EU ARMS Challenge

EU ARMS Challenge (abbreviated as EUAC) was an online biweekly tournament series originally created and organized by Cojora and Raffa which was ran by Ripha and ocrim until the series' end of regular events. The later duo took control of the series starting with EUAC #5 on July 15th, 2018. EU ARMS Challenge began in October of 2017 and continued until December 4th, 2022 with EU ARMS Challenge #107. Although regularly held biweekly events will no longer continue, there may still be occasional spur of the moment EUACs. Considering the series ran for more than 5 years with over 100 events, EU ARMS Challenge is the longest running European-only ARMS tournament series.

Format
Like most events, EU ARMS Challenge ran double elimination brackets. Players utilized the EU ARMS Discord server to communicate with their opponents as the brackets (aside from the first event) were ran on Challonge, a site that lacks player-to-player chat functions. The tournament was streamed through EU ARMS' Twitch account and has featured many different casters over time including Defur, Layla, Mathias Wolfbrok, and more. In terms of the tournament's stage list, the "Backroom" stages were initially used, though starting with EUAC #64 Ninja College replaced Scrapyard as a counterpick stage. Generally, the event utilizes a modified Backroom ruleset.

EU ARMS Challenge events have always counted toward the EU ARMS Power Ranking since said ranking's inception. At the end of power ranking seasons, invitational events with prize pools have traditionally been held, though prior to these occurring specific EUAC events featured prize pools instead. These events are EUAC #19 and #25, both of which had a $100 pot.

Trivia

 * With 45 wins, Ripha has the most EUAC wins out of all 12 unique victors.
 * Ripha also has the highest win streak in the series, winning 7 tournaments in a row.
 * Yätta's 4 event EUAC win streak throughout the Summer of 2018 garnered him the nickname "King of Europe".
 * EU ARMS Challenge #5 had the most participants out of any EUAC tournament with 25 entrants.
 * EU ARMS Challenge is the third ARMS tournament series to reach 100 events, with Champions of the Era being the first and The Biweekly Procrastination being the second. The series, however, is the first European-only tournament series to reach 100 tournaments.
 * EUAC 100 was initially announced on August 14th, 2022 with a trailer being presented on camera by Ripha. Alongside the announcement of EUAC 100, a week of special events were also announced that were to build up to the milestone tournament.
 * These events included Viva ARMS Vegas (which featured random ARMS and fighter selection), The Glushiest VS Church of Blorb (a crew battle between Glusher users and Blorb wielders), Champions of the Erapean Union - Road to 100 Edition, and EUAC’s King of the Hill (a battle between the top four players who have won the most EUAC events, being Ripha, Iceman92, Yätta, and Grimwood).
 * Although EU ARMS Challenge 100 did not have a direct logo itself, each of the special events leading up to it did and, aside from the CotEU logo, they were all created by Dendy.
 * YoshiBowser first entered EUAC #8 and continued to play in every single event until the series stopped running regularly scheduled events with #107. This means that YoshiBowser entered 100 tournaments in the series in a row.

Gameplay Videos
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