MHSB:Great Sword World Cup: Hira-arare Cup–Final

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Summary

The Hina Aare Cup, which was a great success last time with 1,765 simultaneous watching, will be held again!

The Hina Aare Cup, which was a great success last time with 1,765 simultaneous watching, will be held again!

The Hina Aare Cup, which was a great success last time with 1,765 simultaneous watching, will be held again!

The Hina Aare Cup, which was a great success last time with 1,765 simultaneous watching, will be held again!

The Hina Aare Cup, which was a great success last time with 1,765 simultaneous watching, will be held again!

Date & Time

6/24(Sat)、6/ 25(Sun)

Depending on the number of participants, the event will be held only on June 25.

Rules

Quest

Quest name: Legend Resurrected (Primordial Malzeno)

If hunter faints three times, or if 20 minutes have elapsed since the start of the quest, would be considered to end the quest.

About Players

  • Any platform is acceptable: Switch or Steam
  • Any nationality is acceptable
  • Free to use any Palamute or Palico
  • Followers prohibited
  • Meal is acceptable 
  • Skill “Heroics” and any related meals is Prohibited
  • Qurious Weapon Crafting is approved
  • Restricted Qurious Crafting skills for equipment
    • Up to 1 additional skill and 1 additional slot for each equipment

OK Case

NG Cace  (※OK if you only Slot in Lv3 Jewel in the first slot.)

NG Cace

  • Restricted skills for Talismans
  •  It must be skills that can be obtained through Qurious Melding — Cyclus,  which means the following skills are prohibited※1
  • The first slot is free to use
  • The second slot is free to use
  • The third slot is prohibited(Even if it were available, it would not be usable.)

※1 Prohibited Skills

狂竜症【蝕】 Bloodlust
伏魔響命 Dereliction
激昂 Furious
業鎧【修羅】Mail of Hellfire
根性 Guts
蓄積時攻撃強化 Buildup Boost
狂化 Berserk
奮闘 Strife
風纏 Wind Mantle
粉塵纏 Powder Mantle
冰気錬成 Frostcraft
龍気変換 Dragon Conversion

OK Case

NG Case(“Frostcraft” cannot be obtained through Qurious Melding — Cyclus)

NG Case(※OK if you don’t use the third slot)

※If you can explain that it will not affect the hunting time at all, feel free to use it!

Sometimes, extra skills would come up even though you are not aiming to have that when doing Melding, it’s OK if you don’t use the extra skills/slots. No need to spend to much time to do the melding only for this event.

We will contact you about the equipment to be used before the day of the event, please feel free to ask us if you have any uncertainties.

Below are some examples for various situation.

Example 1) Extra decorations slots are there, but the extra slots are not being using

Example 2) It includes “Dragon Attack” skill, but the great sword used is the Amatsu great sword with water element attack power

Example 3) The skill “Normal/Rapid Up ” included which is not related to the great sword

Example 4) Skill “Speed Sharpening”, but using “Great Whetfish” to sharpen the weapon.

There maybe many other examples, please feel free to discuss with us.

There is a regularity in the way in melding for increasing the slot level. If you don’t want to use the extra slot, just use the first extra slot added!

狩猟関連

  • Free to use any item
  • Restricted condition for Wyvern Riding
    • Cannot move to the other areas when Riding on Primordial Malzeno
    • Free to ride on other monsters around the map
  • Hunting Helpers are prohibited: Sleeptoad, Mudbeetle, etc. (Please check these out in your Hunter’s Note.)
  • Using any Other Endemic Life*: Wirebug, Vigorwasp, etc. (Please check these out in your Hunter’s Note.)
  • Starburst Bug are prohibited
  • It is forbidden to restrict Primordial Malzeno ‘s actions by repeatedly going up and down to the high ground in area 2
  • The initial position of Primordial Malzeno is fixed at area 2, with 30% chance to be appeared. You can reset the quest until it appears at area 2. Quest starts after it is appeared in area 2.

Prize

The winner in this tournament will win a prize maximum 100,000yen*.※

Finalprize amount depends on the amount of money raised by sponsors in advance and the total amount of super chat on the day of tournament. However, even if we cannot get any sponsors, we guaranteed that minimum prize amount is 30,000 yen.

If using “SuperChat” in Youtube, apart of your money will be collected by YouTube. Therefore, we recommend that sponsors can support us through sending us your money in advance instead.

Commendation

A commendation ceremony will be held at the end of the tournament. Then I will show the result on my Twitter and YouTube Channel.

Conditions of Participation

  • Able to use Discord
  • Able to stream on any of the platform* ex) YouTube, Twitch…etc
    • It is even possible to record your gameplay directly with camera if it can be watched steadily.

On the day of the tournament, we will do a mirror streaming from our channel, so please use your own account to stream your gameplay.

Recruit

Those who want to take part as a player

  • We are looking forward to your application!
  • Deadline: 18 June 2023 (Sun) 23:59
  • Please apply using this form.
  • Once participated in the event, we will launch a special website to introduce every participants. Get to know each participant’s personality, or watch their past TA videos, or visit their practice session for the event. I think everyone can enjoy the tournament more if you know the background of the participants.。第一回ひなあられ杯の選手特設サイト

To Great Sword Beginners

If you have no experience in Time Attack with using Great Sword but would like to try this tournament, you can join as by using the “Beginner Quota”.

You can attach a beginner badge on the day of the event, and everyone would give you more support!

Those who want to try participating this event but are hesitating because of the strong players, or those who want to challenge even though the Great Sword is not their main weapon, are also welcome to apply to play as a beginner.

What is the criteria for applying to play as a beginner quota using Great Sword?

It depends on whether or not you have experienced in Time Attack with a Great Sword.

You must have never uploaded any Great Sword time attack on a social networking site

Those who want to be a sponsor

  • Assistance available in increments of 1,000 yen
  • Please apply from this form

Less than 10,000yen

Your name will be noted during the tournament and The URL of your SNS will be mentioned in the summary section.

Less than 10,000yen

Your name will be noted during the tournament and The URL of your SNS will be mentioned in the summary section.

Participants would pay much effort to prepare for this one-time challenge tournament. We would like to present the prize as a great appreciation for all the efforts made by our participants That’s why we ask everyone who wanted to support this tournament to sponsor, for the motivation of the participants and for the future development of this tournament.

参考:第一回ひなあられ杯のスポンサーの方々

How to enjoy this event

Even though this event is focusing on Time Attack, everyone can still have different aims and targets.

Someone may want to get the champion prize, someone may want to improve their personal best time of hunting, someone may just aim to finish hunting within the time limit. Besides, it is a one-time-challenge, which means luck involves heavily.

So I hope everyone can enjoy this tournament as just an entertainment.

And we would be happy if you could share us your joy by leaving any comments, or you can share on Twitter by using hashtag #ひなあられ杯.

It may be difficult to read all the comments, but I will try my best to read as many as I can.

Purpose of Organizing the Tournament

“Face the Monster and the Great Sword to yourself, and hunt the Monster within the target time.”The objective is to share the fun of serious hunting to everone.

We learned from the survey that only about 3 percent of all who played Monster Hunter have tried Time Attack. Actually, there are many ways to enjoying this game, and there are more opportunities to hunt in the decisive battlefield after the 5th update.

So if we can share the fun of serious hunting in these tournaments, we think more people will be interested in Time Attacks. Then maybe the game creators will design their games to take this type of play into consideration.

In some of the FPS game, the prize for the champion can be even up to 100 million yen. Being an E-sports professional gamers are also common nowadays.

If this trend spreads to Monster Hunter, one day we may really can becoming a “Monster Hunter” as a real job!. lol

Of course, the main game content of the current Monster Hunter is to hunt new monsters and obtain their materials to make equipment, but there are still various ways to enjoy this game, such as collecting medals or raising MR. Everyone can find their joy in this game.

Time attack is still a minority, so it is difficult to let our voices to be heard, but I believe it is important to respect the various ways of playing.

Therefore, we have two requests for you all!

First: If you are interested in Time Attack, please join us and be one of our participant in this tournament. We believed that the more participants here, the more exciting the tournament will be. The competition is open to all players, even for beginners, so the atmosphere of this tournament will be friendly to variety players.

Second: We hope that everyone can share and spread this event and let’s make the tournament exciting together. Let’s have a wonderful time!!

Other

  • Mod及び改造は禁止.当日不正がないか確認をします。
  • MODs and remodeling are prohibited. We will check for irregularities on the day of the tournament.
  • Hina-arare’s SNS(YouTube TwitterBiri-Biri)
  • Hashtag:#ひなあられ杯
  • Please feel free to leave comments under this note if you have any enquiries. (You can also send me a direct message through any of my SNS mentioned above)
  • I would check your equipment builds and your computer files to confirm there are no any MOD is used, please contact me one day before the tournament. It is because if participants can change their builds at that day, it would be unfair to the participant who comes earlier in the tournament.
  • This tournament is building on the experiences of the various organizers before. For reference, here are some of the tournaments I have seen.
    たろたろ杯TAKE杯Matador杯

If any misconduct are found, strict disciplinary will be taken.

Timeframe of the tournament

We planned to have a same flow with the tournament we held before, so it is recommended to watch the 1st Hira-arare Tournament before this event, we believe that it is the best illustration for the difference between “Beginner quota” and normal participants.

第一回ひなあられ杯(前半戦)

第一回ひなあられ杯(後半戦)

Q&A

Why “Heroics” related skills are banned?

Because it is too strong. With this regulation, the composition of “Berserk” and “Heroics” can even finish hunting without any advanced game skills needed. So, it was banned this time for the sake of spectator gameplay. (I have also used Heroics skills during TA, so it is not the reason that I hate Heroics)

Why there is a rule that cannot ride Primordial Malzeno to other area?

 It is because if it is taken to the swamp area, it may reduce its competitiveness.