Chaos Raiding Open 2 – Now with Extra Chaos!

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IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER TOURNAMENT

With some recent balance updates and a new expansion on the horizon, it’s time for another raid tournament! Chaos Raiding Open 2! The goal of this tournament is to add some extra fun outside regular meta builds with some competitive flare! Chaos Raiding Open 2 kicks off on August 9th, 2025 at 4PM UTC and will be live on Twitch at twitch.tv/mightyteapot. Get ready to get involved as a viewer too as the destiny of the tournament will be shaped live by viewers who will be able to vote on what builds teams will be allowed to play! There will also be some prizing, with the top 2 teams taking home the coveted “Community Hero” titles!

SUPPORT THE EVENT

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The first line in supporting any of our events is taking part in them, although being part of the audience is just as important. Show up to cheer for the competing teams and in the meantime, spread the news, get your friends involved and people hyped. You can head over to our links page for a shortcut to all our social media platforms, as well as to our shop and Guild Wars 2 affiliate links. Additionally, you can donate to the in-game prize pool: contact Mightyteapot, Snebzor, or any of our Moderators.

EVENT STRUCTURE & INFO

The core concept behind the Chaos Raiding Open 2 is that the audience will vote to ban three professions in each round, one from each armor weight. The banning process will begin immediately after the 12th team finishes the previous round (scoring after this point stops so all teams can stop playing). Teams will then have 10 minutes to theorycraft their compositions before the race begins! Bans reset every round and the same profession cannot be banned twice in a row! Because there is some built in downtime in this tournament, and it is a little less serious than normal, we will NOT being doing restarts or allowances for disconnects, and if you aren’t ready after the 10 minute countdown then the round will begin without you – be quick on your feet!

As a fun twist, there are also 8 different “instabilities” that are randomly rolled before the chat bans professions (one for each round). Only 1 is activated per raid wing. Once an “instability” is activated, it cannot be activated for the rest of the tournament.

The 8 instabilities are:

Don’t Trip: If a player goes into downstate, they must gg.
A Bit Extra: Chat can ban one additional profession. The additional profession also cannot be banned the next round.
Unlimited Power: No bans. This still acts as a ban reset.
Alienate: Teams must choose two players on their team to play core specializations (unaffected by bans; must be the same two players for the entire wing; relog allowed).
Weighty: Instead of banning one profession from each weight class, the chat ban entire weight class. This acts as a ban reset.
Safari: Everyone is in one big subgroup.
Rainbow: You must play at least one of each profession. No bans; this acts as a ban reset.
Bounty: Bosses killed on challenge mode grant additional points (reroll if wings 1, 2, 3, and 4; only applicable on 5, 6, 7, and 8). NOTE: More information on the exact bonus points to come.

…we may add a few similarly fun instabilities into the mix! Stay tuned.

CRO will be played using the standard speedrun.com glitchless ruleset for Guild Wars 2 Raids.

The Chaos Raiding Open will include wings 1-8. Challenge mode must be enabled on Wing 4. Each wing will be completed by all participating teams simultaneously. The first four rounds will be seeding rounds where no teams will be eliminated, after these rounds the top 10 teams will then move on to the elimination rounds where two teams will be eliminated per round until the final four teams remain. The final four teams will then go head to head to find the champions!

The raid wings in question will be randomly rolled at the start of the event so teams can plan ahead immediately and will NOT repeat throughout the entire event.

SEEDING ROUNDS: All teams will complete the first four raid wings and score points per wing as described below in the scoring system. The top 10 teams by total points will move to the semi-final rounds.

ELIMINATION ROUNDS: The qualifying teams will complete the remaining 4 raid wings. The slowest two teams to complete each wing will be eliminated. The final round will include 4 teams and the team who finishes first wins the tournament.

*if more than 10 teams move to the final elimination rounds (see tiebreakers below) more than two teams will be eliminated per wing. Final decision will be made live on stream.

*in the event that we have 10 or under teams, we will adjust the elimination format to produce the best player and viewer experience.

TIEBREAKERS
In the event that there is a tie the following shall occur:
If multiple teams tie for the final qualification spot, all teams tied for the final spot will proceed to the next round.

SCORING SYSTEM

1st: 15 points
2nd: 12 points
3rd: 10 points
4th: 9 points
5th: 8 points
6th: 7 points
7th: 6 points
8th: 5 points
9th: 4 points
10th: 3 points
11th: 2 points
12th: 1 points
13th+: 0 points

HOW TO ENTER

Registration will close 3 days (August 6th) before tournament start time. The number of teams that participate will help determine the prizing. Please sign up ASAP!

This tournament is a complete free for all, your rating will not be affected and anyone can sign up and make a team!

Entering Hardstuck events is incredibly easy with our sign-up tool; you can thank our basement-bound developers for that! Now you can register directly on each event’s page —in this case, here. You must have a Hardstuck account for this to work. Only one member has to fill out the form for the whole team and everyone on the team will have to give this “leader” their Guild Wars 2 API token. Upon submitting your team’s keys, our tool will calculate your rating; more on rating requirements below. If you have any problems signing up, you can contact our Moderators on Discord.

We reserve the right to ban players who do not meet the spirit of this competition.

We cannot guarantee ArenaNet prizing for more than 13 players on a team. If you team consists of more than 13 players, all players (except 3 substitutes) are required to participate in the tournament and have semi-equal playing time. Signing extra players up who will not participate in order to circumnavigate the team rating average is considered abuse and will result in the immediate disqualification of the team and possible bans.

STREAMING REQUIREMENTS

At least one player from each team must be streaming and provide us with the Twitch link prior to the event, so it can potentially be showcased. The quality of the stream must be set to a minimum of 720p, preferably 1080p. The team name must be displayed on stream and team logos are welcome to be showcased. A Guild Wars 2 in-game chat window showing the Hardstuck competitive guild chat is required to be visible on the stream. Twitch VODs must be enabled.
A team leader must (temporarily) be in the Hardstuck Competitive guild. Guild chat will be used for a countdown and to signal teams to start by saying “GO!”.
Team members must play on the account they signed up with. Team members must have included their account API key. Failure to do so will result in immediate disqualification.
Logs must be available for checking.

REWARDS

SPECIAL PRIZING

Prizes sponsored by ArenaNet are still in the works. Keep an eye on this page, as well as our socials for updates.

1st place: ‘Community Hero’, + gems per player (amount TBD)
2nd place: ‘Community Hero’, + gems per player (amount TBD)

Note: Prizing is contingent upon team participation, so please sign-up ASAP.

We may also have a small “Best Dressed” event at the first intermission (TBD).

GOLD & ITEMS

The in-game gold pool starts at approximately 5000 gold, but with community support it can scale up. You can send donations to Mightyteapot, Snebzor, or any of our Moderators. With the exception of the top 4 prizing, all prizes will be special categories voted upon by the audience We anticipate prizes will be delivered within 30 days of the conclusion of the tournament.

INTERNET INFAMY

Get your team enshrined on the Hardstuck Raid Tournament Winners page.

STARTING PROCEDURE

To ensure fairness, players must remain in the starting position, i.e. loading and not moving. If you move, you can /gg, respawn and stay still.

Spirit Vale
Teams can spawn the guardians in whatever order they wish. After that, the team must /gg, respawn and wait for the start signal without moving.
Salvation Pass
Teams load into the instance and wait for the start signal without moving.
Stronghold Of The Faithful
Teams can have Glenna in the ready state, such that upon talking to her, she will have the option to immediately start the escort event. This is achieved by moving near her, triggering her dialogue and then typing /gg, respawning and waiting for the start signal without moving.
Bastion Of The Penitent
Teams can have Glenna in the ready state, such that upon talking to her, she will have the option to immediately start her movement to spawn Cairn. This is achieved by moving near her, triggering her dialogue and then typing /gg, respawning and waiting for the start signal without moving.
Hall of Chains
Teams load into the instance and wait for the start signal without moving.
Mythwright Gambit
Teams can trigger and skip the initial Zommoros dialog such that the Conjured Amalgamate has spawned, then /gg, respawn and wait for the start signal without moving.
The Key of Ahdashim
Teams can trigger the initial dialog between Glenna and the Key of Ahdashim before typing /gg, then respawn and wait for the start signal without moving.
Mount Balrior
Teams load into the instance and wait for the start signal without moving.