• Top 3 non-premier teams in Contender division at Challengers, top 6 non-premier teams at Majors, and top 8 non-premier teams at The Spikeball Championship.
  • Minimum Team Count - If there are 8 - 19 teams in the Contender division only 1 team will earn Premier. There must be 20+ teams in Contender for 3 teams to earn Premier at a Challenger, 6 to earn Premier at a Major, and 8 to earn Premier at the Championship.  
• Players cannot earn premier with a current premier player.
  • Exception: In EU Challengers where there is a Gold Division (EURA selective division of top players), non-premier teams/players will earn premier if they meet the requalification guidelines (ie earn top 50% bracket seed or win a match in a full round of bracket).
  • Exception: Players cannot qualify for premier with a player that has "Gold Status" by the EURA.

• At Challengers and Majors, earn a bracket seed in the top 50% or win a match in the first full round of bracket play (ie a round with no byes).
  • If there are 33 teams, the top 16 seeded teams after pool play will requalify. Teams 17 - 33 can requalify by winning a match in the round of 32.
• At the Championship, qualify for the Pro Division or in the Premier division earn a bracket seed in the top 50% or win a match in the first full round of bracket play.
• All players that earn or re-qualify for Premier in 2023 retain Premier status through 2024.
• All players who participated in the Open Pro Division at the Championship will retain Premier status for two years following their participation.

16-team division. The top 3 teams at each Major will receive an auto bid for the Pro Division. The rest of the spots are given to teams based on the sum of top 3 team points from the 2023 season.

Tiebreakers

1. (if applicable) Head to head bracket play record from 2023 Challengers and Majors
2. Record from 2023 Challengers and Majors against (same) teams that have earned Pro Auto Bids (doesn't matter whether or not they accepted them)
3. Most points earned from a single event
4. (if applicable) Highest finish at 4th event. Keep extending if necessary.  

12-team division. The top 3 teams at each Major will receive an auto bid for the Pro Division. The rest of the spots are given to teams based on the sum of top 3 team points from the 2023 season. Point scale determined using chart above with number of teams in Women's Advanced for Challenger events.

Tiebreakers

1. (if applicable) Head to head bracket play record from 2023 Challengers and Majors
2. Record from 2023 Challengers and Majors against (same) teams that have earned Pro Auto Bids (doesn't matter whether or not they accepted them)
3. Most points earned from a single event
4. (if applicable) Highest finish at 4th event. Keep extending if necessary.  

The Mixed Pro Division at the Championship will be made up of four, four-person squads.

Three of those squads will be qualified from the Mixed points race, organically. The fourth squad is reserved for a dedicated European squad, which will be determined by the European Roundnet Association and the ETS events.

Teams of two will have the opportunity to earn points in Mixed Advanced 4.5+ at Challengers, Mixed Advanced 4.5+ at Majors, and Mixed Advanced 5.0+ at Majors.

For the Mixed Advanced 5.0+ division at Majors, points will be awarded to both pairs equally. As an example, both pairs on the team of four that wins The Richmond Major will earn the same amount of points.

Following the final Challenger in Dallas, we will rank pairs based on points from their top four results. The top three finishing pairs will automatically qualify for the Mixed Pro division at the Championship.

The top three pairs will have the opportunity to choose another pair to join their team, thus creating three, four-person teams. The #1 seed has the opportunity to select first, followed by the #2 seed, then the #3 seed.

Guidelines for picking pairs

• The pair that is picked MUST have played in at least one Major in the Mixed Advanced 5.0+ division together.
  • The team that is picking a pair DOES NOT have to have played with the picked pair before.
• Any of the qualified pairs CAN pick another qualified pair.
  • For example: The #1 ranked team wants to play with the #3 ranked team, they can select them as their pair.
  • Pairs ARE allowed to decline a pick. In this scenario, if the #3 team does not want to compete with the #1 team, they can decline the pick and the #1 ranked team will have to pick a different pair.
  • If for whatever reason, the #1 ranked team cannot find a pair to compete with within the given timeline (TBD), their qualification spot will drop down to the next ranked team etc.
    
    • In this scenario, the qualification spot of the #3 ranked team would drop down to the #4 pair, etc.
  • The list of teams that are allowed to be picked from will consist of the top 16 pairs. This will ensure that the teams that are allowed to be picked are committed to competing in Mixed Roundnet competition, and are athletes that have been competing all season in Mixed Roundnet events.
    • Exceptions may be granted by the Spikeball Tour Series on a case-by-case basis. Requests can be sent to tournaments@spikeball.com.
• In the event of a tie in points, we will take into consideration points from a pair's fifth result, extending to the sixth result if necessary.  
• The pair selection process will happen after the European qualification spot is secured.
• The European qualification process will be based upon EURA rankings and the top two ranked Mixed teams will get the opportunity to form the four-person European squad. This will happen after the ETS Championship.
• European pairs are allowed to decline the EURA selection if they think that they will be selected to pair with one of the other qualified pairs.
  • In this scenario, the qualification spot will drop to the next ranked European Mixed team in order to fill the 4th qualification spot that is dedicated for European representation.