Here, you will find everything you need to know about the other side of Battling Dragons fights -- tournaments. Tournaments are an alternative to web battles that occur at a more numerous and more rapid rate. They allow your familiar to exercise its battle abilities against a broader range of enemies you may have never fought otherwise.

What are tournaments?
How do I join a tourney?
Where can I find tourneys?
What happens after a tourney begins?
When do I fight in a tourney?
What happens when a tournament ends?
What if there is a tie?
What is the level range?
What are the prizes?
Who gets the prizes?
What do the restrictions mean?
What happens when I use a relic in a tournament?
Why did the end date change?
Can I join more than one tournament at a time?
I am in a web battle. Will the tourney effect it?
Can I battle regularly while in a tournament?
What are Tag-Team Tournaments?
How do I fight with a tag-team?
What are tourney points?
How can I redeem my points?
Is there any other way to get points?
How can I make my own tournaments?
What are Bonus Monsters / B-Monsters / Tourney-Only Monsters?
How come not all types of monsters can be adopted?
What are tournaments? Tournaments are scheduled battles that take place between any member that decides to join them. They are not necessary for your Battling Dragons career; they are a completely optional way to gain power.
Over the course of the tournament, you will fight a different opponent every day -- each battle will end within twenty-four hours. You must fight all others enlisted in your tournament. These battles do not effect your win ratio.
Whoever did the best in the tournament will receive a prize of some sort, usually in the form of a relic. How do I join a tourney? You first must have a monster capable of joining a tournament. This could depend on its level or even something innate about your monster's species, such as its Elements. There also must be room for your monster to join; only so many combatants may join a tournament. Lastly, no other tournaments you are signed up for may have their dates overlap with another tournament's.
If you meet the requirements to join a tournament, just submit the form. If you happen to become ineligible for a tournament while you are waiting for the start date, you will be kicked out. Once the tournament begins, your monster becomes locked and cannot level up or change until it is over. Where can I find tourneys? Go to Tournaments listed on the main page of Battling Dragons or log into your Battling Dragons account and click on the Tournaments tab. From there, you will be able to find tournaments that any of your monsters are eligible to join.
You can also browse all tournaments: ones you can sign up for, ones that have already begun, and those which have long since finished.
Once you find a tournament you like, just click the button to join.
You can also sign up to receive notifications of new tournaments as they are added, which is quite often. What happens after a tourney begins? During the first day of a tournament, nothing at all happens. This is just to kick out anyone who became ineligible the night before and to cement the schedule of events for all participants. At this point, grids and participants' levels are locked. You can see whom you are fighting and when in order to prepare your AI. When do I fight in a tourney? On the second day of a tournament and on, you will fight another enlisted member. These fights are the same as normal web battles, but greatly accelerated; they finish in one day. Just as a normal battle, you may change your AI at any time should the need arise. Unlike a web battle, hits from your web site do nothing to aid your monster.
Battles begin at the wee hours of the night here on the East coast. This allows one to wake up in the morning and hurry, if desired, to see what has become of a tournament match. They usually finish by the evening, but prolonged battles may last until the late night. Should something go freakishly wrong and neither side emerges victorious, a draw will be declared.
If an odd number of people joined a tournament, you will always sit one day out, fighting no one. What happens when a tournament ends? On the last day of a tournament, no fighting goes on. Prizes are just dished out. The player with the highest number of wins will receive the prizes denoted by the tournament; everyone receives some amount of Experience and Tourney Points depending on their individual performance.
If your monster is currently challenged or engaged in a web battle, it will receive its experience as latent experience, to be bundled with the experience earned from the web battle. What if there is a tie? In the case that two or more members have the exact same number of wins, the player who had the highest value of wins will be declared the victor. That is, the member whose familiar won against enemy familiars of a level higher than its own (or just not lower than its own). In an example of two level ten monsters both have three wins, the one that fought against enemies level 10, 11, and 12 would beat the one that fought against levels 10, 10, and 11.
In the rare case that even this value is the same, a complete draw will be declared and all prizes shared equally among all parties. What is the level range? The level range shows which monsters may join and participate in a tourney. Should an enlisted monster level-up outside of the allowed range, it will be removed from the tourney.
Once the tourney begins, levels are locked. All experience will be held until the end of the tournament to prevent leveling-up out of the tourney's level range. What are the prizes?
Who gets the prizes? Prizes are many and varied. Typically, they are Relics, including special relics given away only on certain holidays. Their identity and effects are listed no where on the site.
Other common possibilities are boosted Experience or Tournament Points for the victor, increasing the already ample amount awarded for receiving the highest number of wins. What do the restrictions mean? Certain tournaments may be designed for certain monsters or participants. These are the things a tournament may be restricted to: Should a tournament have multiple requirements, a monster must meet all of them. What happens when I use a relic in a tournament? The relic will be used for every one of your match-ups during the tournament. No matter how many matches you fight in, this will only cost you one of the relics.
Certain relics, such as Brok's Smithy and Wyrd Water, have altered effects for tournaments, described in their individual entries. Why did the end date change? Before a tournament begins, the end date is calculated as the maximum possible length. That is, the tournament is figured to end on a date as though all possible participation slots are filled. Once the tournament begins, the end date is refigured to the number of members who actually enlisted.
This is done to prevent conflicts in dates for members who enlist in more than one tournament at a time. Can I join more than one tournament at a time? You can join multiple tournaments at a time just so long as their dates do not conflict. You cannot be battling in two tournaments at once. Check the Start and End Dates of tournaments to see what you will be eligible for. I am in a web battle. Will the tourney effect it? Can I battle regularly while in a tournament? No. The game was designed to allow a player to be in both at once. The only outcome you will see is the receipt of Latent Experience. Since you cannot level up while in the middle of either a web battle or a tournament, you must hold onto this experience until you are awarded for whichever finishes last. What are Tag-Team Tournaments?
How do I fight with a tag-team? In a Tag-Team Tournament, you can battle with two familiars at once. Both monsters must meet all requirements of the tournament, but the monster designated as the "partner" monster may have a level lower than that required.
When signing up for a tag tourney, one must pick a primary monster and a partner. You may set the grid for both, but only one AI will be used (that of your main monster). When setting AI for a tag tournament, a special option will appear to "tag" a partner monster into the match and use a tech. Once tagged, the partner monster will defend all techs used against it until the primary monster acts again and replaces its partner.
The partner monster shares the same life with the primary monster. Any in-battle stat alterations -- positive or negative -- are also shared between the two monsters. Boosts and skills that alter base stats, such as Stealth, are not shared.
Partner monsters differ from a normal monster in battle in two respects: they do not recharge energy, and they always start a match with the maximum energy in each bar. Partner monsters will even have more energy than should be allowed for their grid. For example, if a partner monster only has up to a SL two spell slotted in its Special and nothing in the third or fourth slot, it will still have four energy. Tagging requires no energy from the main monster of the match, but it will still recharge normally despite not losing any energy. If a monster were to tag out its partner and use an EL 2 Magic tech, the partner would lose two energy from its Magic bar and regain nothing, but the main monster would regain one level in both its Power and Special bars! What are tourney points? Tournament Points (TP) are entirely seperate from experience. They are the mark how well you as a member are at fighting in tournaments. Each monster you adopt will not have its own total; your account has one sum.
Tournament points are used to sort the rankings of tournament fighters. Simply put, the more you have, the better at tourneys you are. How can I redeem my points? You can spend your points on the tournament page to make your own tournaments, get relics, or even get some really secret prizes.
Do not fret about spending points; they recover at the rate of five points per week, plus you are always getting more from fighting in tournaments. Is there any other way to get points? Tournaments are the only way to get points. Sorry. Spent points do recover at the rate of five per week, but you got to spend them in order to get them back, so why not use them on something? How can I make my own tournaments? You can use your tournament points to make a tournament. Buy it by spending tourney points, and then go to the tournament creation page, all linked to on the Tournament main page. You will decide its name, description, level range, size, prizes, and even restrictions. You can even hide a tournament from the list and notifications by unchecking the Public box, thus allowing you to invite only those members you want to be in the tournament.
Prizes are limited to non-holiday items, and possibilities are far from endless. You are restricted from giving away too many prizes or making your level range incredibly ridiculous.