Group 1
Two players advance: the winner of the winners bracket and the winner of the losers bracket. This group's bracket is not played out to the end.
Club tournaments
Best-of-five duels, double elimination groups and a knockout stage to finish. A new tournament starts when the previous one ends, usually every two to three months.
Rules version: 12 June 2026
A match is best of five
Duel format
- Pick1
- Pick2
- Moving3
- No Move4
- NMPZ5
The higher level player picks the mode for game 1, the other player for game 2. Both choose before the first game starts.
Game 5 is the tiebreaker, played only if it is needed.
Format
Two stages: double elimination in groups, then a single elimination knockout.
Stage 1: groups
Players are sorted into three groups by their peak rating over the last three months, as listed on georank.io. Each group plays a small double elimination tournament. Seeding inside a group is most uneven first: the 1st seed plays the last seed, the 2nd seed plays the second to last, and so on.
Group 2
One player advances: the winner of the group.
Group 3
One player advances: the winner of the group.
If the groups can't be the same size, the lower rated groups get more players.
Stage 2: knockout
The four players who advance play a single elimination bracket.
Semi-final 1
Group 1, winner of the winners bracket
Group 3, group winner
Semi-final 2
Group 1, winner of the losers bracket
Group 2, group winner
Final
Winner of semi-final 1
Winner of semi-final 2
The two players who lose their semi-final play a match for third place.
How a match works
Choosing modes
The player with the higher level chooses the mode for game 1: Moving, No Move or NMPZ. The other player chooses the mode for game 2, which can be the same one. Both have to choose before the first game starts.
Games 3 to 5
Game 3 is Moving and game 4 is No Move. If a tiebreaker is needed, it is played as NMPZ.
Maps
Each mode is played on its own map, for example Moving on An Informed World and No Move on An Arbitrary World. The maps are announced before the tournament starts.
Duel settings
- Initial health
- 6000
- Round time
- 1 minute at most
- Timer after a guess
- 15 seconds
- Mutual damage multiplier
- Fixed at 1 for every round
- Individual multiplier increment
- 0.5 in Moving and No Move, none in NMPZ
- Rounds without multipliers
- 0
- Round limit
- 15 rounds in Moving, 10 in all other modes. After that, the player with the most health left wins the game.
- Communication
- Emotes only
Scheduling and hosting
Scheduling
- One week per round
- Every round of the tournament, such as the round of 16 or the round of 8, gets one week.
- Play early if you can
- Once both players of a match are known, they can play it before the week of that round starts. The deadline does not move.
- You arrange the time
- The two players are responsible for finding a time when both can play.
- If a match is not played
- The other participants vote for the winner. The vote is about who had more time to play, not about who would have played better. If the vote is tied, the player with the higher peak rating in the last three months wins.
Hosting and results
- A third member hosts
- Every match needs a host from the club, in game master mode. Any club member can host, and the players are responsible for finding one.
- Streamed on Discord
- The host streams the match in one of the Watchparty channels in the Dragon Tourneys category, so other members can watch.
- Post the result
- After the match, one of the players posts the result in a channel every member can read. Only then does it count.
No cheating.
Cheating is strictly prohibited. Using Google or any other third-party software during a match counts as cheating.
Prize and Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame
The top three of every tournament are added to our Hall of Fame.
Map choice
The winner chooses the three maps for the next club tournament.
- Each map has at least 20 countries from at least 3 continents
- Each map has at least 10,000 locations
- The same map can be chosen for more than one mode
- You can't choose one of your own maps
The prize might change in future tournaments.