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!

Greetings everyone! This is going to be a new tournament aimed at the mid range of players as there hasn't been much at all in recent times. As someone who has continued to play FAF because of tournaments, I thought it would be a fun and enticing idea to make this tournament. My fondest early memories of playing FAF were playing mid-rank tournaments where you find that itch for being in intense competitive games.

This will be a 4v4 tournament with the aim of increasing the competitiveness in the mid-rank range. If this tournament goes well it may become a regular tournament throughout the year, with potential cash prizes being included.

General Information

Date: 5th/6th of July, 13UTC
Coverage: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Bracket: https://challonge.com/v4mine5l
Chat: #CC
Tournament Organiser: hybrid_
Tournament Director: Paradox_Of_War, Razana

Format

The tournament is a 4v4, which will be either double elimination, with a best of 3 upper bracket and a best of 1 lower bracket. Or a swiss stage which will lead to a final stage where 4 teams face off in a single elimination bracket. More details will be announced as signups proceed.

Map pool

For this tournament, we will be collaborating with the Matchmaker Team. They will be making for pool for us alongside making it the 4v4 matchmaking pool for the month of July. This means the map pool will be released on the 1st of July.

Prizes

1st - Custom Challengers Cup Champion avatar (Rotating until the next Challengers Cup)
2nd - Faction face
3rd - Faction logo

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 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.
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

Specific Tournament Rules

• All 4 players on a team must be within a range of a combined global rating of 6000. Exact ratings will be taken.
• No player above a global rating of 1650 may participate.

Signup Information

• Signup as teams of 4 or as a free agent.
• If a player is seen or deemed to be intentionally dropping rating for the tournament, they will be screened.
• 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 4th of July

When signing up, please state:

For premade teams:

• Team name if you have one already.
• All 4 Players FAF usernames and their global rating exactly.
• The team "captain" alongside their discord tag, as it will be the player who will interact with the TD the most
• The total combined team rating

For free agents:

• FAF Username and your exact global rating
• Discord tag

Team Signups:

Free Agents:

rewersant 1380
BabeI 1270
Ubivator_3000 1400
zopniky 1165
TurboPuck 1500
Civralex 789
Froku 982
Quantum Typhoon 1101

If you have any questions, please feel free to make a post on this page!

Hello everyone, I have an important announcement to make on behalf of the Tournament Team as its lead. I hope you can take time to read this, and engage in civil discussions if you have anything to add or comment on.

As some might be aware, there were issues regarding interpretation and implementation of rules in the last three tournaments: Challenger's Cup, LotS Qualifier and King of Setons 2025. To ensure competitive integrity, clarity and satisfaction of all parties involved, the Tournament Team will be implementing a couple of changes/clarifications to the immediate ruleset. Know that we plan to refactor and rework the rules at large - to make them super easy to understand and follow them, as well as incentivize healthy behaviour in and around the time of tournament events. This is a larger project which is already underway, but it will take quite some time to complete - in order to ensure we lay good foundations for the foreseeable future. I look forward to us publishing those, but for now, let us return to the immediate topic.

The following changes will apply to any and all tournaments sponsored/funded by FAF.

Qualifiers and forfeiting

Some tournaments act as qualifying stages for other, larger tournaments, or have a qualifying stage as part of the tournament stage itself. This is often implemented such that reaching a Top X position, e.g. Top 4, qualifies a participant for the next stage/tournament. This was the case with the group stage in Challenger's Cup and theLotS Qualifier. The point of these qualifying tournaments was to both create extra engagement for the community, as well as give new people a chance to join the tournament stage. However, a problematic trend formed where participants, who weren't interested in the qualifying tournament itself, only aimed to reach the "Top X" position, and didn't care about the rest of the event.

Participants like these proceeded to forfeit the remaining games once they got qualified - with their goal already reached. As much as these forfeitures were allowed, they created a very frustrating scenario for the organizers, and a disappointing environment for other tournament participants and community members, who looked forward to the matches. This was especially bad since the matches that got forfeited were, by definition, in the final stages of the tournament - when one might expect the most exciting, high level matches. We don't think this kind of behaviour is very conducive to keeping the competitive spirit in FAF going strong, so we are adding the following rule:

• Any participant that voluntarily forfeits a match at any stage of the tournament will be considered withdrawn from the tournament. This means they immediately relinquishes all rights to prizes, titles, rankings or qualifications they were eligible to receive. This includes: qualification for higher-tier tournaments/stages, monetary prizes, avatar awards, and any other.

As for the particular cases listed, as much as we dislike doing any kind of rule enforcement retroactively, we do believe this is a severe enough situation where some action is required. While we won't be applying the rule in its entirety - since we do believe that wouldn't be fair either - we decided that all participants who broke the rule in this year's LotS Qualifier will not be receiving their 2nd and 3rd placement avatar rewards, the Faction Face/Logo avatars.

We are aware this is a band-aid - we would really like to introduce a rule or a solution that pivots on incentivizing competitive behaviour, rather than punishing unwanted one. However, this would require a substantial set of changes (which, as already mentioned, we are working towards), and just isn't feasible as a single update.

Substitutions and prize eligibility

The recent King of Setons 2025 tournament had an issue that we'd evaluate as "lacking competitive integrity", at the least. Without needing to go into details on what exactly happened, to ensure it does not repeat, we will be implementing and enforcing the following rules regarding substitutions, as well as prize eligibility for substitutes:

• A "substitute" is a person who replaces a member of a team participating in a team tournament. The substitute may only replace a single person, and the replaced member is considered withdrawn from the tournament.
• A person may only participate as a substitute in case they were/are not already an active participant of the tournament - either organizer, participating player, a substitute, or a replaced player.
• The replaced player, relinquishes any and all prize eligibility to the substitute but only once the substitute has won at least 1 series.

General Information

Date: 4th of April, 14 UTC
Bracket: https://challonge.com/hz7kicnr
Chat: SIQ
Live coverage:
Official: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Tournament Director: hybrid, Grimplex

You can find the main post here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/9939/2026-spring-invitational-1v1

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

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 tournament will not continue. 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.

Mappool

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 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.
   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 Information

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

Signups will close on the 4th of April, 13 UTC.

Top 4 results in qualifying for the Swiss Stage

Signups:

Swatoslav 2009
Turinturambar 1975
Jhuckzoo 1804
Skrat 1809
Mimikz 1800
Whiteheart 1783
Starly 1744
LilyAly 1598
k0ldUn 1585
Yew 1538
XlebyLLIKoB 1509
PlasmaLightning 1407
Popiska 1221
Hatschi 988
Tadpolius 471
QingYi 0

goodbye hybrid

hybrid_ 1785

The qualifier mappool is as follows:

Spring Invitational Group Stage

Congratulations on qualifying or being invited to the preliminary stage of the Spring Invitational. So far has been exciting! This will be the beginning of the official 2025 Spring Invitational.

Tournament Information

Date: 31st of May 13UTC
Tournament Directors: hybrid, Strydxr
Challonge: https://challonge.com/4vckcfra
Chat: #SpringGS
Live coverage:
Official: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Community:

Format

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. Every player will play five BO3’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 Median-Buchholz system to determine placement.

Veto

There will be a pool of 11 maps. The maps will be selected using a pick and ban(veto) system. Each player will have 4 bans and 1 map pick, with the final map being decided by being the last map left. The lower seed will begin by banning 2 maps, followed by the higher seed banning 2 more maps. The lower seed will then pick first and the higher seed will pick second. After the map picks, to finish off the veto, it will be alternating bans, beginning with the lower seed until 1 map is left.

The veto will look like this:

ALL players must report their veto’s to the Tournament Director. You must not start the game until you have confirmation from the Tournament Director that the veto is valid.

Mappool:

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

The groups:

I would like to emphasize that all players must report their veto’s to the Tournament Director. You must not start the game until you have confirmation from the Tournament Director that the veto is valid. I also like to mention that all players must report their game scores to the Tournament Director as there was a lack of doing so in the qualifier.

And so the group stage concludes, here's what the final standings looked like:

Commiserations to those who couldn't make it to the end, and congratulations to those who made it to the final. The final 8 are:

• waffelznoob
• Neytron
• ZLO
• Lunyshko
• Shen
• Blinchik (Who replaces Vena due to being forced to drop out)
• Rhaelya
• Blast_Chilled

The mappool will be released on Friday, with the finals forum post being uploaded tomorrow. You can find the bracket here.

Some exciting matches are set to be played this weekend, where you can watch live on the 7th of June 13UTC at https://www.twitch.tv/faflive

The Tournament is over! GGWP to all, I hope everyone had fun.

The results are as follows:
1st Place - HEL
Chaospyr -
Firv -
Karimm -
Esmonoob -

2nd Place - Pro Team
Pro -
Strife -
B1adam -
SYSTEM_FAILURE -

3rd Place - White Lotuses Of Shaolin
Finisterre -
White_Owl -
Sainse -
Cantarolar -

Bracket - https://challonge.com/v4mine5l

As for the prizes, the 2nd and 3rd place teams will keep their avatars for now, and the 1st place team will be given a "Tournament Winner" avatar after the next iteration of Challengers Cup, unless they win it again of course!

Would like to give a big thanks for all the players who signed up, I hope you guys had a good experience. And obviously a big thanks to the tournament directors who helped it run smoothly, alongside the casters who gave us a great viewing experience!

See you all for the next iteration B)

Summer is here, and so is the invitational!

General Information

Qualifier - 9th of August 13UTC
Group Stage - 16th of August 13UTC
Finals Stage - 17th of August 13UTC

Live coverage: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive
Community Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/grimplexer

Tournament Organiser: hybrid
Tournament Directors: hybrid, Paradox_Of_War, Sainse (Finals)

Mappool:

Invites

The invites will be based on the players with the highest amount of LOTS points. For this tournament I will invite the top ten players with those points. If a player declines, an invite will be sent to a player next in line.
Once again we will also invite the top 2 players from the ongoing 16th season of the 1v1 league (you can view the leaderboard in the client). The placement will be taken on August the 4th, 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 placement in the LOTS Points system, the next player on the leaderboard will be given the invite.

Finals Stage

The Finals Stage will be a simple single elimination stage with all matches being Bo3's, aside from the grand finals which will be a Bo5. There will be a 3rd place decider match.

Challonge: https://challonge.com/y1prq3l9
Chat: #SummerFS
Date: 17th of August 13UTC

Prelims/Group Stage

For the Summer Invitational, we will go back to doing a group stage. There will be 4 groups consisting of 4 players. It will be a round robin, with the top 2 players from each group qualifying to the final stage.

Challonge: https://challonge.com/y1prq3l9
Chat: #SummerGS
Date: 16th of August 13UTC

Open Qualifier (Double Elimination)

For information about the qualifier, you can find it here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/9362/2025-summer-invitational-qualifier

Challonge: N/A
Chat: #summerOQ
Date: 17th of August 13UTC

Prize Pool

1st: $75, 2025 Summer 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

Invitees:

1. Tagada (Declined)
2. Lunyshko (Accepted)
3. Nexus (Declined)
4. waffelznoob (Pending)
5. Robogear (Accepted)
6. Blast_Chilled (Accepted)
7. BlinChik (Accepted)
8. Rhaelya (Accepted)
9. Unknow (Accepted)
10. Grimplex (Declined/Sub if needed)
11. Shen (Declined)
12. ZLO (Accepted)
13. Neytron (Declined)
14. JaggedAppliance (Declined)(LL)
15. Swatoslav (Declined)(LL)
16. Vindex (Accepted)(LL)
17. FFF (Declined)(LL)
18. Mimikz (Declined)(LL)
19. judoka (Declined)(LL)
20. StormLantern (Declined)(LL)
21. Hue-Janus (Declined)(LL)
22. Foley (Declined)(LL)

Due to lack of players accepting invites through the LOTS Points system, extra invites will be awarded to those in the ladder league.

The remaining players will be decided from the qualifier and the top players from the 1v1 ladder league.

Player List

1. Lunyshko
2. waffelznoob
3. Robogear
4. Blast_Chilled
5. Rhaelya
6. Unknow
7. ZLO
8. Vindex
9. Wifi_ 1885
10. F-Odin
11. Skrat 1706
12. CunningFox
13. Karateka 1626
14. TurboPuck 1350
15. Nuggets 1301
16. demonstreamer666
17. Y_Y_KrYak

Substitute - Grimplex