About Hitman Roulette #3 - The Community
The servers to join and stay updated
This is part 3 of 3 of an introduction to Hitman Roulette. See also Part 1: Introduction and Part 2: Resources.
The Hitman Roulette community may be small but it’s not confined within just one Discord server. It might be confusing to keep track of all the roulette-focused servers, so here’s a short overview of the ones hosting competitions currently.
Frote7’s Speedrun Community
It’s safe to say roulette wouldn’t be a popular game mode if it wasn’t picked up by Frote7 and his community in 2020. Every three months they host Roulette Rivals, the most prestigious Hitman competition. Three of the yearly events feature plain double-elimination brackets, hosted in February, May and August respectively. They are only overshadowed by the annual Roulette Rivals World Championship, held in two gruelling stages over eight weeks before Christmas.
This server, often shortened to F7SC, is the main Discord server to be a part of. Selecting the right channels and roles allows spectators to get notified of more than a hundred Roulette Rivals matches per tournament, as well as various other community initiatives inside the world of roulette.
Hitman Roulette League
When there are no Roulette Rivals going on, attention shifts to the Roulette League. As opposed to RR matches, which require admin and shoutcaster resources, the League is entirely automated: anyone can set up a game against anyone at any time. Players (if they choose so) are assigned weekly opponents around their (Elo-based) skill level, meaning there’s always something to play for. Rules in the Roulette League are virtually identical to those in F7SC so the League is an ideal practice ground for newcomers and veterans alike.
For those who want to compete for extra stakes, Roulette Divisions is a side-event to the League, where players are sorted into a pyramid of six-player groups, with promotion and relegation on the line each season.
Providence
Providence used to be the central place for offshoot community events outside the Roulette Rivals cycle. Though its activity has gone down recently, roulette enthusiasts in Providence can still expect the occasional team roulette competitions, most recently tag-team trilogy races.
Although no roulette competitions are hosted in there, important and useful places of the community include the official Hitman Discord, the HITMAPS server, the Hitman subreddit and the Hitman Forum.
I hope these posts have been useful to everyone looking to learn more about Hitman Roulette. Please consider subscribing to find out more about this game mode, or to read various reports and essays regarding roulette and the community. If you’re ever unsure about something, don’t hesitate to leave a comment here, or reach out in any of the mentioned servers.
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