T90 Titans League | Announcement

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The ‘T90 Titans League’ is a recurring league that aims to provide a consistent high-level stage for pro players to hone their skills, and give newcomers a chance to prove their ability and advance into the upper echelon of players.

For this inaugural season, the winner of the Platinum League will earn an invitation to the Red Bull Wololo Legacy event in October.

There will be a Silver Qualifier for Season 2 later this year after RBW Legacy, and before Christmas. The exact dates & details are yet to be confirmed.

Format

The 48 highest ranked players on the 1v1 ATP Rankings who sign up will be placed into two divisions of 24 players. Within these divisions, players will be seeded into groups of 6, and play a 3 games series against each of their 5 opponents over 5 weeks. At the end of this group stage, the 1st placed player will advance to the quarterfinals, while 2nd & 3rds meet in the Ro12 of the playoffs, while the lowest 2 players will be relegated.

Every player in both divisions will earn prizemoney for every game that they win, as well as bonuses for their placement at the end of the league.

Before the 2nd season begins, there will be a large open single-elimination qualifier to determine which players will replace those who are relegated.

Prize Money

The prize pool of $22,500 has been sponsored by Microsoft.

Platinum League: $17,300​

1st place: $2,100
2nd place: $1,400
3rd & 4th place: $1,000
5th - 8th place: $500
9th - 12th place: $200
13th - 24th place: $150

Plus $40 per game won in the group stage (a maximum of $600 if you win all 15 games)

Gold League: $5,200​

1st place: $200
2nd place: $160
3rd & 4th place: $100
5th - 8th place: $80
9th - 12th place: $60
13th - 24th place: $40

Plus $20 per game won in the group stage (a maximum of $300 if you win all 15 games)

Timeline

Sign-Ups: June 03rd - June 24th
Seeding: June 25th

You can see all the signed-up players on the registration page.

Platinum League​

Spoiler

Group Stage: June 27th - July 28th
Round 1: June 27th - July 01st
Round 2: July 04th - July 08th
Round 3: July 11th - July 15th
Round 4: July 18th - July 21st
Round 5: July 25th - July 28th

Playoffs: August 05th - August 07th
Ro12: Friday 05th August
Quarterfinals: Saturday 06th August
Semifinals & Final: Sunday 07th August

Gold League​

Spoiler

Group Stage: June 27th - August 05th
Round 1: June 27th - July 01st
Round 2: July 04th - July 08th
Round 3: July 11th - July 15th
Round 4: July 18th - July 21st
Round 5: July 25th - July 28th
Extra Week: August 01st - August 05th

Playoffs: August 12th - August 14th
Ro12: Friday 12th August
Quarterfinals: Saturday 13th August
Semifinals & Final: Sunday 14th August

All group stage matches will be played & broadcast on weekdays (Monday - Friday) to avoid clashing with RMS Cup 2.

Maps

T90 Titans League will feature

• Arabia
• Atacama by Mr ED
• Cross by TheMadCADer
• Fortified Clearing by Chrazini
• Gold Rush
• Golden Swamp
• Houseboat by Yo_Dan
• Jungle Swamp by TheMadCADer
• Ravines
• Serengeti
• Yucatan replaced by Arena

Start practicing today by downloading the map pack here or by searching for “T90 Titans League - Map Pack” in the in-game mod workshop.

The map pack is edited and maintained by Chrazini.

 

I think amount of relegated players is too much, 1/3 of the league is forced to change every season, in second tier, that's 2/3 of the league if a 3rd tier added.

 

in second tier, that's 2/3 of the league if a 3rd tier added.

Not neccesarily.
If I understood correctly "Silver league" is always happening before Gold League, so whoever drops out of Gold League this time can still qualify again for Gold League trough Silver League before Season 2.

I agree though that maybe it's a bit too much to relegate 8 Players each time from Platinum League.
Maybe having the 6th Players directly relegate and having the 5th Players from the Platinum-Group-Stage play Relegation-Match-Ups against the Quarterfinalists from Gold-League would be better.

 

Maybe having the 6th Players directly relegate and having the 5th Players from the Platinum-Group-Stage play Relegation-Match-Ups against the Quarterfinalists from Gold-League would be better.

Please no promotion/relegation play offs. They added that in Ligue 1 a few years ago and it's the worst thing.

 

@Tendo and @siestes what I would suggest a relegation playoff only within platinium tier. So you still save right of a gold league promoter, you give platinum league members a chance to survive and also a chance to survive against bad group draw, groups are not always equal. And it also gives T90 a content, while playoffs going on, he would still get something out of these players.

On the other hand as I said before 1/3 of league too much and it can go well above 1/3 for lower tier. Real life examples average around 1/5 or 1/6 of league.

 

I think the concept of this league is absolutely brilliant. It brings high level matches from the very start (matches that actually matter, as its not some unimportant group stage as in other high level tournaments).

Congrats already to the organizers, this was a great idea

 

Promotion/Relegation playoffs are awesome. My suggestion is to have bottom players be automatically relegated and then for other players finishing second bottom/second top to go into an end of season playoff. Would be great content and brilliant climax to the season.

 

The scheduling flexibility is fine.
It's a very large group stage, and I haven't had any issues with seeing great games.
I think there is more value to having a stricter timeline for bracket play, but why shouldn't we let players be more flexible when the exact timing of the games doesn't really matter?

 

Promotion/Relegation is very aggressive, but in this format good. T90 Titans league is only every six month and if there would be the same players in the same leagues every time, the format would be a bit stale. For top 12-36 players is hard to stay in the platinum every time, but they have quite good chances promotion back from gold league.