Open entry, one day, one bracket. No invite list, no seeding by reputation, and a prize pool that is funded before the date is announced rather than raised off entry fees and hoped for.
When there is one, this block becomes the date, the start time, the prize pool and the entry link. Until then it says nothing is scheduled, because a countdown to a date that does not exist is worse than an empty space.
The fastest way to hear about it is Discord. Announcements go there before they go anywhere else, and Council members get a day’s head start on the bracket filling up.
Deliberately small and deliberately simple. It is not trying to be a circuit. It exists so there is something on the calendar that we control end to end and can publish the books on.
No invite list, no application, no seeding by reputation. Sign up while slots are open and you are in. Rosters lock when the bracket is drawn, so get your five sorted before you enter.
Single elimination, run and finished inside a day so nobody has to hold a whole weekend. Start times are announced with the date so you know what you are committing to.
The pool is funded and stated before entries open. It does not scale with how many teams sign up, which means we carry the risk rather than you.
No entry fee. The Cup is paid for out of Council dues, which is the whole point of the model, and it means nobody is buying their way into the bracket.
Announced prize pools in this scene have a habit of quietly never arriving. Ours is funded before the announcement, paid inside the same month, and reconciled in public afterwards.
The money is set aside before a date goes out. No raising it off entries and hoping the numbers land.
The exact pool and the split are published with the announcement, not decided after the bracket fills.
Winners paid inside the same reporting month, so the payment appears in the report that covers the event.
Entry count, pool, what it cost to run, and whether it was worth running again. Published either way.
The Cup has not run yet, so there is no bracket, no winner and no numbers to show you. When the first one is done this becomes the results list, and the costs land in that month’s transparency report alongside everything else.
Every event that runs stays on this page afterwards, including any that go badly or lose money. That is the same rule the financial reports run on.
Slots go fast when a bracket is free to enter. Discord gets the announcement first, and Council members get it a day before that.
If you organise events and want to run something together, or you want to put a prize pool behind a Cup, get in touch. Sponsorship of an event gets published like everything else.
