Announcement National Dex AMs Tournament Schedule 2025

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Welcome to the 2025 NatDex AMs Tournament Circuit! With our first circuit concluding, we have some slight additions and adjustments after seeing how things turnt out for the section. This circuit will have players compete in a variety of tournaments to gain points and ultimately face off against each other in the Tournament Circuit Playoffs for a prize!* Without further ado, here is the tournament schedule:

NATDEX AMS OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE - 2025
  • Homefield - January 12​
  • Almost Any Ability Open - March 2​
  • STABmons Open - March 2​
  • Balanced Hackmons Open - March 9​
  • Ubers UU Open - March 9​
  • Godly Gift Open - March 9​
  • LC Open - March 16​
  • NFE Open - March 16​
  • Grand Slam Playoffs (Top 8) - April 20​
  • Premier League - June 1​
  • AAA Seasonal - July 27​
  • STABmons Seasonal - August 3​
  • Balanced Hackmons Seasonal - August 10​
  • Ubers UU Seasonal - August 17​
  • Godly Gift Seasonal - August 24​
  • LC Seasonal - August 31​
  • NFE Seasonal - September 7​
  • Championship Playoffs (Top 8)** - November 16​
Homefield, Grand Slam, and Seasonals are Type A tournaments, which means players will receive full points for advancing. Opens are Type B tournaments, which means players will receive 2/3 full points (rounded up) for advancing. Team tournaments (Premier League) are not subject to circuit points. Championship Playoffs will be a seeded single elimination tournament featuring a best of five.

The full-scale points tables will be announced soon.

All tournaments with points on the line will take place in the NatDex AMs Tournaments. Signups, updates, and standings will be announced in this thread. Best of luck to everybody!

All tournaments with points on the line will take place in this subforum. Signups, updates, and standings will be announced in this thread. Best of luck to everybody!

Note: Dates for each tournament, as well as points distributed for them, are still subject to change. If you would like to give insight on this, feel free to join the NatDex AMs discord and tell us!

*Prizes can be donated to this circuit such as money or other online gifts.
**The Top 8 may change to a Top 16 depending on the circumstances of things regarding points, activity, and such. For now, it is Top 8.
 
Tournament Details​

Grand Slam
This section's Grand Slam is a two-stage tournament. Stage 1 consists of the Almost Any Ability, Balanced Hackmons, Godly Gift, LC, NFE, STABmons, and Ubers UU Opens. Opens are Type B, best-of-3, single-elimination tournaments where participants earn points in an attempty to qualify for the second stage; however, only each participant's best four finishes count towards qualifying. The 8 players with the most points at the end of all of these tournaments compete in the second stage, which is a Type A, seeded single-elimination tournament.

Both the Opens themselves and the Grand Slam Playoffs will count towards qualifying for the Circuit Championships.

Homefield
Homefield is a best-of-3 single elimination tour where players signup with a "Homefield" tier of their choice (e.g. Ubers UU), and it remains set for the entire tournament. Every week, a tier will randomly be designated as the "starting" tier, meaning that the first game in each bo3 must be that metagame. The loser's homefield tier will be played in game 2, and game 3 will be the remaining player's homefield tier. Because the principle of this type of tournament is to allow players to guarantee that their chosen homefield metagame is played no matter what, it is possible for the bo3 sets to feature the same metagame more than once (e.g. starting tier = Ubers UU, my tier = Ubers UU, opponent's tier = Ubers UU).

Seasonals
Seasonals are Type A, best-of-3, double-elimination tournaments. There are seven seasonals, one for each of the main tournament metagames. Seasonals are Type A despite being single-AMs tournaments because they're the most reflective of each metagame's playerbase before the Circuit Championships.
 
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