About Pro Tour Rankings

This is a new system, subject to change over the next few months as we monitor its performance.

How it works

The 2026 Pro Tour season consists of three events, plus the 2026 World Championships. Every event follows the same format:

  1. Group stage — Bots are split into groups of four and fight each other in a round-robin (every bot fights the other three in its group).
  2. Bracket — The top bots from each group advance to a single-elimination bracket.

At the end of the season, all bots are ranked by totaling their results across all 3 Pro Tour events.

Note that World Championships will use a similar ranking system, but with more points. Details on World Championships ranking points are coming soon.

How you earn points

You earn ranking points for every fight you win. Losses are worth nothing. Points escalate the deeper you go — reaching the Final is meaningfully more valuable than a Quarterfinal exit.

Bracket Rounds

Round KO / TO / FF win JD win
Group stage (3 fights)43
Play-in round43
Quarterfinal76
Semifinal1615
Final1817

Some brackets will have a play-in round as their first round. This happens when we have a field size of more than 16 bots. If you win your play-in fight, you get 3 points if you win by JD, and 4 points if you win any other way.

If you get a bye past the play-in round, or if this competition’s bracket has no play-in round, you get 4 points automatically.

Example event from a 1st-place bot from a 16-bot field.

Forfeits: A bot that wins because its opponent forfeits earns the same points as a KO win. A bot that forfeits earns 0 points.

Season Rankings: How Your Standing Is Calculated

After each event, we add your scores from your Pro Tour events together. The system uses a recency-weighted approach: your most recent event counts the most, and older events count progressively less.

The Recency Weights

Event Weight applied to your score
Most recent event100%
Event before that91%
2 events ago83%

Your ranking is based on this total score.

Why recency weighting? A bot’s performance at the most recent event is the best signal of where it stands right now. Results from months ago still matter — consistency is rewarded — but they shouldn’t lock in a ranking for bots that have clearly improved or declined.

That said, this decay modifier will be a relatively small modifier to your ranking, compared to other factors like how many wins you get. A bot that attends only the first event and finishes first will be ranked better than a bot that attends only the third event and finishes second. Its effect is a bit larger than a tiebreaker, but not larger than that.

Tiebreakers

If two bots have identical season scores, here are tiebreakers, in order:

  1. Number of wins against the other tied bots.
  2. Overall win percentage (total wins ÷ total fights across the season).

If there is still a tie, then the tie stands.