PlayVS Cup 2026 will be a single-elimination tournament for the champions of the Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026, and Fall Vanta leagues. Winners of the following titles will be invited to compete in the PlayVS Cup. The PlayVS Cup is an optional end-of-season tournament operated by PlayVS.

PlayVS will contact first-place winners from all qualifying leagues of these titles with information on how to register their teams for the event. Invitations are sent out on the following dates:

This will be a single-elimination tournament, with all PlayVS Cup teams seeded into a single-elimination bracket for their title.

Due to the nature of a national tournament, keep in mind that your opponent may be in a very different time zone. If the original start time requires a reschedule, we encourage all participants to work together to find the optimal time to play within 24 hours of the original match time.

All brackets will be created and scheduled on Monday, May 11th. Matches will be found on the Schedule page. Teams receiving first-round byes will see their match appear on either Tuesday, May 19th (for titles starting Monday, May 18th) or Wednesday, May 20th (for titles starting Tuesday, May 19th).

The PlayVS Cup Finals will occur the week of June 1st. Titles with competitive integrity concerns due to spectators will not be broadcast. Matches will be broadcast on the PlayVS Twitch Channel.

Champions will receive a custom, one-of-a-kind PlayVS Cup banner to display at their school. The champion and runner-up teams will receive scholarship prizes to be distributed among the players on each team. See below for a detailed breakdown of scholarship prizing by title.

Once all PlayVS Cup matches have been completed, our team will begin the process of gathering the needed scholarship information from coaches of the teams that won or qualified for scholarships. The process and expected timeline are as follows:

Teams will qualify through one of the following methods:

PlayVS Staff will take care of all enrollments for the event. The team that earned the qualification will be enrolled. Once rosters unlock on May 4th, participating players may be updated as needed.

Players are required to have been enrolled in the 2025-2026 school year. Players who graduated at any point during the 2025-2026 school year are still eligible to participate. Players are not required to have participated in a previous season to participate.

No. All matches will take place virtually.

Yes. All teams may compete remotely unless otherwise required by their individual school administration.

Rosters will lock at 10:00 AM Pacific the day of their first match. This allows schools a full 7-8 days to manage their rosters effectively, while still locking in early enough for opposing teams to prepare accordingly for their first match.

First, we assigned "scores" to specific leagues based on their historic performance in the PlayVS Cup, with higher scores assigned to more recent PlayVS Cup participation. This score serves as a baseline to represent that league/region on a national competition scale.

Then, we applied multipliers to the school based on a team's performance over the past year, including their previous PlayVS Cup participation.

Finally - Tiebreakers:

Ultimately, the goal was to develop a process that provided a fairer seeding experience than fully randomized, as it was in past tournaments. We feel that this system served as a good place to start.

The first round of the bracket will appear in your Schedule page by Monday, May 11th, at 10:00 AM Pacific.

The second round and beyond will appear in your schedule page once the previous round of the bracket has been confirmed.

Should a match be overturned, resulting in a new matchup for a given bracket round, advancing teams will be notified of this by PlayVS Staff via support@playvs.com.

Byes will be awarded to top-seeded teams in the event that a bracket is uneven (i.e., 30 teams enrolled into a Top 32 Tournament Bracket). If your team receives a Round 1 Bye, then your team will not be expected to play on May 18th or May 19th (depending on the title).

Teams will see their Round 2 match on their Schedule page as soon as the previous Round 1 match is complete and their opponent has been set.

Yes! All PlayVS Cup matches will have a 24-hour window to reschedule their match by default. We encourage teams to immediately communicate their need to reschedule with their opponent and PlayVS Staff to provide the best opportunity for competition.

Note that reschedules in most instances are not required, and if a new date & time are not agreed to and approved on the PlayVS match page, then the original match time will be upheld (where standard grace period rules apply).

Any member of our community may use the Public Links above to share information publicly about their school performance.

All schools are divided as shown in the images below. These are based on best practices suggested for regions for national competitions with East-West splits. Regional league participants are determined by their team's state location.