Online Game Battle Tournament

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GameOgre.com holds battles aka polls to determine the best games on the Internet. Battles take place on a monthly and annual basis. Annual tournaments happen in the summer and extend of 3 months while monthly battles consist of just one poll to determine the Game of the Month.

Monthly Battle Rules:

1. The winner will have a sticky page in the forum for a month.
2. The winner will automatically be entered into the next annual Online Game Tournament.
3. Forum members can still vote only once but can now vote on multiple games.

Battle for May

May Game of the Month

Games of the Month

September: RuneScape
October: Warhammer Online
November: Battlefield 2142
December: World of Warcraft
January: World of Kung Fu
February: Cross Fire
March: Quake Live
April: BattleForge
May: SplashFighters

MMORPG Showdown

Sister version of Online Game Battles. This takes place in GameOgre's Review Directory and determines our Best MMORPG of 2008 for our 2008 Online Game Awards feature that we will do in early 2009.

MMORPG Showdown 3 - The Best MMORPGs Go Head-to Head!

Annual Summer Tournament Rules:

1. Any online game is eligible whether free or not.
2. Winners will be determined by polls.
3. There will be at 3 phases with each phase lasting a month.
4. Winners will be determined for each category and then the winners will compete against each other.
5. The winner from each category will get a sticky profile in its respective forum.
6. The overall winner will be GameOgre.com Reader's Choice for Online Game of the Year and will be on GameOgre's 2008 Award article.

Final Match:

2008 Online Game Battle Tournament Finals

Second Round Matches:

World of Warcraft vs. Age of Conan
Best MMORPG: Online Game Battle Tournament

Guild Wars vs. RuneScape vs. Maple Story vs. Perfect World
Best Free MMORPG: Online Game Battle Tournament

Diablo 2 vs. Neverwinter Nights
Best Online RPG: Online Game Battle Tournament

Achaea vs. Wheel of Time MUD vs. 3Kingdoms
Best MUD: Online Game Battle Tournament

Beyond Protocol vs. StarCraft
Best Strategy Game: Online Game Battle Tournament

Team Fortress 2 vs. War Rock
Best Online Shooter: Online Game Battle Tournament

Albatross 18 vs. Freestyle Street Basketball vs. Project Torque
Best Sports Game: Online Game Battle Tournament

Little Fighter 2 vs. Gunz
Best Fighting Game: Online Game Battle Tournament

First Round Matches:

MMORPGs Block 1: Online Game Battle Tournament
MMORPGs Block 2: Online Game Battle Tournament

Free MMORPGs Block 1: Online Game Battle Tournament
Free MMORPGs Block 2: Online Game Battle Tournament

Online RPGs Block 1: Online Game Battle Tournament
Online RPGs Block 2: Online Game Battle Tournament

Strategy Games Block 1: Online Game Battle Tournament
Strategy Games Block 2: Online Game Battle Tournament

MUDs Block 1: Online Game Battle Tournament
MUDs Block 2: Online Game Battle Tournament

Online Shooters Block 1: Online Game Battle Tournament
Online Shooters Block 2: Online Game Battle Tournament

Sports Block 1: Online Game Battle Tournament
Sports Block 2: Online Game Battle Tournament

Action/Fighting Block 1: Online Game Battle Tournament
Action/Fighting Block 2: Online Game Battle Tournament

Schedule:

June = We will have 2 battles per category. No one battle can have more than 10 games in it.

July - The two winners from each category will face each other to determine the category winner.

August - All category winners will face each other to determine the overall winner.

Categories:

MMORPGs
Free MMORPGs
Online RPGs
Online Strategy Games
MUDs
Sports
Online Shooters
Fighting/Action

Pay MMORPG Games (20):

Age of Conan
World of Warcraft
Eve Online
Lord of the Rings Online
Ryzom
Lineage II
EverQuest II
Final Fantasy XI
Ultima Online
Ashen Empires
ROSE Online
Ragnarok Online
Helbreath
Dark Age of Camelot
Dofus
Pirates of the Burning Sea
City of Heroes and Villains
Dungeons & Dragons Online
Tabula Rasa
Vanguard

Free MMORPG Games (20):

Guild Wars
Runescape
Maple Story
Perfect World
Lunia
Rappelz
Shadowbane
Sword of the New World
Shaiya
Silkroad Online
Neosteam
Fiesta
Dungeon Runners
9 Dragons
FlyFF
Last Chaos
Cabal Online
WYD Global
Grand Chase
Magic World Online

Online RPGs (20):

Rubies of Eventide
Diablo
Diablo 2
Neverwinter Nights
Adventure Quest
DragonFable
Second Life
Minions of Mirth
Faldon
TerraWorld
Ninja Wars
Blood Clans
Aranock Online
Nodiatis
MechQuest
RPG World Online
HoboWars
Kingdom of Loathing
Renaissance Kingdoms
Hellgate: London

Online Strategy Games (20):

Pardus
OGame
Tiny Warz
Alliegance
Civilization 4
Boundless Planet
Sins of a Solar Empire
Beyond Protocol
Time of Defiance
World in Conflict
Subspace Continuum
Ferion
Race War Kingdoms
WarOnline.net
Kings of Chaos
Glest
StarCraft
Project Visitor
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Warcraft III

MUDs (20):

Achaea
Wheel of Time MUD
The Two Towers
Legend of the Green Dragon
Realms of Despair
Gekkeiju Online
BatMUD
Vampire Wars
Mozart MUD
Avalon
Zombie MUD
Multi Users in Middle Earth
Shadows of Isildur
3Kingdoms
Aetolia
Dragon Swords
Artic MUD
Kinslayer MUD
Materia Magica
Medieva

Sports (10):

Albatross 18
Horse Isle
Freestyle Street Basketball
Shot Online
Hattrick
Goal Line Blitz
Football Superstars
Project Torque
Cal Ripken's Real Baseball
Kicks

Online Shooters (20):

Team Fortress 2
Combat Arms
America's Army
War Rock
Soldier Front
Tremulous
Doom 3
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Crysis
FEAR Combat
Control Monger
Unreal Tournament 3
Battlefield Heroes
Counter-Strike
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield 2
World War II Online
Planetside
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Quake III Arena

Action/Fighting (14):

Little Fighter 2
Bots
Robot Rage
Street Fighter Online
Toribash
Fury
GetAmped
Rag Doll Kung Fu
Gunz
Rumble Fighter
Supreme Boxing
Online Boxing
Raw vs. Smackdown 2008
Raw vs. Smackdown 2007