Gauntlet
Posted on 30th October, 2020Zizaran and the community will be partnering up with Shopify to bring the next iteration of The Racing Gauntlet starting November 14th at 3:00PM (GMT)! This time with up to 10,000 players and a revamped points system. Shopify will be matching the community fundraised amount up to $25,000 and also supplying $7,500 in MTX prizes in drawings that anyone who participates can win. There will also be a few physical prizes including a Logitech Herman Miller Embody, Nvidia RTX 3080, Playstation 5, Xbox Series X, and Steam Wallet Gift Cards. If you would like to help support the prize pool you can donate HERE. There will also be many fundraiser events held by some of your favorite community streamers such as Steelmage, Alkaizerx, Octavian0, Datmodz, Baker, DS_Lily, Zizaran and more! Streamers and their communities will be able to create a bounty with the money they fundraise for the event. Bounties are custom rewards that the community will create together to reward players. Watch the video below for more information! Full information including rules can be found HERE.
If you would like to help support the organization of these events you can buy a limited edition Gauntlet T-Shirt Here: https://shop.zizaran.com/
Prize Pool Crowdfunding
To help fund the Prize Pool we will be using Paypal Pools. Anyone can donate to the Prize Pool: Here
Shopify will be matching ALL Donations to the Prize Pool. Up to $25000.
Prizes:
Random Draw:
Leveling your characters and reaching certain delve depths can put you in random mtx and physical prize draws supplied by Shopify! For example, if you reach level 90 and Delve Depth 200 with one character you would be in the draw to win any of the prizes below! You can gain more than 1 ticket per account for the mtx / physical prizes below however, you cannot win more then ONE prize PER Category Below.
Prize Pool:
Shopify will be matching all donations to the prize pool. (Up to $25,000)
The Total Prize Pool will be split as follows:
- Operations Costs: 5% of Overall Prize Pool - To be distributed amongst Community Developers / Members for helping the event
- The bounties placed by streamers and their communities during the fundraisers
- The prize pool subtracted by bounties and operations cost will be rewarded to the top 10 in the standings as follows:
- 1st: 35%
- 2nd: 20%
- 3rd: 10%
- 4th: 8%
- 5th: 7%
- 6th: 6%
- 7th: 5%
- 8th: 4%
- 9th: 3%
- 10th: 2%
- 11th-15th: Arcane Seraph Wings + Dusk Weapon Effect (Supplied by GGG)
- 16th-20th: Hydra Wings + Kraken Portal Effect (Supplied by GGG)
How to Join
The 10,000 slots are now FULL! Please follow the instructions below to get your place in line to join.
- Join the racing discord HERE
- Find the join-here channel for the league
- Request Invite at the bottom
- Wait to be accepted
Remember to make sure to read the full rules and full information supplied HERE
Special Thank You To:
Shopify: Event Partner
GGG: Supplying MTX for 11th-20th & T-Shirts
Faderon: Supplying https://poe-racing.com/
MrMadakey / Manwithhat: Private League Moderator / Boss Submissions
Skryah & OMGitsJousis: Event Highlights
Viyro & Zizaran: Event Organization
Prizing Eligibility:
Note: Cash prizes will be completely handled through Paypal. You will need to be able to receive money through Paypal to claim a cash prize. For physical prizes we will make every effort to get the prize to you but we reserve the right to substitute a prize for a prize of similar value for ANY reason at ANY time should there be difficulty. Keep in mind physical prizes will likely have a decent delay.