Wilderness Wars

Wilderness Wars was an eSports tournament held at the Insomnia61 Gaming Festival on 26 August 2017^[1]. As well as the tournament, the Old School RuneScape team had an official stand at the event where players could play the game at the stand. The tournament had a $15,000 prize pool.

Wilderness Wars was first announced on 13 August 2017. It was the first time that content creators got to decide who would be playing in an Old School RuneScape tournament. Most creators, known as 'Generals', in this Wilderness 'army' themed tournament, chose well-known clans and player-killers to aid them to victory.

Wilderness Wars was created to test new tournament styles, along with the 2017 PvP Championship, and to some extents it succeeded. It had positive feedback from the community and from the content creators themselves.

• Teams were 50 players in size.
• Teams started at a random location in the Wilderness (see image).^[2]
• Each team was headed up by 5 content creators, known as Generals, these were; B0aty, MMORPGRS, Sick Nerd, Torvesta and Knightenator.
• The remaining 49 players were made up of players chosen by the Generals.
  • These mostly consisted of player-killers, PK clans, and friends.
• The final area was the Graveyard of Shadows.

The event was streamed on the RuneScape official Twitch channel, about a year before the creation of the official Old School RuneScape Twitch Channel.

To promote the event, a recruiter was added to the game on the 17th of August 2017.

v t e Wilderness Wars
NPCs	Recruiter
Bosses	Armoured Foe Well-armed Foe
Items	Wilderness cape Wilderness cape (Champion) Wilderness champion amulet