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This is the official post for the second and final of the qualifiers for the 2026 Legend Of The Stars Championship.

You can find the main post here:

General Information

Date: 14th of November 14 UTC
Bracket: https://tournaments.faforever.com/t/df343f8644
Chat: via Discord or the tournament website
Live Coverage: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Director: TBA

Format

The open qualifier will be a double elimination bracket. The upper bracket will be BO3. However, depending on the amount of signups, the number of BO1s vs BO3s in the upper bracket may be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament. The losers bracket will be BO1.
The seeding will be based on your ladder rating. So for example, the highest rated player will play the lowest rated player in the first round.

Once the top 4 is decided in the bracket, the tournament will not continue. Top 4 will qualify to the Legend of the Stars Swiss Stage.

The players that are closest to qualifying (5th+) will be substitutes for the Legend of the Stars Swiss Stage.

Mappool

TBA two weeks before qualifier start.

There will be no veto's for the qualifier.

Prizes

The top 4 players will advance to the Swiss stage.

The players that are closest to qualifying (5th+) will be substitutes for the Prelims/Swiss Stage.

Rules

The official FAF Tournament Rules apply.
Some of the most important of these rules are:

Disconnects within 5 minutes may result in a rehost. The Tournament Director has the last say afterwards.
Players will replay the same map if they draw.
If the incorrect map is hosted, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards the score
Players who do not appear without valid reasoning will be given a warning that may result in being temporarily suspended from tournaments.
If a player does not show up in Round 1, they may be replaced. For all subsequent rounds, it will be treated as a forfeit and they will be eliminated and not replaced.
All participants will be allowed a 15-minute wait at the start of a tournament to show up however after this 15 minute wait the Tournament Direct has the right to disqualify you from the tournament. In the case where you will be late but do intend to arrive you need to message the Tournament Director preferably via Discord to inform them you will be late but will show up. When doing this please provide an approximate time delay until you arrive, it will then be the Tournament Directors decision whether than delay is too long or acceptable.
The Tournament Director's decision is final.
You can read the rest here: https://forum.faforever.com/assets/uploads/files/1685891393985-official-faf-tournament-rules.pdf
Please make sure all lobbies are passworded and inform your opponents the password and casters if applicable.

Signup

If you would like to participate, go to the website below, login with your FAF credentials and sign up!

https://tournaments.faforever.com/t/df343f8644

Signing up to multiple qualifiers is permitted.

Signups will close at 14th November 13 UTC.

hybrid_

This is the official post for the first of the qualifiers for the 2026 Legend Of The Stars Championship

You can find the main post here:

General Information

Date: 7th of November 14 UTC
Bracket: https://tournaments.faforever.com/t/1049c6b1c7
Chat: via Discord or the tournament website
Live Coverage: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Director: TBA

Format

The open qualifier will be a double elimination bracket. The upper bracket will be BO3. However, depending on the amount of signups, the number of BO1s vs BO3s in the upper bracket may be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament. The losers bracket will be BO1.
The seeding will be based on your ladder rating. So for example, the highest rated player will play the lowest rated player in the first round.

Once the top 4 is decided in the bracket, the tournament will not continue. Top 4 will qualify to the Legend of the Stars Swiss Stage.

The players that are closest to qualifying (5th+) will be substitutes for the Legend of the Stars Swiss Stage.

Mappool

TBA two weeks before qualifier start.

There will be no veto's for the qualifier.

Prizes

The top 4 players will advance to the Swiss stage.

The players that are closest to qualifying (5th+) will be substitutes for the Prelims/Swiss Stage.

Rules

The official FAF Tournament Rules apply.
Some of the most important of these rules are:

Disconnects within 5 minutes may result in a rehost. The Tournament Director has the last say afterwards.
Players will replay the same map if they draw.
If the incorrect map is hosted, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards the score
Players who do not appear without valid reasoning will be given a warning that may result in being temporarily suspended from tournaments.
If a player does not show up in Round 1, they may be replaced. For all subsequent rounds, it will be treated as a forfeit and they will be eliminated and not replaced.
All participants will be allowed a 15-minute wait at the start of a tournament to show up however after this 15 minute wait the Tournament Direct has the right to disqualify you from the tournament. In the case where you will be late but do intend to arrive you need to message the Tournament Director preferably via Discord to inform them you will be late but will show up. When doing this please provide an approximate time delay until you arrive, it will then be the Tournament Directors decision whether than delay is too long or acceptable.
The Tournament Director's decision is final.
You can read the rest here: https://forum.faforever.com/assets/uploads/files/1685891393985-official-faf-tournament-rules.pdf
Please make sure all lobbies are passworded and inform your opponents the password and casters if applicable.

Signup

If you would like to participate, go to the website below, login with your FAF credentials and sign up!

https://tournaments.faforever.com/t/1049c6b1c7

Signing up to multiple qualifiers is permitted.

Signups will close at 7th November 13 UTC.

hybrid_

Hey commanders, it's time for the start of the LotS season!

Some quick notes before we begin. Everything will remain the same aside from mappooling. I've had lot's of feedback from players during my tenure, and the biggest issue I've come across the most is players being unable to get enough time to practice maps to a good level of quality. In this premier events, we want the highest quality of matches and entertainment. Therefore we will reduce the mappool size for the entirety of the tournament, using a mappool of 21 to 25 maps for the Qualifiers, Swiss Stage, and Playoffs. Not only that but we will be releasing the mappools 2 weeks before each starting point.

General Information

Dates:
Qualifier 1: 7th of November, 14 UTC
Qualifier 2: 14th of November, 15 UTC
Swiss Stage: 12th/13th of December
Playoffs: 19th/20th of December
Bracket: TBA
Chat: LotS26, FAF Tournaments, And the appropriate discord channel
Live coverage:
Official: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Organiser: hybrid
Tournament Directors: TBA

Format:

Open Qualifier

The open qualifier will be a double elimination bracket. The upper bracket will be BO3. However, depending on the amount of signups, the number of BO1s vs BO3s in the upper bracket may be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament. The losers bracket will be BO1.
The seeding will be based on your ladder rating. So for example, the highest rated player will play the lowest rated player in the first round.

Once the top 4 is decided in the bracket, the tournament will not continue. Top 4 will qualify to the Legend of the Stars Swiss Stage.

The players that are closest to qualifying (5th+) will be substitutes for the Legend of the Stars Swiss Stage.

Qualifier 1: https://tournaments.faforever.com/t/1049c6b1c7

Qualifier 2: https://tournaments.faforever.com/t/df343f8644

Swiss Stage

The Swiss Stage will be a 16 player Swiss format.
Players that reach 3 wins advance to Finals.
Players that reach 3 losses are eliminated.
Elimination and advancement matches are BO3
All other matches are BO1 in this stage
Rematches are not permitted
Players will be matched with equal score opponents.
The invited players will pick their first round opponent.

Playoffs

The finals stage will be a classic single elimination bracket with all matches being BO5 (including 3rd place decider) apart from the Grand Finals which will be BO7.

Mappool

TBA two Weeks before each stage starting point.
A collective 21-25 maps for the entire tournament(including qualifiers, swiss stage and playoffs).

Mappool Dates:
Qualifier #1 - 24th of October
Qualifier #2 - 31st of October
Swiss Stage - 28th of November
Playoffs - 5th of December

Faction and Map Veto System

The same as LotS and previous Invitationals. The functionalities are added to the website.

Rules

The official FAF Tournament Rules apply.
Some of the most important of these rules are:

Disconnects within 5 minutes may result in a rehost. The Tournament Director has the last say afterwards.
Players will replay the same map if they draw.
If the incorrect map is hosted, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards the score
Players who do not appear without valid reasoning will be given a warning that may result in being temporarily suspended from tournaments.
If a player does not show up in Round 1, they may be replaced. For all subsequent rounds, it will be treated as a forfeit and they will be eliminated and not replaced.
All participants will be allowed a 15-minute wait at the start of a tournament to show up however after this 15 minute wait the Tournament Direct has the right to disqualify you from the tournament. In the case where you will be late but do intend to arrive you need to message the Tournament Director preferably via Discord to inform them you will be late but will show up. When doing this please provide an approximate time delay until you arrive, it will then be the Tournament Directors decision whether than delay is too long or acceptable. If your team loses a member, you may find a substitution within the rank requirements.
The Tournament Director's decision is final.
You can read the rest here: https://forum.faforever.com/assets/uploads/files/1685891393985-official-faf-tournament-rules.pdf
Please make sure all lobbies are passworded and inform your opponents the password and casters if applicable.

Prize Pool

1st Place: $450, 2026 LOTS Champion Avatar
2nd Place: $300, 2026 LOTS 2nd Place Avatar
3rd Place: $150, 2026 LOTS 3rd Place Avatar
4th Place: $100, 2026 LOTS 4th Place Avatar

Prizes are from the FAF Tournament fund.
If you would like to donate towards the tournament and receive a cool avatar, please contact me on discord (hyb/tbounce).

Reminder that all payments of official FAF fund prizes are subject to the official FAF tournament payout guidelines.
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/7161/faf-official-tournament-payout-guidelines

Invites

The invites will be based on the players with the highest amount of LotS points. If a player declines, an invite will be sent to a player next in line. If a player has an equal amount of points with another player, the most recent gain will be prioritised. There are 8 total invites. To find out how the LotS points work, you can find the information here.

Any ties for LOTS Points will be determined by the most recent result. If a player declines, the player who would be next in line. The remaining players will be decided from the qualifier.

reminder, with the invites its either you accept the invitation or decline the invite and forfeit your right to participate. Players cannot opt in to play the qualifier instead of using the direct invite.

Invitees

Nexus-
waffelznoob
Grimplex (Accepted)
Lunyshko (Accepted)
Farmsletje
Blast_Chilled (Accepted)
Tagada
BlinChik (Accepted)

Qualified Players

TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA
TBA

hybrid_

The 2026 Fall Invitational has concluded (last week)

Congratulations to Grimplex for winning the 2026 Fall Invitational!

I'd like to thank everyone who was involved in this tournament, staff and players alike.

The top 8 is as follows:

1st Place: Grimplex

2nd Place: Nexus

3rd Place: Wifi_

4th Place: Lunyshko

5th-8th Place: Blast_Chilled, FFF, callasoiled and Turinturambar

Most of the replay ID's can be found on the website, the rest will be updated shortly.

hybrid_

Challengers Cup III has concluded

Hi all, congratulations to team Overrated for winning this time round! I'd like to thank those who actually did show up to the event and participate with respect.

1st Place - Overrated

Aranei
fighting_cock
White_Owl
ASUSPRO

2nd Place - Losers

Lolichan
Finisterre
mihmed
StillX

However, due to the nature of the event and the things that transpired, I have decided to withdraw the funds that were for 2nd and 3rd place. And also give only faction logo avatars to the 2nd place team.

There are multiple reasons for this, I will name a few. The actual competitiveness of this event aside from the 2 teams that participated until the end and a few helpful others, it was honestly really unencouraging. There were arguments between players, kicking opponents from lobbies repeatedly, lack of co-operation and it was just plainly disrespectful. There were also many no-shows which meant we had to scramble to find players to even start the tournament. There were only 4 teams, one forfeited after 3 maps, and another was disqualified.

The reason I host tournaments is so that people can have a fun experience, improve and experience more competitive environments. This was not the case yesterday. I'd like to apologise to the players who took time out of their day to be there and were willing to play until the end. I never want to make a post like this, but sadly sometimes these things happen and we'll work to make sure they don't happen again.

And on that note, I'll use the funds taken away and use it for another team tournament that will be announced in the next few weeks.

hybrid_

Mappool has been released, and the veto alongside it.

Each team will ban down to 3 maps and then pick 1 map. The last map left is the decider. Veto must be done before the games start.

hybrid_

The Swiss Stage is now over.

I'd like to thank everyone for participating so far, and I hope its been a good experience.

As for the players who have made it to the playoffs, congratulations!

They are:
3-0:
Grimplex
Blast Chilled

3-1:
callasoiled
FFF
Wifi

3-2:
Nexus-
Lunyshko
Turinturambar

The standings are in order of the highest sum of total score of the opponents you beat - the Buchholz system. This is also used to determine who gets to pick their opponents and what seed they will be.

Mappool is also released and can be found in the "maps" tab on the website.

The final bracket:

hybrid_

Welcome to the third edition of Challengers Cup! This edition will keep the rating requirements as the same as last time which is u6600, with a maximum of 1750 global rating individually.

General Information

Date: 17th of October, 14 UTC
Coverage: [https://www.twitch.tv/faflive]
Bracket: https://tournaments.doodlepros.com/t/d536bc6922
Chat: #CC3
Tournament Organiser: hybrid_
Tournament Director: hybrid_, dBerserkerb

Format

The tournament is a 4v4, which will be either double elimination, with a best of 3 upper bracket and a best of 1 lower bracket. Or a swiss stage which will lead to a final stage where 4 teams face off in a single elimination bracket. More details will be announced as signups proceed.

Mappool

TBA 1 week before tournament start. There will be some overlap with the 4v4 Ladder pool.

Prizes

1st - Challengers Cup Champion avatar (Rotating until the next Challengers Cup) + $160
2nd - Faction face + $80
3rd - Faction logo + $60

The cash prize may be subject to change due to signups.

Prizes are from the FAF Tournament fund.
If you would like to donate towards the tournament and receive a cool avatar, please contact me on discord (hyb/tbounce).

Reminder that all payments of official FAF fund prizes are subject to the official FAF tournament payout guidelines.
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/7161/faf-official-tournament-payout-guidelines

Rules

The official FAF Tournament Rules apply.
Some of the most important of these rules are:

Disconnects within 5 minutes may result in a rehost. The Tournament Director has the last say afterwards.
Players will replay the same map if they draw.
If the incorrect map is hosted, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards the score
Players who do not appear without valid reasoning will be given a warning that may result in being temporarily suspended from tournaments.
If a player does not show up in Round 1, they may be replaced. For all subsequent rounds, it will be treated as a forfeit and they will be eliminated and not replaced.
All participants will be allowed a 15-minute wait at the start of a tournament to show up however after this 15 minute wait the Tournament Direct has the right to disqualify you from the tournament. In the case where you will be late but do intend to arrive you need to message the Tournament Director preferably via Discord to inform them you will be late but will show up. When doing this please provide an approximate time delay until you arrive, it will then be the Tournament Directors decision whether than delay is too long or acceptable. If your team loses a member, you may find a substitution within the rank requirements.
The Tournament Director's decision is final.
You can read the rest here: https://forum.faforever.com/assets/uploads/files/1685891393985-official-faf-tournament-rules.pdf
Please make sure all lobbies are passworded and inform your opponents the password and casters if applicable.

Specific Tournament Rules

All 4 players on a team must be within a range of a combined global rating of 6600. Exact ratings as of 26/09 date will be taken.
No player above a global rating of 1750 may participate.

Substitute Rules

A "substitute" is a person who replaces a member of a team participating in a team tournament. The substitute may only replace a single person, and the replaced member is considered withdrawn from the tournament.
A person may only participate as a substitute in case they were/are not already an active participant of the tournament - either organizer, participating player, a substitute, or a replaced player.
The replaced player, relinquishes any and all prize eligibility to the substitute but only once the substitute has won at least 1 series.

What happens on the day of the tournament?

As it might be your first tournament, I think it would be best to guide you through what typically happens on the day of the tournament.

To start, you will need to be able to communicate with the tournament director, the two places you will need to be in are:

The Tournament website, open the link and go to the "chat" tab, here you can chat with your opponents and Tournament Director
The Challengers Cup III channel in the FAF Discord. To find it, scroll down to the "Tournament Directors" category, and press the tournament page, and find the tournament that says "Challengers Cup III".
This is an especially important part of participating in a tournament, as the tournament director will give you instructions on who you will be playing, any notices and be able to answer any questions you may have.

From here onwards, check the bracket, find your opponent and await approval of the tournament director to start hosting you games.

When hosting the games, please give it the appropriate title, for example, CCIII R1 G1 Team_hybrid vs Team_Strydxr. Make sure you double check, hell even triple check that all the settings are correct. If you have played with the wrong settings, you may need to replay the game, even if you have already played it as it will not count towards the match. You can find the Lobby settings on the tournament website - https://tournaments.doodlepros.com/t/d536bc6922 .

After each game, make sure you report the current scoreline to the tournament director.

Signup Information

Signup as teams of 4 or as a free agents.
If a player is seen or deemed to be intentionally dropping rating for the tournament, they will be screened. There may be warnings or potential punishments for screenings.
Free agents are able to message each other to make a team before registration ends, if unable to find a team, the tournament director will decide the free-agent teams.
Team names are allowed as long as they are appropriate and are letters of the English alphabet, numerals, and special symbols: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_-.!<>()[]{}/&
Any player above a global rating of 1750 may not participate.
Teams must have a maximum combined rating of 6600.
Signups close on the 17th of October, 13 UTC.

Signup

To sign up, please use the link below, sign up as a solo and then form your team. You can also sign up as a free agent.

https://tournaments.doodlepros.com/t/d536bc6922

We do not accept signups on the forums.

NOC-

I thought this was previously covered in the rules that were created which said if you choose to forfeit the matches then you forfeit your prize but apparently nobody read those when Swkoll & I wrote them.

NOC-

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The 2026 Fall Invitational has concluded (last week)

Challengers Cup III has concluded

The Swiss Stage is now over.

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