Season 14 Playoff Default Match Dates

Below you will find playoff information for all divisions. Due to extending registration at the beginning of the season to offset the holidays, this season we will NOT have a break between the regular season and playoffs.

If you have questions regarding playoffs, please message your division admins and mods.

Sustainability & Prize Pool

To protect the league in the far future, we are planning to only offer prize money to the top 4 teams in each division. Going forward this cost-saving measure will ensure the league will persist as long as players continue to sign up, paid or not.

In specific, we will put this money towards LANs, infrastructure costs, and offsetting the existing costs that have weighed down the league for some time.

Season 14 Playoff Structures

• Invite: 7-team double-elimination
• Advanced: 8-team Upper and Lower Bracket
• Main: 8-team double-elimination
• Intermediate: 8-team double-elimination
• Amateur: 8-team single-elimination
• Newcomer: 8-team single-elimination

Invite:

All 7 invite teams will be playing in double-elimination. This will be held on the weekend of March 22nd to the 24th.

Times as follows:

• Round 1 will start at 7:00 PM EST on March 22nd (Upper Bracket matches 1 - 3)
• Round 2 will start at 10:30 PM EST on March 22nd (Upper Bracket matches 4 & 5, Lower Bracket match 1)
• Round 3 will start at 5:00 PM EST on March 23rd (Upper Bracket Finals, Lower Bracket matches 2 & 3)
• Round 4 will start at 7:30 PM EST on March 23rd (Lower Bracket Semis)
• Lower Bracket Finals will start at 11:00 PM EST on March 23rd
• Grands will be defaulted to 8:00 PM EST on March 24th

• Round 1: 3 Upper Bracket matches (matches 1,2 and 3)
• Round 2: Upper Bracket matches (matches 4 and 5) and Lower Bracket (match 1)
• Round 3: Upper Bracket Finals and Lower Bracket (matches 2 and 3)
• Round 4: Lower Bracket Semi Finals
• Round 5: Lower Bracket Finals
• Round 6: GRAND FINALS

Advanced

All 8 teams will be playing in a upper and lower bracket reset.

Playoff matches will start the week of Tuesday, March 5th, with Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 EST matches continuing through the week of March 22th.

• Round 1: Match 5th at 10:30 PM EST
• Round 2: Match 7th at 10:30 PM EST
• Round 3: March 8th at 1030 PM EST
• Round 4: March 12th at 10:30 PM EST
• Round 5: March 14th at 10:30 PM EST
• Round 6: March 15st at 1030 PM EST

IM and MAIN

Top-8 double-elimination. In the Grand Finals, the Upper Bracket gets a 1 map advantage in a bo5 series.

• Round 1: Match 26th at 10:30 PM EST
• Round 2: Match 28th at 10:30 PM EST
• Round 3: April 2th at 1030 PM EST
• Round 4: April 4th at 10:30 PM EST
• Round 5: April 9th at 10:30 PM EST
• Round 6: April 11th at 1030 PM EST

• Round 1: Winners Quarterfinals
• Round 2: Winners Semifinals and Losers Round 1
• Round 3: Losers Round 2
• Round 4: Losers Round 3 and Winners Finals
• Round 5: Losers Finals
• Round 6: Grand Finals (bo5 w/ upper bracket having 1 map advantage)

Newcomer and Amateur

Newcomer, Amateur will be playing top-8 single-elimination. Playoffs will last a total of 3 weeks.

Match schedules are as follows:

• Round 1: March 24th - March 30th
• Round 2: March 31st- April 6th
• Round 3: April 7th - April 13th

Demo Requests During Playoffs

Due to the competitive nature of playoffs, we will be more strict during playoffs regarding the requirement to record demos. Any missed demos during playoffs will immediately result in a ban instead of a warning for a first offense. Furthermore, all players participating in a division grand final must submit their demos.

Players have the responsibility to double-check their demo files to make sure they are the correct ones before submitting them to an admin. Submitting an incorrect demo will be considered a fraud attempt and will receive an additional penalty.

Should you need to provide a demo please upload it to Google Drive, Discord, OneDrive, Dropbox, Mega, demos.tf, or MediaFire. Other methods will be ignored.