January 23, 2024

Brawlhalla Esports Year Nine

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Brawlhalla Esports Year Nine has arrived! With big changes that include a new circuit system and new region support, there’s a lot to look forward to.

Winter & Summer Circuits

For North America, South America, and Europe, the singles game mode in Year Nine consists of two seasonal circuits. Each circuit has 4 open online competitions for competitors. After the completion of all four circuit events, the top four players who performed the best will qualify into a seasonal Royale. These 12 competitors, 4 from North America, 4 from Europe and 4 from South America, will be invited to compete at the in-person Seasonal Royale.

While each Circuit will have four official events, qualification into the Royale is contingent on only the best 3 placements from the Circuit. Effectively this means that a competitor would only need to compete and perform well in 3 of the 4 events to qualify.

Each Circuit event is a standalone open tournament and as such, anyone within the qualifying regions is welcome and encouraged to participate regardless of the status of the circuit.

Additionally, MooseWars for North America, Estacao for South America, and Brawl League for Europe, all members from the Tier 1 Brawlhalla Community Tournament, will be joining to host two of these circuit events each season. These are official Power Ranked events.

The very first circuit event will be the weekend of February 16th. Registration is open now.

Doubles

For the Doubles game mode, Year Nine continues with 4 online doubles championships. These are regular Power Ranked open events. Registration for the Winter Doubles Championship is open now.

International Support

Year Nine will continue official support for South East Asia. Additionally Year Nine will introduce the first ever official Brawlhalla Esports support for the Middle East and North Africa server regions. As this is a new addition to Brawlhalla Esports, MENA players will be permitted to continue competing in European Circuit tournaments as they have previously.

The MENA specific events however are only eligible for the following countries: Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Eritrea, South Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajik.

LANS

Brawlhalla will have two official major LANs in 2024. The first, Midseason Championship, will be taking place at CEO 2024 in Daytona Florida. Registration & the Hotel block are open now.

The Midseason Championship will have a singles and doubles bracket. As with all Brawlhalla LANs, the event is open to all. Competitors must bring their own controller (BYOC).

BCX

Brawlhalla will be returning to the Cobb Galleria Center for BCX 2024. As a true celebration of the community and the competition, attendees can look forward to a whole slate of new content, epic moments, and so much more. Additional information including dates, hotels, and registration will be made available later this year.

Esports FAQ

What are the rules?

Our Official Brawlhalla Esports Year Nine Rulebook can be found here: brawlhalla.com/rulebook

Who can compete in Official Brawlhalla Esports?

Anyone who is 13 years of age or older can compete in any of the open online events provided they live in the region the event is for. I.E. You are in North America, you can compete in any North America Open Tournaments.

How do I compete?

If I win money how do I redeem it?

All cash prizing is distributed via our payment partner, Prize Payments. Upon completing any official Brawlhalla tournament, you will be prompted to make an account via your start.gg registration email. For more details please see section 8 of our Official Rulebook.

What Legends can I play?

All of them unless specifically indicated otherwise. The newest Legend must go through one balance pass prior to being tournament legal.

How does Circuit Scoring work?

Competitors receive a set amount of points for their placement in each of the four Trials in each Circuit. After all four Trials have been completed each competitor will have a final score calculated by adding the points from their best three placements together. The point distribution can be found below:

- 1st – 100 Points
- 2nd – 85
- 3rd – 75
- 4th – 65
- 5th – 55
- 7th – 46
- 9th – 35
- 13th – 26
- 17th – 18
- 25th – 14
- 33rd – 8
- 49th – 4
- 65th – 0

In the case of a tie for any of the four qualifying royale spots a Tiebreaker will take place. Tiebreakers will be determined as below:

- 2 way tie: A single best of five match will be organized and played out. The winner will then qualify for the Royale.
- Three way tie: A round robin, best of five, bracket will be organized and played out. The winner will then qualify for the Royale.
- Four way, or greater, tie: A double elimination, best of five, bracket will be organized. The winner will then qualify for the Royale.

What is the age of participation?

For online tournaments competitors must be at least 13 years of age. For any in person competition, competitors under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a legal guardian. For competitors between the age of 16 and the age of majority in their country, either a guardian must accommodate them or have the parental authorization form submitted ahead of time. More information can be found in our Official Rulebook.

How will Community Circuit Events Work?

Participating community events maintain their own ruleset in addition to following the rules and regulations set out in the Official Rulebook. Competitors are expected to abide by all rules and regulations set out by both the community partner and the official Circuit. Community Partners reserve the right to make judgements based on the guidelines at their discretion.

Community Brawlhalla Esports Tools

To help our community compete and organize independently. The Brawlhalla team is committed to creating new tools and resources that are open for anyone to use.

PROSTATS

prostats.brawlhalla.com

Access the full history of Official Brawlhalla Esports. For any competitive player you can look up all of the lifetime statistics, what legends they have reported and even compare them against another player. This also works for doubles teams. Data can also be filtered to the year, as well as to include BCTI community events or not.

GJALLARHORN

https://github.com/BMG-Esports/gjallarhorn/

Gjallarhorn is a tool for Brawlhalla community tournament producers to generate formatted JSON files for esports tournament stream overlays. Gjallarhorn can generate JSON files for multiple use cases, including tickers, casters, lower thirds, queues, players, and games. It pulls data from start.gg as well as Brawlhalla’s Stats API.