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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 Organiser: hybrid
Tournament Directors: Rhaelya, SainseRow, Styrdxr

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

1. Tagada
2. Nexus
3. Lunyshko
4. Robogear (Accepted)
5. Blinchik
6. TBA (1st place in 1v1 league on 19th May)
7. TBA (2nd place in 1v1 league on 19th May)

Rules

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

Hey everyone, as you might have noticed there's been some recent changes to the Tournament Team, which includes Tournament Directors, Senior TD's and the Team Lead. This post is here to give everyone an idea what's been going on behind the scenes.

As you may know, NOC stepped down from the Team Lead role after the LOTS 2024 tournament and I was elected as the new Team Lead. I'll take this chance to introduce myself to those that don’t know me; I started playing FAF when I was 11 after seeing some Gyle casts. Very quickly into my FAF experience, I started participating in tournaments and joined the GB clan in 2014 where I made a lot of my early FAF memories. As the years went by, I saw myself joining plenty of tournaments, albeit not with a lot of success. Regardless, I very much enjoyed participating in the competitive circuit. As time went on, I improved quite a bit and even ended up competing in some of the bigger tournaments with players I never imagined I could compete with. At some point, I joined the tournament team, hosting various blitz tournaments, including my favourite kind: 2v2s! After a few years of inactivity I came back and re-joined the team near the end of 2024.

The first thing I did as lead was to go on a recruiting spree. I looked for people that I knew had the best intentions and wanted FAF to thrive. Those people are: Nuggets, Strydxr, Vindex, Sainse and Paradox_Of_War - what about other people on the team?. All of them had various different experiences with FAF, which I firmly believe are important for the community. Recently I announced my senior TD’s - Rhaelya and Strydxr, who also happen to be Team Leads on their own (Balance and Trainer).

We've had multiple very productive team meetings, with the goal of improving tournaments and the competitive circuit that, we feel, were not up to par in recent times.

In our first meeting, we definitely had a lot to discuss. The topics covered were;

• The reviewing of the current ruleset
• Outlining the budget for the year
• Tournament ban and warning system
• Re-organising the forum
• Reflection on tournaments so far
• Substitute prize rights
• Planned tournaments for the year

After a long-winded meeting, we discussed the path going forward, and so the second meeting looked like;

• Discussing transparency of the team
• Avatars and custom avatars
• Collaboration with the other teams
• What makes a tournament a FAF official tournament
• A mid-year LOTS equivalent importance 2v2 tournament (Potentially a trophy included)
• 1v1 circuit and Invitationals
• Other future tournament plans
• The creation of tournament guides
• Standardising and rewriting important tournament forum information

For the past 3 months the Tournament Team had been working hard to give back to the community that we love. We have made a lot of progress and hope to continue to do so in the future.

Before I became Team Lead, I had always dreamt of hosting a prominent annual tournament in FAF. I’m pleased to inform you all that there will be a big 2v2 tournament coming at the end of May and start of June. I’m planning on having a large prize pool and even including some sort of physical trophy. Hope to see you all there!

goodbye hybrid

hybrid_ 1785

deli and hybrid signing up to protect our crown

@jip i get it with the harsh comments part, the communication and getting more points across in a nicer way could be a lot better. but do you not think that sometimes the reaction is genuinely warranted with the way that some mods and contributors respond with. communication goes 2 ways and neither side does it anywhere near perfect. however i just think its unfair to slate that "small vocal group of players" as if they do nothing for the community especially when in fact they do quite a lot for the community. we all want the best for the game.

in addition to a lot of the changes, imo and i think quite a few others from that "small group of vocal players" might agree is that i think one of the biggest problems is that players should be but aren't getting rewarded as much for making better plays whether thats micro or macro. rts's aren't supposed to be easy all the time. I get it that you want to make it more accessible for newer and lesser skilled players, and it make sense but the direction of the game in my eyes feels like we're seeing less reward for being a better player and i dont think thats how rts's should be balanced and in our case, it shouldnt be the way to solve a lot of the problems. however i do like the idea of meta shifts in terms of game balancing as it adds to the game and keeps it fresh. but changing entire mechanics of the game (area reclaim) isnt exactly what id call a great change either, for the reasoning being of what i said before.

put me in chief

@pryanichek the one with me is u3600, this team is o3600

signing up

2025 Spring Invitational Open Qualifier

This is the official post for the open qualifier of the 2025 Spring Invitational.

Tournament Information

Date: 24th of May 13 UTC

Tournament Director: Sainse

Challonge: TBA
Chat: #springOQ

Veto: TBA
Map pool: To be announced a day before the tournament starts

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

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.

Rules

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

1. Disconnects within 5 minutes may result in a rehost. The Tournament Director has the last say afterwards.
2. Players will replay the same map if they draw.
3. If the incorrect map is hosted, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards the score
4. Players who do not appear without valid reasoning will be given a warning that may result in being temporarily suspended from tournaments.
5. 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.
6. 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

Prizes

The top 6 players will advance to the group stage, in addition the top 3 players will receive the following avatars:
1st: 2025 Spring Qualifier Champion avatar
2nd: Faction Face
3rd: Faction Logo

The players that are closest to qualifying (7th+) will be substitutes for the Spring Invitational group stage.

Signup

There will be a rating requirement of 1000 to participate.

To sign up, leave a post stating your FAF username and your 1v1 ladder rating.

In the case of a player getting an invitation due to being one of two top ladder players, they will move on directly to the group stage and will not participate in the qualifier. Players who think that they might qualify through the 1v1 league should still signup as a precaution

Signups:
waffelznoob 2093
Vindex 1830

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 Organiser: hybrid
Tournament Directors: Rhaelya, SainseRow, Styrdxr

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

1. Tagada
2. Nexus
3. Lunyshko
4. Robogear (Accepted)
5. Blinchik
6. TBA (1st place in 1v1 league on 19th May)
7. TBA (2nd place in 1v1 league on 19th May)

Rules

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

Hey everyone, as you might have noticed there's been some recent changes to the Tournament Team, which includes Tournament Directors, Senior TD's and the Team Lead. This post is here to give everyone an idea what's been going on behind the scenes.

As you may know, NOC stepped down from the Team Lead role after the LOTS 2024 tournament and I was elected as the new Team Lead. I'll take this chance to introduce myself to those that don’t know me; I started playing FAF when I was 11 after seeing some Gyle casts. Very quickly into my FAF experience, I started participating in tournaments and joined the GB clan in 2014 where I made a lot of my early FAF memories. As the years went by, I saw myself joining plenty of tournaments, albeit not with a lot of success. Regardless, I very much enjoyed participating in the competitive circuit. As time went on, I improved quite a bit and even ended up competing in some of the bigger tournaments with players I never imagined I could compete with. At some point, I joined the tournament team, hosting various blitz tournaments, including my favourite kind: 2v2s! After a few years of inactivity I came back and re-joined the team near the end of 2024.

The first thing I did as lead was to go on a recruiting spree. I looked for people that I knew had the best intentions and wanted FAF to thrive. Those people are: Nuggets, Strydxr, Vindex, Sainse and Paradox_Of_War - what about other people on the team?. All of them had various different experiences with FAF, which I firmly believe are important for the community. Recently I announced my senior TD’s - Rhaelya and Strydxr, who also happen to be Team Leads on their own (Balance and Trainer).

We've had multiple very productive team meetings, with the goal of improving tournaments and the competitive circuit that, we feel, were not up to par in recent times.

In our first meeting, we definitely had a lot to discuss. The topics covered were;

• The reviewing of the current ruleset
• Outlining the budget for the year
• Tournament ban and warning system
• Re-organising the forum
• Reflection on tournaments so far
• Substitute prize rights
• Planned tournaments for the year

After a long-winded meeting, we discussed the path going forward, and so the second meeting looked like;

• Discussing transparency of the team
• Avatars and custom avatars
• Collaboration with the other teams
• What makes a tournament a FAF official tournament
• A mid-year LOTS equivalent importance 2v2 tournament (Potentially a trophy included)
• 1v1 circuit and Invitationals
• Other future tournament plans
• The creation of tournament guides
• Standardising and rewriting important tournament forum information

For the past 3 months the Tournament Team had been working hard to give back to the community that we love. We have made a lot of progress and hope to continue to do so in the future.

Before I became Team Lead, I had always dreamt of hosting a prominent annual tournament in FAF. I’m pleased to inform you all that there will be a big 2v2 tournament coming at the end of May and start of June. I’m planning on having a large prize pool and even including some sort of physical trophy. Hope to see you all there!

Its seeded based on rating, highest rated player vs lowest rated player and so on

Sign up 1784

hybrid_ 1785

signing up

hybrid_
2003

Congratulations to
Nexus
Lunyshko
Robogear
Rhaelya

The 8 man Playoffs begin on the 14th of December

Check here for more details

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/8412/legend-of-the-stars-2024

Maps are on the challonge now.