Season 10

The Oceanink Series offers players from Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, South-East Asia and Korea a chance to play against other local teams and practice playing regular matches under competitive conditions. The league is split into divisions, which allows everyone to play against teams of a similar skill level, with the aim of helping teams to improve and grow.

The season will consist of a bracket played over several weeks. Teams will be expected to play a set number of matches in that time period, with certain weeks set aside for catching up on deferred matches. 

All communication regarding the Oceanink Series will take place in the Oceanink Competitive Discord server. If you have any questions about the Series, please use the #series-help-desk channel in the Discord server and ping the @Series Admin role.

Times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST, UTC+10).

Rules & Format

Please see the Oceanink Series Rules for information about eligibility, promotion and relegation, match procedure and disconnection rules. At least one player in each team is required to read it in its entirety before playing in the Series.

Schedule

  • Sign-ups open: Jan 21st 2024
  • Seeding Tournament 1: Feb 4th
  • Sign-ups close: Feb 14th
  • Seeding Tournament 2: Feb17th
  • Seeding Scrim period: Jan 26th-Feb 18th
  • Divisions finalised: Feb 23rd
  • Season start: Feb 26th
  • Season end: Late April

Registration

Registration opens on Jan 21st 2024 and closes on Feb 14th 2024.

Register here

Once you have registered for the Series, you can also sign up for one or both Seeding Tournaments. If you want help with signing up, please use the Series help desk channel in the Discord server.

Seeding Tournament 1 registration: https://www.start.gg/tournament/oceanink-series-10/event/seeding-tournament-1/overview

Seeding Tournament 2 registration: https://www.start.gg/tournament/oceanink-series-10/event/seeding-tournament-2/overview

Season 10 Changes

Official Timezone change

In previous seasons, Oceanink used the ACT/NSW/Victoria timezone as it default timezone. This season we are moving to the AEST timezone. This is to avoid the confusion from the daylight savings changeover from AEDT to AEST in April.

Start.gg team requirements

Last season only two players from each team were required. This season, four players are required to join each Start.gg team. This allows for more flexibility in responding to changes in team – such as when a different team member needs to act for the primary captain for an Oceanink Seeding tournament or for an extended period of time. If you have questions about using Start.gg, please forward your questions to #series-help-desk.

Maximum number of players per team

The maximum number of players allowed on each roster has been reduced from 10 to 7. In previous seasons it was rare for teams to signs up with more than 7 players and last season only a couple of teams had 7 players on their roster. We’d like to formalise smaller rosters to encourage more teams to form.