Single elimination — one loss ends your run for the title. The Play-in is best-of-one; the championship rounds are best-of-three: Play-in 11:00 → Quarterfinals 12:00 → 🍔 break → Semifinals 3:30 → 🍔 dinner → Placement finals 7:00 → Final 8:00, done by ~10:30 PM. Eliminated teams keep playing in the lower bracket below for final standing.

Upper bracket — the title

Seeds 7–10 open in the Play-in (BO1); the 2 winners join seeds 1–6 (byes) in the Quarterfinals. From there it's a clean run: Quarterfinals → Semifinals → Final, all BO3. The Final winner takes it all.

Lower bracket — final standings (3rd–10th)

Runs in parallel on spare servers — never feeds the title. Eliminated teams keep playing to settle every place. The play-in losers settle the bottom; the four QF losers play a lower semifinal, then off for 5/6 and 7/8; the two SF losers play for 3/4. The lower semifinals and lowest-tier matches are best-of-three; the 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8 deciders are best-of-one at 7:00 PM, before the Final.