MCM Royale

The MCM Royale will be the second MCM-sanctioned tournament, to be held after the conclusion of the MCM Cup either during the Winter of 2016/2017 or the Summer of 2017. As the name suggests, this tournament will be larger than the Cup, with around 100 potential participants from the three newly-organized divisions, RXT (RPG-Xfire-Tournytime), CRA (Codemasters Formula 1-Race Department-AOR), and FLHEX (FPS-Lucky-Hex).

Currently there are 100 on the provisional list of invitees, which will be officiated closer to the tournament and is known to have changed quite a bit since its inception. As a large amount of these would be debutants, it was decided that a qualifying stage consisting of all these participants would not be fair, as there would be too many groups and not enough opportunity to advance. Therefore, divisions were created, which would all qualifying separately and somehow be placed in the tournament in a fair way. RXT, which has 47 invitees on the provisional list, will largely consist of the same participants as the MCM Cup, whereas the other two groups will be purely debutants, CRA having 37 invitees and FLHEX having 16.

The main tournament will consist of 32 participants in 8 groups of 4, 16 of which will go on to a knockout stage to decide the champion. As a provisional rough figure, 46 RXT participants will qualify for 12 spots in the main tournament (47 and 13 minus 1 as the MCM Cup champion will automatically qualify), 37 CRA participants for 13 spots, and 16 FLHEX participants for 6. In the main tournament, three groups will have a share of 2-1-1 XFT-CRA-FLHEX, three will have 1-2-1, and the remaining two will have 2-2-0. Additionally, as per the MCM Cup, a host bidding process will take place, the winner of which will also automatically qualify.