Aphane x Stinglee TBC 2v2 Tournament! November 29th - 2025!

[Shifty123]

Aphane x Stinglee’s TBC 2v2 Tournament

Get ready for another epic PvP showdown — this time, with a twist!
Step into the arena with Starter Gear S1/S2/PvE, where skill and synergy matter more than ever.
Two days, one champion team — are you ready to claim victory?

Tournament Collaboration: Aphane x Stinglee

Tournament Dates:
Day 1 (Group Stage): November 29th, 2025
Day 2 (Knockout Stage + Finals): November 30th, 2025

Format: 2v2 Arena Tournament
Platform: TBC
Twitch: twitch.tv/stinglee & twitch.tv/aphanelol

Gear & Rules

Allowed Gear: Starter S1/S2/PvE Gear
Trinkets: DST Allowed / MQG Allowed
Gear Swapping: Not Allowed (Only Weapons/Wand can be changed)
Enchants & Gems: Only S2 Enchants + Gems Allowed
Races: Locked for the entire tournament
Spec Rules: 1 Spec only – no talent changes allowed once the tournament begins
Professions: Allowed
Entry Method: Games will be played via Skirmish (standard 45-minute arena timer)
Tiebreaker Rule: If a match ends in a draw, the winner is determined by which team dropped the enemy to the lowest HP percentage

Tournament Format

Day 1 – Group Stage
16 Teams total (shuffled live on stream)
4 Groups of 4 Teams each
Best of 3 Format
Top 2 Teams from each group advance to Day 2

Day 2 – Knockout Stage & Finals
8 Remaining Teams (reshuffled)
Best of 3 Knockout Matches
Finals: Best of 3 or Best of 5 — decided by the viewers live on stream!

Prize Pool

1st Place – $600
2nd Place – $250
3rd Place – $100
MVP "Play of the tournament" – $50
(Prize pool may increase on the day of the tournament!)

Additional Info

The tournament will run over two days.
Matches will be casted and streamed live on Twitch.


Get your partner, sharpen your skills, and step into the arena — the Starter Gear 2v2 Showdown begins soon!

— Aphane x Stinglee Arena Tournament —

[guildbank12]

Rules look pretty biased towards certain classes (mage comes to mind) with MQG being available as well as spell haste gems if I read it correctly? So you can get around 9% haste with S2/T5 gear as well as MQG while there is no belt to potentially survive the burst vs RM for example. Also using Skirmish leaves you with no option to rewatch the games using Spectator NPC as there is no replay code generated. Checking gear like this will be a nightmare because in an official replay it would be logged and locked in and in Skirmish you could change your gear last second before the gates open and you would have to manually inspect everyone after the game started.

Besides that it looks decent. Good luck to everyone involved.

[guildbank12]

Slightly off-topic since the rules got changed now just a statement post to some mage player that apparently claimed you could only end up with like 4% haste and "he tried everything" I did a 5 minute template just throwing in random haste gems and this is what I ended up with https://sixtyupgrades.com/tbc/set/9c...8gptq7MRdKhqC2 . The gloves are overkill however you only get 5 yards on fire blast using S2 gloves and the 0.15 seconds only Polymorph but obviously it is way more than 4%. Can adjust further and the set I put together is probably incomplete and not min-maxed either but you get the point.