of a kind. It mixed placing and damage to score the games. Wight Slayer's scripting skills gave the web page a fast updating edge. Some said this was the best ffa tournament since TBC.
• Fields of Carnage Site

[edit] WIFFA 2000 (November 2000)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Akiba, 3rd place: Xylene-Free, 4th place: Truth, 5th place: sh@ggy, 6th place: jove YAR
• Comments: Not a public tournament, but important as the first of Igmo's long series of tournaments.
• WIFFA 2000 Site

[edit] Pie Fucking (December 2000 - January 2001)

• Tournament Organiser: Enigman
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Voodoo/Windorabug (tie), 4th place: Dwarf, 5th place: Enigman, 6th place: Watermelon
• Comments: Very small tournament made up mostly of European players.

[edit] Clash of the Titans (January - March 2001)

• Tournament Organiser: Neo
• Winners: 1st place: Ashen, 2nd place: Ronin, 3rd place: Drizzt
• Comments: Organised by Neo and his Myth II order (No Mercy), a large cash prize led to mass player motivation in Bungie.net's Autumn years. A total of US$500, with US$200 going entirely on the player in first place meant that stakes were high. There has been a lot of controvosy surrounding the finals, with players claiming cheating was abound. Ashen is considered nowhere near the other finalists levels of skill. The winners were technically listed correctly, but taking sportsmanship into account most players agree Drizzt, followed by Red Phoenix and then Fire won the top three placements. The other finalist was Balefire. Ashen and Ronin were disqualified after being announced first and Drizzt received the main prize.

[edit] oPoP: odiferous Pile of PoOp (oPoP) (January - April 2001)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: P3N15 (Myrkridon), 2nd place: Windorabug, 3rd place: Drizzt, 4th place: Skeletor, 5th place: Dwarf, 6th place: Bathtub Gin
• Comments: oPoP was igmo's first publicly run myth 2 tournament. It was well run and featured some exciting ffa play. oPoP came in the later life span of Myth II but the competition was fierce nonetheless. As with many other ffa tournaments, it ended with a 1 on 1 duel.
• oPoP Site

[edit] MCC Invitational: Blind and other Odities (March - April 2001)

• Tournament Organisers: Wrock, Rastlin and Eldreth
• Winners: 1st place: Sloth, 2nd place: Wrock, 3rd place: Shadownite, 4th place: Rastlin, 5th place: Earendil, 6th place: Eldreth
• Comments: Invitational tournament organised by the Madrigal Chamber of Commerce. It was a season-style tournament featuring 10 FFA events on a variety of games & maps and played with a wide array of variants of both regular and non-regular Myth. Players chose which events to attend and after this, the finals and consolidation finals were played. Over thirty players participated, with Sloth winning both the season title and championship match.
• MCC Invitational Site

[edit] Fast and Furious

• Tournament Organisers: Gore and Serval
• Winners: 1st place: Bloody Souls (twig n berries), 2nd place: Carnage, 3rd place: Phod
• Comments:A s its name implies, Fast and Furious was a series of very short free for all games, cutting past the 5 or 6 minutes of camping and getting straight to the action, and there was certainly plenty of action. After an unimaginably long sudden death in DK terries, Bloody Souls emerged victorious.

[edit] The All Koth Tournament (March - April 2001)

• Tournament Organiser: Red Mustang
• Winners: 1st: P3N15 (Myrkridon), 2nd place: Chickenwire, 3rd place: Dwarf, 4th place: Hunted hdk, 5th place: Red Mustang
• Comments: An all koth tournament (king of the hill), short but played out with no hitches. Myrkridon, under his old name won his third tournament in a row, in one month.

[edit] April Fewlz (April 2001)

• Tournament Organisers: Clan Mac Gaming
• Winners: 1st place: Poo Fountain (Sam Stone), 2nd place: M. Bison (Phod), 3rd place: Regulus, 4th place: Akiba, 5th place: Sid the Gr8, 6th place: Inferno
• Comments: Considered one of the better FFA tourneys to come around in years, Clan Mac Gaming's first public tourney set the stage for good old-fashioned competition with some very cool prizes. 120 hard-core Myth players (plus alternates) fought hard until only six stood toe-to-toe in a highly competitive semi-finals match. poo fountain (aka Sam Stone) and M Bison emerged victorious in a tie, then thrust themselves into a close five-game 1v1 final, where poo fountain emerged the winner. M Bison was up 2 game to 1 in the best of 5, but the infamous Fetch Bug cost him a match on Spiderweb and Sam Stone was able to win the final game to take the title and rob the legend M Bison from ever capturing a FFA title win to go along with his numerous team victories.
• April Fewlz Site
• Clan Mac Gaming

[edit] Tourney of Ass

• Tournament Organiser: MIKE MANCINI
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Hitlow, 3rd place: Dark Wyrm (Sam Stone), 4th place: Cryptorchid (possibly Pinion under another name), 5th place: Voodoo, 6th place: M. Bison (Phod)
• Comments: This tournament went from joke to reality in a matter of minutes, as Mike pondered the lack of good free for all tournies, and suggested someone host a no-practice tourney, where the maps are announced just hours before game time. Though the site was simple, it was more than sufficient, the play went smoothly, and most of the players got their due. Also, though he made the finals, Mike bowed out at that point since he was the organizer.

[edit] The Golden Days

• Tournament Organiser: Ar-Pharazon
• Winners: 1st place: MIKE MANCINI, 2nd place: Voodoo/Ruin (tie), 4th place: Sagat (Naelot), 5th place: Rolling Rock, 6th place: Uberkeyzer
• Comments: This tourney was undeniably plagued with alliances and cheating, and though the staff was not at fault and took measures to stop it, the taint had left its mark. As a result of all this lamitudinosity, Mike won. :P

Note: Mike was an excellent player. The above is a humorous poke at him. Please do not edit this to make it look like Mike didn't deserve to win. -Wight Slayer

[edit] Over the Top (June - August 2001)

• Tournament Organiser: Red Mustang
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Regulus, 3rd place: Red Mustang, 4th place: Mr. T, 5th place: Dwarf, 6th place: Tuko
• Comments: Quiet but smoothly run tournament. OTT was Redmustang's second tournament and ran just as smoothly as the first. The matches were longer than in some other ffa tournaments, but were a lot of fun. Besides some questionable 3rd party picks, OTT was a complete success, with Drizzt winning yet another tournament.

[edit] MCC Invitational II: A Mythilogical Adventure (January - March 2002)

• Tournament Organisers: Wrock, Rastlin and Eldreth
• Winners: 1st place: Odyn/Taha (tie), 3rd place: Lord Stanley, 4th place: BaiNst, 5th place: Long John Silver, 6th place: Marius, 7th place: Wrock
• Comments: The same team as before brought back their mini-tournament by popular demand. The tournament followed exactly the same pattern as before with differing events. A slightly smaller tournament, but still a success. Despite featuring many of the same players as before, the winning players were mostly newcomers to the leaderboard. The tournament is one of the few to have been played during the server migration, starting on Bungie.net and ending on MariusNet.
• MCC Invitational II Site

[edit] PlayMyth.net's Show n Play Tournament (August 2002)

• Tournament Organiser: SpondMax and the PlayMyth Administrators
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Xel, 3rd place: Evil Zen, 4th place: Finarrfin (Fingolfin), 5th place: Limp
• Comments: One of the PMAs efforts to encourage people into joining the server (just like TFC), the quick-fix tournament went well. It was supposed to be a part of a series but turned out to be a one off tournament. Only real downside of the tournament was Limp making the finals but having to drop out after 2 games.
• Show n Play Site
• PlayMyth.net

[edit] Shogun 2 (February - May 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Olympus
• Winners: 1st place: Chickenwire, 2nd place: Dwarf, 3rd place: Erik, 4th place: Drizzt, 5th place: Rabican, 6th place: Nemesis
• Comments: Widely considered the first quality FFA played on playmyth.net, and Chickenwire's first excellent performance in a FFA tournament. The 6 finalists were the majority of the dominant players on PlayMyth.net after that time, with only Chohan and Shaister being considered better players.
• Shogun 2 Forum Archive

[edit] The Myth Forums FFA Tournament (February - March 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Papa Bandura
• Winners: 1st place: Papa Bandura, 2nd place: Storm, 3rd place: Mad Dog, 4th place: Krille, 5th place: Lionheart, 6th place: Slugman and The Plumber (tie)
• Comments: Very small scale tournament that had huge scheduling problems and lasted forever. However, because it was run by a small group of friends (from the Real Men clan almost exclusively) people were happy with the results.
• Myth Forums

[edit] oPoP2: Full Throttle (July - September 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: Rabican, 2nd place: Cave, 3rd place: Drizzt, 4th place: Myrkridon, 5th place: Dwarf, 6th place: Akiba
• Comments: Second in Igmo's ongoing series of FFA tournaments marked by excel-driven websites, occasionally whacked out map picks, and attentive organizing. Known for the interestingly themed site design, which would follow through in later oPoP tournaments. oPoP2's theme was Charlie's Angels.
• oPoP2 Site

[edit] miniMax 1 (October 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: Judas, 2nd place: Hit, 3rd place: Dagorfunk, 4th place: Dwarf, 5th place: Igmo, 6th place: Xel, 7th place: Ducky
• Comments: First Igmo show and play tournament, often seen as a sort of 'oPoP2.5'.
• miniMax Site
• miniMax 1 Page

[edit] miniMax 2 (November 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Xel, 3rd place: Acheron, 4th place: Ruin, 5th place: Enigman, 6th place: arzenic
• Comments: Second of Igmo's show and play tournaments.
• miniMax Site
• miniMax 2 Page

[edit] miniMax 3 (December 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Danger, 3rd place: Ruin, 4th place: Al Capone, 5th place: Igmo, 6th place: Xel
• Comments: Third miniMax tournament. Followed same pattern and style as the other two.
• miniMax Site
• miniMax3 Page

[edit] miniMax 4: oPoP2.9 (December 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: No Official Winners
• Comments: No data is available and no official winner. The games simply weren't played, players were more interested in the soon to come oPoP3.
• miniMax Site
• miniMax4/oPoP2.9 Page

[edit] miniMax (October - December 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Xel, 3rd place: Igmo, 4th place: Ruin, 5th place: Judas
• Comments: Overall results for all three of the miniMax tournaments played were added up. Since Drizzt won two out of the three tournaments, he came out as clear winner.
• miniMax Site

[edit] oPop3: Down and Dirty (December 2003 - February 2004)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: Nemesis, 2nd place: Bullet Tooth Tony, 3rd place: Tormin, 4th place: Flatline, 5th place: Arzenic, 6th place: Loial
• Comments: Essentially more of the same in the style of the previous oPoP tournaments.
• oPoP3 Site

[edit] oPoP4: Summer Omythiad (June - August 2004)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: Truth, 2nd place: Myrkridon, 3rd place: Stormrider, 4th place: Chohan, 5th place: Cave, 6th place: GW Bush (Flatline)
• Comments: Themed around the Olympic Games, the 4th oPoP had a complex system for medals. Players chose a country to represent (with a 'country' for Brills Meets Evil too), winning awards for gametypes. Players also received gametype medals aside from their main ranks.
• oPoP4 Site

[edit] oPoP5: Pimpin ain't ez (January - February 2005)

• Tournament Organiser: Big Mo (Igmo)
• Winners: 1st place: Tirri (Drizzt), 2nd place: xeLizzle (Xel), 3rd place: Dr. Phat Pimpin' Skillz (Soulblighter), 4th place: Eddy Lipstick (Cave), 5th place: Chickenwire, 6th place: Zer
• Comments: Smallest oPop (67 players) but still a popular tournament. Last in Igmo's long line of oPoP tournaments it carried a pimping theme and was run by a fictional character called Big Mo. In the finals, Zer's younger brother had to play for him.
• oPoP5 Site

[edit] FFAGE (February 2005)

• Tournament Organiser: Ginga
• Winners: 1st place: Duan, 2nd place: terry the kid, 3rd place: Gastank, 4th place: Wice Bozeg, 5th place: CRC
• Comments: One of several tournaments run by the Japanese sector of the Myth Community, for themselves to play in. Largely made up of AGEHA, Nowhere Final Destination clans, a small but well run tournament. Not strictly Japanese only (Father Xmas is in fact known to be French) but the group is accepted as a Japanese group.
• FFAGE Site

[edit] MCC Invitational 3: Nostalgia (March - May 2005)

• Tournament Organisers: Wrock, Rastlin and Long John Silver
• Winners: 1st place: Wrock, 2nd place: Father Xmas, 3rd place: Dantski, 4th place: Taha, 5th place: Captain Red/Long John Silver (tie), 7th place: Rastlin/Gultrum (tie)
• Comments: With Long John Silver taking the place of Eldreth, the tournament returned for a third time. Unlike previous events, the decline of Myth led to the tournament being semi-public. Anyone could register, but MCC reserved the right to remove any players they did not like from the list of registrees. Player motivation was lower than before, with 'rabble' players having to fill in often and the tournament fizzled out over time - but not after some fun games had been played. The style of the events meant that at any point the tournament could end with a leaderboard already finalised.
• MCC Invitational III Site

[edit] Hangover Special (February 2006)

• Tournament Organiser: Igmo
• Winners: 1st place: Nem/Truth (Nem had to leave half way through) 2nd place: Paris in Flames 3rd place: Xylene-Free 4th place: Igmo 5th place: Kugar (had most points overall)
• Comments: Latest Igmo tournament, a show and play effort like the miniMax tournaments of old. Confusing way of listing winners, but they finalists were not argued over.
• Hangover Special Forums

[edit] Mr. Crypants Spunktakular FFA Tournament (February 2006)

• Tournament Organiser: Mr. Crypants (Dantski)
• Winners: 1st place: Nemesis, 2nd place: Dantski, 3rd place : Paris in Flames, 4th Place : Father Xmas, 5th Place : Death Bastard, 6th Place : Cosmic Truth
• Comments: A show and play tournament. Very small scale but a well run tournament by a fairly inexperienced tournament organiser, hosted using just a single forum thread.

[edit] Suicidal Final Art (Winter 2006 - 2007 [unconfirmed])

• Tournament Organiser: Paris, Nitro
• Comments: A new free for all tournament. Details to follow.

[edit] Team Free For All Tournaments

Always a popular tournament type, but always under-looked by those interested in creating new tournaments. Tends to use small teams of 2 - 3.

[edit] (Clever Name Here)

• Tournament Organiser: Kalakdrin
• Winners: 1st place: RARRR EATS MOOO (Red Phoenix and Jushius), 2nd place: All in the family (Ghost and -Jon-), 3rd place: San-Kuan (Fire, Tom Bombadil (Myrchlamydia) and Belshirash), 4th place: PoOp (Drizzt and Sormiron), 5th place: Tripple Nipple (Wark, DarkPact and East Wind), 6th place: Feti (Torin, Leif and Chocal)
• Comments: Notable because Drizzt still managed to achieve 4th place out of 6 despite being the only solo player there (rest were in pairs).
• Clever Name Here Site
• Clever Name Here Final Stats/Finals Review

[edit] The Great Fetacular (January - February 2001)

• Tournament Organisers: Torin, Leif, Blade
• Winners: 1st place: Demo Clans Untied (Silver Dragon, Voodoo) 2nd place: Soft Fluffy Bunnies (Tormin, Bob). Other finalists:P3N15 P0W32 (Myrkridon, Raziel), Tourney Host Gods (Rolling Rock, Wight Slayer), The Soccer Moms (Dave Matthews, Funk Hunter), Salami (Sir Slasher, Shaitan)
• Comments: Though the first round was pretty messy, and some of the map picks were ill conceived, tgft was certainly more fun than hassle. Originally planned to include regular ffa games as well, these were taken out after the qualification rounds.

[edit] Limbs Heads and Smoking Craters (November - December 2001)

• Tournament Organisers: Leif and Blade
• Winners: 1st place: Tin Can (Jeff da meek, ao & Stinger), 2nd place: IFYM (Kap & Myrkridon), 3rd place: Care Bears (Bombtrack, Dickstickly, and Thorman)
• Comments: Utilizing Wight Slayer's scripting skill and experience with writing rules, Leif set up a smooth web site and ran an interesting and well organized tournament with plenty of participants. Originally planned to be The Great Fectacular Tourney 2, the name change was due to a key member of thte TGFC1's team not being involved.
• Limbs Heads and Smoking Craters Site

[edit] Fields of Carnage 2 (July - August 2004)

• Tournament Organiser: Wight Slayer
• Winners: 1st place: The four Horsemen (Chohan, Bullet Tooth Tony) (BME), 2nd place: Islamic Fundamentalists (Henry, Osama (Flatline), Ramirez), 3rd place: Cunts (Enigman, Ricky (Myrkridon), HeRo, Acheron (dropped from team), 4th place: Team 147 (Lee (Zer), god cops, Cave), 5th place: The Second Mouse (Orlando the Axe, Rocket Dive, Seven), 6th place: G-Unit (Young Buc (Naelot), Lloyd Banks (Red Phoenix), Fifty (Odin))
• Comments: The legendary Wight Slayer brought back team-ffa to Myth after a long absence during 2004 - the height of PlayMyth.net's growth and prosperity's tournament season. Alongside oPoP4 and MWC04 a very successful season was rounded off by this tournament. Won by the twins (Chohan, Bullet Tooth Tony), who were easily the top players of the era. As official representatives of Brills Meets Evil, it marked up another victory - helping ensure their dominance for all of 2004. Marked Wight Slayer's last tournament as lead-organiser.
• Fields of Carnage 2 Site

[edit] 1 versus 1 (1v1) Tournaments

1v1 tournaments and games, and their importance always have some controvosy surrounding them. Many players use being better than someone 1v1 as proof their Myth skill surpasses them, while others argue their strong points could be captaining, teamwork, co-op etc.

[edit] Champion (February - May 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Mystik
• Winners: 1st place: Gore, 2nd place: Odin, 3rd place: Eagleye/Cryptorchid (tie)
• Comments: First major 1 on 1 tournament within the Myth community. Set the standard for future ones.

[edit] Body Count Everywhere (May 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Rolling Rock
• Winners: 1st place: Gore, 2nd place: Odin
• Comments: The height of Odin and Gore's tournament-domination period.

[edit] The Bloody Depths (November - December 2000)

• Tournament Organiser: Willis
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Super Man
• Comments: Willis' first attempt at a tournament, riddled with upsets and controversy, but not a bad first try overall.

[edit] 1 on 1 (January - April 2001)

• Tournament Organisers: Skeletor and Alrond
• Winners: 1st place: Drizzt, 2nd place: Rabican, 3rd place: Satan, 4th place: Hit, 5th place: skeletor
• Comments: A double elimination tournament (MWC style) that began with quite a shaky organiser running it for the first two runs. Luckliy Skeletor took over and did a great job, with a new look and a new life. The final round had good maatch ups, and Drizzt had an undefeated run in every game to the top bracket, defeated Rabican to make the finals then played him again in the finals.

[edit] The Bloody Depths 2 (April - June 2001)

• Tournament Organiser: Willis
• Winners: 1st place: Shaitan, 2nd place: Regulus
• Comments: The tournament ran at a time when Bungie had DNS problems but was a general success with only 1 or 2 minor issues. Finalists earned their spots with great games. Better planned than his previous tournament and a huge improvement.

[edit] Perfect 1v1 tournament (July - October 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Zephyr
• Winners: 1st place: Chohan, 2nd place: Erik, 3rd place: Shaister, 4th place: Rabican
• Comments: Insufficient information for major comments. Fairly predictable winners from the cream of the Myth playing crop.

[edit] Beat the Butcher (November 2004)

• Tournament Organiser: Sam the Butcher
• Winners: 1st place: Thet BadMonkey, 2nd place: Tirri (Drizzt), 3rd place: Shaister
• Comments: Small scale tournament, scheduling difficulties but fairly well run.Players competed to see who could beat Sam the Butcher 'the most' on his favourite map, Gimble in the Wabe.
• Beat the Butcher Site

[edit] Se7en Penis Rising - 1v1 Tournament (August - September 2005)

• Tournament Organiser: Shaister
• Winners: 1st place: Chohan, 2nd place: Nemesis, 3rd place: Drizzt, 4th place: Fire
• Comments: Newest major 1 on 1 tournament, Chohan won - as predicted by everyone. Chohan won 6 to 2 in one of the toughest finals for any challenger to take part in. Tirri and Fire both got to the same stage in the tournament but Tirri gained more points (though if you look at their opponents, its clear who had the harder job). So late in Myth's lifespan, many wondered how the tournament could succeed - but it did. It took its name as a play on words of the Seven Phoenix Rising tournament hosted by Bungie, twisting it to suit the sense of humour of contemporary Mythers at the time.

[edit] M-1 Grand Prix 2005 (December 2005)

• Tournament Organiser: Ginga
• Winners:1st place: Duan, 2nd place: CRC
• Comments: A similar tournament, organisation and player/size wise to the previous M1GP but using an MWC-style double elimination system this time round. Again won by Duan, CRC managed to pull up to second this time after Karashi did not enter. This time, it was a 'pure' 1v1 tournament as opposed to a mixture of 1v1 and FFA used in M1GP 2004. See M-1 Grand Prix 2004 (under 'other' tournaments due to the inclusion of FFA rounds).
• M-1 GP 2005 Site

[edit] Chohan's 1v1 Tournament (June - August 2006)

• Tournament Organiser: Chohan
• Winners:1st place: Chohan, 2nd place: Bullet Tooth Tony, 3rd place: Magne
• Comments: Chohan, widely regarded as the best player of Myth II since sometime in 2003 decided to host his own mini-tournament via the MWC06 forums. A player competed against Chohan himself in a series of 1v1 games to win $100. No players managed to win, and second place was won by his brother. Magne and Bullet Tooth Tony were both on Chohan's MWC team, Brills Meets Evil. Only 18 people played Chohan, making it a small scale tournament but the result probably wouldn't have been different regardless of who entered.
• Chohan's 1v1 Forum Thread - MWC06 Forums

[edit] M2SBR 1v1

• Tournament Organiser: Limp
• Comments: A forthcoming tournament to be run by Limp (note: This is not so much an actual tournament as it is a webpage teasing a not yet officially announced tournament). Whether it will actually happen is unknown.
• M2SBR Preview Page

[edit] Death Before Dishonor (DBD): Taste My Blade

• Tournament Organiser: Giant Killer General (GKG)
• Comments: A melee-only tournament as part of the DBD series to be run soon by GKG. First ever melee-only tournament of any sort.
• Death Before Dishonour Forums
• Taste my Blade Forums

[edit] 2 versus 2 (2v2) Tournaments

2v2 tournaments have a notorious history of being unfinished or unpopular, but there are exceptions.

[edit] The National Mac Gaming Championships - San Fransisco 1999 Series (NMGC99) (February 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Unknown
• Winners: 1st place: Carch/Ven Jance, 2nd place: Freewill/Shadowjack
• Comment: Not a Myth-specific tournament, but a general Mac-only tournament which included a Myth II division both for individual and team play. Small though - only 8 teams were allowed to enter.
• NMGC99 Site

[edit] Myth II Tag Team World Championships (March - May 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: My Modem is on Fire
• Winners: 1st place: Odin/Papascrub, 2nd place: Ananab Tilps/Phod, 3rd place: Ruiner/Stinger, 4tht place: Phos/Col. Kurtz
• Comment: 64 teams of 2 people each came to do battle against one another; the finals came down to a nail-biting match between Odin and Papascrub of BMF and Ananab Tilps and Phod of Civil Order (the teams that fought each other in MWC99 for first place, in which Civil Order came first), which the BMF representatives nearly edged out of after a close series of games.

[edit] M2SBR (February - April 2001)

• Tournament Organiser: Ashen and Tahngarth
• Winners: 1st place: P3N15 (Myrkridon)/Rattle Snake, 2nd place: Fire/Myrchlamedia
• Comment: Ashen's most organized tournament to date. Tahngarth built a clean site that included lots of cgi making it fun to navigate. Some of the map choices were questionable but over all the tournament ran very smoothly and was a big success.

[edit] Giant Fighting Grounds Gold Tournament 2003: Summer of the Dawgs (July 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Matty
• Winners: 1st place: Wicked Ways and Freak Boi
• Comments: Played on the GFGG map, which requires different skills to 'regular' Myth. Considered by some not to be a regular Myth tournament, but placed here since it is made up entirely of regular elements of Myth just used in an extreme way.

[edit] Death Before Dishonor (DBD): Comrade In Arms

• Tournament Organier: Giant Killer General (GKG)
• Comments: GKG's second tournament in the DBD series after the Taste my Blade melee 1v1. Due to happen in the near future. First 2v2 tournament in over 3 years.
• Death Before Dishonor Forums
• Comrade in Arms Forum

[edit] 3 versus 3 (3v3) Tournaments

Like 2v2 tournaments, often poorly run and with less player motivation the field of 3v3 competition was small since it was not a part of everyday Myth games and 3v3 success has never been treated as a huge sign of a player's skill.

[edit] Slaughtered in Style

• Tournament Organiser: Faded
• Winners: 1st place: Civil Order (Phod, guttermouth, Odin), 2nd place: Ancrik (Pele, Predator, Eagleeye), 3rd place: Tor Ashen and Carnage
• Comments: Another tournament, another final won by Civil Order. This time Phod, guttermouth, and Odin bring home the glory over Ancrik members Pele, Predator, and Eagleye.

[edit] Slaughtered in Style 2 (April - August 2000)

• Tournament Organiser: Ashen
• Winners: 1st place: Hitlow/Pinion/Serval, 2nd place: Voodoo/Ashen/Naelot
• Comments: A lot of controversy about fallback times, and seemed like tourney had been dropped for a couple months, but finally, in the middle of an amazing MWC00 run, Hitlow, Pinion, and Serval continued the winning ways of Spin as a whole, defeating the team of Voodoo, Ashen, and Naelot.

[edit] The Super Tournament (April - June 2001)

• Tournament Organiser: Super Man
• Winners: 1st place: Monkey Island, 2nd place: The Holy Trinity
• Comments: With a lot of forfeitting, right up to the semi-finals, this was always a troubled tournament. However, the finals were played without a hitch and it was one of the few 3v3 tournaments to ever actually finish.

[edit] Back to School Bash (August 2001)

• Tournament Organiser: Limp
• Winners: 1st place: Angry Peaple (Myrkridon, Rattle Snake, and Regulus), 2nd place: Kalat / NP (Drizzt, Jushius, and Rabican)
• Comments: One of the last Bungie.net Myth II tournaments, won by Myrkridon's dominating play for Team Angry Face. A forgotten victory by many players, who believed Np's winning streak lasted until the early PlayMyth.net era. While many believe Np did not play their best (due to their g eneral decline after this point as a result if military involvement), Myrkridon's recent rise and Drizzt's decline in tournament mean that the victory can be recognised as fair and well deserved.

[edit] Co-operative Tournaments

Usually more a 'challenge' or 'competition' to prove who can achieve most, since co-operative tournaments never involved head to head play. Notable tournament series includes Mazzarin's Demise.

[edit] Myth 2 Done Quick (MDQ) (December 1998 - October 1999)

• Tournament Organiser: Ananab Tilps
• Winners: 1st place: Serval and Sarpedon, 2nd place: Patroclus, 3rd place: Carch
• Comments: Players competed to finish regular single player maps (solo or co-operative) as fast as possible, setting impossible records for the casual player.
• M2DQ Site
• M2DQ Site (Old)
• Archive of M2DQ Films

[edit] Myth Master Challenge (MMC) (January 1999 - September 2002)

• Tournament Organiser: Forrest
• Winners: Wolfpack
• Comments: Games were scored on the Seven Laws of cooperative style. The Wolfpack order won with a collection of no casualty films on the highest difficulty level in May 2000, completing all levels following at least four of the 'golden rules' for each. After this, submissions to beat records and make other achievements were to be accepted forever (in theory) though the last submissions came through in 2002 - during the early days of PlayMyth.net.
• Myth Master Central
• Wolfpack Gaming

[edit] MariusNet/Myth Forums Co-op Challenge (May 2002 - 2005)

• Tournament Organisers: MariusNet Administrators
• Winners: 1st place: Savanarola, 2nd place: Magnus, 3rd place: dforce, 4th place: liz
• Comments: As with many record-setting co-op tournaments, this had no official ending. However, since games were tracked by account, when MariusNet player accounts became unusable (and players had to log in as guests) the tournament had to end - though M2 play had stopped before this anyway.
• MariusNet co-op Challenge
• MariusNet

[edit] MariusNet One Year Anniversary Co-op Challenge (August 2002)

• Tournament Organisers: MariusNet Administrators
• Winners: Savanarola
• Comments: Held in honour of the one-year anniversary of MariusNet. Winner was decided by most levels won given unlimited attempts within the time frame. A concurrent TFL coop contest was also held.
• MariusNet
• MariusNet 1-Year Results

[edit] MariusNet Myth Five Year Anniversary Co-op Challenge (November 2002)

• Tournament Organisers: MariusNet Administrators
• Winners: Savanarola and Mangus
• Comments: Held for the fifth anniversary of Myth: The Fallen Lords. In the previous Mariusnet co-operative challenge most games were played solo, making it difficult for most players to get in on the fun. For the second challenge, all games required at least two players to count. Winner was decided by most levels won, with ties broken by lowest total time to complete those levels. Concurrent TFL coop and FFA contests were held, and another coop contest based on the Son of Nightmare plugin was held shortly after. These contests gave renewed life to the Myth Speed Running challenge.
• MariusNet
• MariusNet 5-Year Results
• Son of Nightmare results

[edit] Myth Speed Running / Myth Done Quick 2 (MSR/MDQ2) (August 2002 - August 2004)

• Tournament Organizer: Patroclus
• Winners: 1st place: Nemesis, 2nd place: Savanarola
• Comments: Inspired by the original MDQ contest, players competed to finish the single player maps as quickly as possible and improve the original MDQ records. When Patroclus' site was no longer updated, another site was formed to post updates. While the slang for playing Myth II maps as fast as possible was 'Myth Speed Running', the tournament also went by the name of MDQ2 - it was one of several attempts to organise MSR contests. Nemesis won with 19 records, and Savanarola achieved second with a far from shabby 13. Technically there was no winner, though this was the opinion of the masses. By the end of this unofficial (not linked to the original at all) challenge only two of the original M2DQ1 records were still held by the original winners, with one (the time for Through the Ermine) seen as definitive and unbeatable. At that point the challenege came to an end as players found records too hard to beat.
• Myth Speed Running
• MDQ2 Site

[edit] Mazzarin's Demise coop challenge (Mazzarin's Demise III) (May 2003)

• Tournament Organiser: Project Magma (map development led by ChrisP)
• Winners: 1st place (First Legendary win): Nemesis (team captain), Tainted Bliss, Gatsu, Toecutter, JJM543, Dante's Peak, Apollo, Gekko, SiN, Ducky, Cyclops, and Hyperion
• Comments: Players competed to be a part of the first team to complete Mazzarin's Demise III on the Legendary and Heroic difficulty settings (Legendary for first place, Heroic for second). While there was little competition for second place, many fought long and hard to win first place. Led by experienced Mazzarin's Demise III tester Nemesis, a skilled team eventually managed to win the competition. The competition was a repeat of similar events during the release of Mazzarin's Demise I and II for Myth: The Fallen Lords but far more competitive.
• Mazzarin's Demise III
• Mazzarin's Demise III Winners page (with battle analysis for Legendary)
• Project Magma

[edit] Mazzarin's Demise coop challenge (Mazzarin's Demise IV) (January 2004)

• Tournament Organiser: Project Magma (map development led by ChrisP)
• Winners: 1st place (First Legendary win): Sven Hjilrmanir (Ducky, team captain), Nemesis, Ruin, Dazzarin (Dante), CoV
• Comments: Similar to the previous Mazzarin's Demise challenge but even more difficult, players competed in the same way. PlayMyth.net had grown by this time and Magma's reputation had spread making the competition even fiercer. As before, few players cared about second place but were all eager to complete the map on Legendary. The winners were a smaller team, but contained Dante and Nemesis from the Mazzarin's Demise III winning team. Chohan and KastIron both played but had to drop from the game at 19 minutes and 1 hour 20 minutes respectively.
• Mazzarin's Demise IV
• Mazzarin's Demise IV Winners page (with battle analysis for Legendary)
• Project Magma

[edit] Mazzarin's Demise coop challenge (Mazzarin's Demise V (v2)) (September 2005)

• Tournament Organiser: Project Magma (map development led by ChrisP and Jagman)
• Winners: 1st place (First Legendary win): ChrisP (captain), Gleep, Kicken Wing, Mr. Tree, Wismuth, scrapnjack, Shocker, Seven, woof, Secret, Flatline, Dragon Lord and Gabba, 2nd place (First Heroic win): ChrisP (captain), scrapnjack, Gleep, Da Cid, Tramist, Powrup, woof, Clank, Mr Tree, Tarous Zars, Ara, Savanarola, Golem0r!
• Comments: Because of the extreme difficulty of the plugin, players attempted only to complete the plugin on Heroic to gain an award. If more than 50% of the units (based upon unit percentage value) were controlled by primary beta testers of Mazzarin’s Demise V (the nine players listed in the thank-you section of the read-me and ChrisP) the win would be disqualified. Only Giliath dropped out of the game before its end, much less than in previous Mazzarin's Demise record setting wins.

However, players were above and beyond the plugin author's expectations, and within a month of Mazzarin's Demise V being released, it had been beaten on Legendary difficulty. First place was awarded to the team who came first on Legendary after this, as the greater players. Despite this, the plugin's immense challenge meant that the Heroic win was also a great achievement and far more players worked towards getting it than the challenges for Mazzarin's Demise III/IV where all focus had been on Legendary performances.

• Mazzarin's Demise V (v2)
• Mazzarin's Demise V v2 Winners page (with battle analysis for Heroic)

Note: This link to the Winners Page was created before the Legendary win was achieved and does not mention the map being beaten on Legendary.

• Project Magma

[edit] Llancarfan Tulkas Challenge (March - April 2006)

• Tournament Organiser: Dante
• Winners: 1st place: Savanarola, 2nd place: Hamurabi, 3rd place: Propagandhi
• Comments: The most recent co-op tournament. After taking a long time to get organized, it ended with only one complete set of films submitted. Players never got around to playing the games, and lacked the interest and motivation they claimed to have before tournament started. Dante did what he could with scoring given the limited submissions.

[edit] Mazzarin's Demise coop challenge (Mazzarin's Demise VI (v1 and v2)) (September 2006)

• Tournament Organiser: Project Magma (map development led by ChrisP and Jagman)
• Winners: 1st place: Rabicanp (Rabican Np), 2nd place: CRC
• Comments: Latest in the line of Mazzarin's Demise tournaments, rather than being a competition with a winning team, there was an official winner - the first to finish it on all difficulty settings. Acclaimed Northern Paladin Rabican, more famous for his 2-team achievements than his co-operative gaming ones dominated the scene throughout the tournament and was first to finish. Upon being first person (along with CRC of NFDF fame) to finish all difficulty levels, he was awarded bonus points. By way of prizes, the 'key' to making a secret level playable was revealed, Rabican was dubbed Project Magma's 'Eternal Champion' and a film of his 'greatest hits' in the tournament is being created. An update was made mid-tournament when it became apparent a bug stopped the game being finishable on Heroic/Legendary so this tournament encompassed two separate versions. At present players are racing to complete the 'secret level' on various difficulties and over 75 people have competed in the tournament so far.

After this, there was a second part of the tournament - the race to complete the secret level. This was also completed with Rabican in the winning team, making him the final, overall champion of the competition.

• Mazzarin's Demise VI
• Mazzarin's Demise VI Tournament Page
• Project Magma

[edit] Grave Tidings (October 2006 - )

• Tournament Organisers: A-Red
• Comments: Latest co-op competition - for a new plugin by A-Red from The Onyx Warlords. Standard rules of 'winner is first player/team to complete plugin on Legendary Difficulty' as per the Mazzarin's Demise series.
• The Fallen's Vengeance - with Onyx Warlords Forums

[edit] Combination Tournaments

There is always tournaments that fall outside of the main classes, that encompass a mixture of genres. Those are placed here.

[edit] The Master's Tournament (1999)

• Tournament Type: FFA and 1 on 1
• Tournament Organiser: Toxyn
• Winners: 1st place: Dalron, 2nd place: Spooky, 3rd place: Cryptorchild (possibly Pinion), 4th place: DeathFang, 5th place: Phod, 6th place: Stinger
• Comments: A mix of ffa and 1 on 1 games. Invitation only - anyone who applied had their invitation analysed by the organiser and he only accepted what he saw as 'solid players'.

[edit] Tournament of Heroes (Late 1999 - January 2000)

• Type: FFA/team/team-ffa/deathmatch
• Tournament Organiser: Troche the Hungry
• Winners: 1st place: Flatline
• Comments: Lots of forefits, poorely organised but a tournament that eventually reached the end of its line.

[edit] MilleniOni Tournament (December 2000 - February 2001)

• Type: ffa/team-ffa/cooperative/team
• Tournament Organiser: Magellan and The Wolfpack (his clan)
• Winners: 1st place: Scooter, 2nd place: Magellan, 3rd place: Alrond, 4th place: Sir Parson, 5th place: SilverBrin
• Comments: A small scale tournament (around 25 players) but with scores based on a mixture of most forms of Myth II play with a copy of Bungie's Oni as top prize.. Scores were split into multiplayer (won by Magellan) and cooperative (won by Alrond) then combined to form the overall leaderboard (won by Scooter). An invitational tournament held by friends, it held a variety of awards other than overall positioning helping give players more to strive for.
• MilleniOni
• Wolfpack Gaming

[edit] M-1 Grand Prix 2004 (September 2004)

• Type: FFA and 1v1
• Tournament Organiser: Ginga
• Winners: 1st place: Duan, 2nd place: Karashi, 3rd place: CRC
• Comments: One day tournament held within the Japanese Myth Community (essentially PlayMyth.net's AGEHA and Nowhere Final Destination clans) along with Father Xmas, a Myther who was adopted by the Japanese community. Despite claiming to be a 1v1 tournament, it included FFA games as well. Details are quite hard to get ahold of due to the lack of communication/translators from between the Japanese and Western Myth Community sub-groups and much of the site will not show on a standard Western computer in viewable characters.
• M-1 GP 2004 Site

[edit] The Valor Tournament (August - November 2006)

• Type: Team-FFA and 3v3
• Tournament Organiser: Toxyn
• Winners: 1st place: Team FFA All Stars (Np), 2nd place: The Syndicate (TWF), 3rd place: Freaks, 4th place: Thundercox, 5th place: Big Trouble, 6th place: Jews for Jihad
• Comments: Run by TO-veteran blast from the past Toxyn, along with Slinx and Frumius. Though tournaments of the last few years have included prizes, this is the first one since the closure of Bungie.net to receive an official sponsor (MindscapeFX, a company run by a member of the Myth Community, called Frumius) - the prize being a painting from the MindscapeFX gallery. Raised 30 teams of four people each mostly, a fairly good turnout for a post-MWC tournament. Featured popular column by Frumius worthy of note.
• The Valor Tournament
• Mindscape FX

[edit] The Valor Tournament 2

• Type: Team-FFA and 3v3 (probably)
• Tournament Organiser: Toxyn
• Comments: A likely future tournament to follow The Valor Tournament of August - November 2006. As a result of complaints/discussion/constructive criticism changes in the system will probably occur but it is expected to be fairly similar to its predecessor in some ways.

[edit] Other

There have been several tournaments that do not fit with the others. These tournaments are Myth II themed but not about skilled gameplay. Many more of this type have been forgotten by players than the other tournament types since these ones were not very competitive by comparison so this list is known to be far from complete.

[edit] The Myth II Handbook Humor contest (UNKNOWN DATE - October 1999)

• Type: 'Myth Humour Competition'
• Tournament Organiser: Unknown
• Winners: 1st place: 'Dud Wight' (QT Movie) by Rust Dragon, 2nd place: 'The Official Hax0r Guide' (Website) by DrunkBob, 3rd place: 'Total Comix' (website) by Et'he Visionary, 4th place: 'Myth II meets Halo' (Graphic) by Kelstek, 5th place: 'Cotal Todex' (website) by KillerK. Most Iliturit Entry: 'THERE FAT' (graphic) by Warlock. Runners up: 'Where's Waldo?' by ragnarok, 'Dat Tro U Do' (Sound) by Hungry Ghol, 'If I Had a Car' (Graphic) by Avery, 'Dreaming of Burt' (text) by Nightcrawler, 'The Myth II Drinking Game' (text) by Tsao, 'Dwarf Money' (graphic) by Sobo, 'Best RTS Game of the Year' (graphic) by Matt Burns
• Comments: Run by the creator of the well known Myth II Handbook (J. Charles Holt, aka DeathWhore), it had big prizes, particularly for such an odd competition with quite a lot of imaginitive submissions - hence the long list of runners up.

[edit] The Mill Contest (January - June 2000)

• Type: Map-Making Tournament
• Tournament Organiser: Frigidman
• Winners: 1st place: 'Under Myrkridian Standards' by Soma, Kuba and Bubba et al. Best Individual Level: 'Senex Silvae'. Honourable Mention: 'Legend of Gor-Ash' by Creation Games, 'CAGES', 'The Havre River' by The Idiot Map-Making Collective
• Comments: Run by The Mill, the centre of Myth II's map-making community with a major prize driving it.
• The Idiots Map-Making Collective

[edit] RMA Map-Making Contest 2003 (April - September 2003)

• Type: Map-Making Tournament
• Tournament Organiser: Mad Dog and Ascot, help from Real Men and Alliance Myth II Orders
• Winners: 1st place: '1944 - Normandy' by Carlinho, 2nd place: 'WW3: Revolutions' by Zephirus, 3rd place: 'Edges of the Empire' by Dash_Ripcock
• Comments: Organised by the RMA, a combination of two orders who often played together for Myth tournaments with work led by Mad Dog and Ascot the tournament aimed to revive map-making by offering prizes for good quality work. Lack of motivation by the rest of the team, too long of a time frame and very few map-makers caring (other than for a minor prize) meant the tournament was ultimately a failure - only 7 maps were submitted finally, and one almost finished beta.
• RMA Map-Making Contest 2003 Finished Map List

[edit] Lugas' Screenshot Contest (September 2006)

• Type: Screenshot Competition
• Tournament Organiser: Lugas
• Winners: Funniest picture - 1st place: Baak, 2nd place: Grayswandir. Most artistic picture - 1st place: Zeph, 2nd place: gugusm. Most interesting - 1st place: Khadrelt, 2nd place: Wismuth
• Comments: Run within the Project Magma forums by relative unknown (in the community at large) Lugas for a month.
• Tournament Thread with rules and entries
• Winners Thread

[edit] Eras

Myth II tournaments can be split up into several stages based on domination by a few teams and individuals. For the most part better teams dominated far more than better players who came and went.

[edit] Early history, and Civil Order/Street Fighters

To begin with (i.e. end of 1998 - Civil Order's first appearance in February 1999) there was no over-ruling dominating figure on the Myth II tournament scene [though Civil Order had some success in TFL tournaments, including 3rd place in MWC98]. After "IFR" and until "The Forge League" which ended in August of 1999 Civil Order was 'the' team. After tournaments became less common, things could not as easily be distinguished.

After "National Myth League" and "Myth World Cup 2000", Street Fighters were considered the number one team. Later, it was revealed this team was Civil Order in disguise, so Civil's reign can be considered 1999 - 2000, for almost all of both years. Civil/*SF* won a total of 7 full-team tournaments. In fact, they never lost a tournament they entered as Civil or Street Fighters and finally retired shortly after Myth World Cup 2000 after losing a tournament that lacked their most important players under yet another alias.

[edit] Men of Rohan

In August of 2000 Men of Rohan began what looked to be a new dominion. After winning two full-team tournaments however, their time was cut short with the appearance of Northern Paladins. a very short period of time.

[edit] Late Bungie/Early PlayMyth: Northern Paladins

Probably the team that consolidated its power most, this team won 5-full team tournaments over a time span of December 2001 - January 2003, including MWC01. Although the number of competitive teams was less (though the difference between the best and the rest had also increased), NP still stuck it out despite losing key players post-Bungie. In MWC03, a team severely weakened by players in the army managed to hold onto second place in MWC03.

After this point, Np realised that a record that was not 100% pure was theirs forever and stopped caring. Despite this, the team managed to achieve third in The Fall Classic 2 with very little motivation to play at all. The idea of winning the team $1000 inspired them to play far harder during MWC04, and the team managed to hold onto second place.

[edit] 2004: Brills Meets Evil

Famous only for winning "The Fall Classic 2" and MWC04. However, these were the only major team tournaments of 2004. After most of the key players retired when MWC04 was over, the team retired. Many of its key players achieved 5th place in "Seeker's Star Power" and 4th place in MWC05 - in tournaments with competitive top teams, but recently placed below the par of their own set standards at 3rd in MWC06 after they returned from inactivity as a more complete incarnation of the team. Because of their repeated claims that they would win the tournament 'only' 3rd place has been used to insult the team by others. The team has since vanished from the Myth scene entirely.

[edit] The Current State of Myth

Currently no one team is dominating the Myth scene convincingly. The lack of tournaments has helped add to this. However Chohan is generally regarded as the best individual player of Myth II, and has been since sometime in 2003 (though the number of players to provide good competition is low, his record in a recent 1v1 tournament shows he has no one close to an equal). Np's MWC06 win appears to have led to a return to form with Rabican Np recently winning a co-operative Myth tournament, and another incarnation with their best players winning "The Valor Tournament" and a weaker Np team achieving 10th out of 32 - another respectable position.