Where to go

The announcement lives on X. Everything after it, from registration help to the qualifier format and any rule change, lands in the Forever PvP Discord first; the rules document says changes may be posted to social media or video but does not promise it. If you are entering, sit in the Discord.

Join the Forever PvP DiscordRegister on Raider.IORead the official rules

All three open in the same tab and belong to the organisers, not to this site. The rules are a Google Doc; Raider.IO needs JavaScript.

The announcement

🔴🔴OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCING:🔴🔴

The Forever Open - The first WoW: Forever Dueling Tournament!

💥Dates: Oct 17/18
📜Ruleset: PVP
👺Faction: Horde
🐄Level: 30
💰Prize Pool: $50k

This is an OPEN tournament so join the Discord and register now if you'd like to participate!

Tips Out (@TipsOut), 27 Sep 2026, 11:00 PT

Play the announcement video

Update, 28 Sep 2026, 10:23 PT. The pool has doubled since this post. On 28 September Timthetatman said on stream that he is adding $50,000, and Tips Out confirmed it on X the same day: the prize pool is $100,000, and the rules document now carries the new split. Tips Out's post links the 48-second Twitch clip.

Dates

Times are the organisers' own, in Pacific time; 11am PT is 8pm CEST and 18:00 UTC through October.

• 25 Sep 2026First reported: the $50,000 tournament comes up on creator streams and Icy Veins writes it up the same evening.
• 27 Sep 2026Official announcement on X at 11am PT (8pm CEST). Registration opens on Raider.IO. Only characters created from this moment on count.
• 28 Sep 2026Timthetatman adds $50,000 on stream and Tips Out confirms it on X at 10:23am PT: the prize pool is now $100,000. The rules document carries the new split.
• 4 Oct 2026Registration closes at 11am PT (8pm CEST). Late registrations are not accepted.
• 10 Oct 2026Deadline for the qualifier format and ruleset, which the rules promise at least one week before the qualifiers, in the Discord.
• 17 Oct 2026Check-in on Raider.IO in the morning (window TBD), then the qualifying stage (time TBD).
• 18 Oct 2026Finals: the top four of each class, best-of-five series (time TBD).
• 21 Oct 2026Last full day of the beta, per Blizzard.

How to enter

1. Get onto the beta. Access comes from the opt-in on the official WoW Forever site (not guaranteed) or from pre-purchasing the Epic Pack or the Forever Collection (guaranteed).
2. Create a brand-new Horde character on the PvP ruleset, on or after 27 Sep 11am PT. Characters made before that are ineligible and get removed. Give it the last name Foreverpvp; that is required.
3. Register the character on Raider.IO (rio.gg/foreveropen). Every extra character has to be registered on its own, inside the window, and you play only one of them.
4. Join the Forever PvP Discord. Registration questions go to the RaiderIO role there.
5. Ask for an invite to the guild <The Forever Open II> in the #guild-invite-channel of the Forever PvP Discord, then log in on that character to accept it. The rules doc has named a different guild before, so go by what the Discord says.
6. Reach level 30 before check-in on 17 Oct, and have 15 gold on you for the entry fee.
7. Check in on Raider.IO on the morning of 17 Oct (window TBD). Be ready to stream your own duels on Twitch, YouTube or Kick and keep the VOD.

Prize

The pool was $50,000 at the announcement, split $25,000 and $2,777; Timthetatman's $50,000 on 28 September doubled both halves. Ties within a class split the class prize evenly. Winners invoice the organisers before payment. The champion is crowned Death's Duelist.

Three stages

Rules in short

The rules document is binding and can change at any time; this is the digest for a first read.

• One talent build per stage. It may differ between qualifiers and finals but cannot change once a stage starts, and you may be asked to submit it 24 hours ahead. Legacy points are allowed.
• Your own class abilities and buffs are fine. Buffs from other players only if they last two minutes or longer, so no borrowed Power Word: Shield.
• Consumables are allowed except Magic Dust and the six protection potions (Fire, Nature, Frost, Arcane, Holy, Shadow). Holiday buffs and holiday consumables are banned. A banned item may not even sit in your bags; the list can change.
• Stay at the dueling spot. No hearthing to repair, and at most three minutes offline in total. Warlocks get one shard trip after checking with an admin.
• One to two minutes between duels to heal, buff and drink. Duels start 20 yards apart from the flag, unmounted, after a ten-second countdown. No opener is guaranteed for any class.
• Sixty seconds of inactivity is a delay-of-game penalty. Stalling to reset cooldowns forfeits the duel. Fleeing a duel disqualifies you, and forcing an opponent to flee disqualifies the one doing it.
• A duel that times out is replayed, with food and water capped at three for the rest of that matchup.
• Stream your own point of view on Twitch, YouTube or Kick, including bag and talent inspections, and keep the VOD. Not streaming can forfeit your matches and prize money.
• Not there when your duel is called? You can be replaced on the spot and lose your place.
• The organisers' own disclaimer: dueling is not an officially supported Blizzard esport, and a bug, a technicality or an admin call can cost you your shot.

Broadcast

The qualifiers and finals stream on Esfand's and Xaryu's Twitch channels, with both commentating. Co-streaming is allowed within Blizzard's, the platform's and the tournament's rules.

Known snags and open questions

• Horde character creation is throttled. The beta's PvP realms lock creation on the faction that is far ahead in numbers, and players have reported being unable to make a Horde character since 25 Sep. There is no announced workaround beyond trying again at quieter hours.
• The beta is not at level 30 yet. Blizzard said the cap starts at 20 and rises to 30 later in the beta, without a public date. The tournament assumes 30 arrives before 17 Oct.
• Times and format are TBD. Check-in window, qualifier and finals start times, the qualifier format and the dueling location are all still to be announced, in the Discord.
• One faction per account on the PvP ruleset. ForeverChanges reports that an account can only play one faction on the PvP ruleset, so an existing Alliance PvP character would block a Horde entry. Not verified here.
• Community tournament guidelines. WoW Forever News asked how a $50,000 pool sits with Blizzard's usual community tournament guidelines; the pool has since doubled. No organiser or Blizzard statement has addressed it.

Sources

Checked on 2026-09-28. The first two are the source of truth; the rest are the organisers' documents and the reporting this digest was checked against.

1. Tips Out on X: the announcement
   27 Sep 2026, 11am PT. Dates, ruleset, faction, level, prize pool and the 88-second video. Primary source.
2. Tips Out on X: the prize pool doubles
   28 Sep 2026, 10:23am PT. Timthetatman contributes $50,000, the pool is $100,000 as of that day, and the post links the Twitch clip of his announcement. Primary source for the new figure.
3. Timthetatman on Twitch: the clip
   28 Sep 2026, 10:22am PT. The 48-second clip of the on-stream announcement that Tips Out's post links.
4. Forever PvP Discord
   Run by Tips Out; about 1,250 members on 27 Sep. The rules document and the Raider.IO page each give an invite, and both open the same server. Primary source for everything after the announcement.
5. The Forever Open: Rules, Regulations and Code of Conduct
   The organisers' Google Doc: registration steps, stages, the prize split ($50,000 to the champion, $5,555 per class, updated for the $100,000 pool by 28 Sep), every rule summarised above. Binding for entrants.
6. Raider.IO event page
   Registration form, key dates, character and participation eligibility, check-in. rio.gg/foreveropen redirects here. On 28 Sep its intro and Prizes tab still showed the $50,000 pool and the old $25,000 and $2,777 split; the rules doc and Tips Out's post are newer.
7. Blizzard: The World of Warcraft: Forever beta now live
   Level cap 20 at the start, raised to 30 later in the beta; beta runs through 21 Oct.
8. Blizzard forums: Horde character creation locked
   Player reports of the faction lock from 25 Sep.
9. Icy Veins: $50,000 dueling tournament announced
   25 Sep 2026. The first write-up, the commentators, and the level 60 and Mak'gora events Tips Out has talked about for later. Written before the pool doubled.
10. WoW Forever News: $50,000 tournament announced
    26 Sep 2026. The faction lock and the guidelines question. Written before the pool doubled.
11. ForeverChanges: duel tournament
    A fan digest with a calendar, updated as news lands; it carried the doubled pool by 29 Sep.

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