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Steam News16 September 201510y ago

World Championship Series has started!

World Championship series has started. It's free to enter: by just buying the game in Steam is enough. We want this championship be the first of many.

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addedWorld Championship series has started.It's free to enter: by just buying the game in Steam is enough. We want this championship be the first of many. While there are many players playing them we will carry on organizing new tournaments.
changedThe championship:Vortex Attack has been designed specially for beating each-others hi-scores (like the old days). After all, it's more or less a spin-off Galaga™ with a lot of extras that modern technology allows us to implement today. But, we have gone a step further and we have created the tournaments system where anybody can create a tournament with its own rules. With this, we are organizing now the first Vortex Attack World championship and everybody is invited to join it. No bad for a one man band, Indie developer , right?
addedRules:The World Championship 2015 series will run from September to December. Every month there will be a public tournament where players can score points, at the end of every month, table will be cleared and scores will be transferred to another table (check official site ) where points will be added as the following.
changedDuration:This championship has 4 stages: one per month and ends in December.
changedDuration:Stage 1 : 15th Sept - 6th October
changedDuration:Stage 2 : 8h October - 29th October

World Championship series has started.

It's free to enter: by just buying the game in Steam is enough. We want this championship be the first of many. While there are many players playing them we will carry on organizing new tournaments.

Welcome to the League of the Extraordinary Vortices.

The championship:

Vortex Attack has been designed specially for beating each-others hi-scores (like the old days). After all, it's more or less a spin-off Galaga™ with a lot of extras that modern technology allows us to implement today. But, we have gone a step further and we have created the tournaments system where anybody can create a tournament with its own rules. With this, we are organizing now the first Vortex Attack World championship and everybody is invited to join it. No bad for a one man band, Indie developer, right?

Prizes and sponsors:

This first series has already 9 sponsors* giving over 19 prizes distributed in 3 winners. We are extremely grateful to all of them. These are prizes they are giving away:

Best player:

  • Kraken Empire - Kromaia

  • Tammeka - Radial-G : Racing Revolved

  • Fictiorama Studios - Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today

  • Rain Games - Teslagrad

  • 4 Bit Games - Orbit

  • Emere - USB Pixel Gamepad

  • CamisetaTotal.com - Vortex Attack's T-shirt

  • CamisetaTotal.com - Vortex Attack's Sunglasses

  • CamisetaTotal.com - Vortex Attack's Mobile cover

  • KaleidoGames - A slot in our HALL OF FAME.

Second and third best players:

  • Kraken Empire - Kromaia

  • Tammeka - Radial-G : Racing Revolved

  • CamisetaTotal.com - Vortex Attack T-shirt

  • CamisetaTotal.com - Vortex Attack Mobile cover

Best Spanish player - Special category:

  • Retro Maniac (Spanish Retro Magazine). Magazine #10. - Only will be delivered to the top Spanish player to Spain. It's compatible with being the global top player.

Rules:

The World Championship 2015 series will run from September to December. Every month there will be a public tournament where players can score points, at the end of every month, table will be cleared and scores will be transferred to another table (check official site ) where points will be added as the following.

Scoring:

  • 5 points: 1st position (Highest score)

  • 3 points: 2nd position

  • 1 point: 3rd, 4th and 5th position

  • +1 BONUS point: For uploading a video to YouTube. Click here for instructions for BONUS.

Score table can be found HERE

Duration:

This championship has 4 stages: one per month and ends in December.

  • Stage 1 : 15th Sept - 6th October

  • Stage 2 : 8h October - 29th October

  • Stage 3 : 10th November - 30th November

  • Stage 4 : 5th December - 31th December

Winners, and claiming the award:

Only 3 first best players will get prizes

When the last stage finishes, after adding the latest points to the League table. We will proceed with the date verification and cheat checks. If all clear, we will publish the name of the winners in Twitter and winners will have to claim their prizes before the end of January 2016.

Note

Prizes will go down the list if the awards are unclaimed (with another month to claim it). So try to score as much as possible and never quit.

Official Championship site: www.vortexattack.com/en/d2/World-Championship Follow it in twitter: #VortexChampionship We hope see as many player as possible, if this proves successful we will aim

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Steam News / 16 September 2015

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