KARDS World Championship 2020 🏆 Get ready!
Hello Kards community!
As we near the end of the first qualification stage for the 2020 KARDS World Championship, it's time to give an update on the upcoming stages all the way to the finals!
The KARDS World Championship is a 128-player tournament with the final four players fighting for a $10.000 prize pool at the end of this year.
This year we are hosting the World Championship in the middle of crunch time. We work on a whole host of new and exciting features, including reconnect, a brand new onboarding experience, reworking and fine-tuning the in-game progression systems and working on the overall quality of life. This means we will also utilize external tools to reduce the need for specialized, one-time solutions and avoid overloading the programming department.
Therefore we will be hosting Stage 2 in the client and Stage 3 on the popular Battelfy tournament platform. Here are all the details for each stage:
[h2]Stage 1 [/h2]
Stage 1 has been ongoing for the last six seasons; the top 10 players of the ladder each season have qualified for the tournament. The last chance to be eligible via Stage 1 ends on September 30th with the current season's end.
[h2]Stage 2[/h2]
In stage 2, we need to find 64 players to round out the top 128 (60 players from Stage 1 plus for the previous World Championship finalist are already set).
To get the best 64 players possible to round out the top 128 for this year's World Championship, we will be awarding qualification spots to the top 64 players on the ladder that have not qualified for the tournament so far.
The top 64 players of the ladder at the end of Season 19 that are not qualified already qualify for the World Championship tournament. Season 19 starts October 1st and ends October 31st at 11:59 pm (UTC).
We hope to ensure a high level of play in the World Championship and provide additional incentives for people to play the ladder during the season outside of the top 12 in the Officer Club that qualifies for the monthly Officer Club Championship tournament.
[h2]Stage 3[/h2]
In stage 3, we need to go from 128 of our finalists down to the top 4.
Last year this was done through a massive single elimination bracket in the client, and while we could do that again, we have listened to the player feedback. Instead, we will be running two Swiss tournaments to find the top 16 players before moving over to a single-elimination bracket to get our final 4.
This means that we will host a 128 person swiss tournament that promotes 8 players into the finals, and then a 120 person swiss tournament promotes the remaining 8 players for our top 16.
We will then play a single-elimination tournament with those 16 players to determine the top 4, which then fight for their share of the $10.000 prize pool alive.
Our goal with this format is to reduce the tournament's variance as much as we can by giving players as many matches as possible to earn their spot, limiting the impact of bad draws in single matches.
The dates for stage 3 matches are as follows:
7. November - Swiss round 1
8. November - Swiss round 1
14. November - Swiss round 2
15. November - Swiss round 2
21. November - Top 16
22. November - Top 16
[h2]Finals[/h2]
Unfortunately, due to the ongoing global pandemic of Covid-19, we will not be flying players to compete in a studio in Iceland for this year's World Championship. This has been a hard decision for us to make, but given the circumstances, an inevitable one. Instead, the tournament will be played entirely online. Despite all of this, we can not wait to bring you a fantastic show for the World Championship finals on the 5th and 6th of December!
Join our KARDS Discord server, follow us on Twitch, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, so you don't miss a second of the action!
As we near the end of the first qualification stage for the 2020 KARDS World Championship, it's time to give an update on the upcoming stages all the way to the finals!
The KARDS World Championship is a 128-player tournament with the final four players fighting for a $10.000 prize pool at the end of this year.
This year we are hosting the World Championship in the middle of crunch time. We work on a whole host of new and exciting features, including reconnect, a brand new onboarding experience, reworking and fine-tuning the in-game progression systems and working on the overall quality of life. This means we will also utilize external tools to reduce the need for specialized, one-time solutions and avoid overloading the programming department.
Therefore we will be hosting Stage 2 in the client and Stage 3 on the popular Battelfy tournament platform. Here are all the details for each stage:
[h2]Stage 1 [/h2]
Stage 1 has been ongoing for the last six seasons; the top 10 players of the ladder each season have qualified for the tournament. The last chance to be eligible via Stage 1 ends on September 30th with the current season's end.
[h2]Stage 2[/h2]
In stage 2, we need to find 64 players to round out the top 128 (60 players from Stage 1 plus for the previous World Championship finalist are already set).
To get the best 64 players possible to round out the top 128 for this year's World Championship, we will be awarding qualification spots to the top 64 players on the ladder that have not qualified for the tournament so far.
The top 64 players of the ladder at the end of Season 19 that are not qualified already qualify for the World Championship tournament. Season 19 starts October 1st and ends October 31st at 11:59 pm (UTC).
We hope to ensure a high level of play in the World Championship and provide additional incentives for people to play the ladder during the season outside of the top 12 in the Officer Club that qualifies for the monthly Officer Club Championship tournament.
[h2]Stage 3[/h2]
In stage 3, we need to go from 128 of our finalists down to the top 4.
Last year this was done through a massive single elimination bracket in the client, and while we could do that again, we have listened to the player feedback. Instead, we will be running two Swiss tournaments to find the top 16 players before moving over to a single-elimination bracket to get our final 4.
This means that we will host a 128 person swiss tournament that promotes 8 players into the finals, and then a 120 person swiss tournament promotes the remaining 8 players for our top 16.
We will then play a single-elimination tournament with those 16 players to determine the top 4, which then fight for their share of the $10.000 prize pool alive.
Our goal with this format is to reduce the tournament's variance as much as we can by giving players as many matches as possible to earn their spot, limiting the impact of bad draws in single matches.
The dates for stage 3 matches are as follows:
7. November - Swiss round 1
8. November - Swiss round 1
14. November - Swiss round 2
15. November - Swiss round 2
21. November - Top 16
22. November - Top 16
[h2]Finals[/h2]
Unfortunately, due to the ongoing global pandemic of Covid-19, we will not be flying players to compete in a studio in Iceland for this year's World Championship. This has been a hard decision for us to make, but given the circumstances, an inevitable one. Instead, the tournament will be played entirely online. Despite all of this, we can not wait to bring you a fantastic show for the World Championship finals on the 5th and 6th of December!
Join our KARDS Discord server, follow us on Twitch, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, so you don't miss a second of the action!