Devnull Tribute
/dev/null/nethack Tribute Tournament is a NetHack tournament that takes place in November 2017. It is being organized as a one time replacement for the /dev/null/nethack_tournament that was retired by it's organizer Krystal in mid-September 2017. It is intended as one last /dev/null/nethack that concludes the long tradition of the tournament and before it is replaced by a different tournament running in the same time slot.
What Remains The Same
- timeframe is the same, the tournament runs from November 1, 00:00 PDT (07:00 UTC) to November 30, 24:00 (December 1, 07:00 UTC)
- in-game challenges
- trophies
- clans and the associated Best in Show trophy
- multiple servers are available
- bot announcements are available on relevant FreeNode IRC network channels (#devnull_nethack and #hardfought.org), the bot is different though
What Has Changed
- the tournament runs on NetHack 3.6.0 with additional patches
- dgamelaunch is used as game management front end allowing for spectating and ttyrec recording
- the scoreboard was rewritten from scratch
- game dumps are available (from the scoreboard)
Game Servers
| server name | location | how to connect |
|---|---|---|
| hardfought.org | US East | ssh nethack@hardfought.org |
| eu.hardfought.org | Europe (UK) | ssh nethack@eu.hardfought.org |
| e6.alt.org | US West | ssh nethack@e6.alt.org |
The first server (hardfought.org) is the master server where players must register their accounts. The other two only sync the accounts from the master, therefore they don't allow registrations themselves. Rcfiles are not synced, though. State of challenges are synced accross the servers.
Contacts
The organizers of the tournament are best reached on #harfought.org, #hdfdev or #devnull_nethack channels on the Freenode IRC network.
