Creatures Tournament League 2021

By SBS — January 4, 2021

Creatures of Aether Esports is Getting a Shake-up!

Creature of Aether has been running weekly tournaments since its early day of Closed Beta in June of this year. Since then, the Creatures team has been working with our most competitive player base and our wonderful Tournament Organizer, Junior to cultivate the best tournament experience possible. Now, after half a year of events, it is time to re-format how we run our league with some exciting changes.

Creatures Tournament League 2021

If you’ve been looking to get into competitive Creatures of Aether, now is the perfect time. Starting January 9th, our brand new league format aims to foster laid-back, approachable weekly events with stacking participation rewards, and a new monthly series for players to truly unleash their competitive sides. Players will be able to participate in single elimination Saturday weeklies to fill out a seasonal “punch-card” of sorts, earning exclusive Champion card skins as they progress over the course of a three month season.

Here’s a look at how things are going to work:

Structure

Each season will span the course of three months, each generally consisting of three weeklies and one monthly event.

Weeklies will be Best-of-three, single elimination brackets.
- Brackets will be on Saturdays at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET to accommodate more regions than our previous events.
Monthlies will be Swiss style pools, leading into single elimination, Top 8 finals brackets.
- Brackets will be on Saturdays at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET to accommodate more regions than our previous events.

Rewards

Tournament rewards will range from unique Champion card art to in game currency for players that place well in events, or even simply participate. On top of our standard prizes, every event will also have bonus raffles that will provide two lucky participants with 100 Abyss Orbs each.

New legendary creatures can change the tide of any match!

Weeklies:

Weekly attendance will present a unique opportunity for players to receive some of our champion skins from previous seasons. Players will earn a specific skin for every other event they participate in, with attendance resetting at the end of each Quarter. This pseudo punch-card is as followed:

Weekly #1: Champion Zetterburn
Weekly #3: Champion Maypul
Weekly #5: Champion Absa
Weekly #7: Champion Orcane

While keeping these weekly events approachable is a key focus, we will still be providing Abyss Orb prizes to the Top 3 of each tournament as followed:

1st – 300 orbs
2nd – 200 orbs
3rd – 100 orbs

Thwart your opponent with board manipulating abilities!

Monthlies:

With new battle passes coming out every month, we saw this as the perfect opportunity to keep active competitors up to date with the newest skins, while staying relevant to in-app events! Participants in these events will earn themselves a champion skin for the Rival in the current Battle Pass. In addition to participation prizes, Top 8 will be awarded their share of Abyss Orbs as followed:

1st – 500 orbs
2nd – 400 orbs
3rd – 300 orbs
4th – 200 orbs
5th – 100 orbs

Master your Rivals’ ability for devastating plays!

League Champions:

Top 8 players by points at the end of each season will win 1,000 Abyss Orbs and a champion skin of their choice of any Rival in the game at the time.

League Points

League points are an easy way to track players’ progress and participation over the course of our three month seasons. Points are awarded each time you play in an event. Keep track of your points over the season here. League Point breakdowns are as followed:

Weeklies:

All players who participate and finish their bracket runs will receive 5 League Points.

Monthlies:

These events are going to be much more competition focused, and the League Points will reflect that.

1st – 150
2nd – 125
3rd – 100
4th – 80
5th – 70
9th-16th – 40
Participation – 10

Perfect attendance, including all weeklies and monthlies, will award players with 25 League Points.

Standings from our final season of 2020. Congratulations to Moyeah99!

The Creatures Tournament League is now live!

Check out the League Page and find your standings HERE.

Registration for the first Weekly, on January 9th, is open HERE.

Registration for the first Monthly, on January 30th, is open HERE.

Categories: Community, Esports, Events, News | Comments: 1

Australian Rivals Championship Series Finals Month

By SBS — December 30, 2020

Earlier this month we outlined the pay structure for the Australian finals in a separate article. Now, we are happy to announce the details for the AU RCS Finals month!

AU Finals Week

Similar to other regions, we have decided to make the AU RCS Finals a multi-day event, with Singles, Doubles, and Arcadian Singles on the docket. Top 8 of Rivals Singles will be streamed live on the official Rivals of Aether Twitch.

Here is our current schedule:

Saturday, January 23rd: Rivals Doubles and Rivals Singles!
- Rivals Doubles will be hosted as a for-fun event with no prize pool.
  - Bracket will play to completion.
- Rivals Singles, our main event, with a stacking prize prize pool of up to $1,500!
  - Top 6 from the RCS season will automatically advance into the second phase of bracket, skipping Phase 1 Pools.
  - Bracket will play up to Top 8.
Sunday, January 23rd: Rivals Singles Finals and Arcadian Singles!
- Rivals Singles Top 8 to completion.
- Rivals Arcadian Singles is a special Singles tournament where all players on the 2020 Australian PR and all players that ranked top 6 of previous PRs are banned!
  - Bracket will play to completion.
  - Standard RCS rules apply, contact Katsune with any questions.

Players will be able to earn the brand new Champion Ori and Shovel Knight skins just for playing and for reaching phase two of the Singles bracket, respectively.

Singles Prize Structure

While this was covered in a previous article, we wanted to reiterate the prize pool for any players who may have missed the news.

Australian Finals will be a two day event with a stacking prize pool.
- Starting prize pool will be $1,000
- At 75 entrants, there will be an additional $250 added to the pool for a total of $1,250.
- At 125 entrants, there will be an additional $250 added to the pool for a total of $1,500.

Weekly Tournaments with BIG Prizes

While there is no elemental theme for the month itself, the AU weekly Discord events hosted by Gabe have been such a hit, we wanted to honor them! We are going to celebrate each week with the phase 2 DLC prize from each Elemental Major. Weeklies will alternate between Thursdays and Tuesdays as follows:

January 7th: All participants earn a Champion Clairen skin.
January 12th: All participants earn a Champion Elliana skin.
January 21st: All participants earn a Champion Maypul skin.
January 26th: All participants earn a Champion Ranno skin.

AU Finals Signups are Open HERE

Categories: Announcement, Community, Esports, Events, News | Comments: 1

European Rivals Championship Series Finals Month

By SBS — December 30, 2020

Earlier this month we outlined the pay structure for the European finals in a separate article. Now, we are happy to announce the details for the EU RCS Finals month!

EU Finals Week

Similar to other regions, we have decided to make the EU RCS Finals a multi-day event, with both Singles and Doubles on the docket. Each event will be played and streamed on the official Rivals of Aether Twitch over the course of of the weekend.

Here is our current schedule:

Saturday, January 23rd: Rivals Doubles and Rivals Singles!
- Rivals Doubles will be hosted as a for-fun event with no prize pool.
  - Bracket will play up to Top 8 (subject to change based on total entrants).
- Rivals Singles, our main event, with a stacking prize prize pool of up to $2,500!
  - Top 12 from the RCS season will automatically advance into the second phase of bracket, skipping Phase 1 Pools.
  - Bracket will play up to Top 8.
Sunday, January 23rd: Rivals Doubles Finals and Rivals Singles Finals!
- Rivals Doubles Finals to completion.
- Rivals Singles Top 8 to completion.

Players will be able to earn the brand new Champion Ori and Shovel Knight skins just for playing and for reaching phase two of the Singles bracket, respectively.

Singles Prize Structure

While this was covered in a previous article, we wanted to reiterate the prize pool for any players who may have missed the news.

European Finals will be a two day event with a stacking prize pool.
- Starting prize pool will be $1,500
- At 150 entrants, there will be an additional $500 added to the pool for a total of $2,000.
- At 200 entrants, there will be an additional $500 added to the pool for a total of $2,500.

Friday Tournaments with BIG Prizes

While there is no elemental theme for the month itself, the EU weekly Discord events hosted by OliveOily have been such a hit, we wanted to honor them! After the New Year’s Holiday, we are going to celebrate each week with the phase 2 DLC prize from each Elemental Major.

January 1st: No prize due to the Holiday. OliveOily has been kind enough to run a stress free bracket for those who still want to get their Rivals fix!
January 8th: All participants earn a Champion Clairen skin.
January 15th: All participants earn a Champion Elliana skin.
January 22nd: All participants earn a Champion Maypul skin.
January 29th: All participants earn a Champion Ranno skin.

EU Finals Signups are Open HERE

Categories: Announcement, Community, Esports, Events, News | Comments: 1

Rivals Championship Series Finals Month

By SBS — December 10, 2020

RCS Finals Month is Coming!

January marks the end of our 5th Season of the Rivals Championship Series. Each year we bring our Series to a crescendo with a massive finals event, bringing top players together from around the world with huge pot bonuses and a finals day event at the Paramount Theatre on Genesis Finals day.

We can’t wait for the return of offline events

To accompany each RCS season, we put together a compendium to support Rivals Esports, featuring skins and other merch with 100% of profits going to our community. The compendium shop for Season 5 would fund every single RCS Major in each of our three regions.

Collectively, the Rivals community helped raise over $20,000 for RCS events with $5,200 adding to Developer matches for our regular season events and $15,000 for the finals. Even our sponsor, Hit Box, joined the fray by contributing an additional $2,000! The RCS Season 5 Finals promises to be the biggest online tournament Rivals has ever seen.

To add to our fabulous prizes, players will be able to earn the brand new Champion Ori and Shovel Knight skins just for playing and for reaching phase two of the Singles bracket, respectively.

Let’s take a look at what’s to come:

NA Finals Week

True to our roots, we have decided to make the RCS Finals a multi-day event, chock full of side events! On the docket we have our main Rivals Singles event, Rivals Workshop, Rivals Doubles, and Tetherball Doubles. All events will be streamed on the official Rivals of Aether Twitch and Steam accounts.

Here is our current schedule:

Friday, January 15th: A high stakes Tetherball Doubles event!
- All participants earn a Champion Elliana skin for participating.
- Players will compete for their share of a $500 prize pool.

Saturday, January 16th: Rivals Doubles, Rivals Workshop, and Rivals singles!
- Rivals Doubles returns to our finals with a $1,000 prize pool.
  - Bracket will play up to Top 8 (subject to change based on total entrants).
- Rivals Workshop has been thriving since its creation, now we bring it back to the RCS finals with a $1,000 prize pool!
  - Bracket will play up to Top 16 (subject to change based on total entrants).
- Rivals Singles is our main event with a prize pool of over $10,000!
  - Bracket will play up to Top 32.
Sunday, January 17th: Finals for Rivals Doubles, Rivals Workshop, and Rivals singles!
- Rivals Doubles to completion
- Rivals Workshop to completion
- Rivals Singles to completion

Friday Tournaments with BIG Prizes

While there is no elemental theme for the month itself, our weekly Discord events hosted by TheFailWhale and Menace13 have been such a hit, we wanted to honor them! After the New Year’s Holiday, we are going to celebrate each week with the phase 2 DLC prize from each Elemental Major.

January 1st: No prize due to the Holiday. TheFailWhale and Menace13 have been kind enough to run a stress free bracket for those who still want to get their Rivals fix!
January 8th: All participants earn a Champion Clairen skin.
January 15th: All participants earn a Champion Elliana skin. This event will double as the RCS Finals Tetherball event.
January 22nd: All participants earn a Champion Maypul skin.
January 29th: All participants earn a Champion Ranno skin.

EU Finals

More information is on its way regarding the European RCS Finals, but we wanted to cover prize splits before dates are formally announced.

European Finals will be a two day event with a stacking prize pool.
- Starting prize pool will be $1,500
- At 150 entrants, there will be an additional $500 added to the pool for a total of $2,000.
- At 200 entrants, there will be an additional $500 added to the pool for a total of $2,500

AU Finals

More information is on its way regarding the Australian RCS Finals, but we wanted to cover prize splits before dates are formally announced.

Australian Finals will be a two day event with a stacking prize pool.
- Starting prize pool will be $1,000
- At 75 entrants, there will be an additional $250 added to the pool for a total of $1,250.
- At 125 entrants, there will be an additional $250 added to the pool for a total of $1,500.

NA Finals Signups are Open HERE

Categories: Announcement, Community, Esports, Events, News | Comments: 1

Creatures of Aether Holiday Update!

By SBS — December 9, 2020

Creatures of Aether has a big content update coming December 16th. On top of exciting Holiday Bundles, we are releasing four new mini-legendary cards that are sure to shake up the meta!

This Holiday update caps off a 3 months of updates since the App’s release in September. Let’s take a look at everything happening with Creatures this month.

Season 5

December 1st launched the Season 5 Battle Pass, which saw the release of fan-favorite Rival from the Rivals of Aether series, and face of the Creatures of Aether App icon, Wrastor.

Wrastor allows you to relocate any card without even entering the field!

In addition to the all-new Battle Pass, December 1st also brought a huge update to the ranked ladder, making it much more fun to climb the ladder while also allowing players to check out leaderboards and see the decks that top competitors are using.

Get ideas to improve your own deck and see how you stack up by checking out the Leaderboard!

Still to come, we have four “mini-legendaries” that promise to add even more depth into our constantly evolving game. Rivals of Aether fans may recognize these cards from our greater universe.

Master Cai:

If your opponent doesn’t take the card quickly, Master Cai will poison all their cards on each of your turns.

Swiftwing:

Swiftwing swoops across the board and takes as many cards as he can along his flight path.

Renburn:

Renburn razes the battlefield upon his entrance, taking power away from all cards on the board.

Zolt:

Zolt’s metal coat allows you to chain special abilities through it and forces your opponent to use a capture to remove it, while leaving Zolt un-turned afterwards.

That’s it for December, let’s check out some earlier additions to the game!

Season 4

November 1st launched the Season 4 Battle Pass, bringing Etalus, The Glacier’s Might, and an entirely new card ability, push, to the game!

Etalus freezes any cards he flips upon entering the battlefield!

The new Push ability attracts the nearest cards before casting them to the edge of the field!

There has never been a better time to get into Creatures of Aether and the Holiday sales will continue until the New Year. Get it on iOS and Android today!

Download on Google Play

Download on Apple Store

Categories: Announcement, Community, Development, Esports, News, Patch notes | Comments: 4

» Category: Esports