Announcement 2023 Little Cup Tournament Schedule

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Happy 2023, and with a new year and generation of Pokemon comes another year of the Little Cup circuit. This thread will lay out the structure and schedule for the official 2023 LC Circuit, a series of tournaments to earn points where ultimately the top 12 players will compete in a best of three, single elimination championships to earn a ribbon (
) for their badgeset, as well as other major tournaments not affiliated with the LC Circuit.

The format for the 2023 circuit will be unchanged from the 2022 circuit. We will be using the point system explained in this thread with Type A, B and C Tournaments having point ratios of 3:2:1. In other words, the maximum number of points earnable for Type A, B, and C Tournaments will be 500, 333, and 166 points respectively. Playoffs will still be among the top 12 players from the 2023 circuit tours with the top 4 seeds receiving a bye for the first round. In addition, we will be keeping the same replay requirements as last year. For all circuit tournaments potentially bar the LC Open, replays will be required starting in Round 2 of the winners bracket and Round 3 of losers bracket (in tournaments with a losers bracket). This is both to encourage higher quality games throughout the 2023 circuit as well as aid metagame development. Reminders of this will be posted in tournament threads.

The schedule for the 2023 LC Circuit tournaments is as follows.

Type A
Winter Seasonal:
January 29th - mid April
LC Open: April - early June
Fall Seasonal: September 17th - late November

Type B
Last Chance:
October 8th - early December
LC Majors: May 21st - late June


Type C
LC Ladder Tour: August 27th - early October
LC Classic: March 19th - June

Single elimination tours will use this for scoring and double elimination tours will use this. Note that the listed point values are for Type A Tournaments, Type B and C Tournaments will use ratios of 3:2 and 3:1 for equivalent placements.

LC CLASSIC:
The LC Classic follows the usual Classic format of qualifying cups followed by a playoff for the top overall finishers. Players can earn points for the LC Circuit in up to two of the cups, using each player's two best finishes. You can enter as many of the cups as you'd like, but points will only be awarded for the two cups you do best in. The LC Classic Cups will be the only part of the tournament to provide points towards the 2023 LC Circuit, playoffs will not provide additional points.

Team Tournaments will also be held throughout the year. The schedule for these is as follows.

Little Cup Premier League: mid-late June - August
Little Cup World Cup: December - 2024​


This thread will be updated to announce signups for each tour and other major updates. Best of luck to everybody!

If you're interested in hosting any tours this year, please reach out to me or one of the tier leaders! In addition, we will be encouraging an initiative to hold more subforum tournaments for old generations, so expect more details about that shortly.
 
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