User:Blood-tears-and-salt

Inhouse casual bingo lockout tournament organized by Bingo Lockout 3 champion IcePenguin the maple story elf

Rules

Tournament format

Swiss Stage

• 7 Rounds
• All matches are best-of-1
• On each round, players must talk to their opponents about when they will play each other within the given period of time. If they fail to record a match after the swiss stage ends, their match will be ruled "No Result".
• After each round, players will face a random opponent. The random draw will consider preventing potential rematches and will attempt to pair players with a similar point total.
• 4 players will advance to the Knockout Stage
  • Ranking is decided by Points > Score difference
  • 1 point for a win, 0.5 points for a tie / no result, 0 points for a loss

Knockout Stage

• Single Elimination Bracket
• Seeded by Swiss Stage rank
• Semi-finals are best-of-1; the Grand Final is best-of-3

Gameplay procedure

An example of a bingo board.
Disclaimer: the wording used in this image does NOT necessarily reflect the actual boards used by Lungmen Dragons.

• Matches are conducted on the Lungmen Dragons Discord server, while the Bingo Board for each game is conducted inside a private room on Bingosync.
• To win a game, a player must score more points than their opponent by completing a specific objective written on each tile, thus claiming it for themselves.
• Each match is presided by a referee (or referees) who will actually perform the act of shading the tiles on Bingosync. Thus, players cannot shade the tiles themselves; they must declare to the referee(s) that they have completed a tile or are intending to complete a tile soon, so that the referee(s) may verify their claim.
  • Each tile claimed gives 1 points.
  • Lockout: if a player claims a tile, their opponents cannot claim that tile anymore.
  • Some tiles are specially labelled, like giving 2 or more points, subtracting points, "stealable" (completing the objective overwrites their opponent's claim), only giving points when the time limit ends, and allowing a tile to be claimed by both players.
• All games are played on a 5x5 bingo board.
• All games last 45 minutes.
  • Sudden death overtime: If the game is still tied in points when time expires, it goes into overtime; the first player to claim a tile during this period instantly wins.
• All players must play on the difficulty level Braving Nature +4.
• Intentionally quitting and restarting a run is permitted. Depending on the situation, it may even be encouraged, or outright required.

Participants

• pitagor2
• JoshG
• Kew
• Larfa
• Aoao
• Sydaske
• BeefImpaeler
• GrimoireLeSot
• hawky
• LazyCouch
• ramonR
• toboruo
• AdventOfShorty
• Lostrian
• PHXYotes
• Tenebris
• Tuglow
• wayhazel
• NightEdge
• Aki
• Eagle
• Funkey
• Kaede
• sufferingbirb

Test Title

Bingo Lockout is an unofficial Arknights Global server-only tournament series organized by "hardcore gameplay community" Lungmen Dragons. It is played entirely in the game mode Integrated Strategies. The tournament is themed on the eponymous speedrun race format, where the objective is to claim more tiles than your opponent(s) by completing tasks written on each tile, which are laid out in a 4x4 or 5x5 bingo board. Each task varies in difficulty and scope, serving as a test of a player's game knowledge, decision-making skills, reading comprehension, and luck. The "Lockout" part refers to the fact that once a tile is claimed by a player, their opponent(s) cannot claim it anymore.

Three editions have been completed: the first two were played on IS3 - Mizuki & Caerula Arbor, while the third and latest was played on IS4 - Expeditioner's Joklumarkar. All tournaments were conducted inside Lungmen Dragons' [official Discord server] and the website Bingosync.

"Bingo Lockout", as a concept, has already been used in games popular within the speedrun community like Minecraft (e.g. YouTube user ) and Elden Ring (e.g. Bingo Brawlers), prior to being adapted for Arknights by Lungmen Dragons on June 2023. Although the tournament will never be promoted within the game itself owing to its single-player nature, the top prizes consist of Arknights official merchandise, which is sponsored by Yostar through its online store.

List of editions

Name	Date	P#	Game Mode & Version	Winner(s)	Runner(s)-up	Bracket
Bingo Lockout 1	Jun ?? — Jun 18, 2023	32	Mizuki & Caerula Arbor Release	wayhazel	Fersangu	Challonge
Bingo Lockout 2	Nov 12 — Nov 25, 2023	64	Mizuki & Caerula Arbor Expansion I	PHXYotes	Larfa	Challonge
Bingo Lockout 3	Mar 16 — Apr 18, 2024	16 (duo)	Expeditioner's Joklumarkar Release	Vienanmeri toboruo	PHXYotes Ushio Ebi	Challonge

Bracket 1

Round of 32					Round of 16					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Grand Final
1	Tuglow	5
32	Everec	13
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16	Alrightovich	5			'
17	Drails	13
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8	Disa	W								'
25	Miyako	DNA			'
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9	SprinkleMint	8
24	Flamez	13
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4	Renbit	11													'
29	toboruo	12
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13	wayhazel	13			'
20	Meepy	7								'
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5	frazyn	13
28	Frantomeito	4			'
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12	murasame7561	6																		Final -
21	Double	13																		'
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2	FD_alex	13
31	Alex#7982	8
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15	1980s	10			'
18	BlueX	13
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7	Therion	11								'
26	jianxiao	13			'
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10	Wreath	12
23	Superblaze	13
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3	Shade	13													'
30	Arkviary	7
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14	Kestrel0539	1			'
19	Chthonic	13								'
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6	Lurky Kyr'am	13
27	Scorpius8590	9			'
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11	Heroin	5
22	Fersangu	13