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The Chaos Raiding Open – Special Prize Winners!

This article is about the ''Chaos Raiding Open'' that took place on the 17th of August. You can watch the vod of this epic tournament here! It's been a little over a month since Snow Crows managed to outspeed their competition and win the Chaos Raiding Open! Once again, congratulations to them for pulling it off, but they weren't the only winners! Before the tournament we announced in a news post that there would be additional special prizes that could be earned during the tournament. Unfortunately, we weren't able to select winners for every category that we listed. We've received a fair bit of feedback on this and we're planning to improve this aspect of the competition in future installments of Ready Check Cup. For now here are the winners for the meme prizes!   While every team had a…
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Congratulations to Zeromissing: Our New Masters of the Arena!

The dust has settled on the battlefield in the Mists... Last Sunday we watched Zeromissing battle their way through the Global Finals, triumphing over the Soo Won Slayers, their long-time rivals Rank Fifty Five Dragons, and Ultrascuffed in the Grand Finale. Zeromissing has earned the right to call themselves "Community Conqueror" and permanent access to Champion's Rest in the Heart of the Mists. In addition to these already awesome prizes, they'll also be taking home 25% of the total gold prize pool and 75% of the cash prize pool. During the Masters of the Arena II tournament, the Guild Wars 2 community has managed to raise a staggering of $10.234,20 for Cure Rare Disease. A Hardstuck record when it comes to fundraising and we're looking forward to working with them on future Hardstuck events. You can still donate and help…
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Masters Of The Arena II: Watch It Live This Weekend!

Greetings Guild Wars 2 Gamers, It has been two long years, but we are back with another MASSIVE PvP tournament: Masters of The Arena II. Over the past two months there have been 3 qualifiers leading up to this event and now that the dust has settled, it's time for the main course! Join us this weekend for a 3 day PvP extravaganza shoutcasted by none other than MightyTeapot and legendary PvP players Lord Helseth, Rom and Nos. We've teamed up with Cure Rare Disease during their July 28th-31st 'Game For Cures' streaming marathon, to join the battle against rare genetic conditions! You can donate to this awesome event by clicking here. If you want to learn more about Cure Rare Disease and their mission, you can check out their website: https://www.cureraredisease.org/ Masters of the Arena II consists of 3…
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Masters of the Arena Qualifier #3: Sign up now!

Hello everyone! Get out your calendar, because it's time for the 3rd and final qualifier of Masters of the Arena. This qualifier will take place on the 24th of July, and will feature both an EU bracket and an NA bracket. The EU bracket will start at 5 PM CEST / 11 AM EST and the NA bracket will start at 9 PM CEST / 3PM EST. This tournament qualifier will feature a double elimination format, where upper bracket games are a 'best of 3' and lower bracket games are a 'best of 1,' with the lower bracket finale comprising a 'best of 3.' Both EU and NA will have a seperate bracket. The teams who reach the Grand Finale in each bracket will both qualify to play in the next installment of Masters of the Arena. For any additional…
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Accessibility Challenge Recap

Thank you all for your interest and support in the Accessibility Challenge! We had a blast putting on the competition and I'd like to give you all a recap. We had just under 130 submissions for the contest! There were a few participants that submitted multiple builds, but wow, this was quite the turnout and we were blown away! All of the builds were a joy to look through and there truly were some real gems in there! We expected to see some great builds, but there were cases where low APM builds were competitive with "meta" builds and absolutely dominated in the videos and logs that were submitted. Mechanist is a very notable example of this and I've personally started playing a low APM condi Mechanist after seeing what it can do from the contest. Additionally, I'd love you…
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The Guild Wars 2 Accessibility Challenge

Hardstuck and Accessibility Wars are happy to announce a new competition - We want to find the ultimate Low APM (Actions Per Minute) builds! This competition will be open to the entire community, and we are looking for DPS and Support builds for each profession, as well as any kind of secret sauce creative build you might have cooked up. Our goal is to make the game as accessible as possible to as many players as possible - we love playing the game, and we want you to love playing the game too. So then, what’s in store? We have and the Community Hero Title! Each profession will have 3 winners, for a total of 27 winners: Best DPS, Best Support, and Most Creative. Each of these 27 winners will receive 650 Gold and a Community Chest! The Community Hero…
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The Hardstuck Competitive Roadmap

WELCOME BACK! It's been a little while since the last Hardstuck roadmap, and since ArenaNet just released one it's about time we copy that and follow suit! This post contains some updates regarding competitive events over the next few months and our vision about what it means to have a healthy community that represents itself well, fosters growth and leads by example. It's been a bit of a break but thankfully scourge is finally getting a bit of a hammering so it's time to get the big tournaments rolling again! The Hardstuck Conquest League returns October 2nd & 3rd! Once again it will feature the same Open Bracket/Invitational Bracket format with the invitational bracket taking place two weeks later on the 16th & 17th. The Invitational Bracket will contain the best of the best, top teams from both regions will skip the open bracket allowing newer…
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Champions of the Mists

Greetings gamers, as some of you saw in our previous post we are launching a GvG tournament to find out who is the best of the best. Well today, today is the start of the Champions of the Mists. A quick recap of the tournament: 22 EU guilds and 12 NA guilds are battling it out from today, May 30th to June 19th The top 8 EU and top 4 NA guilds will fight to be the best of their region from June 19th to June 24th The Top EU and NA guilds will battle in the global finals on June 27th Prizepool:Currently the gold pool is at around 130k Gold. This will be split amongst the top 8 guilds (4 from each region). Donations are certainly welcome, and can be sent in game to: guild mm.4269 MightyTeapot.2093 Roy.5639 PLEASE SEND ITEMS NOT…
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GvG Tournament, This June!

Greetings Gamers! I am very pleased to announce that Guild MM, partnering with Hardstuck and Mightyteapot, will be hosting a GvG (Guild vs Guild) Tournament, and it will be starting in just about a month! But Roy, there's no such thing as GvG in GW2! Fear not, for that has never stopped us even a little bit in the last 8 years, and it certainly won't be stopping us now! OVERVIEW We've put on Tournaments in the past, but never with the same ambition as this! Starting May 31st Guilds on both regions, EU and NA, will be split up into groups, and will GvG within their groups for 2-3 weeks. Afterwards, on June 19/20th each region will have a Final, consisting of the top guilds from each group. Finally, on June 27th we will hold a Global Finals for the top guild from each region. For the first…