Since I'm not sure if everyone can see the post I made on the HYPERcrypto forum, I'll post it here as well:
"Tournaments, and how you can win HYPER"Tournaments will be hosted monthly, once there are enough regular players and at least two active factions to compete.
Currently the goal is to get Tournaments running starting in mid-December.
To compete in the tournament, you must already be an active player on the "normal", Survival server. You must be in a faction, and the faction leader enrolls his/her entire faction membership in the tournament, so make sure your leadership is active.* In tournament mode, each participating faction spawns in a private sector, all to themselves. All factions will have a set amount of time to work together to build ships (or a single ship, or whatever you want). Similar to Creative Mode, you have unlimited access to resources during this time, and you will have access to your faction's blueprints from the "normal" server.
* At the predetermined time, all factions and the stuff they've built will be teleported to "the arena", to slug it out. This is a free-for-all, and the winner of the round is the last faction standing.
* Once a winner has been determined, that faction gets a point on the leaderboard, and everyone respawns back at their private "building" sectors. The round resets, and you have some time to revise your designs, or come up with a new strategy.
* This will continue for a set number of rounds. At the end, the faction with the most points is declared the winner of the tournament, and will be awarded a HYPER prize to be distributed to all their members.
Obviously, this system means that larger factions with more members are likelier to win, but this also means their prize (if they win) is spread more thinly among their members, so it all evens-out. Also, if/when there are enough participating factions, then instead of a single grand prize, there will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes according to the final scores.
Tournaments will be broadcasted live. Details of this will be posted when the time comes.
All of this is tentative, open for debate, and subject to change. The server is still new, StarMade is still new, and HYPER itself is still new. Things are bound to change, and kinks worked out. Please feel free to make any suggestions you think of.