Tactician's Trials

Tactician's Trials are the open qualifiers of the TFT Pro Circuit. Most seats go to players who rank high enough on their server's ladder, a few come from sub-regional qualifiers, and the top finishers move on to the Regional Finals.

Who can enter

Americas

Have a Compete Card on competetft.com and register there for each tournament. (Riot Games)
Declare one server on competetft.com. Only that account counts for snapshots, and it can't change during the set. (Riot Games)
Play at least 14 ranked games on your declared server between one ladder snapshot and the next, or the next one doesn't count for you. The first snapshot had no minimum. (Riot Games)
Where an event requires residency, you must have been a legal resident of a country in the region for at least a year before it. (Riot Games)
A ladder spot in Tactician's Trials needs Master or higher on your server at the Trials snapshot. (Riot Games)

EMEA

Have a Compete Card on competetft.com and register there for each tournament. (Riot Games)
Declare one server on competetft.com. Only that account counts for snapshots, and it can't change during the set. (Riot Games)
Play at least 14 ranked games on your declared server between one ladder snapshot and the next, or the next one doesn't count for you. The first snapshot had no minimum. (Riot Games)
Where an event requires residency, you must have been a legal resident of a country in the region for at least a year before it. (Riot Games)
A ladder spot in Tactician's Trials needs Master or higher on your server at the Trials snapshot. (Riot Games)

Asia-Pacific

Have a Compete Card on competetft.com and register there for each tournament. (Riot Games)
Declare one server on competetft.com. Only that account counts for snapshots, and it can't change during the set. (Riot Games)
Play at least 14 ranked games on your declared server between one ladder snapshot and the next, or the next one doesn't count for you. The first snapshot had no minimum. (Riot Games)
Where an event requires residency, you must have been a legal resident of a country in the region for at least a year before it. (Riot Games)
A ladder spot in Tactician's Trials needed Diamond II or higher for Trials 1 and Master or higher for Trials 2. (Riot Games)

Registration and deadlines

Registration closesAmericas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific

Compete Card registration deadline

Sat, Sep 5

Source: Riot Games

Registration closesAmericas

Tactician's Trials 2 registration closes

Tue, Oct 6 · 4 AM UTC

Where: Official page

For Tactician's Trials 2

competetft.com's schedule data gives 04:00 UTC; the tournament page shows "4:00 AM" with no zone.

Source: CompeteTFT (Riot Games)

Tactician's Trials 1 Finished

Open qualifierAmericas

Tactician's Trials 1

Sep 19–27

Weekend 1 Sep 19–20
Weekend 2 Sep 25–27

Format: 256 players start on Day 1 and 64 more are seeded into Day 3; the top 8 go to Regional Finals Week 1.
Prize pool: $12,500

Leads to Regional Finals

Source: Riot Games · CompeteTFT (Riot Games)

Spots per server, Americas
Server	Day 1	Day 3
NA	125	26
BR	62	15
LAS	31	6
LAN	26	5
Sub-regional qualifiers	12	12

Open qualifierEMEA

Tactician's Trials 1

Sep 19–27

Weekend 1 Sep 19–20
Weekend 2 Sep 25–27

Format: 256 players start on Day 1 and 64 more are seeded into Day 3; the top 8 go to Regional Finals Week 1.
Prize pool: $12,500

Leads to Regional Finals

Source: Riot Games · CompeteTFT (Riot Games)

Spots per server, EMEA
Server	Day 1	Day 3
EUW	202	46
EUNE	40	11
TR	14	7

Open qualifierAsia-Pacific

Tactician's Trials 1

Sep 19–27

Weekend 1 Sep 19–20
Weekend 2 Sep 25–27

Format: Two 112-player routes (Korea, and the rest of APAC) play Days 1-2; 56 reach Day 3, joined by 40 snapshot seeds and 32 sub-regional qualifiers. The top 8 go to Regional Finals Week 1.
Prize pool: $12,500

Leads to Regional Finals

Source: Riot Games · CompeteTFT (Riot Games)

Spots per server, Asia-Pacific
Server	Week 1 (Days 1-2)	Day 3
KR	112	10
SEA	42	5
TW	34	6
JP	19	4
OCE	17	4
VN	—	11
VN (sub-regional)	—	30
KR (sub-regional)	—	2

Week 1 (Days 1-2): Two live-server routes: Korea, and the rest of APAC on the TW server. The top 28 of each route reach Day 3.

Tactician's Trials 2 Finished

Open qualifierAmericas

Tactician's Trials 2

Oct 10–18

Weekend 1 Oct 10–11
Weekend 2 Oct 16–18

Format: Players who finished 9th to 16th in Trials 1 are seeded into Day 3.

Source: Riot Games · CompeteTFT (Riot Games)

Spots per server, Americas
Server	Day 1	Day 3
NA	125	22
BR	62	13
LAS	31	5
LAN	26	4
Sub-regional qualifiers	12	12

Day 3: Plus the players who finished 9th to 16th in Trials 1.

Open qualifierEMEA

Tactician's Trials 2

Oct 10–18

Weekend 1 Oct 10–11
Weekend 2 Oct 16–18

Format: Players who finished 9th to 16th in Trials 1 are seeded into Day 3.

Source: Riot Games · CompeteTFT (Riot Games)

Spots per server, EMEA
Server	Day 1	Day 3
EUW	202	41
EUNE	40	9
TR	14	6

Day 3: Plus the players who finished 9th to 16th in Trials 1.

Open qualifierAsia-Pacific

Tactician's Trials 2

Oct 10–18

Weekend 1 Oct 10–11
Weekend 2 Oct 16–18

Format: Same two-route Week 1 as Trials 1; Day 3 adds 29 snapshot seeds, 35 sub-regional qualifiers and the players who finished 9th to 16th in Trials 1.

Source: Riot Games · CompeteTFT (Riot Games)

Spots per server, Asia-Pacific
Server	Week 1 (Days 1-2)	Day 3
KR	112	8
SEA	42	4
TW	34	4
JP	19	2
OCE	17	2
VN	—	9
VN (sub-regional)	—	30
KR (sub-regional)	—	2
TW (sub-regional)	—	1
SEA incl. TH (sub-regional)	—	2

Week 1 (Days 1-2): Two live-server routes: Korea, and the rest of APAC on the TW server. The top 28 of each route reach Day 3.

Day 3: Plus Trials 1's 9th to 16th. Riot's article splits the last 2 sub-regional spots as 1 Thailand and 1 SEA; the rulebook lists 2 SEA.

We check these dates against official Riot sources every day, but Riot's own announcements are the final word. Items marked Unconfirmed come from community sources only.

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