A player has thought about spicing up Valheim – with a tournament. The crazy event presents players with several challenges to ultimately crown a winner. A user comments: ‘You just turned Valheim into an e-sport.’
What kind of tournament is this? The event “Last Viking” is a sort of obstacle course in a crazy setup that a player has come up with. The player and reddit user Arreksis posted a short clip introducing this event.
It somewhat resembles Takeshi’s Castle or the party hit Fall Guys. You start through a portal, from where various stations must be completed:
- floating platforms with holes
- long, thin beams to balance on
- obstacle courses with windmills that can push you
- a huge troll amidst platforms that can knock you into the abyss
- a sort of soapbox race with a cart
There are various passages, similar to an “Iron Man” competition or the show “American Ninja Warrior”. In one part, for example, you see some ships lined up for a regatta, while in another, dragons fly and sea serpents swim, which likely make the course more challenging.
In an epic trailer, the creator shows what his tournament is supposed to look like:
When exactly this will take place is still unclear. Arreksis himself only writes: ‘coming soon’, so planning is presumably still underway. In the comments under his clip, another user offers the help of smash.gg.
smash.gg is a website that helps e-sport communities realize their plans and organize events. With a collaboration, “Last Viking” could certainly come together faster and larger.
What’s to win? At the end of the clip, Arreksis shows how his Viking stands before a kind of altar, where the cool flaming sword Dyrnwyn hangs. This is presumably the prize that the winner gets to take home – or simply the objective of the entire obstacle course.
More challenge in Valheim
The tournament is a cool idea, but it might take a while before you can play it. If you want to achieve something in the meantime, the game offers plenty of opportunities.
Recently, the speedrun community has also discovered Valheim for themselves and there is already a first world record: all 5 bosses in less than 90 minutes. Here you can make a name for yourself in various categories.
Other Vikings rely on mods that make Valheim harder. While there are no rewards for this, those who love challenges can make Valheim as difficult as they want.
Finally, some resourceful players are also working on a new, really big project. They want Valheim to be played with more than just a close circle of friends. The group consists of experienced modders who have previously run private servers for WoW and now want to turn Valheim into an MMO:
Ambitious Vikings want to turn Valheim into an MMO with 1000 players
