Legion TD 2 News

Expected patch release: Friday, January 5 (Pacific Time)

[h3]News[/h3]

• Check out Lisk's Developer AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month! These AMA ("ask-me-anything") events are run every month, so keep an eye on reddit for the next ones.
  
• Next Nova Cup: January 27-28
  
• Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.

Get ready for a brand new season of Legion TD 2!

• January 3: New season patch notes are posted (v11.00)
  
• January 4: Current season ends at 8am PST / 5pm CET. Ranked disabled. New season patch is live! (v11.00)
  
• January 4-9: 1v1 featured event is live. v11.00 hotfixes/tweaks likely to come.
  
• January 6-9: Ranked rewards are given out. Player ratings are soft-reset.
  
• January 9: New season begins at 8am PST / 5pm CET. Ranked re-enabled.
  

[h3]1v1 Featured Event[/h3]
Allies holding you back? This your chance to shine. It's time for 1v1 action!

• Ordered Chaos: NEW THIS SEASON! Both players play Chaos, but get the same rolls every wave! Now, you can’t even blame your rolls.
• Skill-based matchmaking: Play with and against players near your skill level.
  
• Visible ratings: Used for matchmaking and bragging rights.
  
• Event Points (EP) leaderboard: Gain and lose EP by winning and losing games. Additionally, +3 EP each game, so play as much as you can to climb.
  
• Rewards: Up to 5x rewards compared to last year! Gotta keep up with inflation.
  • Top 10 finish: 25,000 Essence
  • Top 100 finish: 15,000 Essence
  • Top 1,000 finish: 10,000 Essence
  • Reach 150 EP at any point: 5,000 Essence

[h3]Season Goals[/h3]

• Achieve up to 3 season goals based on your current rating and previous season's rating. Season goals reward players who play early in the season and keep climbing throughout the year.
  
• Goal 1 must be achieved by April 1. Earn 5,000 Essence.
  
• Goal 2 must be achieved by July 1. Earn 5,000 Additional Essence.
  
• Goal 3 must be achieved by October 1. Earn 5,000 Additional Essence.
  
• If you achieve any 2 goals, you immediately unlock the seasonal Toony Mimic skin, which won’t be offered in the shop until next year (January 2025).

[h3]New Mastermind: Champion[/h3]

Once per game, permanently grant +8% attack speed and damage reduction to a fighter. Affects spawns, summons, clones, etc.

Show that special fighter how much you care about them.

[h3]New Mastermind: Kingsguard[/h3]

+2 Income
Start the game with 2 of each king upgrade

Sit back and let your teammate and king carry you to victory.

[h3]New Mastermind: Double Lock-In[/h3]

+1 Income
Lock 2 Fighters

Now you can NiceLuck your favorite combos every game.

[h3]New Mastermind: Megamind[/h3]

+1 Gold
Picks another random Mastermind

Free gold!! (only recommended for players with at least 200 IQ)

[h3]Reworked Mastermind: Redraw[/h3]

Random starting roll with T1-T6 fighters (Chaos-style roll)
+4 income
4x Random Rerolls (Chaos-style rerolls)

Keeps the fun of strategically rolling the dice without all the mental stress of drafting.

[h3]New Classic Game Mode: Leak 2 Win[/h3]

Every time you leak, your king heals 10% missing health. Every time you clear, your king is damaged by 5% current health.

Leaks are the King's job.

[h3]Coming Soon[/h3]
New units coming next month!



[h3]Toony Mimic[/h3]
Immediately unlock the Toony Mimic skin for free if you achieve any 2 season goals. Otherwise, you can unlock it via the shop when it's offered next year.


[h3]Pack Leader of the Horde[/h3]
The seasonal skin from 2023 is now available for sale!
For the Horde!



[h3]General[/h3]

Rework: Mid/Late Game Workers

Instead of all workers being scaled by +6% mythium rate per wave starting on wave 11, each new worker is scaled by +12% per wave starting on wave 11. For example, when you train a worker on wave 13, that worker is now worth 1.36 workers. (+1.36 mythium per 10 seconds)

This buffs mid and late game workers, without inflating the amount of mythium in the game.

Details: The +12% buff is applied each wave gradually over the course of the build phase. For example, at the start of wave 11's build phase, new workers are worth the usual 1, and by the end of wave 11's build phase, new workers are worth 1.12. It's still optimal to train workers immediately when you can.

Rework: Classic Bonus Income
- Reduced bonus income
- Bonus income no longer influences power score
- High-rated ranked players who are low-rated in classic are now considered stronger by the matchmaker

This makes players with bonus income less likely to quickly go on fire and improves overall fairness. It also makes it less likely for high-rated ranked players to unfairly get bonus income.

Due to player base limitations, Classic has loose skill-based matchmaking, effectively putting you into a game as soon as 8 players are ready. The matchmaker then automatically balances the teams, but when teams cannot be properly balanced (usually due to 3-stacks and 4-stacks), we compensate the lowest-rated players on the weaker team with bonus income to keep things fair.

Tab Scoreboard
- Now displays enemy Fighter Value when viewing the enemy team (Screenshot)
- During the build phase, you'll see each player's Fighter Value from the previous wave
- During the battle phase, you'll see each player's current Fighter Value

In high Elo, value-counting has become an expected skill. While it is a skill, it's not fun to do, and we'd rather reward players for focusing on other skills.

Additionally, this change indirectly nerfs full eco/sui by making it more obvious when players don't add any Fighter Value.

King Upgrades
- You can now research king upgrades a split second after the wave starts (before mercenaries warp) to squeeze them in at the last possible moment.

[h3]Masterminds[/h3]

Fiesta
- Gold gain: 14-50 → 13-48

Very high pick rate

[h3]Legion Spells[/h3]

Battle Scars
- Health gain per stack: 360 → 350

High pick rate.

Creditor
- Maximum spare gold: 170 → 180
- Maximum gold gained per wave: 85 → 90

Low win rate and pick rate.

Lizard Army
- Mythium: +50 → +55

Low pick rate and win rate.

Overwork
- Mythium rate on wave 12: -30% → -35%

Very high pick rate.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Fire Archer
- Attack speed: 1.02 → 1.05

Dark Mage
- Mana regeneration decreased by 4%

Bone Crusher
- Health: 1120 → 1110

Shifting power from Bone Crusher and Dark Mage to Fire Archer.

Looter / Pack Rat
- Attack speed: 1.04 → 1.06

Slightly low win rate and pick rate.

Pollywog / Seraphin
- Attack speed: 1.075 --> 1.093

Devilfish
- Health: 1100 --> 1080

Shifting power from Devilfish to Pollywog and Seraphin

Masked Spirit / False Maiden / Hell Raiser
- Attack speed: 1.03 → 1.05

Low win rate and pick rate.

Harpy
- Attack speed: 1.44 → 1.43

Sky Queen
- Attack speed: 1.46 → 1.43
- Mana synergy increased by 40%

Sky Queen was underperforming with Sacred Steed, Starcaller, and Magician. Compensation nerf to remain power neutral. Thanks to Reze for testing.

Howler
- Attack speed: 0.93 → 0.94

Sunfang
- Health: 1970 → 1980
- Attack speed: 0.93 → 0.94

Slightly low win rate and pick rate.

Kingpin
- Health: 4150 --> 4110
- Damage: 228 --> 226

High win rate.

Sacred Steed / Pegasus
- Mana regeneration decreased by 4%

Very high pick rate.

Tempest
- Machine Gunner: 14 → 15

Leviathan
- Health: 1770 → 1730
- Damage: 71 → 69

Shifting power from Leviathan to Tempest.

Dwarf Banker
- Damage: 50 → 53
- Max mana: 8 → 6

Big Wig
- Damage: 146 → 153
- Max mana: 12 → 9
- Mana lost on death: 40% → 50%

We're happy with last patch's change to Bankers and are pushing it further. Nerfing the maximum upside on their gold generation, since it’s promoting unhealthy gameplay, but compensating with stat buffs. Also, better rewarding tactical Short Selling.

Gateguard / Harbinger
- Chaos Hound / Cerberus: Attack speed: 1 -> 0.985

Slightly high pick rate and win rate.

Ocean Templar
- Resonance: Magic resistance: 12% → 10%

Very high pick rate.

Antler
- Thick Hide: Bonus damage reduction when built next to Whitemane: 10% → 8%

Slightly high pick rate and win rate. Thick Hide was providing a lot of hidden value.

Hydra
- Damage: 114 → 120
- Hydraling: Damage: 38 → 40

Low win rate and pick rate.

[h3]Mercenaries[/h3]

Brute
- Damage 60 → 61

Imp
- Attack speed: 1.02 → 1.03

Cannoneer
- Attack speed: 0.658 → 0.649

Drake
- Attack speed:1.075 → 1.058

Shifting power from Cannoneer and Drake to their power mercenary counterparts.

Shaman
- Mana regeneration decreased by 5%

High usage rate.

Kraken
- Health: 7000 → 6970
- Damage: 285 → 281

High usage rate and win rate.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 14: Killer Slugs
- Health: 2070 → 2090

Wave 15: Quadrapuses
- Health: 2210 → 2190
- Giant Quadrapus: Health: 8840 → 8760

Shifting power from wave 15 to 14.

Wave 18: Wale Chiefs
- Attack speed: 1.47 → 1.45

A bit too strong compared to waves 17 and 19.

[h3]Systems[/h3]

Legend Rating Display
Legend ranked players now have their current season and previous season peak rating numbers displayed.

This is intended to better differentiate between Legend players and give Legend players an incentive to climb as high as they can.

Guild War
Guild Wars are now 4 hours longer
- Previously started at 7 am PST, now starts at 3 am PST
- Previously started at 4 pm CET, now starts at 12 pm CET
- No change to end time

This is intended to give players from different timezones more opportunity to participate

FairPlay
Players who are actively chat-banned with 7+ lifetime chat bans (i.e. 30+ day length chat bans) who are frequently reported for verbal abuse are now, in addition, given a micro-suspension (~30-90 seconds). This incentivizes chat-banned players to reform & improve their behavior.

This affects an extremely tiny minority of players who have 7+ lifetime chat bans. It takes consistent negative behavior across hundreds of games to reach this point.

[h3]Balance Watchlist[/h3]
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If anything is being more closely monitored than usual, it will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:
- New Masterminds
- Worker changes



[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• Post-game MVP: Improved formula
  
• Tab Scoreboard: You can now ping individual fighters. The “wants to build fighters” message will now only display if you ping an empty space on an allied lane.
  
• Matchmaking: Now takes into account past season peak. This should provide fairer matches especially near the start of the season.
  
• Eco Detection: Improved detection for players who full-push/eco in the mid/late game
  
• Social Options: Added Receive Guild Invites option if you want to turn off receiving guild invites
  
• Player Reporting: You can now report players in non-game chat by clicking their chat message/whisper
  
• Player Reporting: When unmuting a chat-banned player in-game for the first time, it now displays an additional confirmation popup (Screenshot)
  
• Chat: Chat messages and whispers are now clickable (to view profile/mute/report/etc) (Screenshot)
  
• Classic Mode Voting: Now displays the message in Team Chat, so you can strategize your legion choice based on the mode (Screenshot)

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Stability: Fixed some very rare cases where ratings weren't updated after the game finished
  
• Stability: Fixed a very rare case where the game would freeze, usually in very spam heavy Classic games on Wave 21+
  
• Chat: Fixed a bug where in-game chat would be lost if you were in certain menu screens
  
• Main Menu: Fixed a bug where warning icon UI didn’t update automatically (i.e. when a mute/suspension expired)

[h3]Nova Cup: Today We Fight For Glory![/h3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n6gzsqJ7Y&feature=youtu.be
Wondering what these "Nova Cups" are all about? Shadowings' hype video captures the excitement of epic holds and epic sends in a tightly edited 90 second video.

[h3]Game Translations[/h3]


Legion TD 2's translations continue to be greatly improved, thanks to major contributions from community members! If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's texts further, visit the following link:

Help Translate Legion TD 2

HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!



With this new patch, we are excited to kick off the new year with tons of content to go along with the new ranked season!

The new Masterminds will add new opening gamestates that will add even more variety to the meta without breaking anything that players are familiar with. The mid/late game worker rework seeks to address some of the pain points of last season's meta hopefully without breaking anything.

As always, with any major patch, we'll keep a close eye on things and rapidly hotfix as long as needed.

Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short (hopefully positive ) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players = more freelo better matchmaking!

If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!

And as always, if you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and /r/LegionTD2 on reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game. If you want a guaranteed answer from the devs, the monthly AMAs on /r/LegionTD2 are your best bet.

Sincerely,
The Legion TD 2 Team

We hope you're hyped for the new season, Season 2024, coming in just a couple weeks! In the meantime, we want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

[h3]Twitch Drops[/h3]
To celebrate the holiday season, a Twitch Drops Celebration will be run from December 24th - January 2nd!

From December 24th - January 2nd, watch any Legion TD 2 Twitch streamer with Twitch Drops enabled to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 Essence
- Watch for an additional 60 minutes: 4,000 Additional Essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random Card
In other words, simply watch 240 minutes (4 hours) of Twitch, and you'll earn 6,000 Essence and a Random Card in total.

Full instructions for both streamers & viewers here:
Legion TD 2 x Twitch Drops

Expected patch release: Monday, December 4 (Pacific Time)

[h3]News[/h3]

• Season ends January 4th! More details: End of Season 2023 Announcement
• Check out Lisk's Developer AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month! These AMA ("ask-me-anything") events are run every month, so keep an eye on reddit for the next ones.
  
• Next Nova Cup: January (date to be determined). Enjoy the break this month!
  
• Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.

[h3]New Classic Game Mode: Giga Mercs[/h3]

All mercenaries have +100% bonus damage and health and give 2x income, but also cost 2x as much mythium. Abilities are also scaled.

Mercenaries are also 50% chonkier in size.

[h3]Christmas Map Decorations & Skins![/h3]

A treacherous snow queen has cast a spell over the world of Legion, and it's all frozen over! But fear not...she's actually not treacherous. She just wanted everyone to get in the holiday spirit! On top of the snow-covered landscape, you'll find Christmas trees, presents, colored lights, snowmen, stockings, candy canes, and more goodies around the map. Enjoy the fresh look for Legion TD 2 while you eat Christmas cookies and hopefully spam some games over the holidays!

New Christmas Map: Both 2v2 & 4v4 maps packed with Christmas decor!
New Skin: Gentleman Ogre
New Skin: Red-Nosed Centaur

Screenshots


The snow queen promises to lift the "eternal" winter next patch, when Season 2024 starts. You can toggle decorations in Options if your PC is struggling to contain her power.

[h3]Floating Isles Campaign[/h3]
In case you missed it, the long-awaited third singleplayer/co-op campaign, The Floating Isles, just recently launched!


Party as 1-4 players and challenge all new opponents: Reek-a-deek, Fabulous Freddy, Declan Stormhammer, Jill McDonald, Rex Ribbitor, chaoslord2468, and Drachia!

Steam page: Legion TD 2 | Floating Isles Campaign



[h3]General[/h3]

Chaos
- Income: +5 --> +4

As average end wave has increased and players have mastered Chaos, it has become the top performing mastermind, especially at higher ranks.

Full Eco Strategy ("Sui")
- If you are full-ecoing, you now receive 20% reduced income gold that wave

Our philosophy is that unorthodox strategies are good for the game in moderation. However, full eco is too strong and becoming too frequent, so we're nerfing it. To avoid this penalty, make sure you're trying to clear some of the wave.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Nekomata
- Spirit Offering: Health gain per stack: 280 → 290

Low win rate.

Infiltrator
- Health: 720 → 710

Orchid
- Health: 2500 → 2460

High win rate.

Dwarven Banker
- Damage: 47 → 50
- Max mana: 10 → 8

Big Wig
- Damage: 138 → 146
- Max mana: 15 → 12

Nerfing the maximum upside on the Bankers’ gold generation, since it’s promoting unhealthy gameplay, but compensating with stat buffs.

Sea Serpent
- Health: 680 → 690

Deepcoiler
- Health: 2070 → 2110
- Attack speed: 0.806 → 0.82

Low win rate and pick rate.

Leviathan
- Damage: 68 → 71
- Bombardier: Damage: 85 → 90
- Aerial Command: Bonus damage: 18% → 16%

Aerial Command was a disproportionately powerful aura, so we’re shifting power budget out of it.

Treant
- Health: 960 → 950

Tree of Knowledge
- Health: 2280 → 2300

Shifting power from Treant to Tree of Knowledge. Overall nerf.

Lord of Death / Hades
- Intellect: Mana restore: 8% → 7%

Slightly high win rate and pick rate.

[h3]Mercenaries[/h3]

Ghost Knight
- Damage: 185 → 187


Siege Ram
- Health: 5700 → 5750
- Damage: 294 → 295

Kraken
- Damage: 291 → 285

Shifting power from Kraken to Ghost Knight and Siege Ram.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 18: Wale Chiefs
- Poison-Tipped Pole: Single-target damage: 240 → 260
- Poison-Tipped Pole: AOE damage: 30 → 25

Shifting power budget from AOE to single-target damage.

[h3]Balance Watchlist[/h3]
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If anything is being more closely monitored than usual, it will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:

Mid & late game workers

In some game states, it's not rewarding enough to push workers in the mid and late game. We're iterating on systemic changes to fix this, but to avoid shaking up the meta too much near the end of the season, it's best to wait until the Season 2024 patch in January.



[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• Guild Donations: Donating the first card of a card type for your guild now gives 3x bonus contribution to the player (like it used to). However, a player is disqualified from the bonus if less than 33% of their total guild contribution is coming from their current guild. This discourages players from intentionally hopping from guild to guild to farm contribution, while still rewarding the vast majority of players who are loyal to a particular guild.
  
• Sandbox: New UI buttons for playback up/down and start/clear wave (Screenshot)
  
• Added new Interface Option: "Enable right-click to ping" option (default on) to allow players to disable right clicking to ping to reduce misclicks
  
• Added new Interface Option: "Always send queued mercenaries immediately" option (default off) to allow players to send their queued mercenaries immediately when they can afford them, rather than waiting until the last possible moment (default).
  
• Slightly improved MVP score formula
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed a bug on Wave 22+ where the light shafts didn't change color during build phase
  
• Fixed a very rare bug where a guild's card donation progress could be wiped. If this bug occurred to you, please open a ticket at legiontd2.com/support
  

[h3]Nova Cup: Today We Fight For Glory![/h3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n6gzsqJ7Y&feature=youtu.be
Wondering what these "Nova Cups" are all about? Shadowings' hype video captures the excitement of epic holds and epic sends in a tightly edited 90 second video.

[h3]Game Translations[/h3]


Legion TD 2's translations continue to be greatly improved, thanks to major contributions from community members! If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's texts further, visit the following link:

Help Translate Legion TD 2

HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!



Hope everyone is ready for Christmas & New Years holidays! With this update, we are excited to bring back the Christmas map and get in some balance tweaks before the new season begins next year. We have some major gameplay content & improvements planned for next season, so stay tuned for those. :) In the meantime, we're confident in the Chaos nerf that had been in consideration for some months now.

Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short (hopefully positive ) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players = more freelo better matchmaking!

If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!

And as always, if you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and /r/LegionTD2 on reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game. If you want a guaranteed answer from the devs, the monthly AMAs on /r/LegionTD2 are your best bet.

Sincerely,
The Legion TD 2 Team

The 2023 season is ending, and a new season is coming!

Below is the calendar for January 2024:

• January 3: New season patch notes are posted (v11.00)
  
• January 4: Current season ends at 8am PST / 5pm CET. Ranked disabled.
  
• January 4-9: 1v1 featured event is live
  
• January 5: New season patch is live (v11.00)
  
• January 6-9: Ranked rewards are given out. Player ratings are soft-reset.
  
• January 9: New season begins at 8am PST / 5pm CET. Ranked re-enabled.
  

More details to come in the upcoming Season 2024 patch notes, which will be posted on January 3.



Ranked badges and loading screen borders are based on your peak rating this season. You are not penalized for dropping below a tier you already achieved. Eligibility for each tier requires 10 ranked games and a peak rating this season of:

• Bronze: 1000
  
• Silver: 1200
  
• Gold: 1400
  
• Platinum: 1600
  
• Diamond: 1800
  
• Expert: 2000
  
• Master: 2200
  
• Senior Master: 2400
  
• Grandmaster: 2600
  
• Legend: 2800
  

Best of luck in the final weeks of the season! Remember you cannot drop ranked rewards by playing. Rewards are based on your peak rank this season.



Ladder Points (LP) are earned for the first 10 ranked games per week. LP gain per game ranges from 10 to 100; more points are earned the higher rated you are.

Rewards: Every January, at the end of the ranked season, special badges are given to the top 1/10/25/50/100 LP earners based on their final LP rank. Then, everyone's LP is reset back to 0 for the next season.

• GOAT: Top 1 LP
  
• Raidboss: Top 2-10 LP
  
• Champion: Top 11-25 LP
  
• Pro: Top 26-50 LP
  
• Elite: Top 51-100 LP

This was introduced a couple patches ago (v10.10), but reposting below for visibility:

Rating Decay
- Players rated 2600+ who have not played a ranked game in 2+ weeks will decay 10 rating points per day. This will help keep the top of the ladder representative of the currently-active best players.

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: abrasiert (Kingdanzz & Widderson)
- D2: brotbrecherboy_valas (Brotbrecherboy & Valas)
- D3: what's arcane? (warnessa2007 & TDMeister)
- D4: doubletrouble (MrBranclon & MrsLincla)
- D5: radikalrasur (FleischWolf & momsdarling)

Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!


The upcoming November Nova Cup takes place November 25 - 26.

$875 in prizes and sign-up is free - first come first served!
There are up to five skill divisions, so no matter what your rating is, you have a chance to win.
Participation prize: Every participant who plays all of their matches will receive a FREE random card. If you haven't played a tournament yet, this is a great time to join.


- Everyone that is level 3 or higher can join for free! First come, first served. So if you joined the game during the free to play weekend, feel free to participate!




When you watch Nova Cups on the official channel, aside from enjoying shoutcasted top-tier Legion gameplay, you'll also receive in-game rewards based on how long you watch!

Watch the official Legion TD 2 Twitch stream during a Nova Cup to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 essence
- Watch for an additional 90 minutes: 4,000 additional essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random card

In other words, if you watch the Nova Cup both days, you'll earn 6,000 total essence and a random card!

IMPORTANT: You'll need to link your Twitch account to your Legion TD 2 account in order to earn the rewards.
Link Your Twitch Account

• Sign-ups are open from NOW until November 25 9am PST / 6pm CET.
  
• To sign up, find a teammate and form a party. After you're both in the party, have one player type "/signup [team name]" (e.g. /signup Snail Kings) in chat. You should see a confirmation message that your sign-up went through. For those who participated in previous Nova Cups, you no longer need to do /join to signup.
  
• The first 16 teams to sign up in each division can participate. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. View the team list to see your sign-up position and division.
  
• If there are more than 32 teams checked in, there will be an additional best-of-1 qualifying round to allow more teams to participate. It is a best-of-1, rather than a best-of-3, to keep the event from running overly long.
  
• Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

• You may sign-up as a solo with a suggested team name using the "/signup [team name]" command. Solo teams will be added to the Public Teams list, then be formed into teams on the day of the tournament. Solo teams will be randomly assigned a team name from either of its members.
  
• If there is a waitlist, team sign-ups will always take priority over solo sign-ups
  
• If you sign up as a solo, but then you find a teammate, you can re-sign up as a team any time before check-ins start. Just use the /signup command again with the new teammate. The tournament organizer will void your old solo signup after they process your new team signup.
  
• After check-ins are over, all checked-in solo players will be randomly formed into teams by the tournament organizer. You cannot request a specific teammate at this point; if you want to play with a specific person, you should have signed up as a team instead.

It is still strongly recommended to sign-up as a team to guarantee your spot in the tournament and to give you time to practice with your teammate beforehand.



Saturday, November 25

• Check-in window: 8:45 - 9:15am PDT / 5:45 - 6:15pm CET
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CET
  
  • Round of 16 (Best of 3)
    
  • Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, November 26

• Check-in window: 9 - 9:30am PDT / 6 - 6:30pm CET
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CET
  
  • Semi-finals (Best of 3)
    
  • Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

• Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
  
• Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

• 2v2
  
• Mastermind only
  
• Hybrid disabled

Division 1 & 2 Only
- Conquest rules apply. (Once you win with a Mastermind playstyle, you can't use that playstyle again for that series)



For a full list of rules, prizes, and other details, visit the following link:
Nova Cup Rules & FAQ

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on November 25th! The Nova Cup will be casted and streamed at twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff