Community:TheGamer101/Sword Fighting Tournament

Sword Fighting Tournament is a sword fighting game created by. In the game, players fight with a variety of swords on a number of unique maps to win tournaments or bonus rounds. The game has accumulated over 215,000 favorites. Sword Fighting Tournament won the award for Top Earning Game at the Roblox BLOXcon 2013.

Gameplay
The gameplay of this game is highly variable. The basic gameplay revolves around players battling against each other with a variety of swords which can be bought from the shop. There are many different game modes, however, which range from 1v1 tournaments to all against one juggernaut rounds. The game features upwards of fifteen different rounds and each one introduces a unique element to the gameplay. Each round has a badge which a user is  awarded for winning it, and players who manage to collect all the badges get a special badge called the super badge. The prize for winning a super badge is a virtual energy sword.

Maps
There are currently nearly twenty unique maps in the game. Most of the maps are not made by TheGamer101 himself, but made instead by other builders who have submitted their maps to him for the game. Any user is free to submit their own map for selection as long as he/she builds it using this size template. The extensive map list can be found below.

Normal
This map is the first Sword Fighting Tournament map ever made, and one of the only map made by TheGamer101. Use the terrain in your favor, and stay on the low ground. The best technique for this map is to try and attack your opponent from below. The terrain is always varied so you need to use it to your advantage.

Cluttered
A fairly easy map, just like Normal only it's overflowed with bridges everywhere. Try to stay on top of the bridges because you may get stuck if you go down under. Another tactic is forcing your opponent to jump one of the many walls and attacking them from below.

Conveyor
This map is a quite unique map because the ground beneath you is moving. Try to catch your opponent by surprise by hopping onto a conveyor and moving towards them rapidly.

Warehouse [By Scazzard1]
A very good, detailed map that can be a lot of fun. There are many cool places to fight in this map such as on top of a crane which can be seen to the side of the map.

Forest [By ryan135792468]
Forest is a decent map, which is styled similarly to the normal map but features trees and flowers as well as a green color scheme.

Narrows [By Unmoved]
This map is a unique Sword Fighting Tournament map, forcing players to focus on where they are standing as they fight. It's called Narrows for a reason; walk on the narrow paths that are given to you. When you walk on the black, you lose health very randomly. But one thing's for sure; you'll die before you get to the other side if you walk on the black ground. Try to get to the center and control that area, you'll face off eventually.

Loading Dock [By Scazzard1]
This map is similar to Scazzard1's other maps, it features many cranes and has a similar terrain style to Warehouse.

Stadium [By Scazzard1]
This map is similar to Scazzard1's other maps, it features a football field and a blimp floating overhead. Players can climb up a wire to reach the blimp but you may find yourself cornered if you attempt to fight in the blimp.

Wheat Farm: [By Scazzard1]
This map is somewhat different to the other maps by Scazzard1 which are featured in the game, it features rows of corn outside a barn. The rows of corn are difficult to fight on as it is easy to be attacked from below as you walk over a bump.

Summer Archipelago [By ninjabart122]
This map is notable as it was the first map to introduce dynamic terrain to Sword Fighting Tournament. It is somewhat difficult to fight on this terrain type at first, but once you learn how to adapt to the terrain and use the bumps to your advantage it is easy to get the low ground and outclass your opponent.

Disappearing Plates [By TheInnovative (Previously chubbs21)]
This map introduces disappearing plates. In this map players must fight on plates which could vanish at any moment above a pit filled with deadly lava.

The Creed [By Unmoved]
This map is based on Assassin's Creed. There are some rooftops to fight on in the map and also a low area which can be used to get an advantage on your opponent.

Islands [By Gloryblox]
This map is rather similar to narrows, it features a number of floating islands with narrow paths joining them and a deadly floor below. Be careful when spawning into this map as if you are moving it is possible that you will fall straight onto the deadly floor which will kill you.

The Pit [By Ravenshield]
This map was the first map in Sword Fighting Tournament to use dynamic lighting, it is dimly lit by a number of spotlights on the walls of the pit. In this map players fight on a narrow platform above the floor of the pit.

Bridge [By LimitedU]
This map allows players to fight on a map above a pit which kills players that fall down from the bridge above.

Park [By JafferThePwner]
This is quite a simple map which features a park with a few props such as a statue in the middle of the map along with some trees and benches scattered throughout the map.

Wasteland [By Tippee]
This is one of the most detailed maps in the game. There are many hiding places in the maps such as in the pipes and on top of the buildings.

Woodlands [By sting4672]
This map is a great place to get away from the opponent because there is an underground tunnel which hides you from the opponent. Beware, if you stay there too long, the opponent might get you and kill you.

Former maps
Here are some maps that have been retired as of July 2013.

Wobbly Plates [By Chubbs21]
Wobbly plates went along the lines of disappearing plates, but when you step on them, they would move down, forcing you into lava.

Swords
Players have recently been given the ability to rent swords for a maximum of 15 minutes at  half the cost and 1/4 the wins required in order to get the swords normally. This is useful for many players who are only playing the game for a short period of time and also has the added benefit of rented swords carrying over into the next server. Swords can be saved for  an hour before they will delete and you will be back on a Linked Sword, this is to make sure that new players can have a chance fighting, and older players won't win with more powerful tools, however there is a discussion on the forum about if the game should have saving forever or just keep the regular saving system, with the community divided about it. Sword fighting tournament is very heavy on the pay to win aspect. Read below for the features that game passes grant players.

Exclusive Sword Set Weapons
Bamboo Katana - A katana for 1 point. It has low damage and is medium ranged.

Tribal Spear - A spear for 1 point. It has low damage and is medium ranged.

Sword of Jewels- A sword for 400 points. It has low damage and is medium ranged.

Sword of Nefertiti - A sword for 600 points. It has low-medium damage and is medium ranged.

Taser Sword - A sword for 600 points. It has low-medium damage and is medium ranged. This is a unique sword as there is a chance it will remove the opponent's sword during a strike.

Knight's Sword - A sword for 700 points. It has medium-high damage and is medium ranged. This gear is held "southpaw style", unlike all the other swords.

Pirate's Cutlass - A typical sword for 700 points. It has medium damage and is medium ranged.

Tormentor's Axe - A typical sword, aside from its design. The Tormentors Axe has medium range and medium-high damage.

Spiked Club of Ice - A club for 3,000 points. It has extremely low damage and is short ranged. However, it has a unique feature to it.; when a user attacks, it will send ice shards in all direction that will damage any enemy they connect with.

Ghostwalker (GW) - A Ghostwalker for 3,500 points. It has medium-high damage and is short ranged. Unlike SFOTH IV, a user will never become invisible while using this sword, because the GW resets each round. As a players gravity lowers while using GW, it is easy to rise off the ground when lunging with the sword, leaving the user  vulnerable  to attacks from below. This trait can become extremely annoying, but it can also be an advantage.

Game Pass Swords
Crimson Katana - A red katana that a user can buy from a Game pass, the Game Pass costs 75 Robux. It is a sword that is, essentially, a Golden Katana with higher damage. It has a considerably higher amount of damage and is medium-long ranged.

VIP game passes
There are currently six different VIP game passes for Sword Fighting Tournament, including the Crimson Katana game pass, the sword set game pass, and four tiered VIPs. Five of these game passes used to be VIP T-shirts, and these T-shirts still grant the same benefits ingame.

Mini VIP
There are two main benefits for Mini VIPs: starting with 100 points [600 points if visited Ages of Robloxia] and extra points for each win obtained in-game.

Normal VIP
The Normal VIP benefits for Sword Fighting Tournament are:
 * Starting the game with the Golden Katana.
 * Starting the game with 250 points. [750 points if visited Ages of Robloxia]
 * 140 health.
 * 3.5 bet multiplier.
 * Extra points for each win.

Insane VIP
The Insane VIP benefits for Sword Fighting Tournament are:
 * Starting the game with the Sword Cane.
 * Starting the game with 2500 points. [3000 points if visited Ages of Robloxia]
 * 50% more health
 * 4.3 bet multiplier.
 * Double the vote weight in voting for maps and bonus rounds.
 * Extra points for each win.

Super Insane VIP
The Super Insane VIP benefits for Sword Fighting Tournament are: Sword Set VIP
 * Starting the game with the Spiked Club.
 * Starting the game with 4500 points. [5000 points if visited Ages of Robloxia]
 * 5x bet multiplier.
 * 50% more health
 * 20% reduction of the wins needed to buy things in the shop.
 * Double the vote weight in voting for maps and bonus rounds.
 * Extra points for each win.

This VIP game pass gives you access to the exclusive sword set swords.

Crimson Katana
This game pass gives you access to the exclusive Crimson Katana ingame. It is commonly used by users wishing for a powerful gear. Multiple players have claimed that this gear is overpowered.

Trivia

 * Sword Fighting Tournament was the tenth most popular game of 2012, receiving nearly 6.5 million visits that year alone.
 * TheGamer101 originally created the game to host a sword fighting contest for members of a group he was in at the time.
 * If a user visits Ages of Robloxia, another game by TheGamer101, they get an extra 500 points upon entering the game.
 * If a user wins the Super Badge, they receive a free energy sword upon joining the game.
 * TheGamer101 has stated that there are over 500 players on the banned list currently.
 * XiaoXiaoMan said he didn't like the game when he reviewed it in February 2011.
 * Sword Fighting Tournament is criticized for being "Pay to Win".  Users who buy the gamepasses will have a significant advantage over those who do not.