With the start of the new year, a new competitive take is on the horizon, one that will hopefully steer further interest into the competitive side of Final Fantasy Tactics and showcase all of the mod’s quality of life and other exciting changes that have gone into the PvP Patch and community creations to date.

For Glory! is a new weekly sanctioned competitive event program that will feature a live-streamed match from both the Tactics League Discord and YouTube channels every Tuesday (when possible) of the calendar year. This is a new initiative based on community feedback to improve the social aspects of Tactics League and to encourage new and returning players to compete – for all the glory, of course.

Schedule

As mentioned above, For Glory! will be hosted each Tuesday, when permissible, between 9:30 PM and 11:30 PM Eastern. This will also mark a change in streaming services as we switch from Twitch to YouTube to better align with our existing YouTube channel and content as an all-in-one place for the Tactics League media library.

How it Works

For Glory! creates a new avenue for the competitive scene to showcase featured matches, featuring commentary from both the emcee and the competitors themselves, providing insight into decision-making and thoughts on plays and overall performances.

Members of the Tactics League Discord can sign up the following week, starting on Wednesday and ending on Friday, for a chance to compete, up to a maximum of eight players, with the lucky competitors being randomly selected each week to do so for the upcoming Tuesday event. Selected competitors will still follow all normal ruleset and competition regulations in place (For Glory! is treated as a fully sanctioned competition, just faster paced and more consecutive), including submitting their party roster ahead of the event by Monday (this is commonly known as Roster Registration and Roster Lock) to ensure their team meets the standards of the game format and are locked in with their squad.

All For Glory! matches are considered single-elimination, best-of-3 series, to ensure a timely-paced event for both competitors and spectators alike.

Regarding game formats, For Glory! supports both Standard and 4v4 All-Stars too, so be on the lookout for different styles of fights and even some metas to form from this!

Competitor Points

As a sanctioned event by Tactics League, For Glory! also awards Competitor Points (CP), which is our seasonal points system to determine leaderboard ranking, competition-ranked privileges, and who is considered the best of the best for the current season. Based on the weekly nature of this event, both competitors will earn CP just for participating, in the amount of 300 for 1st and 150 for 2nd. These values may seem small at first, but there is the potential for 13,800 CP over 46 weeks from 1st place (and 6,900 CP for 2nd) earnings that also add up with other awarding from future competitions as well!

Prepare For Glory!

Come witness the start of a new journey and be a part of a growing community! For Glory!‘s first live-streamed event will take place on January 27, 2026, on our YouTube channel.
Interested in joining our Discord, checking out the PvP Patch mod, or wanting to partake in For Glory!? Join the Tactics League Discord today!

The Version 5 Exhibition match will take place LIVE on Twitch and the Tactics League’s staging channel on Sunday, March 16th at 7 PM EDT. Guitarmanager and Rumer, the 1st and 2nd place winners of the 2025 Winter Cup #1 event that was held on February 23rd will get their hands on this massive update a few days ahead of the public beta and showcase some of the new changes in a best-of-3 series match!

It won’t be long before everyone can get their hands on PvP Patch v5 Beta! The beta will go public and downloadable on March 18th shortly after the changelog is posted in the Tactics League Discord. Website updates will follow behind it. If you are eager to participate in campaign or multiplayer, join the server early and get accustomed to the current v4.4 patch, making transitioning into version 5 a bit easier.

Join the Tactics League Discord today and become a future beta tester of this year’s series of updates!

On February 23, 2025, the 2025 Winter Cup #1 Competition was completed and Guitarmanager was crowned Champion of the event after a difficult battle for 1st place against Rumer.

To watch (or rewatch) the tournament in its entirety with chapters to jump to specific matches:

Guitarmanager and YoshnJa had a post-event interview reviewing Guitar’s perspective on Sunday’s recent event. The interview can be found here:

The 2025 Winter Cup #1 Champion, Guitarmanager

Starting his competition run in the Semifinals, Guitarmanager first faced Dr. Jay after Dr. Jay defeated im_the_king21 in Round 1. Guitarmanager and Dr. Jay fought off-site in Lobby A, ending with Guitar’s victory 2-0 in their best-of-3 series. Once Rumer claimed victory against DoggoK in the Semifinals after advancing against Acook10 in Round 1, the Grand Finals was set for a Guitarmanager vs. Rumer face-off.

Game 1 was played on Limberry Castle Inner Court. Guitarmanager had the high ground since he was the lower seed from Rumer and was the “guest,” which played a pivotal role in positioning and engagement issues later for Rumer. Though Rumer had plenty of offensive power, his two melee units, both an Onion Knight and Monk, had difficulties getting into range as well as Guitarmanager upkeeping Golem, lessening the overall impact Rumer could deal with his powerful basic attacks. Game 1 ended with a Guitar victory, 5 to 0 units alive.

As part of a new rule for map picks, Rumer decided to play Game 2 on Golgollada Gallows. Swapping in his undead Delita build he shook the audience with his turn 1 blitz-style engagement of Hallowed Bolt not only once, but twice in a row, thanks to using Critical: Quick coupled with his Thief triggering it with an X-Potion. With Deltia netting a triple kill, Guitar instantly was put on the defensive and recovered, which he thankfully managed to carefully do and ended up claiming victory after a harrowing spin of events that led to the finale of the 10 Action game. With it, Guitarmanager has netted his first Tactics League 1st place accomplishment and both Guitarmanager and Rumer will be invited to an exclusive Version 5 Exhibition match as well as getting the PvP Patch v5 Beta days before it goes public.

Thank you to im_the_king21, Acook10, DoggoK, Dr. Jay, Rumer, and Guitarmanager for being a part of the year’s first cup, and thank you to the audience on both Discord and Twitch!

Results and Registered Team Rosters

With the first event of the 2025 year completed and the many excitements we watched live in the Featured station, I am hopeful that the remaining year will be even more impactful and fierce as we go into the final series of updates with PvP Patch v5 Beta.

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:
2025 Winter Cup #1 Competition Data – Google Sheets

Today is the official start of our second competitive season. With it, comes a new feature to make Game 2 dynamic in a best-of-3 series, Sanctioned Events program, and tiered Competitor Points awarding. Let’s break down each addition below.

Game 1 Loser Map Select

The match structure and regulation rulebook have been updated to allow the loser of Game 1 in a best-of-3 series to declare any legal map in the Tactics League map pool for Game 2, either medium or small-sized, as long as it is a map that does not already exist in the map selection for that match. The 3rd game’s map would then become the opposite map size chosen to still have 2 medium and 1 small map in the match. This is a break away from the traditional Medium > Small > Medium map structure that was presently used in Season 1’s competitions and allows for Game 2 to be dynamically played shaking things up from our previous static rotation.

Sanctioned Events Program

As detailed more in its separate article, the Sanctioned Events program is a means of supporting grassroots events as Tactics League-supported, giving the tournament organizer access to a plethora of resources to ensure the event’s success. Competitions that are approved for sanctioning are eligible for Competitor Points awarding allowing for a hopeful increase in annual competitions, hosted directly by Tactics League and the community as well!

Tiered Competitor Points Awarding

Alongside the Sanctioned Events program, also includes an update to Competitor Points (CP) scaling and there are different point awards based on the bracket size of sanctioned events, allowing for more flexibility:

• Tournament-Style (large pool)
  For Double Elimination & Round Robin Allocations for 7+ Competitors
  • 1st = 2000 pts.
  • 2nd = 1600 pts.
  • 3rd = 1400 pts.
  • 4th = 1200 pts.
  • 5th – 8th = 800 pts.
  • 9th and lower = 600 pts.
    
• Tournament-Style (small pool)
  For Double Elimination & Round Robin Allocations for 4-6 Competitors
  • 1st = 1400 pts.
  • 2nd = 1200 pts.
  • 3rd = 1000 pts.
  • 4th = 800 pts.
  • 5th = 600 pts.
  • 6th = 400 pts.
    
• Cup-Style (large pool)
  For Single Elimination Allocations for 7+ Competitors
  • 1st = 800 pts.
  • 2nd = 600 pts.
  • 3rd – 4th = 500 pts.
  • 5th – 8th = 300 pts.
  • 9th and lower = 200 pts.
    
• Cup-Style (small pool)
  For Single Elimination Allocations for 4-6 Competitors
  • 1st = 500 pts.
  • 2nd = 400 pts.
  • 3rd = 300 pts.
  • 4th = 200 pts.
  • 5th and 6th = 100 pts.

With all of these changes starting today, we are excited to take Tactics League and competitive play to new heights!

With the start of Competitive Season 2 on October 15, 2024, Tactics League is opening up a new way to drive community-inspired gatherings and events so we can empower the competitive scene further with community Discord members.

The Sanctioned Events program is a means to fully back community-made events by providing the tools and support needed for growth, participation, and success as well as more ways to award Competitor Points throughout the current season and future. To do so, Members propose their idea as a Roll Call, filling in all the details first and publicizing it so that everyone is aware of what goals they want to achieve with their event. Once the Roll Call gains momentum and more and more people become interested, the organizer can reach out to the Tactics League administration to request to be sanctioned and receive further support, including Competitor Points awarded post-event.

But what does sanctioning offer in terms of incentivizing your grassroots-based event? Tactics League will offer support and resources with the following:

• Basic banner/logo creation for your event (if needed)
• Tailored Competitions Registration form for your event to provide sign-ups
• Access to the Roster Registration form (if you are enabling Roster Lock)
• Access to the Post Game Report (PGR) needed to report match data for official records (this can be additionally provided to multiple assigned Officials as needed)
• Official Announcement updates via Discord, added to Discord Events for notifications, and the Tactics League website’s Events page
• Official/Staff Discord role so you have partial moderator powers as well as Staging channel operability (this is granted on the day of or the day before the event)
• Priority support from Tactics League administration during your event’s runtime (as much as possible)

The end goal for the Sanctioned Events program is to give the tools for more competitive events annually and sow the seeds to further Tactics League PvP into the future and beyond. If you are interested in hosting an event and potential sanctioning, please join the Tactics League Discord today.

Tactics League-sanctioned events award competitors with Competitor Points (CP) based on their finished ranking after the conclusion of the event. As of yesterday, Season 1 has officially closed and we are finalizing plans for the upcoming Competitive Season 2. Let’s take a look at all of the events we have hosted over the year:

• 2023 Opener
  • Date: October 8, 2023
  • Number of Competitors: 5
  • Event Runtime: 9 hours and 15 minutes
  • Rebroadcast: https://youtu.be/D-Fb3TdCN4Y
  • Tournament Data: https://tacticsleague.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Tactics-League-2023-Opener-Tournament-Data.pdf
    
• 2024 – Starter Winter Cup #1
  • Date: February 11, 2024
  • Number of Competitors: 8
  • Event Runtime: 4 hours and 58 minutes
  • Rebroadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFHN_ooy-VA
  • Tournament Data: https://tacticsleague.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Tactics-League-2024-Starter-Winter-Cup-1-Competition-Data.pdf

Competitor Points – Final Ranking (Standard)

Ranking is determined by accumulative CP awarding from past events based on your event’s placement.

• 1st – @WngMan – 1500 pts.
• 2nd – @jokerfisch – 1100 pts.
• 3rd – @dr.jay. – 800 pts.
• 4th – @therumer – 600 pts.
• 5th – @pista – 400 pts.
• 6th – @sandcatankh – 400 pts.
• 7th – @mikey_tacticslive – 200 pts.
• 8th – @hewhostandsalone, @space_monkey00 – 200 pts.

Based on the Regulation Rulebook, certain tiebreaker rules are in place to resolve where members sit when it comes to tied rankings. This is also why some members above have the same points, but different placements:

• 1st – Round Finished
• 2nd – Total Games Played in the finished series (up to 4)
• 3rd – Your Opponent’s Seeding/rank
• 4th – Units Alive Per Game cumulatively

With Season 1 at its end, I want to thank everyone who has participated in the past events and even those who were anticipating the now canceled 2024 Fall Cup, for being a part of the competitive scene I look forward to new heights, new players, and new competitions to come with Season 2, starting on October 15, 2024!