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The fifteenth installment of the annual NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament called Junethack has started June 1 at midnight UTC and will be running until June 30 midnight UTC.

This tournament is trying to appeal not only to the hardcore serial ascenders but also to players that get constantly mangled and beaten to death in unrealistic brutal situations by this sadistic game (that means probably you) by offering various non-winning achievements and encouraging people to try and play NetHack forks. In other words, if you suck at playing NetHack, this is the tournament for you!

This year, we have (again) the most variants ever available for you to play (I wonder in how many decades I won’t be able to just copy past this sentence from last year). 23 different variants of NetHack make the full set of cross-variant achievements harder to get than in any years before. We really don’t expect anybody to catch get them all. Because of this the cross-variant achievements are fine-grained and you earn one for every new milestone in a new variant.

This year, there are two new variant to play, NerfHack and CrecelleHack. Both are from serial variant developers which tend to introduce lots of new content and mechanics into their variants. As always, they are playable on the Hardfought public servers.

Also consider joining a clan. Playing with others is great fun and the clan trophies are designed such that a clan member cannot have a negative impact on a clan’s standing. Many clans are communicating on IRC or Discord if you are looking for an existing clan.

You can get in contact with the organizers of Junethack here, on reddit, on rec.games.roguelike.nethack, and in the #junethack IRC channel on the Libera.Chat IRC network. There’s also a dedicated discord channel #nethack-junethack on the Roguelikes discord server which is synced with the IRC channel.

There’s a FAQ on the NetHack wiki.

If you want to help out in the development of the tournament, you can check out our code from GitHub.

Register at the tournament homepage and start venturing into the Dungeons of Doom!

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The fourteenth installment of the annual NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament called Junethack has started June 1 at midnight UTC and will be running until June 30 midnight UTC.

This tournament is trying to appeal not only to the hardcore serial ascenders but also to players that get constantly mangled and beaten to death in unrealistic brutal situations by this sadistic game (that means probably you) by offering various non-winning achievements and encouraging people to try and play NetHack forks. In other words, if you suck at playing NetHack, this is the tournament for you!

This year, we have (again) the most variants ever available for you to play (déjà vu). 21 different variants of NetHack make the full set of cross-variant achievements harder to get than in any years before. We really don’t expect anybody to catch get them all. Because of this the cross-variant achievements are fine-grained and you earn one for every new milestone in a new variant.

The newest entry in the family of NetHack variants is notnotdNetHack, a variant of notdNetHack which is a variant of dNetHack. If you ever wanted to play an octopoid race, being able to wear 8 rings, this is the game for you. It is playable on the Hardfought public servers.

GnollHack ist not a new variant to the tournament but it is the first variant with which you can participate via its the Android and iOS clients in the tournament.

Also consider joining a clan. Playing with others is great fun and the clan trophies are designed such that a clan member cannot have a negative impact on a clan’s standing. Many clans are communicating on IRC or Discord if you are looking for an existing clan.

You can get in contact with the organizers of Junethack here, on reddit, on rec.games.roguelike.nethack, and in the #junethack IRC channel on the Libera.Chat IRC network. There’s also a dedicated discord channel #nethack-junethack on the Roguelikes discord channel which is synced with the IRC channel.

There’s a FAQ on the NetHack wiki.

If you want to help out in the development of the tournament, you can check out our code from GitHub.

Register at the tournament homepage and start venturing into the Dungeons of Doom!

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The thirteenth installment of the annual NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament called Junethack will started June 1 at midnight UTC and will be running until June 30 midnight UTC.

This tournament is trying to appeal not only to the hardcore serial ascenders but also to players that get constantly mangled and beaten to death in unrealistic brutal situations by this sadistic game (that means probably you) by offering various non-winning achievements and encouraging people to try and play NetHack forks. In other words, if you suck at playing NetHack, this is the tournament for you!

This year, we have (again) the most variants ever available for you to play (I swear, NetHack forks don’t grow on trees even if it feels like it). 20 different variants of NetHack make the full set of cross-variant achievements harder to get than in any years before. We really don’t expect anybody to catch get them all. Because of this the cross-variant achievements are fine-grained and you earn one for every new milestone in a new variant.

This year there’s a variant returning to the tournament that for the last time was playable in the 2014 tournament. AceHack got resurrected and is playable on the Hardfought public servers.

The newest entry in the family of NetHack variants is HackEM, another variant following in Slash’EM’s footsteps and trying to reconcile crazy game design with the desire of players to die in games. It is also playable on the Hardfought public servers.

Also consider joining a clan. Playing with others is great fun and the clan trophies are designed such that a clan member cannot have a negative impact on a clan’s standing. Many clans are communicating on IRC or Discord if you are looking for an existing clan.

You can get in contact with the organizers of Junethack here, on reddit, on rec.games.roguelike.nethack, and in the #junethack IRC channel on the Libera.Chat IRC network. There’s also a dedicated discord channel #nethack-junethack on the Roguelikes discord channel which is synced with the IRC channel.

There’s a FAQ on the NetHack wiki.

If you want to help out in the development of the tournament, you can check out our code from GitHub.

Register at the tournament homepage and start venturing into the Dungeons of Doom!

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The twelfth installment of the annual NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament called Junethack has started today at midnight UTC and will be running until June 30 midnight UTC.

This tournament is trying to appeal not only to the hardcore serial ascenders but also to players that get constantly mangled and beaten to death in unrealistic brutal situations by this sadistic game (that means probably you) by offering various non-winning achievements and encouraging people to try and play NetHack forks. In other words, if you suck at playing NetHack, this is the tournament for you!

This year there’s a variant returning to the tournament that for the last (and only) time was playable in the 2015 tournament. Since then SlashTHEM received a lots of updates, making it worthwhile to try out again. In total, there are 19 different variants of NetHack to play and get achievements and trophies in.

Also consider joining a clan. Playing with others is great fun and the clan trophies are designed such that a clan member cannot have a negative impact on a clan’s standing. Many clans are communicating on IRC or Discord if you are looking for an existing clan.

You can get in contact with the organizers of Junethack here, on reddit, on rec.games.roguelike.nethack, and in the #junethack IRC channel on the Libera.Chat IRC network. There’s also a dedicated discord channel #nethack-junethack on the Roguelikes discord channel which is synced with the IRC channel.

There’s a FAQ on the NetHack wiki.

If you want to help out in the development of the tournament, you can check out our code from GitHub.

Register at the tournament homepage and start venturing into the Dungeons of Doom!

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The elventh installment of the annual NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament called Junethack will start at midnight UTC and will be running until June 30 midnight UTC.

This tournament is trying to appeal not only to the hardcore serial ascenders but also to players that get constantly mangled and beaten to death in unrealistic brutal situations by this sadistic game (that means probably you) by offering various non-winning achievements and encouraging people to try and play NetHack forks. In other words, if you suck at playing NetHack, this is the tournament for you!

For once, there is no new NetHack fork in the tournament (you weren’t ascending most of them anyway). Nevertheless, there are 19 different variants of NetHack to play and get achievements and trophies in.

Also consider joining a clan. Playing with others is great fun and the clan trophies are designed such that a clan member cannot have a negative impact on a clan’s standing.

You can get in contact with the organizers of Junethack here, on reddit, on rec.games.roguelike.nethack, and in the #junethack IRC channel on the Libera.Chat IRC network. There’s also a dedicated discord channel #nethack-junethack on the Roguelikes discord channel which is synced with the IRC channel.

There’s a FAQ on the NetHack wiki.

If you want to help out in the development of the tournament, you can check out our code from GitHub.

Register at the tournament homepage and start venturing into the Dungeons of Doom!

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The tenth installment of the annual NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament called Junethack will start at midnight UTC and will be running until June 30 midnight UTC.

This tournament is trying to appeal not only to the hardcore serial ascenders but also to players that get constantly mangled and beaten to death in unrealistic brutal situations by this sadistic game (that means probably you) by offering various non-winning achievements and encouraging people to try and play NetHack forks.

This year, we have (again) the most variants ever available for you to play. 19 different variants of NetHack make the full set of cross-variant achievements harder to get than in any years before. We really don’t expect anybody to catch get them all. Because of this you earn a new cross-variant achievement for every new milestone in a new variant (this even includes milestones for your first variant, blame the lazy programmers).

The newly supported variants this year is the bleeding edge development version of NetHack 3.7.0 playable on the hardfought public servers. The next variant is one of the oldest NetHack forks, Slash’EM. Last but not least, GnollHack is playable on the gnollhack.com public servers.

You can get in contact with the organizers of Junethack here, on reddit, on rec.games.roguelike.nethack, and in the #junethack IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network. There’s also a dedicated discord channel #nethack-junethack on the Roguelikes discord channel which is synced with the IRC channel.

There’s a FAQ on the NetHack wiki.

If you want to help out in the development of the tournament, you can check out our code from GitHub.

Register at the tournament homepage and start venturing into the Dungeons of Doom!

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The ninth installment of the annual NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament called Junethack will start at midnight UTC and will be running until June 30 midnight UTC.

This tournament is trying to appeal not only to the hardcore serial ascenders but also to players that get constantly mangled and beaten to death in unrealistic brutal situations by this sadistic game (that means probably you) by offering various non-winning achievements and encouraging people to try and play NetHack forks.

This year, we have (again) the most variants ever available for you to play. 16 different variants of NetHack make the cross-variant achievements harder to get than in any years before. We don’t expect anybody to get them all (did I hear a “challenge accepted” there?). Because of this we have changed them and now you earn a new cross-variant achievement for every new milestone in a new variant.

dNetHack SLEX, notdNetHack, and EvilHack are new variants that are featured for the first time in the tournament, available for play on the hardfought.org and em.slashem.me public servers.

The clan trophy for fastest intended deaths by certain monsters has been suspended for this year, after various exploits have been discovered and used last year.

For the first time ever, a specific role/race combination has been excluded from tournament. The elven Anachrononaut has turned into a grindfest in its relentless fight against gorgoniankind and needs to take a break and let other roles and races kill Medusa.

You can get in contact with the organizers of Junethack here, on reddit, on rec.games.roguelike.nethack, and in the #junethack IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.

If you want to help out in the development of the tournament, you can check out our code from GitHub.

Register at the tournament homepage and start venturing into the Dungeons of Doom!

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