League · Am Series
The Am Series
The open competition: city brackets climbing through region, country and continent to the World Championship — and the world ranking they move.
Worldwide
From your city to the world
The Am Series is not one tour. It is thousands of local brackets feeding four levels of territory, each run by its own commissioner, and ending in the World Championship. Reach the semi-finals of a level and you qualify for the level above. Four athletes go up from every bracket — the two finalists and the two they beat to get there.
If a level does not produce enough qualifiers to fill its bracket, the remaining places go to the highest-ranked athletes in that territory who have not already qualified.
One ranking, everywhere
Every athlete who competes is ranked at five levels at once — their city, their state or region, their country, their continent, and the World Ranking. One official result moves all five.
- Ranked athletes
- 0Every licensed athlete who has played
- Levels
- 4City, region, country, continent
- Continents
- 4America, Europe, Africa, Asia-Oceania
- Ends at
- WorldsThe World Championship
The ladder
Five rungs, and nobody skips one
Reach the semi-finals of a level and you are in the level above. Four athletes go up from every bracket, so one bad night against one opponent does not end a season.
City
Where the season starts. Weekly and monthly brackets in one city, run by the city commissioner — many of them a year, so a quiet night costs you nothing.
Who plays Every licensed athlete in the city
State / Region
The best of a state or region meet, several times a year. Not every country has this tier — where there is no state or regional subdivision, city semi-finalists go straight to the country stage.
Who plays City semi-finalists
Country
One national final a year. A single champion per country, decided on the night.
Who plays State / Region semi-finalists
Continent
One continental final a year, on each of the four: America, Europe, Africa and Asia-Oceania.
Who plays Country semi-finalists
World Championship
Where the Am Series road ends. One world final a year, contested by the athletes who came through all four continental championships.
Who plays Continental semi-finalists
What counts
Only official games move the ranking
Two kinds of game are recorded, and only one of them is ranked.
- Official games move the ranking. Anything played inside a tournament — a city bracket, a state or regional meet, a national or continental championship. The commissioner who ran the event validates the result, and it counts from there. Neither player has to chase the other for agreement, because somebody was standing there.
- 1v1 duels do not. Games players arrange between themselves and post afterwards count towards your statistics — games played, win–loss record, points for and against, points per game, win percentage — and they show on your profile like any other game. What they never touch is a ranking. Not the city, not the state or region, not the country, not the continent, not the World Ranking, however many you win. A ranking has to mean somebody turned up to a bracket and beat the field in it, and a table you can climb by picking your own opponents is not that.
- A duel still needs both players. A posted duel is one player’s claim until the opponent agrees to it. If they disagree it freezes, and the commissioner for that territory settles it. If nobody answers, it lapses after seven days and touches neither record.
- A licence is required either way. Both players must hold a live licence for a game to be recorded at all, official or duel.
Scoring
What a result is worth
The five finishing positions are the base, and every level multiplies them. Rankings run on a rolling twelve months, and only your 21 best results in that window count. A twenty-second tournament can only improve your total by displacing a weaker result, never by padding it — so the ranking measures how well you play, not how many events you can get to.
| Level | How often | Winner | Runner-up | Semi-final | Quarter-final | Round of 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City ×1 | Many tournaments a year | 100 | 70 | 45 | 30 | 15 |
| State / Region ×2 | Many tournaments a year | 200 | 140 | 90 | 60 | 30 |
| Country ×4 | One national final a year | 400 | 280 | 180 | 120 | 60 |
| Continent ×6 | One continental final a year | 600 | 420 | 270 | 180 | 90 |
| World ×8 | One world final a year | 800 | 560 | 360 | 240 | 120 |
A city bracket win is 100. The same win at the World Championship is 800.
The Am Series calendar is being built now
Dates appear here as commissioners are appointed and set them. Two things decide when your city goes live: a licensed field, and somebody to run it.
Think you can go to 21?
Two ways in. Open qualifiers run in every host city the day before each Pro stop — sixteen spots, no seeding, no favours. The Am Series is open to every licensed athlete, and it starts in your own city.