The tournament has concluded! We have a new u1900 champion - FFF! Congratulations to the new avatar holder 
. Wifi_ made it through the first Round Robin part of the tournament without a single loss, but in the finals FFF was able to be defeat him 2-1!
Challonge: https://challonge.com/en/u1900
Our top three:
The third u1900 1v1 Tournament
This tournament is hosted by FAF Official Tournament Director.
If the tournament has less than 10 sign ups - the format will be Round Robin. Otherwise it will be double elimination.
Players that have less than 1900 1v1 Rating may sign up. Sign up in the thread below. Use your 1v1 rating.
Please join our Discord with over 70 participants for future tournament announcements, replay reviews - https://discord.gg/sNfG9Tsqu3
Reigning Champion: 
Seraphim-Noob
List of Champions:
Tournament Information
Date: 06/04 at 14:00 UTC
Tournament Director: Vindex
Challonge: https://challonge.com/en/u1900
IRC: #u1900
Coverage: by Seba on https://www.twitch.tv/unluckyseb77_
Rewards:
1st place - 
Custom Avatar that will be held by the reigning champion until the next one is decided
Tournament Format: BO1 RR with BO3 Finals
Map Pool: First half of the tournament will be played on handmade FAF maps. Starting with Semifinals players will play on Mapgen maps.
Players Signed up:
@Axelia You need to have at least 5 ladder games played since January 3rd to sign up. Please play 5 ladder games and reply here
Unfortunately, most of the suggestions we receive require changes on the server side, and FAF currently doesn't have a dedicated server maintainer. I.e, I wanted to change the order in which queue times are displayed, but even that requires server side changes. Realistically, there's not much we can do until someone is available to work with the server.
One solution would be some soft reset of ranks at the end of each season so that players of a similar level could all match each other again.
We had a soft reset in the past, I think it was done for the 2v2 queue. And there were 10x more complaints after the soft reset happened, so probably not going to happen any time soon again.
u1900 1v1 tournament Mapgen Edition
Hey, this is the next tournament of our Strydxr's series. Now it is a Mapgen only u1900 tourney. If we have less than 10 sign ups - the format will be Round Robin. If we have more than 10 - it will be double elimination.
Sign up in the thread below. Use your 1v1 rating
If you don’t show up at the start of the tournament without notifying us, you’ll be disqualified from tournaments for the next month. If you can't make it, let me know in advance so I can adjust the brackets.
You can join our Discord for future tournament announcements and nice discussions - https://discord.gg/sNfG9Tsqu3
Current Champion: Wifi_
Date: 2.02 at 14:00 UTC
Tournament Director: Vindex
Challonge: https://challonge.com/en/ir3kruuq
IRC: #u1900
Coverage: By Farms on https://www.twitch.tv/stellartactician
Rewards:
1st place - 
Custom Avatar that will be held by the reigning champion until the next one is decided
Tournament Format: Double Elimination. All matches BO1. Winners bracket finalist has to be defeated twice by the losers bracket finalist.
Map Pool:
Players host Mapgen in Tournament Format. Map sizes are determined in the Challonge. Each match you can veto 1 mapgen. In case veto is used, Mapgen is rerolled.
If players disagree on who will generate the map, they should make a !roll in #aeolus. The one who gets the highest number generates. If the number is the same, they make the next !roll until there is a winner.
Players Signed up:
We have new u1900 Champion! It is Seraphim-Noob. Congratulations to him for winning as an underdog in the tournament. Also, congratulations to hybrid_ for placing 2nd and UnluckySeb77_TTV for an unexpected third place, beating 1800s in his way! GGs.
Our top three of u1900:
Well, sadly, not all older replays are replayable. Anything that is older than 4 years cannot be watched (except if you have a local file). They are stored on another server but iirc there are issues with connecting that server. One day someone will figure it out and we'll have all replays back
u1900 1v1 tournament
Hey, here we go with the next tournament of our Strydxr's series. This time it's a under 1900 tournament. I decided to make it a Round Robin as I do not expect many to sign up. However, if there will be more than 10 participants - I may change the format a bit.
Sign up in the thread below. Use your 1v1 rating
If you don’t show up at the start of the tournament without notifying us, you’ll be disqualified from tournaments for the next month. If you can't make it, let me know in advance so I can adjust the brackets.
You can join our Discord for future tournament announcements and nice discussions - https://discord.gg/sNfG9Tsqu3
Date: 21.12 at 14:00 UTC
Tournament Director: Vindex
Challonge: https://challonge.com/en/o4cbreru
IRC: #u1900
Coverage: twitch.tv/stellartactician
Rewards:
1st place - Tournament winner avatar 
Tournament Format: Double Elimination
Map Pool:
5km
Crag Dunes
10km
Darkfall
Finn's Revenge
Badlands
Dry Canyon v3
Arctice Refuge - FAF Version
Saltrock Colony
Crash Site 1v1
Farce in tha forest
20km
Coldfire Crossing
Emerald Crater
Players Signed up:
Recall is just a lame function that has ended some games way earlier than the game was actually lost. Maybe there should be a lobby option to disable recall
It's not cancelled, just some changes to the format expected before the end of June!
I think this seton tourney wasnt supposed to be high level anyways, its something mediocre, unlike the king one. Although the last king one was also not full 2k+ tbf.
Players just dont want to sign up and spend 10 hours a day playing the tourney. I don't want to do that and I don't have time for that. If it's split across 2-3 weekends, it's a lot better, honestly, but once again doesn't work well with the majority. Bo9 and bo7s is probably just too much tbf, unless you have multiple days for the tourney. I remember playing bo21 vs banani and we did it 3 or so days, and it's not even a tourney. Just exhausting.
Most top players have pretty much stopped playing tourneys because of how much time you need to put into it in one single weekend. A lot of the talk here is based on the assumption that they will actually sign up, which I don't see happening at all. Every year a seton tourney is a few top players with 2ks, sometimes also mixed with 1500s. The 2024 (iirc) one was probably the best seton tourney playerwise, cause every team was full 2k roster. And that one was played during ddos era, but we also had a semi-competent TD, which of course influenced things a bit. But I think it was still the best tourney
But then again MOST people do NOT want to be captains and that's another reason they don't sign up. So this is yet another issue why many good players aren't playing. There's enough obese players that are 2400-2500 rated and don't sign up just because of captaincy
And according to the twitchtracker stats, on average 1v1 tourneys are watched more than teamgame ones, and lower rated tourneys have fewer viewers on average ofc
last seton tourney on farms stream
here is spring invitational 2026
rainbow cup
challengers cup (low rated tourney) + average joes 2v2 (low rated)
lots finals
@miki1900 have you reported him?
Unfortunately, most of the suggestions we receive require changes on the server side, and FAF currently doesn't have a dedicated server maintainer. I.e, I wanted to change the order in which queue times are displayed, but even that requires server side changes. Realistically, there's not much we can do until someone is available to work with the server.
One solution would be some soft reset of ranks at the end of each season so that players of a similar level could all match each other again.
We had a soft reset in the past, I think it was done for the 2v2 queue. And there were 10x more complaints after the soft reset happened, so probably not going to happen any time soon again.
the tourney has been cancelled because some of the players were unable to attend today, they notified me earlier today. Only two players were left.
@ipconfig-release sorry I need to take everything seriously since it's FAF Forums.
Can you please be more precise? Thank you.
@ipconfig-release The player you're talking about was lucky. They got rating from playing a single uneven game vs players who were deranking. Back then uneven games were ranked, 2017ish
And global rating cannot be used honestly to call someone a 'top player' since you can play like sid or farm rating on astro
