so my venue has been talking about Battle Royals for a few weeks now and i asked what they are and have been told "don't worry. you will like them" well I dont like suprises :/

i tried looking up what they are but nothing has been able to put it into terms i can understand. i dont want a play by play of what it is just a simple form of what it is. can anyone tell me?

It's pretty simple.

You play on one map with 3 other people so there are 4 people per map. Each one of you is given a booster. You then draft that booster, i.e take one, pass it to the left, repeat. Whatever you pull is your team regardless of point value. So if you pull that bizarro, you get to play him at 300 points. Winner is either last man standing or whoever scores the most points by the end of the timer depending on how your venue wants to do it. Same goes with the contents of the boosters. You can either keep what you pull or put everyone's in the middle and snake draft them until they are gone.

Pretty easy. Just be careful what you pull and pass is all. They are enjoyable if you get the right group to play them with.

Specific details can vary, such as the size of the pods (more on that in a moment) and how exactly players are paired off, but basically what happens is:

1) Players are divided into pods. These pods may be as small as the number of players that are sitting around a single map for one particular BR game or they could be larger. Maybe even everyone at your venue that showed up for that event is just one pod.

2) You purchase X amount of boosters. Maybe 1, maybe 2, maybe 10... depends on the BR. Whatever it is, you open your boosters once seated within your pod.

3) Most BRs follow a draft format. Meaning, once you've opened a booster, you pick one character from the booster to keep for your team, then pass the remainder. Then you pick one more from the new stuff you were handed, then pass the remainder. Rinse and repeat until there are no more characters left to draft. If your BR doesn't follow a draft format, well, then you'll have to ask them what they're doing.

4) Once you've drafted your team, you play! Some BRs begin with players working in teams of 2 (you and your teammate versus the other 2 guys across the map from you) and then turn into every man for himself once one player's team has been eliminated. Other times, you begin in every man for himself mode and have to fight all three opponents at once.

5) Typically the winner is simply the last player left standing. There are other ways you could score it, but that's the very, very common method.



BRs *CAN* be a lot of fun. In fact, I'll even say they are almost always a lot of fun. But they are not everyone's cup of tea... maybe you'll like them, maybe not.

i see. that does sound interesting

sometimes when I have a home game we do a battle royals. the last one we did was a 700 point 6 person battle. took awhile but it was fun. played on the 2 AvX starter maps that combine.

They don't necessarily have to be a draft. We had a casual day at our venue last week and ran a Battle Royale with 400 point constructed teams with 7 players playing on 2 maps shoved together. It ran a little long, but everyone had a good time. It's a change of pace from playing Swiss Rounds style one-on-one games.