How to Play
Everything you need to know about weekly matches, deadlines, and league rules.
- Check the Week page to find your matchup and which player on the opposing team shares your seed.
- Contact your opponent to schedule your best-of-3 match for the week.
- Use your match detail page to set the scheduled date, time, and format (Online, Webcam, or In-Person).
- Deadline to submit your match schedule: Wednesday 11:59 PM Eastern.
Unresponsive opponent? If your opponent does not respond by the deadline, document your contact attempts and inform both captains. Provide evidence to a league admin. Your opponent earns a DQ loss (0-2) and you earn a DQ win (2-0). PR is not affected by DQ matches. Repeated DQs may result in suspension or removal from the league.
No shared availability? If you genuinely cannot find a time that works, one of you must find a substitute player before Tuesday's deadline.
Both players fail to schedule? If both players communicate but cannot schedule and do not find substitutes, both earn a no contest (0-0).
- If you cannot play, find a substitute from the Free Agents list with equal or lower PR than you and submit a Substitution Request on your match detail page.
- Deadline to submit a substitution request: Tuesday 11:59 PM Eastern.
After your match:
- An admin will record the result on your match detail page.
- Results update live on the Week page scoreboard.
- If there is a discrepancy, contact your captain and your opponent's captain to resolve it before escalating to a league admin.
| Day | Deadline |
|---|---|
| Monday | Matchups for the week are revealed. |
| Monday | Contact your opponent by 11:59 PM Eastern. |
| Tuesday | Substitution requests due by 11:59 PM Eastern. |
| Wednesday | Match schedule (date, time, format) due by 11:59 PM Eastern.* |
| * Extended to Thursday 11:59 PM Eastern if a substitution was approved. | |
| Sunday | All matches must be completed by 11:59 PM Eastern. |
- All players start at 500 PR.
- PR changes after every match using an ELO-inspired formula based on score and the rating difference between players.
- PR range: 100 – 600.
- ΔPR = round(25 × (S − E)) E = 1 / (1 + 10−Δ/200)
- Score values: 2-0 win = 1.0 2-1 win = 0.75 1-2 loss = 0.25 0-2 loss = 0.0
- Winners never lose PR from a win — the delta is clamped to 0 if negative on a win.
- Use the PR Calculator to estimate outcomes before a match.
- Teams consist of exactly 5 players, each assigned a seed 1–5.
- Seed 1 is the highest-rated player on the team; Seed 5 is the lowest.
- Each week, Seed 1 faces the opposing team's Seed 1, Seed 2 faces Seed 2, and so on.
- Team PR cap: 1850. The sum of all five rostered players' PR cannot exceed this.
- Seeds are auto-ordered by PR descending and can be re-sorted by an admin at any time.
- If you cannot play in a given week, submit a Substitution Request from your match detail page.
- Substitute players must have equal or lower PR than the player being replaced.
- Substitutes must be approved by an admin before the match is played.
- If approved, PR changes from the match are applied to the substitute, not the original player.
Disqualifications: DQ'd players receive a 0-2 loss for PR purposes. The opposing player receives a 2-0 win. Neither player's PR is changed by a DQ match. Multiple DQs can result in suspension or expulsion.
- All seed matches are best of 3 games (Pokemon TCG).
- Supported formats: Online, Webcam, or In-Person.
- Both players can record the Pokémon they used on the match detail page.
- The team that wins more seed matches wins the weekly matchup.
- Tiebreakers in team standings are determined by total seed match wins.