2023 Opener Competition – Results
What a special previous Sunday we had! After talks and hopeful planning for years, we have finally completed the first-ever Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions live PvP tournament!
Let’s go over some of the finer details of the competition.
To watch (or rewatch) the tournament in its entirety with chapters to jump to specific matches:
The 2023 Opener Champion – WngMan
The predictions around the Tactics League Discord were indeed true; WngMan would make it to the end and claim Champion of the 2023 Opener. Having succeeded through the Winners bracket, WngMan would later face off against Jokerfisch who crawled through Losers originally for the Grand Finals where he struck a 2-0 victory against Joker.
However, Jokerfisch had a surprise ending too, claiming 2nd place, as the prediction would be that WngMan would face off against Dr. Jay in the Grand Finals, but Jokerfisch pushed through a three-game Winners Round 3 victory, causing an upset against the predicted final battle and went up against the ultimate challenge.
Dr. Jay, who claimed 3rd, pushed an inspiring new setup that revolved around using the Squire’s Reequip ability to change his Ramza’s (dubbed “Combat Mode”) gear to adjust to the situation at hand. His handy Thief, “Dayspring,” wielded her Durandal and played some very intriguing spellcaster plays that many would say are very “off-meta” or “not fit for the job,” but in the game of Final Fantasy, anything is possible if you put your mind to it.
Rumer, a recently joined member of the Tactics League Discord, finished 4th, eager to learn the ways of the PvP Patch and the evolving metagame, placed well for having just gotten involved with PvP.
And lastly, our friend and one of the server’s most senior members, Mikey from Tactics Live Tournament, took the 5th place spot. Though Mikey made quirks about finishing early, it wasn’t about the competitive push for 1st in the end, but just the fact that one of his YouTube channel’s goals of having a Final Fantasy Tactics tournament has finally reached fruition.
Results and Registered Team Rosters
As a momentous occasion to etch in video game history, the 2023 Opener proved that there is definitely an interest in Tactics PvP. People from all over different social networks, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and other Discord servers, joined the event presentation and stream and witnessed history for the first time.
While the event is over, the match data and team rosters are now publicly available to view on both Google Sheets and PDF format which can be found below:
2023 Opener Tournament Data – Google Sheets