SC2AI Ladder 2025 Summer  Tournament Will happen from From the 23th Feb up until the final on 19th April

Live
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Tourney will run each Sunday at 8pm UTC starting Feb23 on:

<https://www.twitch.tv/starcraft2ai>

Basics
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- Ladder will be frozen 23:59 on 15th Feb
- The top 16 bot authors from the SC2AIArena Ladder will qualify for the tournament
- All games will be played on the latest ladder map pool:
 - - ThunderbirdAIE
 - - AcropolisAIE
 - - InterloperAIE
 - - EphemeronAIE
 - - AutomatonAIE
 - - AbyssalReefAIE

- Authors may submit updates and bug fixes up to 20th Feb at 23:59 UTC for the first round. This will be via a separate upload from the main ladder, details of which will be communicated to authors
- Bots may change strategy from that used on the ladder, but must maintain the same race.
- After the first round, each author will be given up until 23:59 UTC on 1st April to resubmit their bot for the elimination rounds. After this, no more updates will be allowed

Tournament Format
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- Bots will be seeded into a 5 round Swiss tournament bracket according to ladder rank
- The first round of the swiss bracket will be seeded first by ladder rank
- For the first and second round, each bot will play a best of 1 game against another bot based on swiss tournament rules
- Rounds 3 - 5 of the swiss bracket will be best of 3 series
- Any bot which manages 3 wins will advance to the bracket stage. Any bot loses 3 time will be eliminated
- All replays will be available immediately after the final stream of each round.
- Rankings in the group will be decided by:
- The top 8 bots from the swiss stage will play off in single elimination bracket. 

- - Elimination bracket will be seeded with the two best performing bots from the swiss stage seeded into opposite halves of the draw, and drawing teams at random from those with a 3-2 record in the swiss stage.
- - Remaining teams will be drawn at random into the bracket

- Elimination bracket will be Bo5 games
- In case of any disputes tournament organisers decision will be final

Prize Pool
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- 1st: $125
- 2nd: $75
- 3rd: $50

Round 1 
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- Eris         1-0  TerrAin
- NegativeZero 1-0  One-Test
- Xena         1-0  12PoolBot
- MicroMachine 1-0  Thheo
- Caninana     0-1  ThomTest
- Zozo         1-0  Sharkbot
- BenBotBC     0-1  Ketroc
- DominionDog  1-0  SharpenedEdge

Round 2 1-0 
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- Xena     1-0 MicroMachine
- Ketroc   0-1 Eris
- Zozo     1-0 DominionDog
- ThomTest 0-1 NegativeZero

Round 2 0-1 
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- Caninana 1-0 12PoolBot
- One-Test 1-0 Thheo
- BenBotBC 0-1 SharpenedEdge
- Sharkbot 1-0 TerrAIn

Round 3 2-0 
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- Eris vs NegativeZero
- Zozo vs Xena

Round 3 1-1 
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- ThomTest vs DominonDog
- MicroMachine vs Caninana
- Sharkbot vs Ketroc
- One-Test vs SharpenedEdge

Round 3 0-2 
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- 12PoolBot vs Thheo
- BenBotBC vs TerrAIn