DuelCircle Competitive – 2025 Season

2025 DuelCircle Competitive: DuelCircle Media’s 10th Anniversary Season

Visit this page often for all things DuelCircle Competitive including standings, weekly game schedules, league news, highlights and more. This page is your one-stop shop for the 2025 DuelCircle Competitive season.

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2025 Postseason Social Media Contest

2025 Postseason Bracket and Schedule

Congratulations to Blaine Spellwraith on winning the 2025 DuelCircle Competitive Season!

All game VODs will be uploaded to the DuelCircle Competitive YouTube Channel on Tuesday, September 2nd at 11am EDT. Reference the Player Info Sheet for all 2025 game data from the regular and postseason!

Blaine Spellwraith and Julian Winter will receive an automatic bid into the 2026 DuelCircle Competitive season, as well as Cecilia Citrine via competitive ruling.

Blaine Spellwraith chose Sloan Fire as their Round 1 Upper Bracket opponent, finalizing the postseason bracket. In regards to player seeding, Alex Darkhammer held both natural tiebreakers against Sloan Fire and Stephen Doom, while Sloan Fire holds a natural tiebreaker against Stephen Doom. For full details of all competitive rulings, visit the Competitive Rulings section below.

Each matchup will be a best-of-three series. Similar to the regular season, each individual game will have a 30 minute allotted time limit. Players may alter their gear and deck setup in-between games during their 15 minute break time, if they choose.

All game VODs will be uploaded to the DuelCircle Competitive YouTube Channel after each postseason gameday at 11am EDT. Reference the Player Info Sheet for all 2025 postseason game data!

Round 1 – Upper Bracket | Saturday, August 30th

  • Series A1: 3pm EDT | (1) Blaine Spellwraith vs (4) Sloan Fire | Blaine Spellwraith wins 2-0 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD
  • Series A2: (Approx.) 8pm EDT | (2) Julian Winter vs (3) Alex Darkhammer | Julian Winter wins 2-0 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD

Round 1 – Lower Bracket | Saturday August 30th

  • Series X1: (Approx.) 6pm EDT | (5) Stephen Doom vs (4) Sloan Fire | Stephen Doom wins 2-0 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD
  • Series X2: (Approx.) 10pm EDT | (6) Brandon Legend vs (3) Alex Darkhammer | Brandon Legend wins 2-0 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD

Round 2 – Sunday, August 31st

  • Round 2 – Series B1 [Upper Bracket]: 3pm EDT | (1) Blaine Spellwraith vs (2) Julian Winter | Blaine Spellwraith wins 2-0 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD
  • Round 2 – Series Y1 [Lower Bracket]: (Approx.) 4:30pm EDT | (5) Stephen Doom vs (6) Brandon Legend | Stephen Doom wins 2-1 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD | Game 3 VOD

Round 3 Lower Bracket Semifinals – Sunday, August 31st

  • Round 3 – Series Z1: (Approx.) 6pm EDT | (2) Julian Winter vs (5) Stephen Doom | Julian Winter wins 2-0 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD

Round 3 Finals – Monday, September 1st

  • Round 3 – Series C1: 5pm EDT | (1) Blaine Spellwraith vs (2) Julian Winter | Blaine Spellwraith wins 2-0 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD

Postseason Prizing

In honor of DuelCircle Media’s 10th anniversary, we’re pleased to present another massive prize pool with fan favorite bundles, plenty of crowns and everything else you know and love from DuelCircle Competitive tournaments.

As always, members of the league will automatically receive a participation prize in the form of a $10 Pet Jewel Card (redeemable for 5,000 Crowns or 1 Month Membership), in the event that they do not reach the postseason.

For a text based list of prizing for the 2025 Postseason, click here to reference the DuelCircle Competitive Rulebook.

League Format

8 randomly selected players from a prospective entry pool, including our 2 finalists (Bailey Wildwraith and Julian Dragonborn) from the 2024 Postseason, will compete in the 2025 DuelCircle Competitive tournament.

In this 1v1 Level 160+ tournament, all 8 Players will face each-other in a 4-week single round-robin format from Saturday, August 2nd through Sunday, August 24th. Players typically play each weekend day, 2 games per week, 7 total games over the 4-week span. Games begin at 3pm Eastern with a 30 minute time limit.

The top 6 players at the conclusion of Week 4’s games (and any potential tiebreaker games) on Sunday, August 24th, will advance to the Postseason.

Postseason Format

The top 4 players will compete in a double elimination format (Upper Bracket) while the 5th/6th seed compete in a single elimination format (Lower Bracket).

The player who finishes in 1st place during the Regular Season will be able to choose between the 3rd/4th place seed as their Round 1 opponent in Match A1.

Postseason Matches are played in a Best-of-Three series. In between games, players have 15 minutes to reset and prepare for the following game. Similar to the Regular Season, games will also have a 30 minute time limit.

The Postseason will take place during U.S. Labor Day weekend beginning on Saturday, August 30th through Sunday, August 31st.

For more information, reference Section 5 of the DuelCircle Competitive Rulebook.

Official DuelCircle Competitive Rulebook

The DuelCircle Competitive comprehensive rulebook has information regarding gameplay rules, league structure, eligibility, tiebreaker scenarios, match processes, playoff format, player conduct, and other ancillary items. Throughout this season and beyond, we’ll be carefully adjusting these rules over time based on gameplay trends within the tournament, and within the Ranked 1v1 ecosystem.

The 2025 Season Official Rulebook may be referenced at any time, here.

Amendments to the rulebook go through a discussion period among our participants, as well as external third parties before passage. Amendments will be announced on all social media channels once approved and implemented.

Final 2025 Regular Season Standings

Learn more about the 8 participants by referencing the Player Info Sheet, here.

+ – Clinched 1st place seed, ^ – Clinched top 4 seed, * – Clinched playoffs, E – Eliminated from playoff contention, NT – No Tiebreaker game to be played, T – Tiebreaker game played

Alex Darkhammer held both natural tiebreakers against Sloan Fire and Stephen Doom, while Sloan Fire holds a natural tiebreaker against Stephen Doom.

Cecilia Citrine drops out of the tournament due to an administrative issue. For full details of all competitive rulings, visit the Competitive Rulings section below.

2025 Regular Season Schedule

The 2025 Regular Season features 28 games over the span of 4 weeks (August 2nd – August 24th). Participants compete in 2 games each week with games lasting 30 minutes or less.

To see the schedule for each week, click the arrows on the slideshow or select a radio button.

DuelCircle Competitive News and Updates

Sunday, August 31st Competitive Ruling: Postseason Round 2 Series B1 – Spell Disqualification

In Game 1 of the series between Blaine Spellwraith and Julian Winter, Julian casted a prohibited Scion spell at 12:51, resulting in a game forfeiture in the series. Watch the Game VOD here.

Friday, August 29th Competitive Ruling: Remaining Postponed Regular Season Games

Due to Brandon Legend’s availability, his remaining postponed games against Sloan Fire and Stephen Doom have been forfeited as no-show disqualifications.

Julian Winter has chosen to forfeit his remaining postponed game against Alex Darkhammer due to availability concerns.

Stephen Doom’s remaining postponed games against Alex Darkhammer and Blaine Spellwraith have officially been considered no-show disqualifications, resulting in wins awarded to Alex and Blaine.

There was an effort by all players to try and play these postponed games in recent days, however no-show disqualifications were awarded due to the imminent start of the postseason and Stephen’s previous availability throughout the regular season.

While Stephen was provided an exemption to potentially play postponed games as late as August 28th, Rulebook Rule 8.3 ultimately needed to be invoked in order to preserve the best interests of the tournament, and to timely allow the postseason to begin.

Wins have been awarded to Sloan Fire and Stephen Doom against Brandon Legend, Alex Darkhammer against Julian Winter and Stephen Doom, and Blaine Spellwraith against Stephen Doom. All results have now been reflected in the Friday, August 29th standings update.

Friday, August 29th Competitive Ruling: Administrative Dropout involving Cecilia Citrine

Due to Cecilia Citrine having administrative issues ahead of the 2025 DuelCircle Competitive postseason, he will be unable to complete his remaining postponed regular season games or compete in the postseason itself. All remaining postponed games involving Julian Winter and Stephen Doom have been forfeited. Cecilia will end the regular season in 7th place. Wins have been awarded to Julian and Stephen, and have been reflected in the Friday, August 29th standings update.

Sunday, August 24th Competitive Ruling: No-Show Disqualifications involving Chris Spell

Due to Chris Spell’s availability, all of his regular season games have been forfeited as no-show disqualifications. He will finish the regular season in 8th place with a record of 0-7. Wins have been awarded to all of his opponents, and have been reflected in the Sunday, August 24th standings update.

Competitive Ruling: Week 3 Sunday No-Show Disqualification 

Week 3 Sunday August 17th’s Game between Alex Darkhammer and Sloan Fire resulted in a no-show disqualification involving Sloan Fire. Alex Darkhammer automatically receives the win as Alex was present at the scheduled start time for the pre-game “ready-check” period. Results for this game have been incorporated in the latest standings update and have been listed on the Player Info Sheet.

Competitive Ruling: Schedule and League Format Adjustment

We have adjusted the regular season league format to an 8-player, 28 game single-round robin. We have made continued efforts over the past weeks to finalize our final 2 players into the tournament but were unable to do so, as well as unable to adequately field replacement players.

Instead of continuously postponing games against opponents to-be-determined, we have removed those 17 games from the regular season schedule. This will have no impact on the overall regular season standings or the postseason format.

We have also slightly adjusted the Weeks 3 and 4 regular season game schedule in order to ensure that games are timely played. The special Friday, August 22nd Week 4 gameday has been cancelled, with those specific games being moved into the regularly scheduled Weeks 3-4 weekend gamedays. This allows for the schedule to be adequately balanced out for the rest of the regular season.

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