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Tournament Modes

Tournament modes are a new concept which applies to tournaments that are run in season-enabled environments. They affect three distinct parts of the tournament process as follows:

  • Tournament Entry: The different modes limit which teams are allowed to enter a tournament: Teams may be required to be in end-of-season state, and teams with more games played in the season than allowed in the ruleset may be excluded from joining.
  • During tournament behaviour: The redraft behaviour during a tournament is affected. Some modes will allow redrafting during the tournament (most won't). There are also controls for if a team may manually end their season mid-tournament.
  • Tournament Exit behaviour: This affects what happens with teams once they exit the tournament. In certain cases, the teams will be forced into end-of-season state or even forced into redrafting.

The list of tournament modes are defined as follows:

   Entry  During  Exit 
 Tournament Mode  Require end-season  Allow excess games  Redraft mode  Allow end season  Redraft mode 
 Transparent  No  Yes  Default  Default  Default 
 Free-form  No  Yes  None  No  Default 
 Minor  No  No  None  No  Default 
 Qualifier  Yes (Edit: No since UI 2025)  No  None  No  End Season 
 Major  Yes  No  None  No  Redraft 
 Invitational  Yes  Yes  None  No  Redraft 
Last update: May 5, 2025