The Board announced today that the start of the 2025 GP Holiday Series will be delayed until probably next weekend. Specific reasons were not disclosed but health issues of one of the three players are suspected.

As a result, the remaining ranking tournaments of the 2025 Season will also be re-scheduled by two weeks in order to avoid a congestion of the schedule.

XLeagues

The previously discontinued XLeague Masters (2T+/L) shall be resumed under the “2025 XLeague” moniker and return to its old distance format. Accordingly, DRR4, 5 and 6 as well as the Playoff Series shall be played after the Championship sub-season. The remaining two at-boards of DRR3 are likely to be played between the Grand-Prix and Championship sub-seasons.

To make room for the above, the tournament originally planned as XLeague Championship to take place after the Championship sub-season will be scratched from the schedule completely. It is expected that the XLeague will return to 2T/L rules for 2026.