Hey everyone happy sunday!

Big announcement incoming.

We got to experiment a lot with different tournament schedules these past seasons and after a lot of consideration, we got some direction on where we want to go and what the tournament landscape should look like.

The overall goal is to find perfect balance between having a packed action calendar and not burning out managers. As of right now there are too many competitions for top managers to prepare for and there's also too many prestigious trophies going around for people with just 1 season in the game.

So what we are going to do is remove the per tier majors and minors as they are right now, and instead we are going to keep a single big championship that will span throughout the whole season, in what we could call the "road to championship major".

Here is how that's going to work:

Stage 1 - B-Tiers

A free to join tournament for all B-Tiers to play very early in the season.
The top 32 teams advance to stage 2.

Stage 2 - A-Tiers + stage 1 winners

A free to join tournament for all A-Tiers to play very early in the season and the winners of stage 1.
The top 32 teams advance to stage 3.

Stage 3 - Main qualification

The 32 winners of stage 2 will play along the 16 lowest ranked S-Tier teams.
The 16 winners advance to the main event.

Main event

Prestigious major championship tournament with a total of 48 participating teams, including the top 32 S-Tier teams + the 16 winners from Stage 3.
Each phase will be played in its own day to give plenty of time for teams to prepare.
Finals played on the last week.

Then we'll have this additional competitions:

Minor tournament
The 32 teams who failed to qualify to the main event in Stage 3 will be playing a minor yet unique tournament in same schedule as the major.
Finals to be played on last week of the season as well.

Rookies cup
A free to join rookies cup will be available to play by all the teams in B-Tier and A-Tier. Except those that got to qualify for major/minor.

Invitational tournament
This is the current major/championship we have right now played at end of season, the qualification structure for this will remain the same but this tournament will be less prestigious with prizes and trophy reflecting that. This aligns with our idea that "weekend tournaments" shouldn't be as prestigious as long ones.

Open tournaments
Just like the ones we are having now, played every other day. So far seemed like a great addition.

So what this new system will allow is for the most prestigious competitions to be played throughout the season, while having the top teams focus only in important matches and keeping the early qualifications for the lower tier teams, which will have a fun experience trying to get to the top.

This also adds a big motivation to reach S-Tier to get to the championship easier. Which by the way we are reducing the minimum # of slots from 56 to 48.

As always reach out if you have any questions.