The Events page shows the current season's next event and the playoff bracket.
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Brick: Top cup weekendLava top: MajorObsidian: playoffs
- All season: ranked play, with the Top cup on 12 weekends.
- Weeks 5, 10 and 15: Majors, with no cup those weekends.
- Week 16: the playoffs.
Only Majors, the playoffs and the Top cup are events. 2v2 runs the same season system. Co-op has no season, because it is unrated.
Making a week count
Play 10 ranked matches in a week and that week counts: your leaderboard place that week earns ladder points, and you unlock that weekend's cup. Your best 10 of 15 weeks count. No single snapshot of the ladder decides a playoff place.
The Top cup
- The weekly cup for the top 50 on the leaderboard.
- A weekend 1v1 league of 5 to 9 matches, played whenever you're online over the weekend. The exact number is set in the beta.
- Every match has its own seed, so no seed can be scouted or shared.
- Swiss pairing: each match is against a player on the same cup record, widening by at most one step when nobody is online. Ties go to whoever beat stronger opponents.
- It gives playoff points, and your best 6 of 12 cups count.
Every other rank has its own weekend cup with cosmetic rewards. You can enter only the cup for your rank, and lower cups give no playoff points.
Majors
- 64 players: the top 48 on playoff points, plus 16 from an open qualifier the week before. Players who join late get in through the qualifier.
- Saturday: all 64 race the same 5 seeds, scored by finishing order. The top 32 go into a knockout, seeded by race result (1st plays 32nd), and play the rounds of 32 and 16. A tie at 32nd place is settled by one sudden-death seed.
- Sunday: the last 8 play on to the final.
- Knockout matches are best of 3 until the last 8, then best of 5, final included.
The playoffs
The top 16 on playoff points play a single-elimination bracket, ending in a best-of-seven final. There is no last-chance qualifier, and only the playoffs crown a champion.
Playoff points
Playoff points come 20% from the ladder, 30% from Top cups and 50% from Majors. Points for each place:
| Ladder place | Per active week |
|---|---|
| 1st | 20 |
| 2nd | 18 |
| 3rd | 16 |
| 4th–5th | 14 |
| 6th–10th | 12 |
| 11th–20th | 9 |
| 21st–50th | 6 |
| 51st–100th | 3 |
| Top cup place | Points |
|---|---|
| 1st | 50 |
| 2nd | 42 |
| 3rd | 36 |
| 4th | 32 |
| 5th–8th | 26 |
| 9th–16th | 18 |
| 17th–32nd | 10 |
| 33rd–50th | 4 |
| Major place | Points |
|---|---|
| 1st | 167 |
| 2nd | 135 |
| 3rd–4th | 110 |
| 5th–8th | 85 |
| 9th–16th | 55 |
| 17th–32nd | 30 |
| 33rd–48th | 15 |
| 49th–64th | 5 |
Prizes
Majors and the playoffs pay money and cosmetics. The amounts are announced when they are set.
When a season ends
- Ratings fully reset, and everyone plays placement again.
- Season-end titles: special titles for 1st, 2nd and 3rd, then top 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100.
- Every player gets a recap card to share.
- Each battle pass follows a season, and rewards not reached by its end are lost.
Written from Splitstone's decided plans. Last updated .