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Anvil · for clan staff and players4 min read

Skill and Boss of the Week

A weekly competition is the low-effort event: no tiles to write, no teams and no sign-ups. Everyone on the roster is entered when it starts, and the winner is whoever gains the most before it ends.

No tiles, no teams one leaderboardEntered at start the whole roster, automaticallyUp to 10 prize places paid from the coffer
Step 1

Schedule one

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Five choices, and the defaults are fine for most clans:

  1. Open Schedule in the admin menu and press + Schedule event (moderators can use Schedule a competition).
  2. Pick the kind: Skill of the Week (XP gained), Boss of the Week (kills gained) or Efficiency race (hours played or hours bossed gained).
  3. Under What is measured, pick the skill or boss. To change it every week, add more under Then rotate through. Leave that empty to repeat the same one.
  4. Choose when it Runs: This weekend, One week, or your own dates. It always needs an end, because it scores the gains between start and end.
  5. Leave Repeat every week on and the next one starts the moment this one ends, with the same length and prizes. Tick Guests race too if your clan’s guests should be on the board.

There is nothing else to set up. Starting numbers come from the hiscores when it begins.

Step 2

How it counts

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Each player’s gain is their stat now minus their stat when the competition started (their starting line). Highest gain wins; a tie is listed by name, and prizes can be split between tied places.

Starting lines are taken from the hiscores. After that, the plugin’s live updates keep the board current between hiscore checks, so players with the plugin move up the board as they play.

A number that goes down is ignored, and a gain that looks impossible is flagged for staff rather than counted or cut.

Players: log out before it starts

The hiscores only save your stats when you log out. If you grind right up to the start without logging out, your starting line is taken from before that grind and the grind counts as gain. Staff will usually catch it and fix your starting line, so log out once before it starts.

Step 3

Running it

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Open the competition from Schedule or the dashboard. It has a home page and three tabs:

Homethe Leaderboard (top 25, with how many are scoring), flagged gains, anyone who left the clan, and the prizes. When it ends, the winners and Final leaderboard.
Starting linesevery player’s Started at, Now and Gained. Correct a starting line by hand when a pre-competition grind was counted, and the leaderboard follows. Pull current stats refreshes everyone; Reset baselines starts everyone again from their hiscores now and wipes all gains.
Participantsthe whole roster is already in. Add someone takes one name per line, for a guest or an account not on the roster yet. Removing a player removes their standing; adding them back gives them a new starting line. Leave one each cleans up a person entered on several characters. You can also drop every guest at once.
Settingsname, dates, Repeat every week, and Status (only to unstick one; it moves along on its own). Admins can Delete it, along with its participants and standings.
Step 4

Prizes and ending

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Set prizes for up to 10 places, paid from the clan coffer. You choose whether a player with no gain can be paid and whether tied places share their prizes. How the money moves is in The clan coffer.

It ends on its own at the time you set. End now stops it early: gains stop counting at once, and the results post to Discord with prizes settled within 15 minutes.

Step 5

For players

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You don’t sign up. If you are on the clan roster when it starts, you are in. Find it on your clan’s Events page, in the plugin side panel’s Clan tab with where you stand, and in Discord when it starts and ends.

Each competition has its own page with the live leaderboard and how the race went day by day. A private clan shows it only to its own members.

Playing with the plugin keeps your number live. Without it you still count, just at the speed of the hiscores.

Want teams, or clans racing each other, on a skill or boss? Set the Format when you schedule it. See Team competitions.

Boards (bingo) are in Running your first event; prizes and the coffer in The clan coffer.

Stuck, or something looks wrong? Ask in the Anvil support Discord