Reproduce the new MSI and WORLDS 2023 formats on Toornament

For the primary time in a very long time, Riot Video games has determined to vary the codecs of the MSI and Worlds 2023 worldwide competitions by introducing new construction varieties. We present you easy methods to reproduce the brand new codecs with Toornament.

Earlier in January, Riot Games published a long post to announce and explain the brand new codecs that will probably be utilized in its two main worldwide tournaments : the Mid-Season Invitational and the World Championship. Riot Video games has made modifications each within the variety of taking part groups and the construction of the codecs with a number of goals in thoughts:

• creating extra alternatives for best-of match play and cross-regional encounters






• guarantee that each single sport in each tournaments is significant






• reduce the variety of video games that don’t affect the result of the event

Reproduce the Mid-Season Invitational 2023 format

For the Mid-Season Invitational event, the variety of groups has elevated from 11 to 13. Riot Video games let go of the traditional round-robin and single elimination bracket for a brand new format which consists of:

1. a play-ins stage with 2 bracket teams of 4 groups. The highest 3 groups from the play-ins qualify for the playoffs and be part of 5 remaining groups instantly certified for the playoffs






2. the playoffs, performed in a double elimination bracket

To faithfully reproduce the MSI 2023 on Toornament.com, we might create the next construction format and phases:

1. a bracket teams stage with 2 teams of 4 groups every






2. a single elimination bracket pitting the groups that emerged from the loser brackets of stage 1






3. a double elimination bracket stage for the playoffs

Toornament.com natively presents the bracket group format in each single or double elimination. Mixed to the “treshold” option, it means that you can reproduce completely the MSI 2023 play-ins stage.

The playoffs use a traditional double elimination bracket, one of many many construction kind proposed by Toornament.

Test this demo competitors on Toornament.com to see the MSI format in motion: https://play.toornament.com/en_GB/tournaments/6397124267960745984/

Reproduce the World Championship 2023 format

For the Worlds 2023, Riot Video games determined to go a step additional when evolving its construction format in comparison with earlier years. Certainly, they go down from 24 to 22 taking part groups and changed the traditional spherical robin stage by the identical Swiss stage system utilized by Counter-Strike:World Offensive for its bi-annual Majors.

The general Worlds 2023 format appears to be like as observe:

1. a play-ins stage nearly much like the MSI besides that solely two groups qualify for the following stage as an alternative of three






2. a Swiss stage of 5 rounds with 16 groups from which the 8 greatest qualify for the following stage






3. a knock out stage of 8 groups in a single elimination bracket

The Swiss stage has the particularity that groups are eradicated or certified progressively in the event that they both lose 3 matches or win 3 matches. Thus, the Swiss stage doesn’t have the identical variety of matches in all of its rounds. From 8 matches throughout the 3 first rounds, it goes down to six and three matches for the two final rounds.

Hopefully, Toornament.com can be succesful to breed this explicit Swiss stage rule. Within the organizer backoffice, as soon as a spherical of your Swiss stage is completed, you’ll be able to generate the following one and edit it to configure its precise quantity and checklist of matches due to the “Pairing” advanced option. With that, you’ll be able to simply decide the variety of matches wanted, which could be inferior to the earlier spherical.

Ultimately, to breed the Worlds 2023 format on Toornament.com, we have to create the next phases:

1. a bracket teams stage composed of two bracket teams of 4 groups every






2. a single elimination bracket stage to qualify 2 groups out of the 4 that emerged from the teams






3. a Swiss spherical stage with 16 groups and 5 rounds to play






4. a single elimination bracket stage with the 8 greatest groups from the Swiss spherical stage

Test this demo competitors on Toornament.com to see the Worlds format in motion: https://play.toornament.com/en_GB/tournaments/6397175906073993216/

Lastly, for each tournaments, Riot Video games additionally makes use of each Bo3 and Bo5 match codecs. That’s one thing that Toornament.com additionally handles completely, due to its Match Format configuration.