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Premiership signups will close on the 14th of January at 21:00 CET. Normal signups end on January 20, 21:00 CET. 

Season Schedule

• Signups: January 8 – January 20, 21:00 CET (Premiership signups will close early, on the 14th of January at 21:00 CET)
• Publishing of Provisional Divisions: January 20th
  
• Publishing of Final Divisions: January 21st
  
• Pre-Season Premiership Playoffs: January 15th – January 21st
  
• Main Season: January 22nd – March 9th (7 Weeks)
• High/Mid/Open Playoffs: March 12th – March 26th
  
• Premiership Finals: March 26th

The schedule for the Season 26 playoffs looks as follows:

Premiership Tier

The first four teams will qualify for a double elimination bracket:

• 1st round: 13th – 15th march
• UB final /LB semifinal: 16th – 19th march
• LB final: 20th – 24th march
• Final: 26th march*

The Grand Final will be played as a BO5 maps contest, with one map advantage for the upper seat (Upper Bracket finals winner will start leading 1-0). It is highly recommended to play the Final on the given date. Every other playoff match (in every division for that matter) will be played as a BO3).

High/Mid Tier

The first six teams will qualify for the High playoffs, the first eight teams for the Mid playoffs. High Tier seat 1 and 2 will receive a bye in the first round.
The bracket will be played as a single elimination, BO3 maps contest.

• 1st round: 12th – 16th march
• Semifinals: 19th – 24th march
• Final: 26th – 29th march

Open tier

The top sixteen teams will qualify for the open playoffs.
The bracket will be played as a single elimination, BO3 maps contest.

• Round of 16: 12th – 15th march
• Quarterfinals: 16th – 19th march
• Semifinals: 20th – 24th march
• Final: 26th – 29th march

For potential tiebreakers we will, as always, rank the teams according to their Sonneborn-Berger Score. Please note that your rank in the tables could differ from your actual placement, as our system does not automatically apply the tiebreaker. We will inform you in a separate newspost, what team made it in (or not) should there be a tie.

Maps

Map pool

• cp_badlands
• cp_snakewater_final1
• cp_process_final
• cp_reckoner_rc1
• koth_product_rc8
• cp_gullywash_final1
• cp_granary_pro_rc4

Map Rotation

• Week 1: cp_badlands & cp_snakewater_final1
• Week 2: cp_snakewater_final1 & cp_process_final
• Week 3: cp_process_final & cp_reckoner_rc1
• Week 4: cp_reckoner_rc1 & koth_product_rc8
• Week 5: koth_product_rc8 & cp_gullywash_final1
• Week 6: cp_gullywash_final1 & cp_granary_pro_rc4
• Week 7: cp_granary_pro_rc4 & cp_badlands

Whitelist

After some discussion with both ESEA and Ozfortress we ended up going with the following whitelist.

The differences from season 25 are:

Banned:

• Rescue Ranger

Unbanned:

• Dalokohs Bar
• Pomson 6000

All of the currently banned weapons are:

• B.A.S.E Jumper
• Reserve Shooter
• Soda Popper
• Bonk! Atomic Punch
• Crit-a-Cola
• Flying Guillotine
• Mad Milk
• Atomizer
• Sandman
• Disciplinary Action
• Buffalo Steak Sandvich
• Rescue Ranger
• Short Circuit
• Wrangler
• Quick-Fix
• Solemn Vow
• Vita-Saw
• Sydney Sleeper
• Darwin’s Danger Shield