All Majors Randomizer Tournament May 2025

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A flyer listing the tournament information. The heading reads 'henryst presends a...One Day Hollow Knight Randomizer Tournament! Saturday, May 10th, 2PM EST. There are three boxes below reading 'QUALIFIER First 6 teams to finish move on 2PM EST', 'SEMI-FINAL First 2 teams to finish move on ~3:45PM EST', and 'FINAL First team to finish WINS. +2 Gimmicks! ~5:30PM EST'. A heading below reads 'Featuring these 17 teams:'. The teams listed below are 'Prtsscort and Shenae', 'DragonWriterLuc and Hagus,' 'Grazloth and Dadik', 'aPress and purenail', 'Rhehaha and SleepyEllex', 'ValeMK and Adyn', 'Kasumir3 and King374859', 'Derpy and Maso', 'Echo and Nerthul', 'Quatopine and KamaKiller', 'Johnny Döner', Tailselrayo and thrmaf', 'FlamingED and Crouton', 'Kuroshi and BirdiestBlue', 'SylvieNukie and PrincessCelery', 'Priidik and isnialan', and 'Jadale and Toki'. At the bottom of the image there is a link to the HollowKnightCommuntity Twitch channel.

This tournament was a one-day tournament that took place on May 10th, 2025. The tournament consisted of three rounds: a qualifier, semi-final, and final round. Each round consisted of all of the remaining teams playing the same seed concurrently, with the top finishing teams moving onto the next round. The first 6 teams to finish in the qualifiers moved onto the semi-finals, and the top two teams to finish in the semi-finals moved on to the final round.

All Majors is a semi-spoiler format. Each team has a counter of major items remaining in each area, but they don't know what the items are or their exact locations. Their goal is to find all of these major items and finish with both players defeating the Radiance! In this tournament, the items considered "major items" are:

Mothwing Cloak (x2), Shade Cloak (x2), Mantis Claw, Crystal Heart, Monarch Wings (x2), Isma's Tear, Swim

Dream Nail (x2), Dreamgate, Awoken Dream Nail, Lurien, Monomon, Herrah, White Fragment, Kingsoul, Void Heart

Vengeful Spirit (x2), Shade Soul, Desolate Dive (x2), Descending Dark, Howling Wraiths (x2), Abyss Shriek

Dash Slash, Cyclone Slash, Great Slash

King's Brand, Lumafly Lantern, Tram Pass, Elevator Pass, City Crest

Shopkeeper's Key, Elegant Key, Love Key, Grimmchild, Defender's Crest, Spore Shroom

Fragile Heart, Fragile Greed, Fragile Strength, Unbreakable Heart, Unbreakable Greed, Unbreakable Strength

Gimmicks

"Gimmicks" are extra settings added to the base tourney settings to spice up the match. This tournament was played without gimmicks for the first two rounds, while the final round was required to have two gimmicks. To select gimmicks, both teams were required to offer the other a list of three gimmicks, and one would selected from the list by the opposing team. A list of gimmicks for this tournament can be found below:

Ghosts + Dream Trees

TheRealJournalRando

BenchRando (Locations only)

Map Area Rando (No Scatternest)

46 Grubs are major

Fearless Required Skips

Split Claw

Start with 3 Masks 2 Notches

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The winners of this tournament were ValeMK and Adyn.

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