Constant Comet

Finally, the official announcement you’ve all been waiting for. The All MIA Podcast is proud to be hosting its first official tournament!  This event will be an ARAM (All Random All Middle) single-elimination tournament.

A quick rundown of the rules and play style:

ARAM (lovingly referred to as Beastmode from this point on) is a 5v5 all-middle brawl with teams composed of random champions.  Players are restricted from leaving the middle lane at any time during the fight.  This prevents healing, shopping, jungling, baron, and ganking from the brush.  It forces action within the middle lane, making coordination amongst your teammates a necessity. The use of fortify is prohibited, as is running back and hiding behind invincible towers (but really, why would you want to do this anyway?)  Individual hosts will often ban snowball items (eg: mejai’s and other items which gain ‘Stacks’), although we are allowing snowball items in this tournament. After some feedback from the community and tournament participants, we’ve decided to BAN SNOWBALL ITEMS from the Beastmode tournament.There are no other restrictions on items or spells, just a ban on returning to the base to shop or heal except through death.

TLDR: No healing at base, no shopping while alive, no jungling, no running into jungle or brush, no running back farther than one tower, no fortify, snowball items are allowed BANNED.

Prizes:

We’ve decided to give away FIVE FREE RIOT SINGED SKINS to the winning team in this tournament.  The winning team will be invited onto the podcast for an episode, wherein we’ll talk about hilarious antics and the ever-developing metagame that makes LOL so awesome. You’ll also get to face-off against the ALL MIA team in a post-podcast match.  Additionally, we will be giving away some FREE RIOT POINTS to the first place team!  Not bad for a free tournament, right!?

Okay this sounds awesome, now where do I sign up?

Simply send an email to allmiapodcast@gmail.com with the subject line of “BEASTMODE” or “ARAM”.  Include your summoner name and the summoner names of up to four friends.  If you’re entering as a full team, include a team name, or I’ll lovingly make one up for you (I can be hilariously creative!). We’re not requiring you to enter as a team of five, so don’t worry if you don’t have enough friends who are cool enough for Beastmode! Plenty of single-entries will be around to substitute in case one of your team mates goes MIA during the tournament.  Please submit your entry by 9/26/2010. As long as we have at least 16 teams by this point, we’ll be good to go, although we’d love to have many more!

Matches will be played on a goodwill arrangement between the teams.  If your team cannot come to an agreement on a match playtime within a reasonable period of time, have a representative from both teams email me with a request for a new matchup.  A livestream recording of the matches would be excellent, as well as give us plenty of fodder to make jokes at your expense cool footage to piece together and narrate over for highlights.

Please send any questions, comments, suggestions, or hatemail to allmiapodcast@gmail.com

-Constant Comet

“My right arm is a lot stronger than my left arm.” -Tryndamere

*EDIT* If you’re interested in the tournament, or if you’ve already submitted a team, PLEASE post in the thread! We want to make this tournament as huge and fun as possible!