The following steps (unless marked optional) are required to participate in the tournamnet. If you don't understand how to do one of the steps outlined in the checklist below, please see the FAQ page to see if your question is there.

• Join the Randomizer Discord
• Have the randomizer setup to the 3.0 (v3) generator and 3.0.0-KH2Rando OpenKH Mod Manager. (details for updating if you already had the randomizer insalled can be found in #announcements in the randomizer discord).
• Sign up for the Tournament Pings in the #rules channel. I will be using this ping to update tournament rules and explanations. (If you really want to you can untick this after Fresh Faces).
• Add the rando4ukraine4 preset into your presets folder within your generator.
• Have livesplit downloaded.
• Update your loadless timer (v2.2) and include it in your livesplit. Instructions    Download
• Sign up for a racetime.gg account.
• Connect your twitch to your racetime.gg account.
• Create a layout that has your tracker, gameplay, and timers visible.
• Include the following mods in your OpenKH: KH2FM-Mods-equations19/soft-reset and KH2FM-Mods-equations19/auto-save.
• (Optional) Sign up for the Active Racer ping in the #rules channel since we have people who like to causally race these settings for practice.

The randomizer community has amazing setup guides on their homepage and the wonderful CoreySG9 made a video guide to help newcomers get setup. Additionally, check our calendar for community events where the randomizer community hosts practice races and personalized setup sessions!

This wonderful spreadsheet by Xtreone details every possible randomized check location that can be found in game. While this sheet is helpful, it is highly recommended to play through several seeds so that you have a rough idea where all the treasure chests are and how to progress in the game.

Commonly Missed Checks:

1. Tifa's Chest

2. Gull Wing Chest

3. Proof of Peace Check

4. Bazaar Chest

5. Treasure Room

6. Port Royal Crates

7. Train Station Chests (STT)

1. Do your shotguns.
2. Useful support abilities can be on keyblades. Check your keyblades!
3. Keyblades have randomized stats. Switching a keyblade can increase your strength and magic.
4. Remember how drive forms level.
• Valor: 1 exp point per hit done to an enemy.
• Wisdom: 1 exp point per heartless defeated.
• Limit: 1 exp point per limit finisher performed.
• Master: 1 exp point per drive orb collected.
• Final: 1 exp point per nobody defeated.
5. Max Form Levels = Number of Forms Acquired + 2.
6. Experience Boost adds 1 to your exp multiplier once you reach half health.
7. Drive Converter converts dropped munny into drive orbs which is useful for levelling Master Form.
8. Light & Darkness is an ability that either triggers anti-form or final form if you try to use any other drive form. This can be useful if you can't find final form but want to use it. To trigger go to an area (First room of TWTNW for example), pop a drive form whil having L&D equipped and walk out of the room. Rinse and repeat until you get final form and then unequip L&D so you don't get any more anti forms. Other potential locations are the first room of Space Paranoids, the bazaar in Agrabah, and Candy Cane Lane AFTER going into Santa's workshop.

1. Think about Checks per Minute (CPM).

CPM is a rough trick we use to decide where we go when we route. We typically want to proceed with visits where the number of checks you collect in a unit period of time is high. This in tandem with knowing how many important checks there are in each world at the start should help with your routing.



2. Try to level forms as you go.

If you obtain a drive form early on, it can be useful to level drive forms as you progress through the worlds if Drive Levels have checks on them. For example, you can use wisdom form on many starting mob fights, final form in the first fight of Twilight Town, valor form on the minute long pirates fight (etc.). This can save you the time of going out of your way to get drive levels.



3. Skip Port Royal 2nd visit mob fights on the ship.

To skip the fights on this ship in the second visit of Port Royal, simply jump into the ship hold (cabin) once the mob fight starts. Then, go back out and talk to Jack again and select the same destination again. This will bypass any mob fight on the ship.



4. You can warp through save points to move around the world faster.
   • Beast Castle (Visit 1): Beast's Room -> Belle's Room
   • Pride Lands (Visit 1): Oasis -> Gorge
   • Land of Dragons (Visit 1 and 2): Village -> Bamboo Grove
   • Beast Castle (Visit 2): Beast's Room -> Parlor
   • Olympus Coliseum (Visit 2): Underworld Entrance -> Cave of the Dead


5. You can die on the opening fight in some worlds and sometimes its faster.
• Beast's Castle
• Twilight Town Station Fight
• Agrabah
• Halloween Town
• Port Royal


6. There are some really good locations to get levels (experience boost helps).
• Space Paranoids Screens
• Twilight Town 3
• Cavern of Rememberance


7. There are some really good locations to get drive levels.
• Twilight Town Mansion Dining Room (Gamblers + Driver Converter = Free Master Levels)
• Port Royal Minute Fight (hits on the pirates even when they're invincible help level valor)
• STT (provides unlimited limit form)


8. 1K Heartless has a quick trick if you have 2 magnets and a magic stat in the 40s.
• See the trick in action!

Our wonderful randomizer community has been doing a lot to try and help out our racers. Feel free to peruse these example runs where our randomizer regulars talk openly about their thought process and give great suggestions for routing and boss fights!

1. WallpeSH's Example Run
2. Metthaios's Example Run
3. ZakTheRobot's Example Run (starts at 1:54:35)
4. Kaeldiar's Example Run