Hey guys,

Just an update on how things are progressing. We're still in the process of refactoring the game but are ready to start opening it up to some testing. If you're interesting in taking part, and we would love the feedback - especially from this group! Head over to www.survivetheark.com -> Register for an account and apply to become a tester here:

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forms/4-ark-tester-application

From there we'll follow up very swiftly on how to proceed with testing. Let us know whether you're interested in SoTF testing ONLY by writing that in the additional information section at the bottom -- If you're wanting to test regular ARK updates too, then don't worry and no need to mention it.

Please keep in mind this will be a NDA process and there won't be any opportunity to discuss the game outside of the testing-environment, no streams, footage - anything of the sort!

Get in touch if you're interested, we would very much appreciate the feedback :)

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Hey Survivors!

We’re now at the end of our Pre-Championship phase, after a week of intense battles we’re excited to prepare for our Championship game! The 5-hour match is set to launch at 2PM EST on Saturday the 24th of October and will feature over 240 players and will be streamed live with commentary at www.twitch.tv/survivetheark - be sure to tune in as the best SotF players in the world compete for a ton of prizes, worth $75,000, and get involved with the process by influencing the outcome of the game with your Evolution Event votes! (The server will open to contestants, for Tribe setup, at 12pm EST.)


After today’s two Loser Bracket Games, these are the open contestants who’ve made it all the way to the Championship:

Loser Bracket Qualified Players[docs.google.com]

Just a reminder that teams are not locked for the Finale -- during the Finale pre-match lobby, qualified players will be granted the opportunity and plenty of time to swap or combine Tribes with others who are also playing in the Finale. Keep in mind that the tribe maximum is set to 6 PLAYERS and alliances will not be tolerated during the event, those found to be forming alliances during battle will find themselves escorted off the ARK by security ;).

All qualified Survivors should be on the lookout for a special friends request and an invite to a private Steam Group. It’s very critical you accept both the friend request and the group invite as it’ll be a place where we’ll be able to directly inform you about anything regarding the Tournament. Those will come out from tonight and tomorrow. If you do not receive one by Thursday Evening please do not hesitate to contact Wildcard Jat and he will sort that out for you.


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Survivors will be competing not only for this fantastic trophy with their names embedded onto the plaque, pride, and bragging rights, but also a whole heap worth of goodies from our fantastic sponsors! Special thanks to NVIDIA, Logitech, CyberPower PC and special thanks to Nitrado for hooking us up with a beast machine to host the server on!

And as for a more detailed look into what will be awarded to the winners….


$24,000 - Cash Prize ($4,000 each)
Syber Vapor PC from CyberPower PC! (1 Each)
G410 Atlas Spectrum Logitech Gaming Keyboard (1 Each)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti (1 Each)
Unique Survival of the Fittest: The Last Stand 1st Place Trophy (1 Each)


$12,000 Cash Prize ($2,000 each)
G402 Hyperion Fury Logitech Gaming Mouse (1 Each)
Unique Survival of the Fittest: The Last Stand 2nd Place Trophy (1 Each)


$6,000 Cash Prize ($1,000 each)
G440 Logitech Gaming Mouse (1 Each)
Unique Survival of the Fittest: The Last Stand 3rd Place Trophy (1 Each)

And every participant who participates in the Grand Finale will receive a 100$ Steam Giftcard!


Starting Thursday and through Saturday, the official Survival of the Fittest servers will be reduced to four 100-player servers with 6-player Tribes, and using the final Last Stand Tournament build. We encourage entrants to use these practice their skills and hone their strategies before Saturday’s home! And this Friday we’ll also be launching a special SotF Server for a quick 2.5-hour Dry-Run of our broadcasting setup! It’ll be open to anyone & everyone to participate, not just Last Stat contestants. If there are technical difficulties during the game, we will just proceed to restart and relaunch, perhaps adjusting the length of the game if we feel fit! Each member from the winning tribe of the game will each receive a 100$ Steam Wallet Gift-card!

Be on the lookout for more details Friday, as well as an in game broadcast!

You'll see them shortly on the list.

Just a last minute update:

Players will not be able to claim other people's structures, after they have died - as we have found a critical issue with this so had to remove it. Both servers will be online and you're free to choose which you'd like to join.

Hey Survivors!

It’s been another interesting day, full of hot dino action and also some technical glitches! Thank you once again for being so patient and understanding about the challenges that arose during the 2nd day of Pre Championships.

Unfortunately our host machine had suffered an outage during the game and we had lost connection to the game for approximately 15 minutes. In this time the game was still running, however in that 15 minute period - players had been killed and the direction of the game had changed. Due to this, we had decided to restart the match completely, as the time it would take to collect those who had survived and those who hadn’t would have delayed the match continuing for a several hours -- affecting a significant amount of players who were unable to play later on. We also understood that many players had practiced for a 5-hour game, and switching to a 3-hour game may throw off strategies, and finally there was a possibility for end-user mistake when going through the logs manually collecting who had died prior to the outage specifically, which is why we felt the best decision to make would be to restart the game. The second game went much smoother, with a few hiccups which we are currently looking into and will have resolved for the next set of games.

We’d like to extend many thanks to Bikeman for shoutcasting the entire day, without a break! Truly a soldier and to both TangentGaming and typeForced for their co-casting throughout the day.


The following players along with their respective Tribe have qualified thus far for the Grand Finale to take place on Saturday the 24th of October:

Grand Finale Qualified Players Day Two[docs.google.com]

Teams are not locked for the Finale -- during the Finale pre-match in-game, these players may opt to swap or combine Tribes with others who are also playing in the Finale.


As earlier announced, due to the recent issues that arose in today’s game and Sunday’s game, we have decided that, tomorrow; anyone who has not yet qualified for the grand finale or participated in a Pre Championship round will be able to play during the Pre Championship games. That means everyone who qualified in the Preliminaries but has not yet placed for the Championship will be allowed to play in the last Pre-Championship matches and whitelisted. Due to the large number of people that have been whitelisted for this particular day, we will be running two servers that will be launched simultaneously. Players will be able to decide which server they would like to play on and we will be pulling the remaining qualified slots off of both of these servers evenly, so we advise that players join whatever the lower-population server is at the time to attempt to keep them even, which will help your odds. We expect these sessions to be around 200 players each.

The final number of qualified survivors we plan to push onto the Grand Finale is approximately 160 players, this means we’re looking to pull in the top 30-tribe players from each session tomorrow.

These games will both open for lobby pre-match at 1PM EST and they will launch at 2PM EST. In that one hour window, you will be able to organize your tribes and plan your pre-game strategies, as with the other SoTF Pre Championships that have been played!

Good luck to everyone tomorrow, and see you all then!

Anyone who has not yet qualified or participated in a Pre Championship round will be able to play during Wednesday's Pre Championship game.