Tournament Directors

Sadly due to lack of interest tourney is cancelled

Sadly due to lack of interest tourney is cancelled

Sadly due to lack of interest tourney is cancelled

Sadly due to lack of interest tourney is cancelled

Decision will be made tonight

Unsure if tournament will go ahead at this time based on very very few responses to invites

Date is 27th soz guys wrote this post while drunk tbh

@stormlantern Good point

Hello and welcome to the 2024 Summer Invitational Tournament! The annual Summer Invitational is a top level 1v1 tournament featuring a series of invited players and an open qualifier to find the top 16 players on FAF. For those who are not familiar, there will be series of invites sent out to previous tournament winners, and an open qualifier to fill the remainder of the slots.
This is followed by a group stage where the top 8 players will advance to a single elimination playoff bracket

Would you like to contribute to the prize pool?
You can donate via Paypal to support this tournament.

Prize pool:
$600
Donated via FAF.

• 1st: $250, Summer Invitational Champion Avatar, 16 LotS points
• 2nd: $175, Faction Face Avatar, 12 LotS points
• 3rd: $125 Faction Icon Avatar, 8 LotS points
• 4th: $50, 6 LotS points
• 5th-8th: 4 LotS points
• 9th-16th: 2 LotS points

Note: residents of countries under sanction please see tournament payout guidelines.

The qualifier:
This is an open qualifier, all players are welcome to participate. It will be a double elimination tournament with BO1s and BO3s in the winner's bracket and BO1s in the loser's bracket. Maps will be selected by myself from a pool for each round. Players will be seeded by ladder rating at the time of signup.

The group stage:
This will consist of 4 groups of 4 players playing a round robin style tournament with the top 2 of each group advancing. Games will be BO3s. Groups will be chosen by a captains system. The players with the top 4 highest invitational points will act as captains taking turns picking the remaining 3 players in their groups. The player with the most points will get Group A and first pick. Group B captain will pick second with following picks made using a snake system.

Maps will be chosen by players from a pool of 11 using a veto/pick system with 2 vetoes each, players will make alternating vetoes and picks with loser seed vetoing first and higher seed picking first. For the last pick players will resume vetoing from the remaining maps until only one map remains with lower seed vetoing first. Faction veto will also be used.

The playoffs:
This is a single elimination tournament with all BO3 matches.

Maps are chosen by players in a pick/veto system from a pool of 15 with 3 vetoes each, players will make alternating vetoes and picks.

Faction veto will also be used.

Dates:
Invitational Qualifier: July 27th, 13:00 UTC
Group Stage: August 3rd, 13:00 UTC
Final Stage: August 4th, 13:00 UTC

Welcome to the Final Stage for the 2024 Summer Invitational. This stage will be made up with 8 players each.

All matches are Best of 3 matches.

Each player will get 3 vetos each and faction vetos will be carried out.

Note we are doing all matches including the finals in one day.

Date: August 4th
Start Time: 13:00 UTC
Chat: /join #summer
Challonge:
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive

Tournament Directors:
NOC-

Final 8 Players:

Map Pool: