Information About the 2025/2026 Grand Tournament Season!

As we near the end of 2024, we are getting ready for the 2025/2026 Grand Tournament season! We are excited to announce that submissions will be opening up in November for next year’s season and we are looking forward to hearing from you. The season will run from June 2025 to May 2026 and will include events in countries around the world. We are creating Grand Tournament Prize Kits and will be supporting Star Wars™: Legion, Star Wars: Shatterpoint and Marvel: Crisis Protocol. If you are interested in hosting or attending an event, please read the details below on how to submit.

We will be accepting applications, through Google Forms, for the Grand Tournaments starting on November 1st and closing on November 22nd. There are details about the selection process below, which should be noted by organizers interested in applying. When submitting an application, be sure to provide complete and detailed responses so that our Events Team has the best possible understanding of what your event has to offer. We look forward to receiving your application.

We will begin application review in late November and look forward to announcing the new Grand Tournament schedule in January 2025. The current season will conclude in May 2025, and the new season will kick off in June 2025, featuring all kinds of new prizes and promos.

The Application & Selection Process for Tournament Organizers

Event Requirements

The base requirements for running a Grand Tournament are:

• The event must be held in person at a legitimate public venue.
• The event must be open to the public.
• The event must have at least 32 players per game line they intend to support.
• The event must be held between June 2025 and May 2026.
• Events must have at least one dedicated Event Judge per 16 players.
• Judges may not play in the event.
• Events must follow the Grand Tournament rules packet exactly and in its entirety.
  • This will be provided during event vetting in November/December.
• The event must be able to provide terrain and tables following the guidelines specified in the Grand Tournament rules packet.
• Organizers will be required to submit an after-action report.
• Details will be provided upon selection.

Details Needed Before Application Submission in November

Applications will be accepted from November 1st through November 22nd, with follow-up communications happening in late November and December. By the time organizers submit an application in November they should know:

• The event venue (Is the event happening at a convention or other named event?)
• The date of the event
• The game lines they are applying to run
• Attendance caps for each event, not to exceed 96 players
• Will the event be associated with a retailer?

Additional information will be requested during event vetting.

Application Advice

We look at each application individually first, then in comparison to others in the same region. There are lots of factors in selection, but we do want to provide a bit of a framework for metrics that are generally favorable. We will favor events or organizers that:

• Have complete and detailed applications
• Can support all 3 game lines
• Are taking place at a convention or other multi-day event
• Can support 64+ players per game line
• Have a track record of good tournaments that actively support the community

While keeping these in mind, we also try to choose events that cover as much territory geographically as possible given the requirements and number of kits we have.

Prizes

Grand Tournament support for the 2025/2026 season will be capped at 96 players per event. The prize kit will include:

• Participation prizes: 2 non-foil alternate art cards and 6 dice
• Top 8 prizes: 3 foil cards
• Top 4: acrylic tokens
• Winner: trophy, acrylic game dashboard, and 1 bye at AdeptiCon’s 2026 Open Worlds if the Grand Tournament happens on or before February 28th, 2026.

We will provide more specifics with the full prize announcement in Spring 2025. Until that time, we will not have the prizes in hand and they may change.

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That’s all for today’s Grand Tournament announcement. Thanks for joining, and be sure to check back for more information as we progress toward this next season of Grand Tournaments! We hope to see you there.

Until next time, Atomic Mass Games, signing off!