time to make a new account every time i want a rename, thanks boss

Here's all the replays from the Swiss Stage! If I've got something wrong on here please let me know.

Congratulations to @TheWeakie (Farmsletje) for winning LotS!

The tournament has concluded.

I would like to start with a huge thank you to everyone involved with the tournament, you guys are the backbone of FAF! Congratulations to our first time winner, Farmsletje, and commiserations to those of you who made it so far! I would also like to thank the players and viewers for giving us great entertainment.

The results are as follows:

1st Place: TheWeakie (Farmsletje)

2nd Place: Nexus-

3rd Place: waffelzNoob (Bullydozer)

4th Place: Lunyshko

Qualifier Winners: Grimplex and Turbo2

Please get in contact with Tagada in regards to your cash prize.

You can find any relevant information, including the bracket, on this page and on the official LotS sheet. I will also post the Finals replays in the next few days.

*i will update this post when I get the avatar files

That's it for this year, hope to see you all in the coming tournaments next year!

General Information

Dates:
Open Qualifier: 4th of April, 14UTC
Swiss Stage: 11th of April, 14UTC
Finals: 18th/19th of April, 14UTC (3rd place decider to be played first followed by GF)

Bracket: https://challonge.com/ma45qxpm
Chat: #SI26
Live coverage:
Official: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Organiser: hybrid
Tournament Director: hybrid
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XxgiDy4G9cnYpxFJkamWJ4bPhkVBfHMben0ICPIBYlw/edit?usp=sharing

Due to chat bugs and network issues, all official communication on the days of the tournament will be via discord in the appropriate text channel in the #tournaments section. If you cannot communicate through discord then the FAF Client will be used as next best option.

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. There are 12 total invites. To find out how the LotS points work, you can find the information here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/9339/lots-points-2025-onwards

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 qualifier tournament will not continue. The top 4 will qualify to the Swiss Stage of the Spring Invitational.

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

You can find the forum post here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/9940/2026-spring-invitational-open-qualifier-1v1

Swiss Stage

• The Swiss stage will have 16 players.
• Players that reach 3 wins advance to Finals.
• Players that reach 3 losses are eliminated.
• All matches are BO1 in this stage
• Rematches are not permitted
• Players will be matched with equal score opponents.
• 2-1 will face 1-2 in the final matches.

The swiss bracket will be viewable on the spreadsheet. We will also add a score tally this time to make it easier to understand.

Finals

The finals stage will be a classic single elimination bracket with all matches being BO5 apart from the Grand Finals which will be BO7.

Mappool

Will be on the google spreadsheet.

Veto System

Will be on the google spreadsheet.

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. 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 Director 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.
7. 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
8. Please make sure all lobbies are passworded and inform your opponents the password and casters if applicable.

Prizes

1st: $450, Spring Invitational Champion avatar
2nd: $210, Faction Face avatar
3rd: $100, Faction Logo avatar
4th: $40

Prizes are funded from the FAF Tournament fund, as well as direct donations.
Donators:

• The Working Man: $500 - community of adult gamers that make up tight schedules with great spirit.

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

Invitees

1. waffelznoob
2. Lunyshko
3. Tagada
4. Blast_Chilled
5. BlinChik
6. Grimplex
7. ZLO
8. Unknow
9. Vindex
10. Neytron

Qualified Players

• Swatoslav
• Skrat
• Turinturambar
• Whiteheart
• LilyAly
• Mimikz

Welcome to the first edition of Macro Mania! As it says in the title, this will be a tournament which somewhat tests your ability to play macro in the most chaotic of ways. There are quite a few different features of this tournament, so please read thoroughly through the post.

General Information

Dates:
Group Stage: 6th of June, 14 UTC
Playoffs: 13th of June, 14 UTC
Coverage: [https://www.twitch.tv/faflive]
Bracket:
Chat: #MacroMania
Tournament Organiser: hybrid_
Tournament Director: TBA

Format

• There is no rating restriction, making it an open rating tournament.
• The tournament will have a minimum of 8 teams and a maximum of 16.
• There will be two stages, Group Stage and Playoffs.

Map Selection Format

• The team that is picking a map will get to decide whether the map is played 1v1 up to 3v3. This applies to all maps in the mappool.
• Teams cannot pick a map with the same amount of players more than once. If it is a BO5, you may pick a map with the same amount of players, just not consecutively.
• A player must not play 2 consecutive 1v1s.
• Players may screenshare to allow the input of their teammates on 1v1/2v2 picks.

Group Stage

• There will be 2-4 groups, consisting of 4 teams in each group. The amount of groups will depend on the amount of signups.
• Each group will be a round robin, and will be BO3.
• Each Group will have different a map pool
• The seeding will be determined by global rating, with the ratings being frozen from 3/03.

If there are 2 groups, 2 teams from both groups will advance.
OR
If there are 4 groups, only 1 team will advance from each group.

Playoffs

The final stage will be a single elimination bracket of 4 teams, the Semi-Final will be BO3 and the Final will be BO5.

Map Pool

TBA 1 week before each stage.

Prizes

1st - $250, Custom Macro Maniac avatar
2nd - $150, Faction face avatar
3rd - $100, 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

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. 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.
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

Signup Information

• There is no restrictions on team rating in this tournament, making it open-rating.
• Signup as teams of 3 or as a free agents.
• 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_-.!<>()[]{}/&
• Signups close on the 6th of June, 13 UTC.

Signup

To sign up, post below stating:

• Team name if you have one already.
• All team members FAF usernames.
• The team "captain" alongside their discord tag, as it will be the player who will interact with the TD the most.

Teams

Gentlemandem - waffelznoob(c) 2643, Lunyshko 2374, Grimplex 2644 | 7661
Sexy gentlemen and our Hoplite - Swatoslav(c) 2140, Wifi_ 2284, Neytron 2092 | 6516

Free Agents

LimeZ3_ 1955
Haidowicked 1642

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 - 31st of May 13 UTC
Final Stage - TBD

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 which you can find here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/9092/2025-spring-invitational-open-qualifier

Challonge: https://challonge.com/2025sioq
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: https://challonge.com/4vckcfra
Chat: #springGS

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: https://challonge.com/4vckcfra
Chat: #springFS
**Date:**7th of June
Map pool: Announced on the 6th of June

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 (Accepted)
4. Robogear (Accepted)
5. Blinchik (Accepted)
6. Grimplex (Accepted)
7. waffelznoob (1st place in 1v1 league on 19th May)
8. Shen (2nd place in 1v1 league on 19th May)

Rules

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

Here are all the replays and results of the finals stage:

Happy new year to you all! I'd like to start this year on a good note, so we will be releasing the first quarter of the Tournament Schedule.

January

• U1900 Series VII (Concluded) - 3rd January

• Average Joe Olympics #2 (2v2) - 24th January 14UTC (Concluded)

• Challengers Cup II - 31st January

February

• King's and Prince's of TAG Craftious Maximus - 1st 14UTC (Concluded)

• U1100 Series VIII - 7th 14 UTC

• Winter Open Invitational 2026 - 7th and 14th (Moved to Spring)

• RCIX - Day 1,2,3 - 21st/22nd/28th

March

• RCIX - Day 4 - 1st

• U1500 Series VIII - March 7th 15UTC

• King's and Prince's of crazyrush - March 14th 14UTC

• Average Joe Olympics #3 (3v3) (u4500) - March 28th, 14 UTC

• Spring Mapgen Tournament (2v2) (Open-Rating) ($280 Prize Pool) - March 28th/29th, 14 UTC

April

• Spring Invitational Open Qualifier (1v1) (Open-Rating) - April 4th, 14 UTC

• Spring Invitational Swiss Stage (1v1) ($800 Prize Pool) - 11th/12th April, 14 UTC

• Spring Invitational Playoffs (1v1) ($800 Prize Pool) - 18th/19th April, 14 UTC

You can find the public calendar view of the schedule here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=ba553e74cfd0804c2a700a056ce5f4c91a162dfc4e57d02c7261967994e622b5@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/London

Please note that these are subject to change. We will update the schedule as we plan along

If there any planned tournaments by other members in the community, please DM myself or Strydxr and we can update the calendar.

I would also like to mention that if you plan on hosting a tournament, please try and make sure that the schedule does not clash with other similar rating ranged tournaments. We will also find out when balance patch releases are and add them to the calendar to help prevent conflict, as there may be bugs on release.

May the best BO win!

General Information

Date: 14th of March 14UTC
Bracket: https://challonge.com/y54mgmdl,
Prince: https://challonge.com/huqf7ysy
Chat: #CR
Live coverage:
Official: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Organiser: hybrid_, Lolichan
Tournament Director: Lolichan
Mappool: crazyrush

Due to chat bugs and network issues, all official communication on the days of the tournament will be via discord in the appropriate text channel in the #tournaments section. If you cannot communicate through discord then the FAF Client will be used as next best option.

Format

In this tournament, there will be 2 brackets. King Bracket and the Prince Bracket. The 1v1 ladder rating requirements are U1600 for the Prince Bracket and O1600 for the King Bracket.

Both King and Prince brackets will be double elimination. All matches will be BO1
The seeding will be determined by ladder rating. So for example, the highest rated player will play the lowest rated player in the first round.

Prizes

King Bracket
1st: King of crazyrush Avatar + $60 Cash Prize
2nd: Faction Face Avatar

Prince Bracket
1st: Prince of crazyrush Avatar + $30 Cash Prize
2nd: Faction Logo Avatar

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:

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
7. Please make sure all lobbies are passworded and inform your opponents the password and casters if applicable.

Signup

When signing up, please state your:

• FAF Username
• 1v1 Ladder Rating

Signups will close on 14th of March, 13 UTC

If you are u1600 ladder rating, you will be placed in the Prince Bracket, vice versa.

If a players skill is considered much higher than their rating, the TD's will decide which bracket they participate in.

King Bracket:

1.Wifi_ 2060
2.JazzFunkNoob 1889
3..Skrat 1712
4.Seraphim-Noob 1685
5.LimeZ3_ 1519
6.Koldun 1518
7.R_Kelly 1500
8.im_lagger 1098

Prince Bracket:

1.demonstreamer666 1334
2.PlasmaLightning 1333
3.panand 1245
4.Aranei 1213
5.XlebyLLIKoB 1197
6.hirschy 1195
7.JobNob 1170
8.FutureMan 1004
9.Critren 959
10.Quantum Typhoon 786
11.P_DIDDY 554
12.Bill_Cosby 444

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!

Announcement: Tournament is postponed

Unfortunately due to a lack of time and manpower we are unable to host Macro Mania on the selected dates. We haven't decided on a new date yet but we will hope to announce the date adjustments alongside some format changes before the end of June.

Welcome to the first edition of Macro Mania! As it says in the title, this will be a tournament which somewhat tests your ability to play macro in the most chaotic of ways. There are quite a few different features of this tournament, so please read thoroughly through the post.

General Information

Dates:
Group Stage: 6th of June, 14 UTC
Playoffs: 13th of June, 14 UTC
Coverage: [https://www.twitch.tv/faflive]
Bracket:
Chat: #MacroMania
Tournament Organiser: hybrid_
Tournament Director: TBA

Format

• There is no rating restriction, making it an open rating tournament.
• The tournament will have a minimum of 8 teams and a maximum of 16.
• There will be two stages, Group Stage and Playoffs.

Map Selection Format

• The team that is picking a map will get to decide whether the map is played 1v1 up to 3v3. This applies to all maps in the mappool.
• Teams cannot pick a map with the same amount of players more than once. If it is a BO5, you may pick a map with the same amount of players, just not consecutively.
• A player must not play 2 consecutive 1v1s.
• Players may screenshare to allow the input of their teammates on 1v1/2v2 picks.

Group Stage

• There will be 2-4 groups, consisting of 4 teams in each group. The amount of groups will depend on the amount of signups.
• Each group will be a round robin, and will be BO3.
• Each Group will have different a map pool
• The seeding will be determined by global rating, with the ratings being frozen from 3/03.

If there are 2 groups, 2 teams from both groups will advance.
OR
If there are 4 groups, only 1 team will advance from each group.

Playoffs

The final stage will be a single elimination bracket of 4 teams, the Semi-Final will be BO3 and the Final will be BO5.

Map Pool

TBA 1 week before each stage.

Prizes

1st - $250, Custom Macro Maniac avatar
2nd - $150, Faction face avatar
3rd - $100, 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

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. 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.
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

Signup Information

• There is no restrictions on team rating in this tournament, making it open-rating.
• Signup as teams of 3 or as a free agents.
• 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_-.!<>()[]{}/&
• Signups close on the 6th of June, 13 UTC.

Signup

To sign up, post below stating:

• Team name if you have one already.
• All team members FAF usernames.
• The team "captain" alongside their discord tag, as it will be the player who will interact with the TD the most.

Teams

Gentlemandem - waffelznoob(c) 2643, Lunyshko 2374, Grimplex 2644 | 7661
Sexy gentlemen and our Hoplite - Swatoslav(c) 2140, Wifi_ 2284, Neytron 2092 | 6516

Free Agents

LimeZ3_ 1955
Haidowicked 1642

The tournament has concluded.

Congratulations to @waffelznoob for retaining the title of the Spring Invitational Champion

Commiserations to those who ended up losing, I hope you all had a good experience regardless!

I would like to personally thank @staledevil and @knownsniper for covering the entirety of the tournament, you guys did an amazing job, and made the cast very entertaining and insightful. And as usual a shoutout to the Tournament Team for giving feedback, helping out with organising, and also @rhaelya and @grimplex for TD'ing. Aaaaand another shoutout to @fichom who has been singlehandedly creating graphics and charging the newsposts. Thank you all!

The top 8 are as follows:
1st Place: waffelznoob
2nd Place: Grimplex
3rd Place: Blast_Chilled
4th Place: Turinturambar
5th-8th Place: Jhukzoo, Vindex, BlinChIk and Tagada

I will post the replay ID's this week, and hopefully the casts will be uploaded shortly after.

Spreadsheet has been fixed and updated

2026 Spring Invitational Spreadsheet

Finals draw, mappool and other information

Matchups

The finals draw has been concluded and we have some great matchups to be seen this weekend!

You can find the bracket here: https://challonge.com/ma45qxpm

Draw stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2747306349

Mappool

X1mp 001 = Crag Dunes
The dark heart doesn't display properly but the full map name is: The Dark Heart, FAF Version

Other important notices

We are having issues with the google spreadsheet at the moment, so everything(mappool and finals bracket) probably won't be uploaded until tomorrow, so please bear with us. As for the map veto rules, this will also be uploaded alongside everything else.

If you guys need anything or have any questions, as always just @ me in discord

GLHF

I am happy to announce that all of the first round matchups have now been decided!

The matchups are as follows:

Just a reminder as well that if you are going to play Point of Reach, the slots are 3 and 4.

See you all Saturday!

Seeds, Mappool, Veto and the Swiss Stage

Seeding

Greetings Commanders!

After discussing with the Tournament Team, we have decided to let the top 8 players in the LotS points system pick their first opponent of the Swiss Stage. I will update the list below as I receive replies from the players.

Pickable opponents:

• Vindex
• Neytron
• Swatoslav
• Skrat
• Turinturambar
• Whiteheart
• LilyAly (Picked by waffelznoob)
• Mimikz

You can find the bracket and mappool on the google sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XxgiDy4G9cnYpxFJkamWJ4bPhkVBfHMben0ICPIBYlw/edit?usp=sharing

Mappool and Veto

The veto system for the Swiss Stage will be a lot more simple as it is only BO1 throughout the entire stage. The veto rules are as follows:

• !roll in the 2026 Spring Invitational discord channel
• Loser of the roll will ban first
• Ban maps rotating between each player at a time until there is only 1 map left
• The last map left will be the one that is played

Faction Veto

Once the map has been decided, both players will DM the TD with 2 factions they would like to pick, and the faction they would like to ban for their opponent (You can pick the faction that you ban).

Example message for faction veto:

Hybrid_:
Aeon 1st pick
UEF 2nd pick
Ban Aeon

Once both players have informed the TD, the TD will ping them in discord channel of which faction they will be playing.

Mappool:

Swiss Stage

This stage is almost identical to LotS, the main changes are that the first round is seeded, and that the 2-2 bracket the matchups will be versus the players coming from the opposite scoreline.

The updated rules are:

• The Swiss stage will have 16 players.
• Players that reach 3 wins advance to Finals.
• Players that reach 3 losses are eliminated.
• All matches are BO1 in this stage.
• Rematches are not permitted.
• Players will be matched with equal score opponents.
• 2-1 will face 1-2 in the final matches.

That is all, goodluck commanders!

The qualifier has concluded

Congratulations to those who made it through, some new faces and returning ones which is great to see! And of course commiserations to the participants who didn't make it, I hope you had an enjoyable experience!

The qualifiees are as follows:

• Swatoslav
• Skrat
• Turinturambar
• Whiteheart
• LilyAly
• Mimikz

The seeding will be announced on the forums shortly, alongside the spreadsheet being posted.

@Skrat In a couple of hours

Signups are now closed

The maps are added onto the challonge
Bracket: https://challonge.com/hz7kicnr

A slight change which is that the qualifying match in the losers bracket will be BO3.

Goodluck commanders!