How Online Tournaments Work

The Basics

Tournaments are run AI versus AI. The only way to run manual tournaments, for any version of the games, is to have participants physically in the same room on the same console. Additionally, Manual controls usually means each player saves up to 99 guts, only uses a specific attack, and is likely going to be a boring event.

A tournament host will choose a format (Stat caps, a theme, tournament type such as Elimination or Round Robin, best of 3 or 5 etc.), Players will submit their monsters to the tournament host by a method indicated by the host. Once the Host has all of the information, they will stream in real-time or record/publish the tournament results.

DX and Switch

Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX, along with Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher include an option to upload your game saves to the cloud. A tournament host will need your Trainer & Monster name, or the lookup code to find your monster. Or you can just fight against randomly uploaded monsters.

Emulated Tournaments

Most emulators use a save file which behaves like a virtual memory card. These save files can be passed around just like the DexDrive and X-Port save files can be for the Console. A tournament host will need your monster saved on a game slot in the freezer that can be loaded by the emulator for the Versus play.

Originally... On the Console

• The original console games are not online compatible games. we use the DexDrive and X-Port (formerly known as Sharkport) to e-mail gamesaves back and forth between gamers and site hosts.
  
  
• The Tournaments are usually held in a series of 4 Brackets consisting of 4 monsters in each bracket (Nicknamed the 4X4). The Finalists from the previous 4 brackets goes on to a Finale to fight in a Final 5th bracket (the winners from each of the previous 4 brackets)
  
  
• The winner of the 5th and Final bracket determines the Champion
  
  
• Legendcup.com's Bracket Classes, A, S & Master are NOT determined by In-Game monster class ranking. The Legendcup.com's Class system is designed to be fair. Your monsters statistics are added up together. The composite of your monster's stats determine's which Class your monster can qualify for and compete in.
  
  
• The Actual Fights are done with CPU controlling both monsters. the tournament host (Me) at Legendcup.com monitors and relays the monster's activities play by play.
  
  
• Each fight between any 2 monsters results in a Win or a Loss. This is determined by fighting the monsters up to 5 matches (best 3 out of 5 matches) until there is a victor. This makes it fair since players cannot actually control their monsters manually.