Not too long more until the festivities begin! Here's another Tier Challenge to keep you in shape until then.

For this week's one, I'll be trialing a new rule:

RW now adds 1/4 of the character's points to your total based on tier list. If you used a BSB RW, you add 1/2 instead.

e.g. If you RW'ed Tyro's Sentinel Grimoire, add 1.25 points to your total. If you RW'ed Raines' Metamorphose, add 2.5 points to your total instead.

EDIT: TC Veteran threshold is now increased to 9.0. Also minor addendum; using Cid (VII)'s Pilot Steel RW will add 1.0 points to your total, as it's basically the same effect as Shout.

Rules Here: Total Points cannot exceed 15. Mastery is required. A synergy team (3-5 members, all with character synergy) gets (-2) points for their run (I.E., a 9 point synergy team only counts as 7). A synergy duo gets (-1) points, and a synergy solo gets (-0.5) points.

Link to past thread (FFVII)

First person to achieve the lowest score for the tier challenge gets a special flair.

Honorary Keeper flair will be given to participants who achieved the lowest point to (lowest point 2 points), or the lowest synergy point to (lowest point 1 point). If the lowest points happen to be a synergy team, the flair goes to lowest ~ lowest 2.

TC Veteran flair will be given to participants who achieve 9.0 points or less, but do not meet the requirements for Honorary Keeper.

Tier Challenge Winners (Blood Reign)

2 points: trauminus

3.25 points: ngkps01

3.5 points: Valomire*

4 points: Spiffmanicus, Lucas-714

5.5 points: Xarukas, mercurialchemister

6 points: soloblade, The2ndWhyGuy, DropeRj

6.25 points: littlefiredragon

6.5 points: bh8288, juniglee

7.25 points: Loji-C, killeak

7.5 points: rslowe, sleepslacksnooze, ZeaSG, DoctorLugae, Randomguy6644

8.5 points: ScanXn

10 points: sevenhundredone

10.5 points: nonsonocal

14.5 points: teamrgracie2

* Asterisked names obtained lowest score~lowest score 1 for synergy team.

Note

The points will be tracked by /u/spiffmanicus over here, who has kindly chosen to take over for /u/angusmiranda after many months of service. Thank you both very much for all of your work!

Point Shift

• Emperor (NEW), Gordon (2.5) moved to 3.0 points

• Leon (3.0), Ingus (3.0), Minwu (3.0) moved to 2.5 points

• Zack (2.0), Shantotto (2.0), Steiner (2.0) moved to 1.5 points

• Master (1.5), Angeal (1.5), Shadow (1.5) moved to 1.0 points

Character Points

5: Alphinaud, Celes, Fujin, Onion Knight, Orlandeau, Raines, Tyro, Y'shtola, Vaan

4: Agrias, Cloud, Edea, Eiko, Exdeath, Faris, Firion, Gilgamesh, Hope, Luneth, Maria, Minfilia, Papalymo, Ramza, Rikku, Terra, Vanille, Zell

3: Arc, Ashe, Basch, Beatrix, Cid (VII), Emperor, Fang, Galuf, Golbez, Gordon, Kain, Krile, Lightning, Quistis, Refia, Relm, Rosa, Selphie, Serah, Squall, Tidus

2.5: Aerith, Bartz, Braska, Cecil (PLD), Echo, Fran, Gaffgarion, Garnet, Ingus, Jecht, Kefka, Kuja, Leon, Minwu, Ovelia, Quina, Penelo, Raijin, Rinoa, Rydia, Sarah, Sazh, Seifer, Snow, Warrior of Light, Vayne, Vincent, Zidane

2: Auron, Barret, Cait Sith, Delita, Desch, Edgar, Edward, Gabranth, Irvine, Josef, Kimahri, Larsa, Lenna, Lulu, Matoya, Mog, Porom, Reno, Sephiroth, Setzer, Seymour, Strago, Tellah, Vivi, Wakka, Yuffie, Yuna

1.5: Balthier, Cecil (DRK), Cid (IV), Dorgann, Edge, Freya, Fusoya, Garland, Leila, Locke, Mustadio, Paine, Palom, Red XIII, Rufus, Sabin, Shantotto, Steiner, Thancred, Tifa, Yda, Zack

1: Amarant, Angeal, Cyan, Gau, Guy, Laguna, Leo, Master, Noel, Ricard, Shadow, Wol, Yang

0.75: Bard, Black Mage, Dark Knight, Devout, Gladiator, Knight, Magus, Ninja, Red Mage, White Mage

0.5: Dragoon, Samurai, Spellblade, Summoner, Berserker, Ranger, Monk, Thief, Viking, Warrior

The Galuf Addendum: Players utilizing Galuf (either as a native member or Roaming Warrior) will be registered for a minimum of 6.0 points. This means even if your run totals 3.5, it'll be registered as 6.0. If it totals more, then it'll be registered as whatever you ran. This rule was created due to Galuf being able to solo almost any boss in the game.

The Pilot Steel/Shout Addendum: If used as an RW, use the highest points that would be given by each. For example, if Ramza was worth 4.0 and Cid (VII) was worth 3.0, Shout RW would add 1.0 points, and Pilot Steel would add 0.875 points instead, so if you used Pilot Steel, you would add 1.0 points.

Submission Template:

 **Need Help/In Progress/Completed**

1. **Party:**  
2. **Kill picture:**
3. **Medal tally:**
4. **Total points:**
5. **Notes:**  
> Thoughts and advice here 

Please post each attempt in a separate reply. Info regarding this challenge can be found at the wiki links or here.