Hey there, we just wanted to let you know about the upcoming All Bosses No Major Glitches tournament. We're pleased to be able to partner with SpeedGaming to hold another tournament showcasing Metroid Dread.

Here are a few things you should know:

Before the tournament begins, there will be eight qualifier matches.

Qualifier heat schedule (all times are in US Eastern)

Two heats on Saturday August 5th, 2023: 3:00pm / 8:00PM Two heats on Sunday, August 6th, 2023: 3:00pm / 8:00PM

Two heats on Saturday August 12th, 2023: 3:00pm / 8:00PM Two heats on Sunday, August 13th, 2023: 3:00pm / 8:00PM

Quals:

• You must join racetime.gg and you must stream your run live on Twitch.
• You must participate in at least two heats. You can participate in more than two if you would like. In fact, we encourage it because your best time from the qualifiers will determine what bracket you will be placed in, so the more runs you post results in, the better chances to seed higher. Based on your performance, you will be placed into one of two brackets, Mawkin (upper bracket) or Thoha (lower bracket).

Brackets:

• All runners are required to join the SpeedGaming Discord server and state they're participating by posting in the #dread channel.
• The ruleset for the category will be the same as the ones found here on speedrun.com. (https://www.speedrun.com/mdread?h=All_Bosses-No_Major_Glitches-Rookie&x=ndx3qjod-dlorordl.810d8m2l-6nj5x4el.jqzzn7gq)
• All runners are required to run on Rookie Mode
• Runners may make an ad hoc agreement ("gentleman") to increase the difficulty level or run All Bosses Glitchless. Dread Mode is not allowed, and making a gentleman's agreement to All Bosses Unrestricted, while extremely cool and rad, is also not allowed.
• When the tournament begins, all matches will be 1v1. Scheduling will be decided by the players, but a date must be selected before a given timeframe. For those who lose their match, you will fall to the loser's bracket, where you will have one more chance to win. If you lose in the loser's bracket, you are eliminated from the tournament. Better luck next time!

• We encourage all runners to show up 10 minutes early for the qualifiers and for the rest of the tournament. This helps the staff and admins out greatly.
• During the qualifiers, four people will be chosen at random to be showcased on one of the SpeedGaming channels on Twitch.
• There's a prize pool for this tournament! As of this forum post, we're at a prize pool of $111.43; if you want to contribute further to the pool, click this link: https://sglive.speedgaming.org/

Take care, and See You Next Mission.