10th Black Death Tournament

About
This was the 10th installment of the now annual Black Death tournaments, on September 30 at 1pm PST. For the previous four years Silverdawg had organized this event, but he retired from the duty and Zife and Ravine took over. The Black Death Tournaments have constantly broken records regarding both PoE and Familiars. Last year it gathered over 6 million in PoE and rewarded 2 familiars to the best swordfighters in the Ocean. This tournament beat that record with a grand total of 7,011,057 PoE, as well as prizes of two familiars, sleeping tortoise furniture, and a number of black and white daisy trinkets to the top ten placers.

The first part of the tournament was automated - bo3 bring your own sword. The top 32 from that tournament were then invited aboard the Black Death Grand Frigate "Fight Chub" and participated in a swiss-style tournament. Using the seeding from the swiss-style tournament, a further tournament then took place. The top eight from the swiss seeding competed in a basic round robin to determine the winner of the familiar; as players lost this tournament they were inserted into the single elimination tournament for the bottom 24, and these players all competed for the tan familiar.

It was a fabulous day for all, with several losers tournaments for those people who did not make it into the top 32.

The tournament relied on player donations for its prize base, and we were not disappointed! A full list of donators can be seen below.

Winners

 * First place: Hahacat - winner of a lime octopus
 * Second place: Grovel - winner of a maroon/tan parrot

Donators
Kurosh: 900,000 (Top Donator)

Jabez: 700,000 (Put us over 3 million) (AND put us over 5 million!)

Fara: 600,000

Omadon: 500,001 (Put us over 7 MILLION)!

Eyes: 500,000

Dunny: 386,670 (Put us over 4 million)

Moonme: 200,000

Limoni: 160,000

Bieyen: 150,000

Mordrid: 106,000

Wildeyedjack: 105,400

Aralyn: 101,452

Lovelytini: 101,000

Complicated: 100,000

Springheel: 100,000

Whoisyou: 100,000

End (Grovel): 100,000

Andyp: 100,000

Gummyworm: 100,000

Bearclaw: 100,000

Skipyjoe: 100,000

Zava: 100,000 (Put us over 2 million)

Sydney: 67,000 (Put us over 6 million)

Steelblaka: 66,000

Darvid: 65,000

Aegean: 58,610

Hahacat: 50,000

Shar: 50,000

Mercenary: 50,000

Vova: 50,000 (Put us over 1 million)

Dorien: 50,000

Sweetiepiepi: 50,000

Wlada: 50,000

Demonyaj: 45,000

Limoni: 40,000

Sailerboylee: 35,000

Ravine: 33,908

Turrin: 30,000

Calebzsednai: 30,000

Jaded: 30,000

Zife: 27,000

Bard: 25,000

Fwap: 25,000

Blarneybella: 25,000

Harrjm: 25,000

Peglegpaul: 25,000

Argyle: 25,000

Skai: 20,500

Feylind: 20,000

Mousebeard: 20,000

Sanpedro: 20,000

Julianne: 20,472

Aria: 17,500

Fund Raising Pillage 1: 17,000

Lolipope: 15,000

Captmonkey: 15,000

Jamlin: 15,000

General: 15,000 (TOOK US OVER THE RECORD!)

Emmaline: 15,000

Zmasterben: 11,000

Kitteh: 10,000

Lunamyst: 10,000

Krissybaby: 10,000

Bovine Intervention: 10,000

Firedance: 10,000

Ttoonnyy: 10,000

Darksand: 10,000

Molech: 10,000

Rocketboy: 10,000

Dotte: 10,000

Carribean: 10,000

Kargach: 10,000

Leif: 10,000

Qwail: 10,000

Aldebra: 10,000

Shortyjack: 10,000

Blimb: 10,000

Angel: 10,000

Annaleese: 10,000

Juliah: 9,288

Draiden: 9,000

Pez: 7,500

Cloudcake: 7,500

Mbeard: 7,500

Soraz: 7,138

Sao: 7,001

Sheepish Ryan: 5,482

Lenaya: 5,374

Balkington: 5,178

Chod: 5,030

Piplicus: 5,009

Amaena: 5,000

Randal: 5,000

Sigilwen: 5,000

Hogus: 5,000

Think: 5,000

Kristen: 5,000

Huski: 5,000

Jadesasai: 5,000

Piranne: 5,000

Jezabella: 5,000

Salvia: 5,000

Vistr: 5,000

Lj: 5,000

Kidpot: 5,000

Rebootkid: 5,000

Kritastrophe: 5,000

Dragonblades: 4,288

Cheezit: 2,500

Cioj: 1,010

Purple: 1,000

Ereeka: 1,000

Bluetta: 600

Temparence: 590

Vador: 510

Argona: 266

Lordj: 100

Flameich: 56

TOTAL: 7,011,057 PoE
^ = Haven't paid

Some Prizes
Top and Bottom Male Gold Rags (Fara)

Merchant Brig (Pez)

Sloop 1 (Feylind)

Swordweilding Angelfish (Sloop)(Demonyaj)

Sloop 3 (Fara)

Pointy Swordfish (Sloop) (Kessel)

250 Large and Medium Shot (Blimb)

Gold/Black Male Turban (Firemonkey)

Gold/Gold Male Turban (Firemonkey)

Gold/Gold Female Scarf (Firemonkey)

Black/Lime Musketeer Hat

Black/Black Bloomers (Jainasolo)

Black/Black Midriff Blouse (Jainasolo)

Black/Brown Swashie (Zife)

Black/Maroon Shirt w/ Vest

Black/Lime Jerkin (Fara)

Black/Lime Fancy Boots (Fara)

Star Fish 1 (Firemonkey)

Star Fish 2 (Firemonkey)

Gold/White Handkerchief 1 (Fara)

Gold/White Handkerchief 2 (Fara)

White/Black Handkerchief (Blau)

Lump of Coal (Cephalopod)

Stiletto (Krissybaby)

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