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On Saturday we stopped the match and disqualified the team from participating further in the tournament. After taking yesterday and today to painstakingly review the footage and do our own testing we have come to the conclusion that the Rune Knight on Madea goes to USRC was not using nodelay or programs to bypass the cast times for Dragon's Breath.
We replicated the character onto a GM account, equipped and provided buffs equivalent to what was present during USRC and determined that the casts were not impossible for that character to have performed.
I personally apologize to the Madea goes to USRC team on behalf of the Gravity staff for the disqualification, which was based on our judgement of the situation and available information that Saturday. We did not want to bring the tournament to a halt to do a full investigation/pull logs/recreate characters due to the limited time and personnel that would be available.
The things we have been testing during USRC and analyzing this week will help us to better identify cases of nodelay during WoE from the reports we have received and we have been sending proposals to kRO for changes that would mitigate or eliminate the issues that make illegally accelerated skill use possible.
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This year, our USRC tournament will be taking place on Saturday, September 20th at 10am PDT this year.
Shadow Chaser: Manhole, Dimension Door, Masquerade Gloomy & Unlucky, Fatal Menace
Geneticist: Change Material
Sorcerer: Element Analyze
For this year's USRC we are not allowing players to wait out a long skill cooldown, or to switch out characters between matches. Players will need to be smart about when they use these skills.
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Money Prizes
$2000 initial prize pool for 1st-4th place (in KP) for a minimum of 8 teams participating
25000 KP added to prize pool for each additional team past the minimum to a maximum of $450000 in KP (18 teams)
1st place: 50 percent of pool
2nd place: 25% of pool
3rd place: 15% of pool
4th place: 10% of pool
Winners can choose to substitute some KP for the equivalent amount of subscription time
Prizes will be placed on the accounts that participated.
Ingame prize:
kRO developed RWC crowns and enchanted weapons
For the 1st through 4th place teams, the RWC Champion Crowns
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Team Name: Brazika
Team Leader Name: Murilo Fearless
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Team Name: Fantasy Team
Team Leader Name: Fissuris
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Team Name: ChibiChibiHakHakHak
Team Leader: Jikimchoi
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Team Name: Ammy's Pack
Team Leader: Ammy
Team Name: Nameless.
Team Leader Name `Simple
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Team Emblem: TBD
Team Name: All Eyez on Me
Team Leader Name: Reptile
Team Name: SayHi2Kafra
Team Leader Name: BloodHaron
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Team Name: koalafied
Team Leader Name: la playa, ese
Team Name: mile high club
Team Leader Name: vip lounge
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Team Name: Whatever
Team Leader Name: Little Traveler
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Team Name: Wongedan
Team Leader: Irelia
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