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Community => News & Events => Topic started by: Angie on Aug 23, 2015, 02:35 PM
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It's clear from the "vote for the new EnterVOID tournament" thread that a lot of people have some ideas of their own for what they would like to see! So let's get the ideas flowing! What would you like to see tournaments or event wise? Keep in mind you don't have to give us ideas that have already done before. There's traditional tournaments, round robins, battle royale style, Arma style, collab/team style, etc. but there's likely much more that we haven't tackled on the site before. If there's a really cool idea you see in here and you want to make it a reality, contact the mods so we can work out how to make it happen.
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The Invitational - we all know what that is
Welcome Wagon Tourney - An Invitational that's half newcomers, half vets. Pair them up to fight, getting them acclimated with the site and welcomed directly into the community.
Plot Thickens Tourney - Artist match tourney. Everyone does their round ones normally, starting the beginning of a story. Then, in the next round, participants are given a random story from the first round to continue. This repeats for the rest of the tourney. This encourages people to work with other's material, and to try to build off of other stories, as they may be asked to in published comics.
Think Tank Tourney - While probably not a good idea, it would be interesting. Normal small tourney, winner gets to be brought on as a Think Tank.
Backgrounds Only Tourney - Artist matches only. Make comics with only backgrounds, no characters allowed. You can see the battle Knomer and I did years ago as an example.
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Damnit I had a reply all typed out and then my internet decided to go all haywire.
Anyway a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I tried to kickstart some shonen jump pitches happening on the site back when there was that shonen jump pitch contest thing going on. While that was geared towards one particular genre due to the nature of it, it would be cool to have an artist battle tournament. But actually make it a tournament. No particular theme, can be that idea you've been thinking of for ages that you never really had any motivation for or something new. Just a fun way to kickstart some fresh, original comics and if you like what you did then you can continue it with no strings attached. I still think it would be cool to have people move on each round though, instead of it being a one off battle. 1-2 weeks per round until its done.
Either that or bring back the Sentai Tourney, mostly because out of all the themed tournaments I really wish I had been able to get in on that one (but it was before my time).
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if any of you like an idea being proposed, you can help keep it alive by posting your approval of it; you can go ahead and have full conversations of development for new tournament ideas here. The amount of buzz a tournament idea is getting here can help both members and staff take notice on what's a hot choice~
Conversations in the chat are good of course but also fleeting and unrecorded; conversations here can be referenced back on
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I would like to see more artist tournaments. Monster Mash, and other themed death tourneys.. we don't need to use so many resources, they'd be nice as an artist tourney a lot of the time. I would like to see another Story tournament, as well. I forget the name.. but Phil, Hiemie, and Kuro were in it. Very under-rated.
Under New Management 2.. I guess Fowlie would need to be involved in bringing that back, though.
Round-robin... Have we ever done one? Make them all scar matches.
Another death royale?
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Smut Tourney
Because we obviously need even more controversies in the site.
Um.
I actually like Qyz's Welcome Wagon Tourney idea. So, I think I'll vote for that one.
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I don't know what it would be called, and i don't think it's a tournament of some sort, and relies solely on the ability of someone not flaking out by deadline. This is a spinoff of the 5 minute 'comic jam' events I've gone to (one person draws a comic panel, switches off with the next person in five minutes, etc.)
Basically, all the artists who want in will sign up on a huge list, then be randomized in an order. So the first artist will draw their character of choice in a story, and then after one week, they pass that story along to the next artist, and after that week, to the next, and next, until 1) they reach the last artist in line, or 2) an artist defaults and the comic ends. No artist can discuss their future story idea with the previous artist. There is no wait time for voting; the moment the comic is released, it's the next person's turn to work on it. In the end, I guess it would all be combined to be one huge mess of a story.
It's possible to do a 1-page thing as well. This is different from a collaboration in the way that you cannot discuss your story or ideas with any of the other artists, and you have to wing it the moment you get your story. Comic improv, sorta.
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A lot of this sounds great, guys! Would love to see some of these brought to life!
And no, I don't think a round robin ever actually happened. I know Thomas brought it up a few times but nothing ever came of it?
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It would be the funnest.. but would probably need a small amount of contestants. 8-10? 5 rounds might be pushing it.
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I would like to see more artist tournaments. Monster Mash, and other themed death tourneys.. we don't need to use so many resources, they'd be nice as an artist tourney a lot of the time.
I will forever sing the praises towards anything artist battle themed. I've said it before, its where my headspace is at, and personally as a site to incubate and foster comic making skills I'd love to improve non VOID specific works with likeminded individuals here on the site. I feel it's like the next progression and artist battles have always felt like that next step to me, I'd love to see this happen.
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Character Swap Tourney
You enter with a character as per normal, but instead of drawing your character you do an alternative take/redesign on your opponents, and your character can't be featured.
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As a reminder: http://entervoid.com/index.php?topic=11407.0
we have a thread that lists all previous tournaments and events, just so no one is re-suggesting similar ideas.
However, you can of course suggest that we do another one of the listed events. I think that's perfectly awesome
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I 100% want the Welcome Wagon tourney to happen, I was talking about how cool it'd be in DA chat yesterday. Also seconding Artist Tournaments because that's cool stuff.
Also Also, if someone is a superstar and heads some kind of publishing tournament, where it's an artistic battle royale with the goal of publishing the finished entries into a zine or anthology. That'd be pretty massive to organise but it would be very cool to see more physical works coming out of the site imo
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I back the Background Only Tournament 100 percent. I feel like that can really help people like myself study and understand backgrounds better. It will also help with storytelling and setting a mood without using characters. If we decide to ever push this one, I am totally down to participate.
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Think Tank Tourney - While probably not a good idea, it would be interesting. Normal small tourney, winner gets to be brought on as a Think Tank.
At first I thought you meant a tournament only for Think Tanks, but that wouldn't be fair... 'cause I'd crush the competition 8)
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Think Tank Tourney - While probably not a good idea, it would be interesting. Normal small tourney, winner gets to be brought on as a Think Tank.
At first I thought you meant a tournament only for Think Tanks, but that wouldn't be fair... 'cause I'd crush the competition 8)
U wanna fukkin go
No but i like the welcome wagon tourney, the background one and sugha's smut tourney because why the hell not lol
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Also as a reminder, there's Roflqu's helpful guide on setting up a tournament
http://entervoid.com/index.php?topic=11414.0
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The Welcome Wagon Tourney would definitely be the most beneficial to the community I think, so we should see if we can make that happen.
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Votes for welcome wagon! I've always wanted to
pose as a be vet paired up with a new fish. Yessiree bob
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welcome wagon or background tourney.
draw dem backgrounds, bring dem kids in.
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Welcome Wagon Tourney - An Invitational that's half newcomers, half vets. Pair them up to fight, getting them acclimated with the site and welcomed directly into the community.
Plot Thickens Tourney - Artist match tourney. Everyone does their round ones normally, starting the beginning of a story. Then, in the next round, participants are given a random story from the first round to continue. This repeats for the rest of the tourney. This encourages people to work with other's material, and to try to build off of other stories, as they may be asked to in published comics.
I'm a big fan of both of these. The Welcome Wagon would probably be best for Void, and it gets the newcomers right in the mix, but Plot Thickens has the most potential for mischief and mayhem.
To offer another suggestion, maybe instead of pitting newcomers against vets in a Welcome Wagon tourney, we could team each newcomer up with a veteran in a collab battle royale.
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Oh, like a tag team event, but every pair is a newbie and a vet? I really like that. That'd really encourage new people to get involved in the community, and as long as every body has a good work ethic, could really help newbies feel like they're part of the site.
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and sugha's smut tourney because why the hell not lol
Terrible idea. lmao.
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I like all of Qyzex's proposed tourney ideas. I'm especially drawn to Welcome Wagon Tourney and the Background Tourney. I feel that the background tourney will really push artists to hone their skills in that area.
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Welcome Wagon Tourney - An Invitational that's half newcomers, half vets. Pair them up to fight, getting them acclimated with the site and welcomed directly into the community.
THIS 1000% I know I'm not one to talk since I haven't yet finished my own first character/intro (life got in the way but I'm back to working on it I swear!) but I love this idea and I think I can speak a little bit to what draws people to void (not necessarily stay since idk about that.) I think what is both really appealing about void and completely terrifying about it is the depth of the history and community. What makes it unique from an OCT is that you can come back and fight the same artist you fought before, and also the living history of void city as shaped by the artists that came before you. I remember seeing Angela's plot (not that it's typical) and dreaming, DREAMING of facing off against her and helping her build her story. Or imagining what the plot of my comic would be when I faced off against my favorite voiders (and how much it would pwn them!!!1! thanks high school self)
That's the attraction of void (at least for lurkers familiar with it), but it's also a giant hurdle. People want to battle their favorite veterans and to build that shared story, but it can be a little hard to actually penetrate into the "core" of void that people want to participate in. It's scary to approach veterans, and it's also hard for veterans to build serious plots off of completely new characters that have no shared history and no comics to explain their personality and history. What I've seen is that mostly, newbies end up challenging other newbies, or people join with friends, challenge each other, and then don't know where to go from there with strangers. Maybe they start character relations with another person, but that person leaves and leaves their plot hanging and they can't bring themselves to tie it up awkwardly without completion...
I think this idea does what a lot of others don't, which is giving unstable newcomers still finding their feet a chance to interact with the stable core of void. Maybe they find that one cool plot point with a veteran they want to explore, and since the veteran isn't as likely to leave as another newbie, the new plot isn't as likely to fizzle and die. It'll also just help people TALK to veterans, and get involved with the actual people of void not just the characters and plot :) If you have friends here you like just chatting with, that's probably the best reason to say, all plots and characters aside!
But I see one big problem with how it's proposed right now. The big problem is... well, newbies are newbies and veterans are veterans! The veterans have a huge leg-up on the new people, and are way more likely to win as they're experienced with making deadlines, and already have proven themselves in dedication and skill. How many times do new people default on their first battle? A lot more than their second or third battle that's for sure. What happens when after round two, only a couple newbies have survived the gauntlet of veterans and it ends up being 4 veteran vs veteran rounds and only two newbie vs veteran? Maybe it'd be better set up as a tag team tournament, where it's a veteran and newbie teamed up against another veteran and newbie? That way each "loser" would actually be keeping the ratio even, and if you wanted you could shuffle the teams up each time. The only thing is that collabing might not be everyone's cup of tea, and it's sort of an added complication. I guess it's possible even though they're in a "team" to make their own individual comics, but that seems a little forced. Also veterans may end up shouldering most of the work.... Maybe the very last match would be a final exhibition where the winning team faces off against itself, or maybe the last match could be a free-for all 1v1v1v1 instead of teams, just so the newbies get to spread their wings on their own a little bit. The team-up would be better for building that artist-to-artist bond though, as they'd be forced to communicate in order to collaborate. As long as no one ends up despising the person they're paired with haha.
I've done a lot of rambling for someone with zero on-site-comics. Sorry U'''B
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Veteran-Newbie Tag-Team Tournament sounds rad as fuck!
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But I see one big problem with how it's proposed right now. The big problem is... well, newbies are newbies and veterans are veterans! The veterans have a huge leg-up on the new people, and are way more likely to win as they're experienced with making deadlines, and already have proven themselves in dedication and skill. How many times do new people default on their first battle? A lot more than their second or third battle that's for sure. What happens when after round two, only a couple newbies have survived the gauntlet of veterans and it ends up being 4 veteran vs veteran rounds and only two newbie vs veteran? Maybe it'd be better set up as a tag team tournament, where it's a veteran and newbie teamed up against another veteran and newbie? That way each "loser" would actually be keeping the ratio even, and if you wanted you could shuffle the teams up each time. The only thing is that collabing might not be everyone's cup of tea, and it's sort of an added complication. I guess it's possible even though they're in a "team" to make their own individual comics, but that seems a little forced. Also veterans may end up shouldering most of the work.... Maybe the very last match would be a final exhibition where the winning team faces off against itself, or maybe the last match could be a free-for all 1v1v1v1 instead of teams, just so the newbies get to spread their wings on their own a little bit. The team-up would be better for building that artist-to-artist bond though, as they'd be forced to communicate in order to collaborate. As long as no one ends up despising the person they're paired with haha.
I like my solution: Round Robin
Every Welcome Wagon vet ends up fighting every Newcomer, no elimination, so everyone comes out with a bunch of comics on their belt
At the end wins decide Welcome Wagon Vet champion and Newcomer champion separately, ties would lead to tie-breakers (vet vs. vet and newbie vs newbie)
However,
this would be a very very long tournament as a result, even just 4 vets and 4 newcomers means each artist is battling 4 times. Although the time would be offset by not needing to wait for a week of voting to see who ends up on top and who gets eliminated
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But I see one big problem with how it's proposed right now. The big problem is... well, newbies are newbies and veterans are veterans! The veterans have a huge leg-up on the new people, and are way more likely to win as they're experienced with making deadlines, and already have proven themselves in dedication and skill. How many times do new people default on their first battle? A lot more than their second or third battle that's for sure. What happens when after round two, only a couple newbies have survived the gauntlet of veterans and it ends up being 4 veteran vs veteran rounds and only two newbie vs veteran?
I also thought about this idea, and think it would make sense as a 'round robin' style (Edit: Pyras beat me to the punch haha). That would mean each of the newbies who sign up would/could fight against each of the vets and gain a whole lot of experience. The tag-team format would also work out where it's a newbie and a vet, but I personally prefer newbies working on their own at first because you learn a lot about how you work under a deadline.
EDIT: It might be interesting to have smaller brackets, like block a, block b, block c, etc., and have two pairs per block. If there's someone you really want to challenge past the initial set-up, send them a challenge!
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I'll also chip in that it may be a bit too much for newcomers to add in too many characters to their comic or to collab when they have no experience to do so. I know people love collabs but it might not be the place to start. But a Welcome Wagon of some sort is indeed preferable.
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Minteh blocks is a great way to speed up a round robin welcome wagon tourney, i"m all for that
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Round robins/block robins seem like a really good solution! It also means that a newbie won't end up with only a single comic under their belt because they got eliminated first round. There should definitely still be a "win" condition though, as I think the excitement of competition and the potential to win is also a big fun part of void.
Maybe the newbie and veteran winners from each block then compete with the winners of the other blocks? Either bringing in the tag team idea (because newbies will now have experience doing 4 or so individual comics) or maybe an all out brawl? Just trying to think of a good climax, I guess it depends on how many people enter and how many blocks there would end up being.
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I would think the win condition would be obvious O:
whoever has the most wins by the end of the robins, wins! We can even separate it between Welcome Wagon vets and Newcomers.
if there's a tie, we go to a tie-breaker battles!
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question, what exactly will be the determination of who is a newbie? some people here have been around here for like 10 years, compared to my 3 Im a newbie lol. Stomcrow has been here since March and has 2 comics in, would that fall under newbie? is it like... joined date, or number of comics produced? Maybe anybody approved within a year, or two years?
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If you go by achievements, a Veteran is someone who has a character for two years or more, but if may be a little more loose? Ultimately I think it's up to whoever's running it to make that distinction.
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Achievements aren't what we have gone by, and that one is a bit of a misnomer. Though, I guess they could be what we go by.
In the past, it just meant you had completed more than 2 comics, pretty much (that wasn't a requirement, but a barometer to decide who could do what). A newcomer would be someone just joining right? So, People who have battled + people who have not battled.
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Achievements aren't what we have gone by, and that one is a bit of a misnomer. Though, I guess they could be what we go by.
In the past, it just meant you had completed more than 2 comics, pretty much (that wasn't a requirement, but a barometer to decide who could do what). A newcomer would be someone just joining right? So, People who have battled + people who have not battled.
This is pretty much what I was thinking, too. By "newcomer", I'm referring to people who are brand new to the site (i.e. those brought in by the invitational), and anyone who either doesn't currently have a character, or who has only an intro, but no battles under their belt.
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Young at Heart(??): We get a pool of characters created by young children (could be drawings from voiders when they were little, or current drawings from their kids), and randomly assign them to contestants.
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ok i kind of love that idea lol. i want to enter the mirror monster OC i made when i was seven XD that touney could end up really goddamn creative haha!
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Welcome wagon sounds really rad
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i think it would be cool if Void had its own sport or sports tournament, idk if anyones already said that but if they did i second it!
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Tag Death Tournament.
2 people, 2 weeks.
Always wanted to see these two mashed up.
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Treasure Hunt.
Like any other tournament, except the characters are competing for some sort of tremendously awesome tangible reward you can hold in your hands, leading to much Voidian chaos and hijinks everywhere.
Think Scarmaggeddon with more greed.
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Can we revisit the idea of a Wrestling Tournament?
I apologize if it's been expressed here already as I skimmed the forum.
I'd love to see the minds of artists and their perspective of my favorite soap opera.
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it's definitely a theme that keeps bouncing around, so chances are high you'll see some kind of wrestling tournament in the future
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>=D CANT KEEP ME AWAY FROM DAT ONE
it came down pretty close when we did a vote between monster mash and wrestle tourney- either way i had made the same character lol- everyone seems pretty interested in this idea though so we should totally put a pin in it
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So here's an idea I've wanted to pitch for awhile, Movie Night Tourney/ Event, honestly I feel it could work as either one. Your character has been given the leading role in their own movie, whatever genre it is banks on the character's tastes. The end goal would be simple, perform well enough to rake in the cash or win whatever Void's equivalence is to an Oscar (a "Voidey" I suppose you'd call it). Their opponents could take on whatever role suitable for your story, supporting actor, background actor, film crew, hell they could even be trying to sabotage the movie. What do you guys think?...
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Treasure Hunt.
Like any other tournament, except the characters are competing for some sort of tremendously awesome tangible reward...
Bring back Trophy Matches.
Also, Movie Night sounds cool!
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I think Trophy Matches got killed off because we had too many of them where people didn't actually win a clear trophy?
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I know we only have a week of October left but I was hoping on a Death Resurrection Tournament. I want White Dwarf back! Any way we can make this happen?
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One idea I had for a while was a Resurrection Tourney but done in Tag-team style, where two dead characters have a chance at being revived instead of one.
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hey discord, it's me, tiffany, i enjoy women.
(tiffanybot keeps announcing posts on this thread which i believe is because it just assumes every thread in the events forum is the news thread, which is how it pulls information usually. that's a fun fact. also this thread is kind of old and deprecated? if you want to suggest anything i believe the extant route is by dming a mod with the form in this thread (https://entervoid.com/index.php/topic,13324.0.html), but we just had a resurrection tournament last year so i don't think it's likely! granted i am not a mod and am minimodding to a massive extent. hey this is me justifying why i made this post besides a joke)
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Exactly what JCee said.
Tag team Ressurection Tournament where all losers get Annialiated.
So Tag Team Speed Ressurection Annialation Tournament.
PLEEEAAAASSSEEE :)
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Exactly what JCee said.
Tag team Ressurection Tournament where all losers get Annialiated.
So Tag Team Speed Ressurection Annialation Tournament.
PLEEEAAAASSSEEE :)
Hope this happens, if so I want in...."This is the way."
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This started as a joke, but...
Speed Dating Tournament.
The rules are the same as any other SDT, just that instead of death, there's fluff. I NEED ROMANCE IN MY LIFE OKAY.
For those lightweights that like the intensity of SDTs, but aren't really interested in paying the ultimate price.
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Now that I think about it, might as well add some more since I've been talking about them in the server.
Speed Dating Tournament
1 week rounds. May the best one win the Don/Doña Juan(a) Title
DnD Royale
A Royale based on the world of Dungeons and Dragons, where the characters of VOID are dressed accordingly to the class they picked.
Voids Sexiest Pageant Royale II
Last one was around September 2018.
I think it is time for Jaycee and Zee to defend their titles.