Companion Website at https://thebrawlersguild.com

From the developer of Forever IRS

ADDON STILL IN BETA, expect bugs!

Brawlers' Guild turns duels into a ladder. Duel anyone else who runs it and the result counts for your faction: a rating, a rank from Critter up to King of the Ring, and a place on the ladder for your level bracket. Every month is a new season.

This is a beta, for the beta of World of Warcraft: Forever. The addon is still being tested: expect bugs, and expect things to change from one version to the next. The ladders and their referees are on the Classic Beta PvP 2 realm.

How a duel counts

• Both fighters run the addon. You duel the way you always do; there is nothing to click.
• The loser's addon confirms the loss by itself. Nobody can confirm a loss in someone else's name, so nobody can award themselves a win.
• Your faction's referee makes it official and works out the ratings. If the referee is offline, your addon keeps the result and hands it over later; it still counts for the day it was fought.
• The two fighters must be in the same level bracket.

What you get

• Ladders by level bracket, so a low level never stands above the level cap's fighters. While the game is in beta, where the level cap is 30: 30, 25-29, 20-24, 15-19 and 10-14. At launch: 60, 50-59, 40-49, 30-39, 20-29 and 15-19.
• Eight ranks after ten rated duels in a bracket, each with a badge: Critter, Trash Mob, Rare Spawn, Elite, Rare Elite, Dungeon Boss, World Boss and King of the Ring.
• Monthly seasons. Ratings start again each month; your lifetime record is kept.
• Fighter cards: anyone's rank, rating, record and latest fights.
• Your record against each class and each rival, on your own card.
• A fights feed of every duel across your faction as it happens.
• A challenge board: say you are looking for a duel, see who else is, and call someone out.
• A notice when a notable fight starts near you.
• On hardcore realms, duels to the death are rated too, marked with a skull, with a record of their own.
• The same ladders on the web: https://thebrawlersguild.com

Fair by design

• You can duel the same opponent as often as you like, but repeats count for less each time, and only the first ten a day count at all. Trading wins with a friend gets you nowhere.
• The referee's computer signs the standings. Every copy of the addon checks that signature before it shows a ladder handed on by another player, so a ladder someone edited is never shown.
• Someone who keeps not confirming their losses is marked for it on their card.
• A copy of the addon that floods the referee or the other players is simply ignored past a few messages, and a character can be kept off the ladders for good by a signed list of blocked fighters.

Good to know

• Type /brawl to open the window, click the guild's emblem on the minimap, or set a key for it in Settings.
• Everyone who duels with the addon is listed. /brawl optout takes you, and every other character on your game account, off the ladder and out of the standings; /brawl optout off puts you back. Your opponents keep their results against you either way.
• The addon talks to other copies of itself with addon messages on a hidden channel and by whisper: your character's name, level, zone and duel results. It never posts in chat, never starts or accepts a duel for you, and never touches the combat log.
• The window's header says who your faction's referee is, and whether they are about.
• Every message the addon sends is described in PROTOCOL.md, in the addon's folder.
• Free and open: MIT licence.

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