Open seasons - Boss Rush
There are seven bosses per open season (Spring, Summer, Fall). Bosses each have a number from 1 to 7. The 6th boss is also called the 'Final Boss', while the 7th boss is refered as the 'Extra Boss'.
Challengers begin a season with 4 lives. Each time the challenger loses a game, they lose a life. When they run out of lives, their run ends.
Challengers are responsible for scheduling their games with the bosses, and sending the replays to the organizers (unless the game was casted live).
Bosses MUST be played in ascending order: Boss 1 Boss 2 ... Boss 6 (Final Boss) Boss 7 (Extra Boss).
To beat a boss, the challenger must win once (Boss 1-5), twice (Final Boss) or three times (Extra Boss).
For the first five bosses (aka the "regular bosses), if the challenger lose twice and is still alive (one or two lives left), they automatically advance to the next boss. The Final and Extra Bosses cannot be skipped in this fashion.
Upon beating the Final Boss, the lives count of the challenger is set to two, so that every final stage winner will face the Extra Boss with two lives, regardless of the number of spare lives they had managed to keep.
Challengers Scores
When beating a regular boss (Stages 1 to 5) without losing a single life, challengers score 10 points multiplied by that stage number.
When beating a regular boss, by losing a single life, challengers score 5 points multiplied by the stage number.
Skipping a boss doesn't count as beating a boss and doesn't give any point.
Example: a challenger goes 1-0, 1-0, 0-2 (skip to the next boss), 1-1 and finally 0-1 (losing their last life to the fifth boss). Their score would be 10 + 20 + 0 + 20 = 50pts
Beating the Final Boss is worth 80/60/40/20 points depending on whether the challenger lost 0/1/2/3 lives in the process.
Dying against the Final Boss while having won one game is worth 10 points.
Beating the Extar Boss is worth 70/50 points depending on whether the challenger lost 0/1 life in the process.
Dying against the Extra Boss while having won one or two games is worth 5 or 20 points.
Bosses Scores
Bosses also have their own scores. A boss' score is based on two factors: their winrates and the percentage of challengers who managed to survive past that boss.
The boss score formula is: 2 * winrate + (100 - %_of_challengers_left).
Example: Boss n°4 has won 28 games and lost 12 times (winrate: 70%), and there were only 12 challengers who managed to reach Boss 5 out of a total of 36 challengers who had entered this season (33.33% of challengers left). That makes a nice score of 140 + 66.67 = 206 points for Boss n°4.
The first boss shares the same percentage of challengers left as the second boss - it's an exception made because it's impossible for any challenger to be eliminated before the second boss.
The bosses scores are rounded down.
The perfect maximum possible score for anyone, boss or challenger, from any open season, is 300 points.
Special rules
Each boss has its own set of special rules, that stays the same for every game and challenger, unless otherwise specified.
The special rules can affect deck size, deck restrictions and map settings.
Those rules are known in advance. They can be consulted under the stage section, by clicking on the bosses' portraits.
The special rules equally affect the bosses and the challengers, who play under the same deck/map restrictions.
Winter Finals - Single Elimination
To qualify for the Winter Finals, a player's combined score must be in the Top21.
Combined Score
The combined score is derivated from a player's scores in the open seasons.
Depending on whichever is the highest, a player's combined score is either:
(a) the sum of their two best open seasons' scores
OR
(b) their single best open season's score multiplied by 1.5
That way, one does not necessarily need to participate in all 3 open seasons to reach the highest scores.
The theorical maximum combined score is 600 points.
Seedings & Bracket
Seedings in the final bracket are based on the combined score standings
It's a single elimination bracket with 6 rounds. The higher seeds will skip the first rounds as follow:
- Seeds 1 to 4 start in round 4 (quarter-finals)
- Seeds 5 to 8 start in round 3
- Seeds 9 to 24 start in round 1