SC2AI Arena 2026 Tournament

SC2AI Ladder 2026 Tournament Will happen from From the 10th Jan up until the final on 15th March

Live

Tourney will run each Saturday at 8pm UTC starting 10th Jan on:

Ladder will be frozen 23:59 on 2nd Jan
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:
- MagannathaAIE_v2
- UltraloveAIE_v2
- LeyLinesAIE_v3
- TorchesAIE_v4
- PylonAIE_v4
- PersephoneAIE_v4
Authors may submit updates and bug fixes up to 5th Jan 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 15th Feb to resubmit their bot for the elimination rounds. After this, no more updates will be allowed

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 that loses 3 times will be eliminated
All replays will be available immediately after the final stream of each round.
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