MKPC Tournament

The MKPC Tournament was the first official tournament ever created on MKPC. Usually, it's a single-elimination tournament played by 8 people, but this format has changed throughout the seasons to adapt to the number of players who registered for the tournament.

As of today, the MKPC Tournament is the most popular tournament in the competitive scene, with it being many's gateway into competitive gameplay. It is also the tournament hosted the most - with 9 editions - making it the longest-running tournament in MKPC history.

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Origin
Originally, tournaments where fun events organised by members with hopes to bring fun on the smaller community at the time. The first tournaments were intended to run in 2015 and early 2016, but all 4 attempts failed. This was mostly due to the Free-For-All format used, since most of the concerned people weren't able to make it all together at an allotted time. After seeing the 4th tournament fail, Ryubix (then known as misterskin) decided to create a tournament with a format unused before then: a single-elimination tournament, with a flexible schedule. This gave birth to the MKPC Tournament. The tournament was successful, with many seasons following it.

Format
The format of the tournament has changed between editions, to conform to the number of players involved each time. Each edition contains at least a knockout bracket at some point, either as the only element of the tournament or sometimes combined with a group stage played before it. Season 9 also contained qualifiers between the lowest ranked players.

To this day, the MKPC Tournament has used all of these formats at least once:


 * Qualifiers: When the number of participants is too high, a preliminary round is held between the lowest-ranked players to select the few who play the main tournament, while the best-ranked qualify automatically for the event. Players are randomly arranged in multiple groups, where each group works as a single-elimination bracket. The winner of each bracket qualifies for the main tournament.


 * Group Stage: Participants are placed in multiple groups. Each group works like a league, where each player must play once against every other member of his group. A win gives you 2 points, a tie gives you 1 point, and a loss gives you 0 points. At the end of the group stage, the best players in each group qualify for the next round, usually a single-elimination bracket.


 * Single-elimination bracket: a classic tournament tree, with multiple rounds (quarter-finals, semi-finals, etc). Matches are played in a 1v1 format, with a rule-set change nearly each season, to conform to problems met in earlier seasons. In each round, the winner qualifies for the next round, while the loser is eliminated. In case of a tie, prolongations are usually played. A third-place match is usually played between the 2 losing semi-finalists.
 * Double-elimination bracket: unlike the single-elimination version, you need to get eliminated twice before being out. After the first elimination, players are relegated into the losers bracket, which works exactly like the main one, called winners bracket. Being eliminated from the losers bracket means a definitive elimination from the tournament. In Season 9, half of the participants started directly in the losers bracket.

Here's a table with a checklist of stages used in each season:

Results
Note: only finished tournaments are writen in the table.