DuelCircle Competitive – Fall 2023

DuelCircle Competitive Season 3 – Fall Split 2023

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 2023 DuelCircle Competitive season.

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Fall Championship Weekend Social Media Contests

Want 5,000 Crowns or a 1 Month W101/P101 Membership? Enter our Twitter and Discord contests now through Sunday, November 26th for your chance to win as we celebrate Fall Championship Weekend!

Follow DuelCircle Competitive on Twitter and retweet this tweet! Join the DuelCircle Community Discord and react to the post in #announcements! There’ll be 1 winner on each platform, good luck!


Fall Postseason Bracket and Schedule

Brianna Life has dropped out of the tournament due to availability, and will end in 4th Place. Due to this, the Y1 series between Chris and Thomas has now become semifinals series Z1. The winner of the Chris and Thomas series will face Stephen in the finals.

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.

Round 1 – Upper Bracket | Sunday, November 12th:

Round 1 – Lower Bracket | Sunday, November 12th:

  • Match X1 | (6) Alex Darkhammer vs Thomas Heart | Thomas Heart wins 2-0 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD
  • Match X2 | (5) Aaron Hexward vs Chris Suncatcher | Chris Suncatcher wins 2-1 | Game 1 VOD | Game 2 VOD | Game 3 VOD

Round 3 – Sunday, November 19th:

  • Match Z1 – 3:00pm EST | Thomas Heart vs Chris Suncatcher
  • Match C1 – (Approx.) 4:30pm EST | Stephen Doom vs Match Z1 Winner

Fall Postseason Prizing

Our postseason prize pool is stacked with boatloads of Crowns, Memberships, Mystery Prizes and more! As always, members of the league will automatically receive a participation prize in the form of 5,000 Crowns in the event that they do not reach the fall postseason.

For a text based list of prizing for the Fall Postseason, click here to reference 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. The Season 3 Official Rulebook may be referenced at any time, here.

Throughout 2023 and beyond, we’ll be carefully adjusting these rules over time based on gameplay trends within the tournament, and within the Ranked 1v1 ecosystem. While we can’t stop KingsIsle from implementing updates that impact the tournament, we trust that they’ll make changes that benefit the entire PvP community and we’ll inform players of any impacts as they occur.


League Format

8 randomly selected players from a prospective entry pool, alongside our 2 finalists from the 2023 Spring Split, will compete in the 2023 Fall Split.

In this 1v1 Level 150+ tournament, all 10 Players will face each-other in a 5-week single round-robin format from Saturday, October 14th through Saturday, November 11th. Players play each weekend day, 2 games per week, 9 total games over the 5-week span. Games begin at 3pm Eastern with a 30 minute time limit.

The top 6 players at the conclusion of Week 5 Saturday’s games (and any potential tiebreaker games), will advance to the Fall Postseason.

Fall 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 Fall Postseason will take place on November 12th and November 18th-19th with 3pm Eastern gameday specific start times. Exact series times will be announced after November 11th’s games.

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


Fall Regular Season Schedule

The 2023 Fall Split Regular Season features 45 games over the span of 5 weeks (October 14th – November 11th). 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. For the Spring Postseason schedule, visit the League Format section below.


Final Fall Regular Season Standings

+ – 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

Learn more about the 10 participants by referencing the Player Info Sheet, here.

Brianna Life defeated Stephen Doom during Week 2’s Saturday October 21st Game 3, thus holding the head-to-head tiebreaker and guaranteeing the 1st Seed in the 2023 Fall Postseason.

Chris Suncatcher defeated Aaron Hexward and Alex Darkhammer, this holding the head-to-head tiebreakers and guaranteeing the 4th seed in the 2023 Fall Postseason.

Aaron Hexward defeated Alex Darkhammer during Week 2’s Saturday October 21st Game 1, thus holding the head-to-head tiebreaker and guaranteeing the 5th seed in the 2023 Fall Postseason, making Alex Darkhammer the 6th seed.


DuelCircle Competitive News and Updates


2023 Fall Competitive Rulings

Competitive Ruling: Mycin Hexmancer

Due to Mycin’s availability, he has decided to forfeit November 11th’s regularly scheduled matchup against Aaron Hexward, as well as the postponed November 4th matchup against Thomas Heart. He will end the regular season at 4-5 in 7th place.

Competitive Ruling: Week 4, Saturday November 11th – Blaze Stormcloud vs Aaron Hexward

Aaron Hexward defeats Blaze Stormcloud after reaching the 30 minute allotted time limit. Watch the Game VOD here!

  • Week 4 Saturday’s Game 4 between Blaze Stormcloud and Aaron Hexward reached the maximum allotted time. In accordance with Rule 6.2, Rule 6.6.3, and Rule 8.1, the individual game VOD was reviewed internally by the DuelCircle Leadership Team and non-biased external third-party community members in order to determine a game winner.
  • Final health: Blaze Stormcloud 2,565/12,044 vs Aaron Hexward 2,633/9,554

Competitive Ruling: Week 3 Saturday, October 28th – Brianna Life vs Thomas Heart

Brianna Life defeats Thomas Heart after reaching the 30 minute allotted time limit. Watch the Game VOD here!

  • Week 3 Saturday’s Game 1 between Brianna Life and Thomas Heart reached the maximum allotted time. In accordance with Rule 6.2, Rule 6.6.3, and Rule 8.1, the individual game VOD was reviewed internally by the DuelCircle Leadership Team and non-biased external third-party community members in order to determine a game winner.
  • Final health: Brianna Life 4,585/12,221 vs Thomas Heart 2,872/11,107

Competitive Ruling: Corey Dawn

Due to Corey’s personal availability during the 2023 Fall Split, he has decided to drop out from the tournament. Corey previously had been impacted by the Crying Sky Raid Competitive Ruling and became eligible to compete in the DuelCircle Completive Fall Split last Saturday, November 4th but is unable to complete the remainder of his postponed games.

All of Corey’s remaining games have officially been forfeited, as per rulebook rule 6.7.2. Corey Dawn will finish in 9th place with a record of 1-8 at the end of the regular season, after formally losing to Aaron Hexward and Stephen Doom.

Competitive Ruling: Week 3 Sunday, October 29th – Stephen Doom vs Thomas Heart

Stephen Doom defeats Thomas Heart after reaching the 30 minute allotted time limit. Watch the Game VOD here!

  • Week 3 Sunday’s Game 2 between Stephen Doom and Thomas Heart reached the maximum allotted time. In accordance with Rule 6.2, Rule 6.6.3, and Rule 8.1, the individual game VOD was reviewed internally by the DuelCircle Leadership Team and non-biased external third-party community members in order to determine a game winner.
    • This game resulted in constant back and forth plays so that neither player had a true power advantage whatsoever. Whenever Stephen would deal damage, Thomas would deal an equal amount right back.
      • At 11:13 and 13:03, Thomas takes his first lead of the game after using House of Scales twice to bring Stephen to 7,089/11,496 compared to his 8,132/11,107, a small but important lead.
      • However, that lead is vanquished at 19:29 with Stephen’s massive 1,522 damage Hydra to even the playing field once again, at around 5,800 health apiece.
      • The game would continue on back and forth up until the very end, which is quite remarkable that it constantly stayed close. Stephen’s final hit at 30:10 was a Loremaster using up his final 4 pips, while Thomas who only had 2 pips, casted a Weakness at 30:49 for his final spell cast.
    • As mentioned in the previous competitive ruling in the Week 1 Brianna Life vs Alex Darkhammer match, we try to not “predict” who would end up winning if the game continued on. These decisions are based solely on the gameplay that occurred within the allotted time limit.
    • This is an incredibly difficult decision in that, if this game had played on for another minute or two, someone would’ve ended up dealing the final blow to win. One of the major noticeable factors was that Stephen always had multiple pips while Thomas could’ve easily taken advantage of a Mana Burn, but didn’t as often as Stephen. An example would be Stephen’s Mana Burn at the 21:57 mark. With that being said, Stephen has been awarded the win against Thomas.
    • Final health: Stephen Doom 2,234/11,496 vs Thomas Heart 1,611/11,107

Competitive Ruling: Juan Deathmender

Due to Juan’s personal availability during the 2023 Fall Split, he has decided to drop out from the tournament. We originally had plans to replace Juan’s participant slot as a late last minute substitution, but unfortunately that did not come into fruition.

All of Juan’s games have officially been forfeited, as per rulebook rule 6.7.2. While Juan is technically no longer a participant in the tournament, he will officially finish with a record of 0-9 at the end of the regular season.

Competitive Ruling: Week 2 Saturday, October 21st – Stephen Doom vs Brianna Life

Brianna Life defeats Stephen Doom after reaching the 30 minute allotted time limit. Watch the Game VOD here!

  • Week 2 Saturday’s Game 3 between Stephen Doom and Brianna Life reached the maximum allotted time. In accordance with Rule 6.2, Rule 6.6.3, and Rule 8.1, the individual game VOD was reviewed internally by the DuelCircle Leadership Team and non-biased external third-party community members in order to determine a game winner.
    • At 9:58 and 11:02, Brianna casted 2 separate Centaurs to hold the clear power advantage against Stephen. At 11:32, 12:38, and 13:23, Stephen casted 3 separate Availing Hands in order to gradually heal and try to even out the state of the game.
    • However, during the final 10 minutes of the game, Brianna gradually dealt damage via numerous Goat Monks to negate all of Stephen’s prior heals. For the majority of the game, Brianna had never played from behind and had significant control of the game state. For this reason, Brianna has been awarded the win against Stephen.
    • Final health: Stephen Doom 4,761/11,117 vs Brianna Life 7,688/12,185

Competitive Ruling: Week 1 Sunday, October 15th – Brianna Life vs Alex Darkhammer

Alex Darkhammer defeats Brianna Life after reaching the 30 minute allotted time limit. Watch the Game VOD here!

  • Week 1 Sunday’s Game 4 between Brianna Life and Alex Darkhammer reached the maximum allotted time. In accordance with Rule 6.2, Rule 6.6.3, and Rule 8.1, the individual game VOD was reviewed internally by the DuelCircle Leadership Team and non-biased external third-party community members in order to determine a game winner.
    • The first half of the game stayed relatively even with no clear indicator of power control. The first significant attack was casted by Alex at the 20:13 mark where Monster Mash spell did 1,639 damage. At 24:17 Brianna retaliated with a Goat Monk which brought Alex’s health down to 7,166/10,241. This was the first time where Alex’s health reached below 8.000 during the game.
    • With the official game timer reaching 30:00 at the beginning of Alex’s planning phase, Alex’s wand strike is the final spell within the allotted time period. However, to allow for the timer announcement, players are allowed one final round of spell casts (one per player). Alex’s 2,137 damage Monster Mash ends up playing a significant role in this decision, as this was his true final play of the game.
      • Alex slightly seemed to hold control of his own destiny during the game. While Brianna had healed through Goat Monks and Regenerate (25:05) to keep the game at an even standpoint, Alex’s Monster Mash was the biggest hit of the game. For this reason, Alex has been awarded the win against Brianna.
      • This was one of the hardest decisions that has been made, especially due to how close the timer was from 30:01. However, whenever these decisions are made, they are based solely on the gameplay that occurred within the allotted time limit. We try to not “predict” who would end up winning if the game continued on.
    • Final health: Brianna Life 6,524/12,185 vs Alex Darkhammer 7,166/10,241.

Competitive Ruling: Crying Sky Raid Participant Account Suspensions

Due to numerous reports of participant account suspensions made in response to an exploit involving the Crying Sky Raid, we have made the choice to delay the start of the 2023 Fall Split by 1 additional week. This is to preserve the best interests of the league, in accordance with rulebook rule 8.3.1. Fall Opening Day is now Saturday, October 14th with the Fall Championship scheduled for November 19th.

All players whose KingsIsle accounts are currently suspended, will have their games postponed as per rulebook rule 7.6. This will allow for the impacted participants to still compete in the tournament. However, all postponed games must be completed prior to the regular season finale on Saturday, November 11th.

Lastly, in accordance with rulebook rule 7.2.4, all gear and pets from the Crying Sky Raid will now be banned for use during the 2023 Fall Split and Fall Postseason. This will ensure competitive integrity among all participants.

As a reminder to all, please ensure that you are following the DuelCircle Community Code of Conduct, as well as the KingsIsle Community Code of Conduct and Terms of Use Agreement.


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