Announcement The 2018 RU Tournament Circuit

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phantom

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For the past year, RU has had a series of circuit tournaments, with some offering a banner as a reward. Starting in 2018, RU players will have a chance to prove that they're the best overall RU circuit player. At the end of the year, there will be a seeded playoffs consisting of the top 16 players with the most overall points. The winner of the playoffs will be crowned the overall best RU player of the year and have the cute turquoise ribbon above added to their postbit.

The following tournaments will be part of the 2018 RU circuit:

2 Seasonals (double elimination)
RU Generations Tour (USM/ORAS/BW; single elimination for each tier)
RU Ladder Tour
RU Open

There will not be a playoffs for the seasonals or the generations tour as it was in the past. Instead, there will be a grand playoffs that encompasses all of the tournaments. In addition, only two seasonals will be run so as to have at least one tournament running throughout the year.

We will divide the tournaments in 3 groups:
  • Type A: The biggest tournaments. This includes seasonals and grand slam.
  • Type B: Current gen tournaments. Big tournaments featuring exclusively current gen that are not as big as seasonals.
  • Type C: Smaller tournaments.
We give points to players that have won at least 1 round.
Here's the points table:



So the winner of any tournament gets 500 points, 2nd place gets 375, etc
The difference between #3 and #2 is much greater than the difference between someone who lost in quarterfinals and someone who lost in semifinals.
In this way we reward players that consistently finish tournaments in good positions.

The points earned will be weighted with the chart relative to the type of tournament it is:

  • Type A: 100% of the points in the table
  • Type B: 50% of the points in the table
  • Type C: 33% of the points in the table

So where will the RU tournaments for this circuit fall?
Type A:
  • Seasonal 1
  • Seasonal 2
  • RU Open
Type B:
  • RU Ladder Tour
  • USM RU Cup (part of generations tour)
Type C:
  • BW RU Cup (part of generations tour)
  • ORAS RU Cup (part of generations tour)

Look forward to future announcements on the 2018 RU circuit in this thread, including tournament dates and signups. The first tournament will be the Winter Seasonal starting early January!
 
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phantom

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The first tournament for the 2018 circuit will be the Winter Seasonal hosted by Arifeen. Signups will go up on the first of January in the circuit tours forum.

Here's a tentative schedule of the tournaments throughout the year:
  • January - Winter Seasonal
  • March - Generations Tour
  • May - Ladder Tour
  • July - RU Open
  • September - Fall Seasonal
  • November - Grand Playoffs
 

phantom

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In order to finish the 2018 circuit in a timely manner, the fall seasonal will start a little bit earlier than originally scheduled.

The fall seasonal signups will be up on the 14th of august and it will be hosted by roman

look out for signups then! as usual, this thread will be bumped when signups for the tour go up as an additional reminder
 
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