Prominent tournament organizer and THE FINALS Esports organization Ape Squad have announced their newest event named Ape Squad Classics. Classics stands as a "premier league series" spanning across both EMEA and the AMERICAS featuring a cashout elimination styled format leading up to the Grand Championship.
League Play
" For the Playdays the schedule will be to play as many unique teams as possible to ensure fairness and that consistency is king!" - Ape Squad official website tournament listing
The event will span over 4 play days. Play Days 1 and 2 will consist of ranking and initial positioning, with the first eliminations happening at the end of day 2. Playdays 3 and 4 will continue the elimination process, where at the end of day 4 the field will be narrowed to 16 teams. Scoring rules have not been disclosed publicly as of yet and because the event is open registration, it is unclear how many teams will be eliminated after days 2 and 3. There is a flexible cut notice at the bottom of THE LEAGUE pane which says " For the Playdays the schedule will be to play as many unique teams as possible to ensure fairness and that consistency is king!"
The dates for League Play will start with Americas on Thursday, April 9th at 8PM ET. EMEA will kick off the following Sunday at 1PM ET. All action will be streamed live on the ApeSquadOrg twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/apesquadorg.
Grand Championship
Following eliminations from League play, the grand championships will change up the format to a Hybrid (3v3 Bracket → Cashout Top 4 → 3v3 Grand Finals). The details for this format are as follows:
- The 3v3 Bracket (Top 16): Teams seeded 1-16 based on total League Points. Double Elimination (Lose twice and you are out). Played until 4 teams remain.
- The Cashout Finals (Top 4): Single Cashout Lobby. Best-of-3 Series. Winners side teams enter with a 3-point advantage. Highest two cumulative scores advance.
- Grand Finals: Top 2 Teams fight it out in one final best-of-3! The winner is crowned League Champion.
The schedule for the Grand Championship starts with EMEA on May 10th starting at 10am ET, followed by Americas at 5pm ET.
Registered Teams
Currently there are over 50 teams across both EMEA and Americas with prominent names featuring: ENVY, NTMR, Pioneers, Pulsar Blue, Vanguard NA, Task Managers, Team Burrow, Team Retwist, and Yung Guns from the Americas Region. From EMEA we also are seeing: Five Fears, We Don't Know (WDK), and Team Extreme. More and more teams are signing up daily, so make sure you get your squad registered.