Weekend Races with Roccat Hardware Prizes

These events are outside of our regular Season Four schedule - rather than awarding season reward points, they award physical Roccat hardware prizes.

We're running four one-hour events at different times, so that players can hopefully play in at least one regardless of their timezone. The results of all of the events are combined and the highest character from each account is considered.

The events are at: (click through for times in your timezone)

• Event 1: 10pm Saturday 14 September (NZ time)
• Event 2: 2am Sunday 15 September (NZ time)
• Event 3: 5am Sunday 15 September (NZ time)
• Event 4: 12noon Sunday 15 September (NZ time)

From the combined results, the top five players by experience receive a full set of Roccat gaming gear:

• ROCCAT™ Kulo – Virtual 7.1 USB Gaming Headset
• ROCCAT™ Kone Pure – Core Performance Gaming Mouse
• ROCCAT™ Isku – Illuminated Gaming Keyboard
• ROCCAT™ Sense – High Precision Gaming Mousepad

If there is an experience tie between players, it will be broken randomly.

Any player who reaches at least level 15 in any of the four events is put into a random draw to receive one of five:

• ROCCAT™ Isku – Illuminated Gaming Keyboard

Any player who reaches at least level 8 in any of the four events is put into a random draw to receive one of ten:

• ROCCAT™ Kone Pure – Core Performance Gaming Mouse

This means that players who play in multiple events do receive a small advantage (the ability to try to get a better result the second time), but it's certainly possible to win a large or small prize by just entering one event if you're skilled or lucky.

These races are hardcore (deaths are permanent) but dead characters are still eligible for prizes. For example, if you reach level 9 and die, you can't level up any further on that character, but you still enter the draw for a prize.

Players can only win one prize each. Prizes are awarded from the top of the prize list downwards, so once you've won a prize you're excluded from other ones.

Players should not enter with multiple accounts to have more chances to win. We will disqualify any entrants who do this.

Grinding Gear Games employees may enter the events but are not eligible for prizes. Our decisions regarding prize awarding are final.

Roccat will ship the prizes out to you at their expense. We'd like to thank them for their extremely generous contribution of the prizes. I haven't added up how much it all costs, but it's clearly many thousands of dollars plus shipping and they're giving it directly to our community.

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HowNowNZ wrote:

Yes, i love being in NZ and having to stay around the PC until 10pm to do that one. 2am and 5am, pass, its sleep time. and 12pm on a Sunday, have you not heard of Families?

Our NZ timezone accounts for a tiny percent of players, unfortunately. When we planned the four times for this race, we specifically used a prime time NZ slot (10-11pm Saturday) and made sure that another race was during daylight hours (noon on Sunday). We can also see that a lot of NZ gamers do play races as late as 2 or 3am. That's the best we can do before it becomes unfair to the other much larger timezones. I'll pass your feedback on to the guys who work out these schedules, but it's a really hard problem to solve.

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roetetoet wrote:

Only the people that are good at races can win, the ones that support the game also and are not that good of players grab next to everything.

I personally do not care and i find this way of sponsoring much better but would be nice that there was a chance for everyone to win and not only those top racers THAT GET THERE ITEMS ALREADY

There are 15 prizes for random entrants who reach certain levels but don't win. Level 8 is really easy to reach, and there's enough time to practice to reach level 15 in an hour :)

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ignarsoll wrote:

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EpsilonWhale wrote:

Maybe I'm just blind, but are you going to tell us the race type before it starts? If not, that would give a significant disadvantage to those players who can only enter the first race, would it not?

I assumed it was regular one hour as nothing specific shared regarding type. I would be surprised if it turned out anything different.

Other than this if GGG stays silent, when you create a character early you can check the type of the race (if you didn't already know).

The information on what race types they are has been there since the start - we linked to the race threads in the original post (they are one-hour hardcore events).