Tournaments RBY 2025 Tournament Schedule + Circuit Information

[Amaranth]

RBY 2024 Tournament Schedule

Hi all, here's the schedule for all major RBY tournaments happening this year.

• 1st Post will contain individual tournaments that can earn you points for the RBY OU Circuit Championship,
• 2nd Post will contain team tournaments with RBY tiers.
• 3rd Post will contain individual tournaments that can earn you points for the RBY Lower Tier Circuit.
• Spotlight tournament information can be found in the RoA Tournaments Subforum.
• Announcements regarding signups will go in the RBY Happenings Thread.

FOR PLAYERS:

• Tournament Rules and General Guidelines
• Tournament Scheduling Guidelines
• Replays will be required for all tournaments except for RBY Cup IX where they will only be required starting in Round 2.
• Smogtours will be mandatory for Top 16 of Seasonals, Quarterfinals of Cup, Top 8 of Global Championship, Playoffs of Majors, and the entirely of Circuit Championship.
• The winners of RBY World Cup III, RBY Premier League VI, and RBY OU Circuit 2025 [NEW!] will receive a Custom Avatar.

FOR HOSTS:

• Official and Unofficial Tournament Hosting Guide
• RoA Seasonal Hosting Guide
• RoA Global Championshp Hosting Guide

RBY OU Circuit 2025

>> Spreadsheet [WIP] <<

RBY OU Winter Seasonal VII
Signups: January 5th
Estimated end date: April 27th
Best of 3 Double Elimination
Tournament found in the Old Generation Metagame Circuits subforum

RBY OU Ladder Tournament II
Signups: March 10th
Estimated end date: May 11th
Qualifiers through ladder cycles + top 16 or top 8 playoffs
Tournament found in the Old Generation Metagame Circuits subforum

RBY OU Global Championships XI
Signups: April 28th
Estimated end date: July 28th
Best of 3 Global Championship
Tournament found in the Old Generation Metagame Circuits subforum

RBY Cup XI
Signups: July 14th
Estimated end date: September 28th
Best of 3 Single Elimination
Tournament found in the The Smogon Classic subforum

RBY OU Summer Seasonal VII
Signups: August 11th
Estimated end date: November 23rd
Best of 3 Double Elimination
Tournament found in the Old Generation Metagame Circuits subforum

RBY Circuit Championship 2025
Start date: November 24th
End date: December 21st
Best of 3 Single Elimination
Tournament found in the Old Generation Metagame Circuits subforum

Tournament Point Breakdown

Winter and Summer Seasonals - 6x Base Points
Round 2 Elimination gives 0 points
1st: 3000
2nd: 2250
3rd: 1875
4th: 1500
5th-6th: 1200
7th-8th: 900
9th-12th: 675
13th-16th: 450
17th-24th: 345
25th-32nd: 240
33rd-48th: 195
49th-64th: 150
65th-96th: 120
97th-128th: 90
129th-192nd: 75

Cup - 8x Base Points
Round 1 elimination gives 0 points
1st: 4000
2nd: 3000
3rd-4th: 2000
5th-8th: 1200
9th-16th: 600
17th-32nd: 320
33rd-64th: 200
65th-128th: 120

OR

1st: 4000
2nd-3rd: 3000
4th-6th: 2000
7th-12th: 1200
13th-24th: 600
25th-48th: 320
49th-96th: 200
97th-192nd: 120

Global Championship - 8x Base Points
Round 1 elimination gives 0 points
1st: 4000
2nd: 3000
3rd-4th: 2000
5th-8th: 1200
9th-16th: 600
17th-32nd: 320
33rd-64th: 200

Ladder Tournament - 4x Base Points
Point structure may be subject to further changes until the start of the tournament.
1st: 2000
2nd: 1500
3rd-4th: 1000
5th-8th: 600
9th-16th: 300

Base Points
0 wins gives 0 points
1st: 500
2nd: 375
3rd-4th: 250
5th-8th: 150
9th-16th: 75
17th-32nd: 40
33rd-64th: 25
65th-128th: 15
129th-256th: 10
257th-512th: 7
513th-1024th: 5

OR

1st: 500
2nd-3rd: 375
4th-6th: 250
7th-12th: 150
13th-24th: 75
25th-48th: 40
49th-96th: 25
97th-192nd: 15
193rd-384th: 10
385th-768th: 7
769th-1536th: 5

Type A Tournaments (worth 50% overall)

RBY Cup XI (worth 25%) - Best of 3 Single Elimination
RBY OU Global Championships XI (worth 25%) -- Best of 3 Global Championship

Type B Tournaments (worth 37.5% overall)

RBY OU Winter Seasonal VII (worth 18.75%) - Best of 3 Double Elimination
RBY OU Summer Seasonal VII (worth 18.75%) - Best of 3 Double Elimination

Type C Tournaments (worth 12.75% overall)

RBY OU Ladder Tournament II (worth 12.75%) - Qualifiers through ladder cycles + top 16 or top 8 playoffs

 

[Amaranth]

Notable Team Tournaments with RBY Tiers
A list of 2025 Team Tournaments that are most important to RBY.
They are very prestigious, feature primarily RBY tiers, or both.
Many other team tournaments feature RBY tiers; Ubers and UU are frequently featured in those subforums' sections, for example.
Those tournaments will not be listed here. Please refer to those subforums for more information.

Smogon Premier League XVI
(10 RBY OU starting slots)
Signups: December 17th
Estimated end date: March 16th
Managers will draft players with credits in an attempt to build the best overall roster.

Ancient Lower Tiers Premier League III
(6 starting slots for each of RBY Ubers, UU, and NU)
Signups: December 22nd
Estimated end date: March 2nd
Managers will draft players with credits in an attempt to build the best overall roster. Based on Smogon Premier League.

RBY World Cup III
(~12 teams with 6 RBY OU starting slots each; subject to change)
Signups: March 10th
Estimated end date: May 4th
Players are split into regionally determined teams, exclusively playing RBY OU. Based on World Cup of Pokemon.

Ruins of Alph Premier League XI
(8 teams with 2 RBY OU starting slots each)
Signups: May 12th
Estimated end date: August 10th
Managers will draft players with credits in an attempt to build the best overall roster. Based on Smogon Premier League.

Retro Cup of Pokémon 2025
(16 teams + qualifiers with 1 RBY OU starting slot each)
Signups: September 15th
Estimated end date: November 16th
Players are split into regionally determined teams, playing gens 1-8 OU. Based on World Cup of Pokemon.

RBY Premier League V
(last year 6 teams x 10 slots of various RBY tiers; this year's format subject to change)
Signups: September 22nd
Estimated end date: November 30th
Managers will draft players with credits in an attempt to build the best overall roster. Based on Smogon Premier League.​

 

[Sabelette]

Tentative Lower Tiers Circuit schedule this year - all tournaments are now part of overall tiers' Classic or equivalent now except Grand Slam, so it's up to those tiers if they stick to the current schedule! Grand Slam may also get pulled a little earlier so we can spread out the cups more, I intend to poll on that soon and see what people think.

Ubers LTC (RBY Ubers Tournament IV) - Jan 20
RBY NU LTC (RBY NU Cup - NU Classic) - Early June
RBY PU LTC (RBY PU Cup - PU Classic) - June 30
RBY Grand Slam - June-August
RBY ZU LTC (RBY ZU Cup - ZU Classic) - September
RBY UU LTC (RBY UU Cup - UU Classic) -September
LTC Finals - December