Announcing the FRC 2018 EU Champions!Announcing the FRC 2018 EU Champions!

OVERVIEW / SCHEDULE

The Feast Regional Championships 2018 are a series of official FINAL FANTASY XIV tournaments being held in each region to determine the ultimate victor of the Feast in North America, Europe, and Japan.

The tournament will begin with in-game preliminaries where they will continue in online semifinals. Teams that emerge victorious in the semifinals will be invited to their local Fan Festival to take part in the finals to decide the regional champions!

The FEAST Regional Championship Preliminaries

PRELIMINARIES PERIOD
FROM TUESDAY, JULY 3, TO TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2018.

Similar to the regular season of the Feast, teams that participate in the Feast (Team Ranked Match) will be ranked based on their team’s overall rating. At the end of the preliminaries, the top six qualifying teams of the Chaos data centre will be eligible to proceed to the semifinals.

View the Feast Rankings.

The FEAST Regional Championship Semifinals

SEMIFINALS PERIOD
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 AND SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.

The top 6 eligible teams on the Chaos data centre will be divided into 2 blocks of 3 teams each. Block A will consist of teams that ranked #1, #3 and #5 in the preliminaries while block B will be teams #2, #4 and #6.
A round-robin of best-of-three (BO3) matches will be held between the teams of Block A, and another series between the teams of Block B, to decide the top four teams to attend the finals. The two winning teams, per block, will then be invited to the Fan Festival 2019 in Paris to compete in the finals!

The semifinals will be streamed online live!

Stream Schedule:

  • Semifinals (Chaos Data Centre, Block A) Scheduled for Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 18:00 (BST) / 17:00 (GMT)
  • Semifinals (Chaos Data Centre, Block B) Scheduled for Sunday, September 9, 2018 at 18:00 (BST) / 17:00 (GMT)

Please note that the streaming schedule is subject to change.

The FEAST Regional Championship Finals

FINALS PERIOD
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, AND SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019

The finals to determine the regional champion for the Feast will be held at Fan Festival 2019 in Paris! The #1 team from Block A will battle against the #2 team from Block B, and the #1 team from Block B will battle against the #2 team from Block A, in a best-of-three match to determine the finalists. The two winning teams will then do battle in a best-of-five match to determine the Feast Regional Champion for Europe!

The finals will be streamed live as well! We hope you all tune in and watch the moment where our very first regional champions are determined!

Location

Fan Festival 2019 in Paris – La Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France

The FEAST Regional Championship Prizes

Prices will be awarded to the teams who passed the preliminaries and semi-finals, and to the regional champion as well! Prices will be awarded to each member of the team individually.

The FEAST Regional Champions (Europe)

  • Trophy
  • Three years of FINAL FANTASY XIV game time
  • An In-game Title

Furthermore, we’ll be awarding a gaming laptop, gaming mouse, and gaming headset to each of the champions!

Teams that place in the top 10 teams per data center during the preliminaries will receive an in-game title as well. Teams that are invited to participate in the finals will also receive an in-game title!

* Please note that no prices will be awarded to players who are no longer a team member.