Ruleset

In official Showdown Series games, we run our own custom game ruleset and map pool. The goal is to provide a middle ground between the ranked and pro league rulesets. This page will give you an overview of the rules, but for the full rulebook, please see our rulebook document.

Competitive Format

The 2024/2025 year revolves around our clashes and the "road to SSI". A clash is an open tournament where you will turn up on the night, be assigned teammates and then battle it out amongst your competitors. Based on your performance, you will be given an amount of SSI points, which are tracked throughout the year.

Team Tournaments

Players are seeded based on previous event/public profile performance and then assigned teams for the night based on the seeding.
The first phase of the team tournament is a round robin, where every team faces off against each other. Teams will be scored based on their round differential (total no. rounds lost subtracted from total no. rounds won)
The top two teams from phase one will then be put into a best-of-three decider match to crown the winner

Solo Tournaments

A series of matchups will be created where everyone will have the opportunity to team up with and play against different players throughout the night.
In a solo tournament teams are not fixed, and will change through the night.
The winner is the player with the best RD score after all matches have been played.

Once all four clash events are finished, the 10 players who have accumilated the most SSI points will be invited to the final event of our year, the Showdown Series Invitational. This event is quite some time away, so exact format details will be confirmed at a later date. For now, just know that it's going to be a huge event, and something you will not want to miss!

Map Pool

Our map pool is a mix of ranked maps and pro league maps. This is done to keep the map pool familiar to newer players and ensure they are playing on somewhat familiar battlegrounds.