Announcement 2024 Ubers Circuit Schedule and Announcements

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We're here to announce the 2024 Ubers circuit! The circuit is a collection of individual tournaments spread throughout the year with varying classifications, generations, with and formats all coming together to allow players to earn points for the final showdown - the Ubers Championship, where the top 16 performers will battle to earn the Ubers Ribbon (

)! This ribbon displays on a user's profile complete with hover text to showcasing their achievement as the top Ubers player of 2024. This thread will also give information on the details behind the tournaments that have been revamped from 2023.

Key:
Tournament Name | Classification - Signups Start Date - Expected Finals Date (host)

2024 Ubers Tournament Schedule

Winter (January / February)
Ubers Winter Seasonal IX | Type A - January 8th - April 15th - Hosted by 7u9i2
RBY Ubers Tournament III | Old Gens Circuit Qualifier - January 22nd - February 25th - Hosted by Lasen

Spring (March / April / May)

Ubers Classic VII | Type B Playoffs (Bo5) - hosted by Eledyr
(March 4th - June 2nd)

USM Ubers Cup V - March 4th - Hosted by GeniusFromHoenn
ORAS Ubers Cup VII - March 11th- Hosted by LBN
BW2 Ubers Cup VIII - March 11th- Hosted by Akeras
DPP Ubers Cup VIII - March 18th- Hosted by Fc
ADV Ubers Cup VIII - March 18th- Hosted by LBDC

Ubers Ladder Tournament VI | Type A - April 8th - May 20th- Hosted by 7u9i2

Ubers Open X | Type A - May 6th - July 8th - Hosted by TBD

DPP Farceus Tour | Old Gens Circuit Qualifier - May 20th - July 1st - Hosted by Taka

Summer (June / July / August)

Homefield Advantage VI | Type B - June 17th - August 5th - Hosted by Theia
Ubers Summer Seasonal VIIII | Type A - July 15th - October 28th - Hosted by Eledyr
SS Cup II | Old Gens Circuit Qualifier - August 5th - September 23rd - Hosted by LBN

Autumn (September / October / November)

Ubers Retro Cup III | Old Gens Circuit Qualifier - August 26th - October 7th - Hosted by TBD
Ubers Pentathlon VIII | Old Gens Circuit Qualifier - September 30th - November 18th - Hosted by Theia
GSC Ubers Cup III | Old Gens Circuit Qualifier - October 7th - November 17th - Hosted by Nyx
Last Chance Qualifier No Johns | Type B - October 28th - November 25th - Hosted by TBD

December
Ubers Championship VI
(Hosted by keys)

Ubers Team Tournaments
(Participation doesn't earn circuit points)

Ubers Premier League XII - starting in Mid May - Hosted by Theia
Ubers World Cup III - starting January 2024 - Hosted by Frozoid and GraveBee
Ubers Generations Team Tournament - starting mid September - Hosted by GeniusFromHoenn

Note that some dates may be subject to change.​

 

[Fc]

Changes from 2023 to 2024 circuit
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Due to the very large amount of points awarded from old gen tournaments in our last circuit, we decided to overhaul most of our old gen qualifications. Classic and homefield will remain unchanged, but every other old gen tournament (pentathlon, retro cup, rby cup, gsc cup, ss cup, farceus) will now not directly give circuit points, but instead points towards an old gens leaderboard. After all of these tournaments conclude the users with the top 16 most points will be awarded type B circuit points based on the leaderboard. This was done to try and remove the very heavy old gens focus we had last year, as circuit playoffs is all current gen so it should be weighted far more heavily than winning in a lot of old gen tournaments.

UWC is back! After being switched for UWTT for a while due to issues with the hosting side and overall issues of the world cup format, we've re-added it to the circuit due to popular demand. As this post goes up it's currently ongoing so this isn't a surprise to anyone, but how it performs here may determine what formats we continue with down the road for our winter team tour.

Flying economy has been removed from the circuit this year. While a fun tournament, it introduced custom rules in a current gen setting that weren't reflective enough of the real metagame for it to be reconsidered this year as an official circuit tournament.

 

[Aberforth]

As Fc mentioned in the post above, we have split our Old Gen Tournaments (excluding Classic) into a new Old-Gen specific circuit that will contribute points to the 2024 Ubers Circuit as according to performance in all Old Gen tournaments throughout the year, totaling the equivalent of a type B tournament. The top 32 players from the Old Gens circuit will receive points. This will include all individual cups in Open, but not the playoffs. Each tournament will be unweighted (or weighted as if they were all Type A tournaments) in the Old Gens circuit, with the breakdown of the year end points distribution from this circuit shown in the examples below.

Points Table

1st Place	225
2nd	169
3rd	131
4th	104
5th & 6th	79
7th & 8th	57
9th, 10th, 11th, 12th	39
13th, 14th, 15th, 16th	29
17th - 24th	21
25th - 32nd	16

To see what this might look like, refer to the images in the spoiler below.

Leaderboard Examples

The Old Gens Circuit

The End of Year Leaderboard

Note: these are not accurate to how it would have been last year, and is meant as a visual guide for how the system could look. The numbers were inflated and favouring the cg top 16 for the sake of a simple visual.

 

[Aberforth]

While laddering for ULT, ox04 requested that his opponent forfeit after feeling like he was unlucky throughout the game. While this did not lead to a forfeit from the other player, asking for a player to forfeit for you while on a ULT account is considered the same as asking someone to forfeit in any other tournament match. Being on the ladder does not make the games less a part of the tournament.

As a result of this, ox04 has been circuit banned. While normally this would last for 2 months, due to the repeated nature of this transgression and ox04's history, the ubers moderation team has decided to make this a 3 month ban from the Ubers circuit. While this does not apply to Ubers Open, it will apply to all other ubers tournaments, including UPL.