Champions of the Era

The logo for Champions of the Era.

Champions of the Era (abbreviated as CotE) was a weekly ARMS tournament series organized by Era. The series began in the Summer of 2018 and ran until its 100th event on October 10th, 2021 where Era also announced her retirement from ARMS tournament organizing.

Format

Like most weekly events, Champions of the Era ran double elimination brackets, regardless of entrant count. Players utilized Era's Discord server to communicate with their opponents as the brackets were ran on Challonge, a site that lacks player-to-player chat functions. Many of the early CotE events were streamed and commentated by Cedge whereas later events were streamed by Era herself with various co-commentators over time. On occasion, there were pre-event warm up lobbies ran by Rashiko and LiteraryFirearms of Casual ARMS prior to the bracket beginning. After some tournaments, movie watch parties have also been held including one for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and another for Jurassic Park.

Unlike most other tournaments, CotE does not use the "Backroom" stage list. This means that players have the option to play on traditionally non-legal stages such as Spring Stadium, Ramen Bowl, Sky Arena, and/or Ribbon Ring (Ramen Bowl and Sky Arena are no longer included in the current stage list however).

The unique stage list for Champions of the Era has been considered a breath of fresh air by many, but some players also feel that a more traditional set of stages would be better for a competitive tournament. After many complaints about the stages, Era decided to create a new weekly tournament series, titled Temple Tantrum that utilized the "Backroom" stage list while still continuing to run CotE.

Champions of the Era was not initially region locked, but in early 2020 it became locked to North American players only. This allowed CotE events to count toward the ARMS North American Power Ranking without having European or Japanese players interfere with North American players' results. Prior to Champions of the Era's region lock, in order to provide an event for the European players interested in a CotE like event, Era created Champions of the Erapean Union which was region locked to European players only. This event was ran at a much more reasonable time for European players to play at compared to traditional Champions of the Era tournaments. In Fall 2021, CotE became region-free once more and shifted to a slightly earlier time to better accommodate players from regions other than North America. This continued into the series' final event which even managed to have a full international Top 3.

Tournaments

Bracket	Date	Winner	Character(s) used
Champions of the Era	July 1, 2018	LuisM21
Champions of the Era 2	July 8, 2018	Para
Champions of the Era 3	July 14, 2018	Dastardly
Champions of the Era 4	July 22, 2018	river_reverb
Champions of the Era 5	July 29, 2018	SlosherWailord
Champions of the Era 6	August 5, 2018	SirRosalina
Champions of the Era 7	August 12, 2018	Asqew
Champions of the Era 8	August 19, 2018	SlosherWailord
Champions of the Era 9	August 26, 2018	Asqew
Champions of the Era 10	September 2, 2018	SlosherWailord
Champions of the Era 11	September 9, 2018	Gryffical
Champions of the Era 12	September 16, 2018	Asqew
Champions of the Era 13	September 23, 2018	Asqew
Champions of the Era 14	September 30, 2018	SirRosalina
MWe - Champions of the Era 15	October 7, 2018	JMCANADA
MWe - Champions of the Era 16	October 14, 2018	Asqew
MWe - Champions of the Era 17	October 21, 2018	Serp
MWe - Champions of the Era 18	October 28, 2018	Serp
MWe - Champions of the Era 19	November 4, 2018	Twinedfive0
Champions of the Era 20	November 11, 2018	Para
Champions of the Era 21	November 18, 2018	Asqew
Champions of the Era 22	November 25, 2018	SirRosalina
Champions of the Era 23	December 2, 2018	Twinedfive0
Champions of the Era 24	December 9, 2018	Asqew
Champions of the Era 25	January 13, 2019	Twinedfive0
Champions of the Era 26	January 20, 2019	Asqew
Champions of the Era 27	January 27, 2019	Twinedfive0
Champions of the Era 28	February 3, 2019	Twinedfive0
Champions of the Era 29	February 10, 2019	Serp
Champions of the Era 30	February 17, 2019	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 31	February 24, 2019	Gouf
Champions of the Era 32	March 3, 2019	Steelhead
Champions of the Era 33	March 10, 2019	Asqew
Champions of the Era 34	March 24, 2019	Asqew
Champions of the Era 35	March 31, 2019	Gouf
Champions of the Era 36	April 7, 2019	Asqew
Champions of the Era 37	April 21, 2019	Asqew
Champions of the Era 38	April 28, 2019	Asqew
Champions of the Era 39	May 5, 2019	Serp
Champions of the Era 40	May 12, 2019	Mileve
Champions of the Era 41	May 19, 2019	Twinedfive0
Champions of the Era 42	June 9, 2019	Serp
Champions of the Era 43	June 23, 2019	Asqew
Champions of the Era 44	June 30, 2019	Asqew
Champions of the Era 45	July 14, 2019	Asqew
Champions of the Era 46	July 21, 2019	MrPiedPiper
Champions of the Era 47	July 28, 2019	Hamma
Champions of the Era 48	August 11, 2019	Hebirote
Champions of the Era 49	September 8, 2019	Jiko
Champions of the Era 50	September 22, 2019	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 51	October 6, 2019	Mileve
Champions of the Era 52	January 19, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 53	February 2, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 54	February 16, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 55	March 1, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 56	March 29, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 57	April 5, 2020	ALUMOX
Champions of the Era 58	May 3, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 59	May 10, 2020	Para
Champions of the Era 60	May 24, 2020	Mystery_Man_Bro
Champions of the Era 61	June 7, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 62	July 12, 2020	Asqew
Champions of the Era 63	July 26, 2020	Steelhead
Champions of the Era 64	August 2, 2020	Patita
Champions of the Era 65	August 16, 2020	Luna-Gabs
Champions of the Era 66	August 23, 2020	LuisM21
Champions of the Era 67	August 30, 2020	Luna-Gabs
Champions of the Era 68	September 4, 2020	Tree
Champions of the Era 69	September 20, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 70	September 27, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 71	October 4, 2020	LuisM21
Champions of the Era 72	October 11, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 73	November 1, 2020	Luna-Gabs
Champions of the Era 74	November 8, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 75	November 15, 2020	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 76	November 22, 2020	ALUMOX
Champions of the Era 77	December 6, 2020	FleshEater49
Champions of the Era 78	January 10, 2021	ALUMOX
Champions of the Era 79	January 17, 2021	Teddy
Champions of the Era 80	January 24, 2021	Asqew
Champions of the Era 81	January 31, 2021	Asqew
Champions of the Era 82	February 7, 2021	Teddy
Champions of the Era 83	February 28, 2021	Teddy
Champions of the Era 84	March 14, 2021	Teddy
Champions of the Era 85	March 28, 2021	ALUMOX
Champions of the Era 86	April 25, 2021	Twinedfive0
Champions of the Era 87	May 2, 2021	Twinedfive0
Champions of the Era 88	May 9, 2021	False King
Champions of the Era 89	May 16, 2021	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 90	May 23, 2021	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 91	June 6, 2021	Teddy
Champions of the Era 92	June 13, 2021	Teddy
Champions of the Era 93	July 11, 2021	Serp
Champions of the Era 94	July 18, 2021	AstroNinja
Champions of the Era 95	July 25, 2021	Teddy
Champions of the Era 96	August 1, 2021	Luna-Gabs
Champions of the Era 97	August 22, 2021	FleshEater49
Champions of the Era 98	September 5, 2021	Beamer
Champions of the Era 99	September 19, 2021	Gryffical
Champions of the Era 100	October 10, 2021	Twinedfive0

Trivia

The unique logo used for Champions of the Era 100.

• With 19 wins, Asqew has the most Champions of the Era wins out of all 28 unique victors.
• AstroNinja has the highest win streak in the series, winning 5 tournaments in a row.
• Champions of the Era 25 had the most participants out of any CotE tournament with 34 entrants.
• The logo for Champions of the Era was created by Gryffical. He also created the logo for Mega League Monday and Temple Tantrum.
• Hamma was the co-owner of Champions of the Era up until early February 2019.
• When the tournament series began there were bi-weekly prize pots donated from Radio and Cedge.
• During the time that Era was sponsored by Milky Way eSports, it was requested that Champions of the Era also came under the MWe umbrella. This sponsorship was somewhat short lived as only five events carried the MWe name.
• For the 69th event, due to its infamous numbering, many players donated to a prize pot that eventually totaled to $169.69.
  • This event was also streamed by Neru with Mungus as his co-commentator, who used VTuber avatars based on Mechanica and Min Min respectively.
• Frosty and LOSER have organized a couple of CotE events (#64, #73, and #99) for Era under circumstances in which she was too busy to do so.
• Champions of the Era is the first ARMS tournament series to reach 100 events.
  • CotE 100 was initially announced on September 26th, 2021 with a trailer parodying the trailer for Jurassic Park. To fit that theme, it was given the official nickname "Erassic Park". It also featured a unique logo based on the aforementioned movie made specifically for the occasion by the artist bucketart.

Gameplay Videos

Champions of the Era #15 Playlist
Champions of the Era #16 Playlist
Champions of the Era #17 Playlist
Champions of the Era #19 Playlist
Champions of the Era #20 Playlist