Thank you everyone for participating in the Colorado Champions League! Check back later for information regarding next season!
Champions League Invitation Structure Update:
Congratulations on an incredible season, everyone! It has been such a pleasure to watch the community get involved with this endeavor and it's been very fulfilling seeing the friendly and inclusive competition among players across the state! I had reached out to a few of our "remote" stores a few months back and unfortunately never heard back from them about running local qualifier events. This, mixed with getting a large influx of events from the Grand Junction area, led me to making the following decision: I'm extending the top player invites slightly for the invitational. The rational behind this decision:
Without additional invitees, JR/SR don't have a chance to have a top cut for the event. By extending it down slightly, this allows for a top cut for our younger division(s) if all participants show up.
Extending top cut for some but not all divisions seems wrong
It was always the plan to have slightly over the invitee number to account for our remote invites, and I want to do what we can to keep that number alive!
As a result, invitations will now go to 34th place for MA, 10th place for SR, and 10th place for JR
In order to both encourage players to continue attending and doing their best at events throughout the remainder of the season and make the leaderboard tracking easier to navigate, there is no longer a Best Finish Limit on Cups or Challenges for the 2026 season.
Champions League Invitational Information:
It is with great excitement I announce the initial Invitational Information for players!
The Invitational will be taking place on Saturday, July 11th, 2026 at 1:30 pm! More Information to come, please check out the Invitational Tab for more info!
Thank you so much to everyone for making the start to this endeavor such a success! Since this is the first time trying to do something like this, I knew that there was going to be a bit of a learning curve trying to get everything figured out, and I knew things would likely shift and change a bit while the season continued on. I want to take a moment and highlight some of the changes I’m looking at making to help create a better experience for all of y’all (and myself!)
As the season has progressed, we’ve had considerably fewer events submitted for our VG players. As a result, we are planning to change courses. We are looking to cease the VG leaderboard, and instead host Qualifier Events leading up to our invitational. The details of these events are currently still being worked out, but the goal is to host between 4 and 6 qualifier events between April and May 2026, and the Top 2 players from each event will receive an invite to the final event.
VG has returned to a leaderboard setting after feedback from the community! (1/26/2026)
In a similar vein to our VG changes, we’re looking at finding a different way to handle our remote region invites. We have not been getting consistent submissions from some of our more remote leagues, so we’re looking to instead host a small number of Qualifier Events in a number of our remote league locations. The winner of each of these events would then get an invite to the final invitational event.
Instead of doing the Community Challenge once a month, we will now be doing them once a quarter. This is both to give people more time to achieve the goal and to make sure that things are a little more spread out to make sourcing prizes and ideas for the challenge a little easier! As a result, the current January 2026 Community Challenge has now been extended to become the Q1 2026 Community Challenge. The player that submits proof of their participation in the most number of unique leagues from Jan 1, 2026 through March 29th, 2026 will get to take home the prize (details coming soon!)
I understand that this means that we will only have two more community challenges between now and the end of the season, but if this ends up being something people miss, we can always add more if there is interest in it!
Our initial look at hosting the invitational event was slating the tournament to take place in June 2026. While this is still the goal, as we begin to look at venue options and start to narrow in our search for a place that suits our space and budget needs, there is the potential that we may push the event back to July 2026. Once we have a more solid plan, details will be announced.