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Season 26 powered by Tt eSPORTS

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

Map Rotation

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