Night of the Tentacles
Fall League 2025
Rules and Guidance
Welcome to the 2025 FFR Fall League. This is our yearly event that pits teams of racers against each other for a chance at glory. The Fall League is a six-week event, the first four of which are open to all teams, with semi-finals and finals taking place in weeks five and six respectively. We invite all interested players to come and join the league, form a team, and get ready for the delightful chaos of this year’s event.
Please make sure to have all members of your team read these rules, and the General Rules and Guidance for Tournaments and Leagues, before registering for this event.
About the League
Players will group up in teams of four (4), no more or less. Each week of the league will feature different flags (listed below in the “League Flags” section) and four races of that flagset (with different seeds) each week. Each player on the team must race once each week (and only once unless prior approval is given that week by the Fall League Staff).
Tournament Structure:
During the first four weeks, the League will be open to all teams. Once the first four weeks are over, points will be totaled and the top four teams will then compete in Week 5 for semi-finals (all other teams are, at this point, out of the League). For Week 5, points are reset to 0. At the end of Week 5, scores are totaled again and the top two teams will complete in the “Gold Medal” match, while the other two teams of week five can compete, if they so choose, in a “Bronze Medal” match.
As is tradition, the Finals Week races will be a 4v4 Rally Race (for Gold and Bronze). Details are provided in the General Rules and Guidance for Tournaments and Leagues.
Important Dates:
- Team Registration: August 24 - September 20, 2025
- Schedule Survey: September 7 - September 14, 2025
- Schedule Posting: September 17, 2025
- Team Reveal Stream: September 20, 2025
- League Weeks:
- Week 1: September 21 - 27, 2025
- Week 2: September 28 - October 4, 2025
- Week 3: October 5 - 11, 2025
- Week 4: October 12 - 18, 2025
- Semi-Finals Week: October 19 - 25, 2025
- Finals Week: October 26 - November 1, 2025
League Schedule:
Dates and times for the specific games will be settled closer to League start. A survey will go out to all registered players in order to determine each player's availability. Scheduled days for the matches will be determined based on a schedule that will suit at least one day/time for each player on the team. The schedule will be created based on the submitted information for all players and we will ensure as best as possible that every player can make at least one race. If your team signs up after the schedule survey has been closed, then your team will need to conform to the schedule already posted, no changes will be made after September 17.
League Points:
Scoring for the races will be handled via “bins” (meaning that players that come within a certain amount of time from each other will score the same amount of points). This helps to “flatten” the scoring curve and keep competitive teams within closer distance of each other. A full breakdown of the bin system for scoring is available in the General Rules and Guidance for Tournaments and Leagues.
This League will also feature bonus point objectives. Each week will have a specific objective for all four races, and a bonus point (1 point) will be awarded in each race if the players complete that bonus. Points are awarded per race, so each player on the team can choose whether to earn that point during their race independently.
- Note: These objectives will be listed below with Fall League flagsets.
Additional points will be awarded for assisting with race crew during the week (1 point per slot filled, with a maximum number points per team determined by how many teams we have in the league).
League Flags and Bonus Objectives:
- Week 1: Spoiler Week
- Bonus Objective: Look Before You Leap
- Defeat all 4 fiend re-fights in ToFR before defeating the final boss.
- Bonus Objective: Look Before You Leap
- Week 2: Exorcise the Undead (Using Beta)
- Bonus Objective: Honor the Fallen
- On a visit to Elfland, slow walk and talk to the Erdric grave at least once in your run to honor our fallen FFR comrades. Then, make a full lap (still slow-walking), interacting with every shop (except the black magic ones of course) and pass by the front door of the clinic.
- Story: Come on a journey to strengthen your holy light warriors so that they may withstand the growing power of the undead. Teach your whole party harm8 and exorcise all of the undead before you!
- Bonus Objective: Honor the Fallen
- Week 3: WT On a Stick
- Bonus Objective: Check Out this Cool Stick I Found!
- Use a spell item to cast a spell that has no effect 3 times during the chaos fight. This includes:
- Any spell that would remove a status you don't have (including life).
- INVS/INV2/RUSE while already evade capped (only one person needs to be capped, so RUSE up and INV2 away).
- FAST while already FAST'd.
- WALL/Any A-spell, while already protected.
- Use a spell item to cast a spell that has no effect 3 times during the chaos fight. This includes:
- Bonus Objective: Check Out this Cool Stick I Found!
- Week 4: Topsy Turvy
- Bonus Objective: Gotta Cast 'Em All:
- Over the course of the seed you must cast one of each elemental type -- Fire, Ice, Lightning, Earth [QAKE], Poison [BANE/BRAK], Time [STOP/ ZAP!], Death [RUB/XXXX], and Status [MUTE, CONF, etc.] -- as well as one non-elemental spell [HARM spells, NUKE, FADE, etc.]. Item magic does count toward this.
- Bonus Objective: Gotta Cast 'Em All:
- Semi-Finals: Mystery Week
- Finals: The Grand Rally (New Version)
* Note: Flagsets may be subject to change before launch of league as some tweaks are made.
Spoiler Week:
This league will see the another return of Spoiler Week. This time around, players will get their seed three days (72 Hours) in advance of their race. They will have that time to check out the seed, plan their route, and figure out just what they will do come race time. At the time of the race players will ready up as normal and wait until the race starts. They will then race as normal with full access to their notes. While they are allowed to use any knowledge they gained in the three days prior to their race, they are not allowed to sit in chat or a voice call with other members of their team, watch the vods, be in Twitch chat, or anything else not normally allowed in a race. They have to come with their wits and knowledge alone for the race.
League Staff:
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them at: Dani, Franklin, LordFizzlebeef, rax, Skar, Sorbius, Wewbear.
¶ Previous League Events
- 2024 Fall League: League of Monsters: All Fiends Attack!
- 2023 Fall League: It Leagued from Outer Space
- 2022 Fall League: Melmond Murder Mystery
- 2021 Fall League: Candy-Coated Carnage
- 2020 Fall League: All Hallows' League
- 2019 Summer League: Onrac Summer Vacation
- 2018 League Season 2: Le Tour de Coneria
- 2018 League Season 1