Tournaments
BRACKETS, NOT VIBES.
A VsALL tournament is the end of a season, not a separate event. You play a regular season of weekly matchups, the standings decide who qualifies, and the top finishers meet in knockout rounds scored exactly the same way as a normal week. The last one standing takes the championship.
How do ARC Raiders tournaments work?
The same way a week works, with elimination attached. In a knockout round you still lock Scoring Runs, still log raids, still have a fixed number of runs. The difference is that losing ends your season instead of costing you one result.
Nothing is scheduled at a fixed hour, so nobody has to be online at 8pm on a Thursday. A round is a week, and you play it on your own time inside that week.
THE FORMAT
Regular season
Four to eight weeks of one-on-one matchups. Every week produces a winner. Standings sort on wins first, then points scored, so a blowout is worth something but cannot buy a week you lost.
Knockout rounds
In a six-player league the top four qualify: two semi-final weeks, then a championship week. In a four-player league the top two go straight to the championship week. Seeding comes off the regular season, so a good season is worth defending.
Championship week
The loudest week the product has. The champion card carries the crown treatment, the result goes on the trophy wall, and it is preserved as permanent history when the season locks.
| VsALL knockout rounds | Scheduled bracket night | Open ladder | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everyone online at once | No | Required | No |
| Qualification | Earned over a season | Sign-up order | Rating |
| Scored from | Your own logged raids | Lobby results | Match results |
| Match length | A week | An evening | A game |
| Ends in a champion | Yes | Yes | Rarely |
WHERE THIS IS GOING: THE CHAMPIONS LADDER
Friend leagues are the foundation, not the ceiling. The intended shape is a ladder: champions of friend leagues qualify into community brackets, community champions into larger qualifiers, and eventually one player earns the right to represent their crowd.
Six friends becomes sixty. Sixty becomes six thousand. That ladder is the roadmap and not a live feature today: what runs now is the friend-league season and its knockout rounds. We would rather say that plainly than sell you a bracket that does not exist yet.
SAME GAMES. BIGGER STAKES.
Start a season now and the knockout rounds arrive at the end of it.
KEEP READING
- Friend leagues: rosters and commissioners
- Rankings: how seeding is decided
- Creators: community leagues and qualifiers
- ARC Raiders: how a raid scores