2025 Spring Invitational

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2025 Spring Invitational

After a long wait, the time has finally come! The 2025 Spring Invitational is here.
Obviously there’s going to be some changes, but we will prepare you for that.

General Information

Qualifier - 24th of May 13 UTC
Group Stage - 25th of May 13 UTC
Final Stage - 31st of May 13 UTC

Live coverage: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive

Tournament Directors:
hybrid, Rhaelya

Spring Invites

Since the old LOTS Points system has been discontinued, we have decided that we are going to invite the top 4 players of LOTS 2024 and the top 2 players from the ongoing 15th season of the 1v1 league (you can view the leaderboard in the client). The placement will be taken on May the 19th, 12 UTC. This is so you have time to try and reach those top spots.
In case the top ladder players are already invited because of their placement in LOTS, the next player on the leaderboard will be given the invite.

Reworking of the Points System

We will be introducing a new points system for LOTS and its qualifiers, which will be revealed later. This means that your result in the Spring Invitational will impact whether or not you may be invited to the Summer Invitational and LOTS itself.

Open Qualifier (Double Elimination)

All the details will be in its own forum post. (link)

Challonge: TBA
Chat: #springOQ

Group Stage (Round Robin)

There will be 2 groups consisting of 6 players, each made up of 3 players from the open qualifier and 3 invited players. The groups will be seeded based on placement in the open qualifier and number of the invitation (see invite section further down). Every player will play five BO1’s. The top 4 players of each group will qualify, meaning that bottom 2 will be eliminated. In case of a tie we will be using the head to head score to determine placement.

Challonge: TBA
Chat: #springGS

Veto: TBA
Map pool: TBA

Final Stage (Single Elimination)

This will be a simple single elimination bracket, with the seeding being determined by the group stages. The quarter finals and semifinals will be BO3. The finals will be BO5 alongside the 3rd place decider match.

Challonge: TBA
Chat: #springFS

Veto: TBA
Map pool: TBA

Prize Pool

1st: $75, 2025 Spring Invitational Champion avatar
2nd: $55, Faction Face avatar
3rd: $40, Faction Logo avatar
4th: $30, Faction Logo 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

The Invitees

Tagada
Nexus
Lunyshko
Robogear
TBA (1st place in 1v1 league on 19th May)
TBA (2nd place in 1v1 league on 19th May)

Rules

As this is an official FAF tournament the official FAF tournament rules apply.

Strydxr

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Skrat

It's so cool that this tournament series is back!

Unfortunately I can't play on 24.05