2023 Spring Invitational

Swkoll

Hello and welcome to the 2023 Spring Invitational Tournament! The annual Spring 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 on April 15th to fill the remainder of the slots. This is followed by a group stage on April 22nd where the top 8 players will advance to a single elimination playoff bracket on April 29th-30th whose winners will receive prizes and glory!

All tournaments will be casted on twitch.tv/faflive starting at 14:00 UTC.

What’s changed?
We will now be using the new combined Legend of the Stars points system for determining invites. There will now always be 12 players getting in through invites and 4 players getting in through the qualifier. Invites will be sent out to the top 12 players on that list and if any of the top 12 do not wish to participates, additional invites will be sent to the players next in line. In addition, the qualifier has gone back to being fully open to all players who wish to participate.

Would you like to contribute to the prize pool?
You can donate via Paypal to support this tournament and receive a fancy avatar!

Prize pool:
$500
• 1st: $175, Spring Invitational Champion Avatar, 16 LotS points
• 2nd: $110, Faction Face Avatar, 12 LotS points
• 3rd: $85, Faction Icon Avatar, 8 LotS points
• 4th: $50, 6 LotS points
• 5th-8th: $20, 4 LotS points
• 9th-12th: 2 LotS points
• 13th-16th 1 LotS point

Full Results:

1st - Yudi
2nd - Espi
3rd - Turin
4th - Shen
5th-8th - Blast
5th-8th - Harzer
5th-8th - Vena
5th-8th - ZLO
9th-12th - Jagged
9th-12th - Neytron
9th-12th - FFF
9th-12th - Banani
13th-16th - NOC-
13th-16th - ovenman

Note: residents of countries under sanction by the US, EU, or Germany may be ineligible to receive cash prizes.

Donated by:
$350 - FAF
$150 - Swkoll

The schedule:
April 15th: Spring Invitational Qualifier
April 22th: Spring Invitational Group Stage
April 29th-30th - Spring Invitational Playoffs and Finals

All events will start at 14:00 UTC.

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 BO5 matches expect for the championship match which will be BO7. 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. Players advancing from the group stage can submit one map to the finals bracket map pool (subject to Tournament Director veto). 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. There first two rounds of the Playoffs will be played on Saturday and the 3rd place and championship match will be played on Sunday. The 3rd place match will start at 14:00 UTC and the championship match will follow it.

Accepted invites:

Yudi
Espi
TURBO2
ZLO
Grimplex
Turin
Banani
JaggedAppliance
Harzer
Blast_Chilled
Shen

waffelzNoob

why does 4th place get trolled on the money side of things

i guess its an error and no one 4th or below should get money

MrBeast

FAF contribution

Swkoll

@waffelznoob Yea that's a typo, I've corrected it.

@EspiranTo The FAF contribution will be determined at the next board meeting.

Swkoll

Playoffs and Finals:

Date: April 29-30th
Start Time: 14:00 UTC
Chat: /join #spring
Challonge: https://challonge.com/bj2vejyc
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Directors: Swkoll

Map pool:
crazyrush
Mapgen 5x5 - 16 spawns
Stickleback Ridge

Mapgen 7.5x7.5 - 4 spawns

8 - Badlands v4
Red Rocks
Mapgen 10x10 - 4 spawns
White Fire v2
Zerg Canyon

Mapgen 15x15 - 6 spawns
Forlorn Fjords

Crossfire Canal - FAF version
The Ditch - FAF version
Point of Reach
Mapgen 20x20 - 8 spawns

vena202020

looks better than ladder map pool

Rowey

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0nxuIUIjpFv0zxf3lSCHtWBcNZiWpKmP The Official Playlist for all the games casted on the YouTube this playlist will continue to grow till all the games from the stream have been published

Swkoll

Congrats to Yudi on becoming out 2023 Spring Invitational Champion! Congrautions as well to our Runner ups Espi in 2nd, Turin in 3rd, and Shen in 4th!

Thank you to Farms for cocasting with me throughout the Invitational, thanks to Grimplex, dragun, and NOC- for helping to TD the event. Thanks as well to Rowey for helping to promote it and manage all the archive videos of the stream which you can find on the official FAF youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ForgedAllianceForever
Thanks to everyone who supports FAF on patreon and on FAF live who help make these events possible.

Congrats to Sladow for correctly predicting the bracket and winning the Clairvoyant avatar.

Espi, ZLO, and Vena's payouts will be handled by myself. All others can contact our new treasurer Deribus (Deribus#2341).

Full Results:

1st - Yudi
2nd - Espi
3rd - Turin
4th - Shen
5th-8th - Blast
5th-8th - Harzer
5th-8th - Vena
5th-8th - ZLO
9th-12th - Jagged
9th-12th - Neytron
9th-12th - FFF
9th-12th - Banani
13th-16th - NOC-
13th-16th - ovenman

There are two players missing from the 13th-16th place because there we 2 no shows for which appropriate substitutes could not be found in time.

The updated LotS points rankings can be found here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/5934/legend-of-the-stars-points-2023-season