March

Runefest 2017 took place last weekend break, and part of the celebrations included a RuneScape Tournament. A reward $20, 000 plus $10, 000 for any charity of the winner’s choice was shared, but Jagex, the actual developer of Runescape and host of the tournament, don’t know who to honor it to.

The tournament took place within Old School RuneScape, the branch of the game that maintains the aesthetic and systems from 2007. A competition server was set up, and the top 2, 000 competitive players qualified for entry. To win the competition, players had to level up for one week, then battle it out.

The initial 2, 000 that qualified for your tournament eventually decreased down to 200. At that point, Jagex divided all of them into groups of 50 and placed all of them on four islands. The first trouble began on Red Tropical isle, where seven gamers wouldn’t fight each other and instead created an alliance. Jagex ended up having to disqualify them when they refused to disband.

As the tournament continued, multiple players were shut off at random, and the theory that they had been DDOSed began to surface. This became more appropriate when the last 1 standing was 5PLUS50K12 who is part of a clan with a awful reputation called Rule of Terror.

It was later confirmed by Jagex that 5PLUS50K12 created Cheap Runescape Gold a bot grind, which can be used in a DDOS attack. Since this disqualifies him from the prize, Jagex is a bit baffled in what to do with the reward money. The competition took such a long time to setup and coordinate that the rematch isn’t possible. Jagex’s statement regarding dispersal of reward money is below.

This then increases the question associated with what to do with the reward money. At the moment we’re discussing what to do by using it. A few ideas we have at the moment are another charitable donation, dispersing the cash among the finalists, or carrying it to the next season (or a combination of all of these).