2021 Tournament FAQs

Like past years, registration for tournaments will will open roughly two months before the tournament date and will be listed under the 'Events' tab as well as posted on Spikeball's social media platforms. Should events need to be cancelled or rescheduled, full refunds will be given to all registrants.

The true answer is we can't say for sure quite yet. We've put a lot of work into planning the 2021 and season and want more than anything to run all of the events. With vaccines starting to be distributed, things are moving in a good direction. We will continue to closely follow the situation as it develops and will only run events if we are confident we can do it safely.

We're running the Contender and Premier/Pro division as two day events. This allows us to remove some of the rush and exhaustion that is typical of our packed schedule in these divisions. Additionally, it lets us focus more attention Saturday on the championships happening in other division, allowing us to celebrate and spectate those matches like they deserve.

With Sunday focused on Contender and Premier/Pro it makes streaming a better, more predictable experience. It hopefully means players are rested and able to perform at their top level and opens the door for more storylines, speculation, and smack talk.

We're also changing our approach to pool play.

• Smaller pools
• Best of 3 matches
• Top teams in each pool move to exclusive bracket. For example, top finishing teams from Premier pool play move into the Pro bracket Teams not qualifying for the Pro bracket, stay in the Premier bracket.  

This format makes pool play games more meaningful, results more accurate, and bracket play games more competitive.

A big focus of our event series is growing awareness and participation for the sport. For people who are just getting into competitive roundnet or for divisions that are still gaining traction, offering a one day event presents a much lower barrier to entry.

If you were Premier at the end of the 2019 Season, you're still premier. We've extended all Premier statuses through 2021.

• Individual players receive 50% of the team points
• Sum of top 3 individual points = a player's rank
• Player Rank 1 + Player Rank 2 = team rank
• 2021 Rank takes the sum of top 3 individual points from 2019 season (divided by 4)

This changes simplifies the system while making the location of the tournaments and timing of schedule less of factor in season rankings. 

• Top 2 teams at each Tour Event earn an auto bid
  • “True 2nd” would be implemented as: If the team that loses the finals beat the team that wins the 3rd place game, the results hold. If the team that loses finals didn’t play the team that wins the third place game, then those two teams play 1 additional series - winner gets 2nd. Loser gets 3rd.
• 16 team division is the goal. If we get 17-19 teams to accept the bid then we will fill spots to 20 by points (top 3 team points from 2021 non-depreciated). Less than 16 teams will only fill to 16 spots.

Prizes are awarded to the top teams in the highest division of the Open and Women's categories. Prizes amounts are based on the number of teams registered in Open and Women divisions respectively.

Tour Stop

• 1st - $300
• 2nd - $150
• 3rd - $75

• 1st - $500
• 2nd - $250
• 3rd - $125

• 1st - $700
• 2nd - $350
• 3rd - $175

• 1st - $1000
• 2nd - $450
• 3rd - $200

Nationals

• 1st - $4000
• 2nd - $2000
• 3rd - $1000
• 4th - $500
• 5th - $325
• 6th - $250
• T-7th - $175
• 9th - $150
• 10th - $125
• T-11th - 100
• T-13th - $50