2026 Competitive Events Update | Predecessor

2026 Competitive Events Update

With the New Year thoroughly underway it's time now to talk about competitive play in Predecessor in 2026! This includes what we have planned, how you can take part, and how you can help support the scene!

2026年2月5日

2026 Competitive Format

For 2026, we’re committed to running a range of Official Omeda events that will reward players with both prize money and Pinnacle Points - a new reward that competitors can collect throughout the year. On top of that we’re also dedicating resources to supporting various community events!

Community Events

Having seen the recent success of the Soul x Gazoo Tournament in January we can’t help but be excited for what else the community has in store this year. We will be looking at partnering with these types of events throughout 2026 with support ranging from help promoting and running tournaments to prize money support.

Official Events

This year we will be committed to running two Minor Events and two Major Events. The Minor Events will be held in the Spring and Fall period, with the Major Events occurring in the Summer and Winter.

Pinnacle Points

Pinnacle Points are earned by finishing in the top 10 in any Official Omeda event. Events that happen later in the year will be worth more points, and they will be distributed weighted by your final placement, meaning that those in top tier positions will net significantly more points than those who place lower.

Esports Bundles

Much like our Esports Supporter Bundles last year, we will be driving prize funds through in-game sales, allowing the community to directly support the competitive scene.

Spring Open Qualifier

We’re pleased to announce that we’re partnering once again with PCC to host our first event of the year during the patch cycle for 1.12!

Spring Open Qualifier Key Dates:

Currently the reward for this event sits at $4,000 USD for each region ($8,000 total), split 60% for 1st place, 30% for 2nd place, and 10% for 3rd place. This value can increase based on community support (more on that later). This event will also reward Pinnacle Points to the top 10 teams.

The Summer Summit

The Summer Summit will be our first major seeded tournament. It will feature the 8 teams with the highest Pinnacle Points with a further 8 teams joining them through an open qualifier play-in stage.

Fall Open Qualifier

Fall will feature another open qualifying event where the top 8 teams will progress to the streamed portion of the event.

The Pinnacle

The Pinnacle is a seeded tournament taking place this Winter where the top 12 teams are locked in based on Pinnacle Points earned throughout the entire year, with 4 play-in slots available for any late bloomers.

Ranked and Competitive Improvements

While there’s lots of exciting events to look forward to, there’s also a lot of nice QOL changes coming to the in-game competitive experience too.

Replay Fixes

The Replay system has experienced various issues over the years that have remained unfixed and slowly compounded to lower the overall experience with the tool. We started to fix these and will continue to address the most problematic ones.

Ranked Improvements

We have been working on three major changes to the Ranked system for some time, with all three of them expected to arrive in the next Ranked Split.

1. Matchmaking Changes

Firstly, we are changing how we make Ranked games.

2. High-Rank Match Quality

For a while now we have had an issue where we often split up our highest Paragon matches into two different games and fill in the spaces with Platinum players.

3. Placements

In v1.12 with the new Ranked Split reset we will implement placement matches that will allow us to better distribute and place players for the start of the new split.

Future Official LAN Events

We know that many of you would like to see a LAN event happen, especially after the success of Gazoo’s community LAN in 2025.

Lastly we wanted to give massive thanks to all our players that push themselves to their limit to prove that they are the best that Predecessor has to offer. Thanks as well to the hard working community members who put on epic events for us all to enjoy and of course the viewers that enable all the storylines and content and allow this all to happen in the first place.

Here’s to an incredible competitive season!

- Omeda Demonde & Kari