Silver League

The Silver league is the medium league among the 3 (Gold, Silver, Bronze) and is composed of 50 teams.
If a team forfeits a Gold tournament, it is downgraded to Silver.

Qualifiers format

• A Silver tournament begins with a 10 Swiss rounds qualifier.
• The draft letter for each match is determined as follows : the team that had the less amount of letter choice priority during the occuring tournament will have the said priority. If both teams have had the same amount, the priority will be given randomly.
• A victory grants 3 Tournament Points, a draw grants 1 Tournament Point, a defeat grants no Tournament Points.
• Additional Points are also given according to the result of each match, as defined in the general rules.
• The tie breaker priority goes as follow : Tournament Points > Percentage of Adverse Victory (PVA) > Additional Points > Head-to-head results. Tiebreakers will be held as needed.

Play-off format

• The 16 best teams are qualified for play-off, a single elimination tree going from RO16 to the final, including a third-place play-off.
• The tree is seed optimized (1st vs 16th, 2nd vs 15th, etc.)
• All matches are played in BO3 (Best Of 3 matches). Drafts are made as games go on and not all at the beginning. Drafts for games 2 and 3 must be thrown within 10 minutes of the end of the previous game, without possible delay
• The highest ranked team in qualifiers has the letter choice priority for BO3 matches 1 and 3, the other team has the priority for match 2.

Rewards

• Silver tournament’s winners earns a Silver Escuktaeon
• The finalists as well as the winners of the small Silver final are promoted to Gold, and win the design of a new team logo.
• From 4th to 34th place, teams are re-qualified for the next Silver tournament.
• All teams can get some KTA points as defined in the rules KTA points.

Interactions with Gold league

• The finalists as well as the winners of the small Silver final are promoted to Gold.
• The 6th, 7th and 8th of a Gold tournament are downgraded to Silver.

Interactions with Bronze league

• The 16 last teams of a Silver tournament (among which may be forfeit or non-registered teams) are downgrade in Bronze league.
• Teams reaching the round of 16 of a Bronze tournament are promoted in Silver league.