The November NetHack Tournament

The November NetHack Tournament, abbreviated as TNNT, is a NetHack tournament that takes place during the month of November. 2018 is the inaugural year of the tournament, and it is planned to continue running in subsequent years. Its main page can be found at https://hardfought.org/tnnt/.

Unlike Junethack, which takes a broader focus on multiple NetHack variants, TNNT focuses primarily on the vanilla game, while still being open and accommodating to all skill levels.

Like Junethack, TNNT is played on public servers, allowing players on those servers to reuse their existing accounts. Currently the three Hardfought servers are the only ones on which TNNT is available to be played. Likewise, TNNT supports clans, allowing a group of players to coordinate and pool their accomplishments in a competition for the highest-scoring clan.

Scoring

Because of its vanilla focus, TNNT offers very in-depth scoring. At the core, ascensions are worth 50 points each, which can be boosted by conducts, speedrunning, and streaks. There are also numerous individual and clan trophies which can be earned for more points.

There are also nearly 200 "achievements", each of which is earned within one game by doing some specific task. Some of them commemorate regular milestones in game progression, some require going a little bit out of your way to accomplish, and others only happen in contrived scenarios that would almost never happen normally and may require some setup.

For full scoring details, see the tournament rules page.

Gameplay differences

TNNT is not purely vanilla; there are a few changes to the game that will gradually continue to expand in future years, but the game will still mostly remain the same as vanilla. For 2018, the only new gameplay feature is a "swap chest", which allows players to exchange a limited amout of items between their games.

History

In 2016 and prior years going all the way back to the early 2000s, the /dev/null/nethack tournament was run each November. However, in 2017, after the release of NetHack 3.6.0, the devnull organizer krystal announced that the tournament would be shutting down permanently. Several players coordinated with the hardfought server admins to quickly put together a one-off tribute tournament, which was held in November 2017; but the expectation was that in subsequent years some new tournament would be developed to take its place, which ended up becoming TNNT.

TNNT is not trying to reproduce the system or unique challenges offered by devnull, and has instead been designed from the ground up.