Plunderstorm Creator Royale 2025
The Plunderstorm Creator Royale has returned for a second time, with streams on both Twitch and YouTube! Tune in to watch 60 content creators compete head-to-head in Plunderstorm Duos for the title of Plunderstorm Champion and the $50,000 USD prize pool!


Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Avast ye sailors, scallywags, and spectators alike— the Plunderstorm® Creator Royale lies dead ahead! Prepare for pirates, prizes, and plenty of plundering as sixty of your favorite content creators clash once more within the storm-plagued peaks of Arathi Highlands. This unique event sets sail on Twitch and YouTube on January 25, starting at 10:00 am PST / 18:00 GMT.


Event Overview

The Plunderstorm Creator Royale is a single-day event featuring a roster of sixty popular streamers competing to earn the most points and emerge victorious!


Points are awarded per match based on each duo’s total eliminations and final placement, with a greater number of points awarded for either eliminating other duos or placing among the top ranks. The first five matches of the day are played purely for points, while later matches provide the top teams with an opportunity to secure an overall victory as follows:

  • Match 6: Any of the Top 3 ranking teams can win the event by securing a victory here!
  • Match 7: Any of the Top 10 ranking teams can win the event by securing a victory here!
  • Match 8: Any team can win the event by securing a victory here!

The winning duo will be crowned the 2025 Plunderstorm Champions and awarded the lion’s share of the $50,000 prize pool!

Broadcast

The Plunderstorm Creator Royale will be broadcast live from Blizzard Headquarters in Irvine, California, with First Mates Goldenboy, Soe, and Esfand manning the helm!


Each of the sixty content creators will also be streaming third-person perspectives from their own port of call worldwide on their personal channels during the competition.


Stay Connected

Don’t get marooned! Stay up-to-date with the latest information about Plunderstorm on the World of Warcraft® official site and social media channels.
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Comments 28 Comments
  1. Big Thanks's Avatar
    LETS GO!
    Something to do while devs from The Quinfall try to fix their game Im such a braindead MMO-player, i know, shouldnt have bought EA.

    Good luck everyone.
  1. Morgaith's Avatar
    Yuck. 10chars
  1. meheez's Avatar
    LOL interesting games, lots of skill and funny moments. Too bad not everyone seemed to be playing the same game in the end.
  1. Mojo03's Avatar
    Format made no sense

    People that won exploited openly, yet they still gave them 1st

    GG
  1. Mendzia's Avatar
    https://clips.twitch.tv/EsteemedScru...xuW5l2-nHFpj3c

    What a shitshow with absolutely horeshit rules.
    Winners with 0 kills using exploit safespot.
  1. Xyraxe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mendzia View Post
    https://clips.twitch.tv/EsteemedScru...xuW5l2-nHFpj3c

    What a shitshow with absolutely horeshit rules.
    Winners with 0 kills using exploit safespot.
    That's what happens with battle royales. You can't put all the blame on Gingi/Meeres though as Max/Trill were doing it 1st. Max messed up and didn't land on top but, Trill did make it. Gingi used the jump pad and noticed him up there and went up there too. It's definitely a hindsight on Blizzard's end with their coding that didn't have lightning strikes land on top of the tower.

    The format sucks. You can be miles ahead but, if you don't win the last match you lose which is completely asinine. The format entices teeming to open the board for more eligible winners. Xaryu and Pika played almost as good as they did the last tourney and they definitely deserved the win. I would put money on it that if this were a RWF event then Blizzard would've stripped them of the win. Regardless if it was Gingi/Meeres of Max/Trill, Cdew/Mes team were the last ones standing while Gingi was up top and they should've won.
  1. Snowfunk's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mojo03 View Post
    Format made no sense

    People that won exploited openly, yet they still gave them 1st

    GG
    Yea, the hiding on top of buildings sucked, the ending was pretty awful since it was clearly a glitched spot, and wasn't getting hit by the storm at all...
    I do however believe the team that lost to glitched spot, was also using rooftop tactics earlier, but it still sucked.

    And the format made no sense to me at all, they played some 8 games, accumulated points a long the way...
    But for some reason the winner was whoever won the last game.

    Xaryu & Pikaboo who played pretty fun games overall, ended with the most points, most games won, most eliminations and more. Did not win...
  1. Sanguinerd's Avatar
    Watching some creators play was absolutely painful.. And then they walk around with "teehee i got every achievement in the game" yeah.. you got boosted and it clearly shows.

    Also absolute bullshit some glitch abuse won the game. Doesn't send the right message does it Blizz?
  1. Aphelios's Avatar
    lol echo/gingi exploiting again. eu cant win a thing without cheating ahahaha
  1. Nerph-'s Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aphelios View Post
    lol echo/gingi exploiting again. eu cant win a thing without cheating ahahaha
    Would you have said the same if Max/Trill (who were apparently doing it first) had won?
  1. MrLachyG's Avatar
    bit of a dodgy way to win but the lightning should've targeted them no matter where they were
  1. Tiwack's Avatar
    Why even play multiple games if you're just gonna hand the prize to whoever wins the last final game?

    And how has that exploit not been fixed yet, it was already an issue in the first plunderstorm season.

    SMH
  1. Mojo03's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Snowfunk View Post
    Yea, the hiding on top of buildings sucked, the ending was pretty awful since it was clearly a glitched spot, and wasn't getting hit by the storm at all...
    I do however believe the team that lost to glitched spot, was also using rooftop tactics earlier, but it still sucked.

    And the format made no sense to me at all, they played some 8 games, accumulated points a long the way...
    But for some reason the winner was whoever won the last game.

    Xaryu & Pikaboo who played pretty fun games overall, ended with the most points, most games won, most eliminations and more. Did not win...
    Ya shockingly incompetent tournament run by Blizzard.

    I'm not even being hyperbolic when I say my 12 year old nephew would have done a better job running it and these people make how much and are supposed to be leaders in the industry? What?

    Lets also not forget the winning team won with 0 kills.

    Yes 0 kills.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by Nerph- View Post
    Would you have said the same if Max/Trill (who were apparently doing it first) had won?
    Well in Max/Trill defense he wasn't up there long enough to know if he was going to exploit it like Gingi did. You could argue he was just scouting it and out waiting for his health thing to come back

    Xar/Pika deserved the 1st though

    Max/Trill 2nd and it's not even debatable

    No one was even close to those 2 teams in stats
  1. klaps_05's Avatar
    give gingi a break, after his fraudLX vitamin water he needs any win he can get
  1. vian's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aphelios View Post
    lol echo/gingi exploiting again. eu cant win a thing without cheating ahahaha
    Don't be angry because Europeans are generally smarter than you.
  1. WeWillOnlyBeSlower's Avatar
    Eu pvers > Na pve+pvpers xD
  1. Biomega's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mojo03 View Post
    Well in Max/Trill defense he wasn't up there long enough to know if he was going to exploit it like Gingi did. You could argue he was just scouting it and out waiting for his health thing to come back
    Mhmmm I'm sure

    This exploit has been known for close to a year. I believe there may still be vods of it from months ago on Naowh's channel.

    Those people didn't go up there by coincidence, it's just that some didn't manage to stay there.

    It's the usual spiel with Blizzard and exploits: there's no clear indication what is and isn't allowed, and what will and won't be punished. People calling Echo cheaters, but do remember what happened with Liquid's mages in the last RWF. And Blizzard did nothing about that, just like they probably won't do anything about this.

    The "exploit early, exploit often" mentality stems precisely from the fact that if you don't do it, someone else will get away with it. Yeah you may get some angry forum posts, but you also get, you know, $25,000. Every single person crying about the exploit on here would do the exact same thing for that much money, I guarantee it. No one is going to give up thousands of dollars so the MMOC forum heroes respect their integrity. Get real.

    Blizzard are the ones who could change this by being stricter with exploits and actually enforcing penalties (to say nothing of the fact that they could have just, well, fixed this since it's been known for months). But they haven't really done that for years and years and given what happened with the mage exploit last race, they're unlikely to start doing it all of a sudden. EEEO remains in effect.
  1. Romanthony's Avatar
    what a joke of a "Tournment" with the winners exploiting it, and not being punished for it, Always hated the mode and seeing this tourny just makes me hate it even more,
  1. En Sabah Nur's Avatar
    Clever use of game mechanics, clearly.
  1. KOUNTERPARTS's Avatar
    Another day, another association of cheating/exploiting with Gingi.

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