Season 15 will be a standard Mercenaries event with a fun Holiday twist. All players will start the season with 3 "Christmas Gifts". A Christmas Gift is a special loot box that will grow in rarity as the season progresses. At the start of the season a Christmas Gift can be opened as a Common loot box (Contract Crate). However, for every round the player waits, the loot box will go up one tier in Rarity such that after the 5th round, the Christmas Gifts will be a Mythic loot box (Artifact Vault). Potentially we may do a loot box white elephant gift exchange where the players exchange custom items around Christmas time. Detail on this will come closer to December.
There will be three winners at the end of this season.
The first will be the standard winner by highest renown.
The second winner will be be the best themed team. To be considered for this category the team must have a holiday theme. The winner will be determined holistically considering things like logo, lore, character names, how well does the playstyle match the theme, etc.
Finally, the third winner will be determined by the most number of wins.