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Hello everyone,

After an exciting qualifier stage, and after polling the teams, we’d like to announce the invitational format.

The invitational will take place over two weekends, and will be a double elimination format. The winner of each round will be decided in a best of 3, except the grand final, which will be a single best of 5 with the team from the upper bracket having a one-win advantage.

Here are the brackets:
stratus.challonge.com/ww
The seedings listed in the Challonge Invitationals bracket are based off of the qualifier results.
We looked through and compared each team's data very extensively, accounting for no-shows.
Also, be sure to create a prediction!

Schedule ¶

2 May:

Upper Round 1: 11:00 EDT

Upper Round 2: 14:00 EDT

3 May:

Upper Round 3: 14:00 EDT

Lower Round 1: 11:00 EDT

Lower Round 2: 14:00 EDT

9 May:

Upper Final: 14:00 EDT

Lower Round 3: 11:00 EDT

Lower Round 4: 14:00 EDT

10 May:

Lower Final: 11:00 EDT

Grand Final: 10 minutes after Lower Final finishes.

Ties ¶

For the lower finals, the semifinal and the grand final, ties will be handled by replaying the tied map,
and if the replayed map ties, the tie breaker; Tiebreakinator, will be played.
For ties in all other rounds, only the tiebreaker will be played.

Vetoing ¶

Like in the qualifiers, veto advantage will be decided by a match of No Return.
The loser will ban a map first, then the winner.
From the three remaining maps, the loser selects the first map to be played,
the winner selects the second map, and the remaining map will be played last.

To find out how maps are selected in the qualifier for Bo1, click here .

Roster Repairs ¶

If you would like to make any Roster Repairs for your team,
have your leader send an e-mail to tm@stratus.network.
We will allow this on both weeks, and you may only switch out two players per week.
If they have already been on a registered roster for this tournament, you may not add them.
However, if they were on a Wild Card Team, (Golden Nuggets or UberSolDrat),
you are allowed to roster repair them.
The deadlines for both weeks is Friday, 15:00 EDT.
Please specify the players’ in-game usernames, discords, and uuids.