Unioverse Hoverdrome Preview Tourney 2

Wyeth Ridgway
August 21, 2024

Welcome champions of the Unioverse! Our fast-action multiplayer game the Hoverdrome is in alpha preview on Windows PC. This game combines themes from Mario Kart and Rocket League, and will melt your video card with its AAA graphics. In the coming months we will be adding new features to it based on your feedback. To make this fun, we will hold a series of FREE-to-play tournaments with big prizes!

Our first event was tons of fun, helpful for our developers, was a huge boon to some of our community, and a great watch on Twitch. So let’s do it again! Get your bikes revved and ready for the Preview Tourney 2! Here’s everything you need to know:

Please check back here often as this page will update

If you haven’t played yet, check out our new teaser below:

Prize Pool

Finalists:

  • $15,000 USDC split among the top 16 players in the Finals, courtesy of our sponsor Polygon
  • 300,000 UNIO prize pool (claimable at TGE)
  • All finalists get to create a rare hoverbike
  • Special Hero Metadata awards to all Finalists

Everyone:

  • 50 Reward Vaults will be given to random participants in qualifiers
  • We are giving away $300 a day in cash to participants during each event
  • Tier 3 Unioverse collectible tournament badge to the top 50 players on the Qualifier final board.
  • 3x Protens awarded PER GAME for all Qualifier games played. Learn how Protens can be converted at the UNIO TGE here.

How to Enter

  • Everyone can enter the tournament for free, you do not need a Unioverse hero.
  • You can download the Hoverdrome and practice right now and earn Proten rewards.
  • Please verify you have a Windows PC with the minimum requirements (listed on the download page).
  • Please make sure to set your Unioverse email so we can notify you of tournament status and prizes.

Rules

The following behaviors are not allowed and can result in bans:

  • Team play: logging with other players who then play as a team, protecting each other and helping each other score.
  • Hiding with the proten in places of the map where other players may not be able to reach you or shoot at you. Examples include but are not limited to outside the arena or on top of objects such the gears or proten smasher.
  • Multi-account play: logging in with multiple accounts in order to throw the game in your favor.

Open Qualifier

We will have four one-hour qualifier events starting on August 26th and being run at various times until August 29th. We will ensure a variety of time options to suit our global audience. During these times, you will compete in as many 4-minute games as you can. You only need to enter one, but you may enter as many as you wish. Your best score from any qualifier event will determine if you get into the finals.

Times for the qualifiers are below:

During a Qualifier Event you accumulate points as follows:

  • Winner: 9 Points
  • Second Place: 4 Points
  • Third: 2 Points
  • Fourth: 1 Point

During the event, the leaderboard will show the standings for the current Qualifier Event.

At the end of the week we will take each player’s personal best from all the Qualifier Events they participated in, and make a Final Leaderboard. The top 32 from the Final Leaderboard will be invited to the Live Final Event as described below.

Players will be able to see the current standings throughout the week. This article will be updated after each event with the results.

If you are in the top 50 you must signup at communitygaming.io and link your Unioverse wallet.

Please make sure to set your Unioverse email so we can notify you of tournament status and prizes.

Qualifier 1 Results (August 26th)
Qualifier 2 Results (August 27th)
Qualifier 3 Results (August 28th)
Qualifier 4 Results (August 29th)

Live Finals Event

The live finals event will be streamed to Twitch on Saturday August 31st, 2024 starting at 11am MT

The previous finals were a huge hit. Here is the format for this tournament’s finals.

Round 132 players8 games (single match)Top 2 advance
Round 216 players4 games (single match)Top 2 advance
Round 38 players2 games (single match)Top 2 advance
Round 4: Grand Finals4 players2 games (best of two games)Winners declared

The top 32 Players from the Open Qualifier will be invited to a live tournament hosted by our partner, CommunityGaming.io. Using our tournament system, one match will be played at a time with stellar commentary from guest hosts @Tanner_Metro and @Orbital_Casting

During the live event, the finalists will be randomly assigned groups and play through brackets as follows, one match at a time:

This live event will include prizes randomly given out to viewers so tune in!

Please make sure to set your Unioverse email so we can notify you of tournament status and prizes.

Don’t forget! You can also host and stream your own private tournaments. If you want us to reward prizes for streaming YOUR tournament sign up here.

Get ready by practicing in the Hoverdrome now! Download here!

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