Myth II: Soulblighter Tournaments

This is a list of tournaments for the game Myth II: Soulblighter.

The second of the Myth series, originally created by Bungie and later maintained by Take 2 Games (now called Take 2 Interactive), Myth II: Soulblighter was by far the most popular and played host to many tournaments. Most tournaments were played in '2-team', individual 'free for all', or '1 versus 1' formats. Other formats, such as team 'free for all', '2 versus 2', '3 versus 3' and cooperative formats have also been used, but less frequently. Some of the tournaments, such as the co-operative ones or Online Gaming Ladder were more competitions than tournaments but are worthy of note in this article.

This article is incomplete, and does not include non-standard Myth II maps. While it includes 3rd party maps, they are all based on Bungie's original unit tagset.

Myth World Cup

The largest tournament of any given year, and one of the longest running series (one a year since 1998 other than 2002). Discussed in depth on Main Myth World Cup article. MWC is a full-team tournament, so is also listed in the 2-team tournaments list below.

Full-Team Tournaments

Full-Team Tournaments are a series of myth games played between two teams at a time (similar to any real world team sporting tournament (ex. World Cup). Full-Team Tournaments are the most popular tournament type on Myth, because they allow order/clan play and allow weaker players to have a role without an individual player's skill level being as major a win/lose factor as it would be in smaller teams, or if they played on their own. Because of this, MWC has always been a full-team tournament.

Notable tournament series includes (detailed further up the page), Major League Myth, National Myth League - but Myth World Cup has always dominated the scene.

Name	Date	Organiser	Winners	Second	Website
Major League Myth		Moridin CP	Evil Inc.	Madrigal Chamber of Commerce
IFR		Unknown	Civil Order	WFL
Online Gaming Ladder	Feb-April 1999	Ravager	Civil Order	BMF
Cloudspine Combat	Mar-April 1999	Unknown	AkA
The Forge League (TFL)	July-August 1999	Rolling rock	Civil Order	The Companions
Culloden Hill	May-August 1999	Abaddon Desf/Gunda	Civil Order	The Companions
Myth World Cup 1999	May-August 1999	Butcher	Civil Order	BMF	MWC99
Major League Myth 2		Moridin CP	Civil Order	Wolf Pack
National Myth League	Jan-April 2000	Rolling Rock	Street Fighters	Random Oblivion	NML
MWC 2000	May-August 2000	Stinger et al..	Street Fighters	Ginslingers	MWC2000
National Myth League 2	August-December 2000	Rolling Rock et al.	Men of Rohan	Old Skool Wankers
Desert Fox		Brandtake	Men of Rohan	Glue the Moose
Champions of Myth	December 2000-March 2001	Strike	Northern Paladins	Batman & Robin
The Blood Tournament	March-May 2001	Sir Mick et al.	Northern Paladins	The Wight Foundation
MWC 2001	May-August 2001	Wight Slayer et al.	Northern Paladins	Team Angry Face	MWC01
For Unlawful Carnage Killing		Pagan God/Limp	Northern Paladins	D0ng B0mb
The Fall Classic	November 2002-Jan 2003	PMAs	Northern Paladins	Blood Pact	TFC
MWC 2003	May-August 2003	Grim et al.	BIAUIHYAC	Northern Paladins
The Fall Classic 2	October 2003-Jan 2004	Nitro	Brills Meets Evil	The Fucking Sorcers	TFC2
MWC 2004	May-August 2004	Grim et al.	Brill Meets Evil	Northern Paladins	MWC04
Seeker Starpower	September 2004-January 2005	Seeker et al.	The Casket Lottery	Thundercox
MWC 2005	June-Sept 2005	Mad Dog/Cheezefist	NO WINNER	Thundercox/BIAUIHYAC2	MWC05
MWC 2006	May-August 2006	Grim et al.	Northern Pallywankers	Thundercox	MWC06
MWC 2007	May-August 2007	toxyn et all	Thundercox	12Tasks	MWC07
The Winter Series	Dec 2007-March 2008	Paris	Shamlegger	Northern Paladins	TWS
MWC 2008	May-August 2008	Grim	Armageddon	House of Tirris	MWC08
The Winter Series 2009	February - April 2009	Paris	Bourbon Terrorists	Thundercox	TWSII

Free For All (FFA)

The winners of many ffa tournaments have had to play each other in a 1 on 1 match. These are still listed as ffa tournaments. Also, some winners played representing players who could not turn up, or had to drop. Usually these tournaments involved 4 - 6 players per map, with less as a pool continued.

Most notable tournament series was oPoP, which had five different incarnations.

Name	Date	Organiser	Winners	Second	Website
National Mac Gaming Championship - San Francisco	January 1999	Unknown	Freewill	Syckboy	NMGC99
Trial by Combat	Jan-Mar 1999	Butcher	Ananab Tilps, Scorpio, My Modem is on Fire	(tie)
Seven Phoenix Rising	March 1999	Bungie	Voodoo	Flatbread
Trial by Combat CP	March 1999	Ramses II	MrWuf	Cavos	Clan Plaid East Coast Gathering I
Fields of Carnage	Nov-December 2000	Wight Slayer	Drizzt	Bathtub Gn	Fields of Carnage
WIFFA 2000	November 2000	Igmo	Drizzt	akiba	WIFFA 2000
Odiferous Pile of PoOp	January-April 2001	Igmo	P3N15 (Myrkridon)	Windorabug	oPoP
MCC Invitational: Blind and other Oddities	Mar-April 2001	MCC	Sloith	Wrock	MCC Invitational
April Fewlz	April 2001	Clan Mac Gaming	Poo Fountain (Sam Stone)	M. Bison (Phod)	April Fewlz
MCC Invitational II: A Mythilogical Adventure	January - March 2002	MCC	Odyn/Taha	(tie)	MCC Invitational II
PlayMyth.net's Show n Play Tournament	August 2002	SpondMax and PMAs	Drizzt	Xel	Show n Play
Shogun 2	February-May 2003	Olympus	Chickenwire	Dwarf	Shogun 2 Forum
oPoP2: Full Throttle	July-September 2003	Igmo	Rabican	Cave	oPoP2
miniMax 1	October 2003	igmo	Judas	Hit	miniMax 1
miniMax 2	November 2003	igmo	Drizzt	Xel	miniMax 2
miniMax 3	December 2003	igmo	Drizzt	Danger	miniMax3
miniMax 4	December 2003	igmo	none		miniMax4/oPoP2.9
miniMax	October-December 2003	igmo	Drizzt	Xel	miniMax
oPoP3: Down and Dirty	December 2003-February 2004	Igmo	Nemesis	Bullet Tooth Tony	oPoP3
oPoP4: Summer Omythiad	June-August 2004	Igmo	Truth	Myrkridon	oPoP4
oPoP5: Pimpin ain't ez	Jan-February 2005	Big Mo (Igmo)	Tirri (Drizzt)	xeLizzle (Xel)	oPoP5
FFAGE	February 2005	Ginga	Duan	Terry the kid	FFAGE
MCC Invitational 3: Nostalgia	March - May 2005	Wrock & Rastlin	Wrock	Father Xmas	MCC Invitational III
Hangover Special	February 2006	Igmo	Nemesis/Truth	Paris in Flames	Hangover Special Forums
Suicidal Final Art	Jan-Mar 2007	Paris	Nemesis	Dantski	Suicidal Final Art
Aftermath	Oct-Dec 2008	Paris	Paris	Gin	Aftermath Forums

Team Free For All Tournaments

Always a popular tournament type, but always under-looked by those interested in creating new tournaments. Tends to use small teams of 2 - 3.

Name	Date	Organiser	Winners	Second	Website
(Clever Name Here)		Kalakdrin	RARR EATS MOO	All in the family	Clever Name Here Final Stats/Finals
Limbs Heads and Smoking Craters	November - December 2001	Leif and Blade	Tin Can	IFYM	Limbs Heads and Smoking Craters
Fields of Carnage 2	July-August 2004	Wight Slayer	The four Horsemen	Islamic Fundamentalists	Fields of Carnage 2
Ape Avalanche : Guerrilla Tactics	August-September 2007	Paris and Garnish	FREAKS	Cantilope and Dinglebert, MD	APEAVALANCHE:GUERRILLATACTICS

1 versus 1 (1v1) Tournaments

1v1 tournaments and games, and their importance always have some controvosy surrounding them. Many players use being better than someone 1v1 as proof their Myth skill surpasses them, while others argue their strong points could be captaining, teamwork, co-op etc.

Name	Date	Organiser	Winners	Second	Website
Beat the Butcher	November 2004	Sam the Butcher	Thet BadMonkey	Tirri (Drizzt)	Beat the Butcher
7 Penis Rising	July-August 2007	Shaister	Chohan	Nemesis	[]
M-1 Grand Prix 2005	December 2005	Ginga	Duan	CRC	M-1 GP 2005
Chohan's 1v1 Tournament	June-August 2006	Chohan	Chohan	Bullet Tooth Tony	Chohan's 1v1 Forum Thread#
Death Before Dishonour: Taste My Blade	November-December 2006	Giant Killer General	Giant Killer General	Paris	DBD Tournament Series Website/Forums
Lethal	March-April 2008	Paris	Kirk	Raziel/Rabican	[tws.tribalstylemusic.net]
m2sbr	May-June 2008	Paris	?	?	[1]

2 versus 2 (2v2) Tournaments

2v2 tournaments have a notorious history of being unfinished or unpopular, but there are exceptions.

Name	Date	Organiser	Winners	Second	Website
The National Mac Gaming Championships - San Francisco	February 1999	Unknown	Carch/Ven Jance	Freewill/Shadowjack	NMGC99

3 versus 3 (3v3) Tournaments

Like 2v2 tournaments, often poorly run and with less player motivation the field of 3v3 competition was small since it was not a part of everyday Myth games and 3v3 success has never been treated as a huge sign of a player's skill.

Co-operative Tournaments

Usually more a 'challenge' or 'competition' to prove who can achieve most, since co-operative tournaments never involved head to head play. Notable tournament series includes Mazzarin's Demise.

Name	Date	Organiser	Winners	Second	Website
Myth 2 Done Quick (MDQ)	December 1998-October 1999	Ananab Tilps	Serval and Sarpedon	Patroclus	M2DQ M2DQ (Old) M2DQ Films
Myth Master Challenge	Jan 1999-Sept 2002	Forrest	Wolfpack		Myth Master Central
MariusNet/Myth Forums Co-op Challenge	May 2002 - 2005)	MariusNet Administrators	Savanarola	Magnus	MariusNet co-op Challenge
MariusNet One Year Anniversary Co-op Challenge	August 2002	MariusNet Administrators	Savanarola		MariusNet 1-Year
MariusNet Myth Five Year Anniversary Co-op Challenge	November 2002	MariusNet Administrators	Savanarola and Mangus		MariusNet 5-Year Results
Myth Speed Running / Myth Done Quick 2 (MSR/MDQ2)	August 2002-August 2004	Patroclus	Nemesis	Savanarola	Myth Speed Running MDQ2
Mazzarin's Demise III	May 2003	Project Magma - ChrisP	Nemesis (team captain) et al.		Mazzarin's Demise III Winners page (with battle analysis for Legendary)
Mazzarin's Demise IV	Jan 2004	Project Magma - ChrisP	Sven Hjilrmanir (Ducky, team captain) et al.		Mazzarin's Demise IV Winners page (with battle analysis for Legendary)
Mazzarin's Demise V (v2))	September 2005	Project Magma - ChrisP & Jagman	ChrisP (captain) et al.		Mazzarin's Demise V v2 Winners page (with battle analysis for Heroic)
Mazzarin's Demise VI (v1 and v2))	September 2006	Project Magma	Rabicanp (Rabican Np)	CRC	Mazzarin's Demise VI Tournament Page
Grave Tidings	October 2006 -	A-Red			The Onyx Warlords

Combination tournaments

There is always tournaments that fall outside of the main classes, that encompass a mixture of genres. Those are placed here.

MilleniOni Tournament (December 2000 - February 2001)

• Type: ffa/team-ffa/cooperative/team
• Tournament Organiser: Magellan and The Wolfpack (his clan)
• Winners: 1st place: Scooter, 2nd place: Magellan, 3rd place: Alrond, 4th place: Sir Parson, 5th place: SilverBrin
• Comments: A small scale tournament (around 25 players) but with scores based on a mixture of most forms of Myth II play with a copy of Bungie's Oni as top prize.. Scores were split into multiplayer (won by Magellan) and cooperative (won by Alrond) then combined to form the overall leaderboard (won by Scooter). An invitational tournament held by friends, it held a variety of awards other than overall positioning helping give players more to strive for.
• MilleniOni

M-1 Grand Prix 2004 (September 2004)

• Type: FFA and 1v1
• Tournament Organiser: Ginga
• Winners: 1st place: Duan, 2nd place: Karashi, 3rd place: CRC
• Comments: One day tournament held within the Japanese Myth Community (essentially PlayMyth.net's AGEHA and Nowhere Final Destination clans) along with Father Xmas, a Myther who was adopted by the Japanese community. Despite claiming to be a 1v1 tournament, it included FFA games as well. Details are quite hard to get a hold of due to the lack of communication/translators from between the Japanese and Western Myth Community sub-groups and much of the site will not show on a standard Western computer in viewable characters.
• M-1 GP 2004 Site

The Valor Tournament (August - November 2006)

• Type: Team-FFA and 3v3
• Tournament Organiser: Toxyn, Slinx
• Winners: 1st place: Team FFA All Stars (Np), 2nd place: The Syndicate (TWF), 3rd place: Freaks, 4th place: Thundercox, 5th place: Big Trouble, 6th place: Jews for Jihad
• Comments: Run by TO-veteran blast from the past Toxyn, along with Slinx, Dantski, and Frumius. Though tournaments of the last few years have included prizes, this is the first one since the closure of Bungie.net to receive an official sponsor (MindscapeFX, a company run by a member of the Myth Community, called Frumius) - the prize being a painting from the MindscapeFX gallery. Raised 30 teams of four people each mostly, a fairly good turnout for a post-MWC tournament. Featured popular column by Frumius worthy of note.
• The Valor Tournament
• Mindscape FX

Myth-themed tournaments

There are also Myth II themed tournaments but not about skilled gameplay. Many more of this type have been forgotten by players than the other tournament types since these ones were not very competitive by comparison so this list is known to be far from complete.

The Myth II Handbook Humor contest (UNKNOWN DATE - October 1999)

• Type: 'Myth Humour Competition'
• Tournament Organiser: Unknown
• Winners: 1st place: 'Dud Wight' (QT Movie) by Rust Dragon, 2nd place: 'The Official Hax0r Guide' (Website) by DrunkBob, 3rd place: 'Total Comix' (website) by Et'he Visionary, 4th place: 'Myth II meets Halo' (Graphic) by Kelstek, 5th place: 'Cotal Todex' (website) by KillerK. Most Iliturit Entry: 'THERE FAT' (graphic) by Warlock. Runners up: 'Where's Waldo?' by ragnarok, 'Dat Tro U Do' (Sound) by Hungry Ghol, 'If I Had a Car' (Graphic) by Avery, 'Dreaming of Burt' (text) by Nightcrawler, 'The Myth II Drinking Game' (text) by Tsao, 'Dwarf Money' (graphic) by Sobo, 'Best RTS Game of the Year' (graphic) by Matt Burns
• Comments: Run by the creator of the well known Myth II Handbook (J. Charles Holt, aka DeathWhore), it had big prizes, particularly for such an odd competition with quite a lot of imaginitive submissions - hence the long list of runners up.

The Mill Contest (January - June 2000)

• Type: Map-Making Tournament
• Tournament Organiser: Frigidman
• Winners: 1st place: 'Under Myrkridian Standards' by Soma, Kuba and Bubba et al. Best Individual Level: 'Senex Silvae'. Honourable Mention: 'Legend of Gor-Ash' by Creation Games, 'CAGES', 'The Havre River' by The Idiot Map-Making Collective
• Comments: Run by The Mill, the centre of Myth II's map-making community with a major prize driving it.
• The Idiots Map-Making Collective

RMA Map-Making Contest 2003 (April - September 2003)

• Type: Map-Making Tournament
• Tournament Organiser: Mad Dog and Ascot, help from Real Men and Alliance Myth II Orders
• Winners: 1st place: '1944 - Normandy' by Carlinho, 2nd place: 'WW3: Revolutions' by Zephirus, 3rd place: 'Edges of the Empire' by Dash_Ripcock
• Comments: Organised by the RMA, a combination of two orders who often played together for Myth tournaments with work led by Mad Dog and Ascot the tournament aimed to revive map-making by offering prizes for good quality work. Lack of motivation by the rest of the team, too long of a time frame and very few map-makers caring (other than for a minor prize) meant the tournament was ultimately a failure - only 7 maps were submitted finally, and one almost finished beta.
• RMA Map-Making Contest 2003 Finished Map List

Lugas' Screenshot Contest (September 2006)

• Type: Screenshot Competition
• Tournament Organiser: Lugas
• Winners: Funniest picture - 1st place: Baak, 2nd place: Grayswandir. Most artistic picture - 1st place: Zeph, 2nd place: gugusm. Most interesting - 1st place: Khadrelt, 2nd place: Wismuth
• Comments: Run within the Project Magma forums by relative unknown (in the community at large) Lugas for a month.
• Tournament Thread with rules and entries
• Winners Thread