The North American Challenger Series Summer Qualifiers will implement seeding for the Top 8 teams that sign up, Riot announced Monday evening.

The seeding will be based on the ranked tier of the five highest-ranked players on a team's roster, with a certain amount of weight given to each tier. According to Riot, the initiative is designed to prevent early matchups between stronger teams that could occur as a result of random seeding.

The eighth seeded teams will be randomly positioned on opposing ends of the bracket, and as long as a team is one of the seeded teams, there is no benefit to being the first overall seeded team versus the eighth — the intent is simply to keep the eight strongest teams, at least on paper, from playing each other too early on in the tournament.

If fewer than 16 teams sign up, Riot said, they will seed only the Top 4 teams. If there's a tie for the eighth spot, the team with the highest number of individual players will take the spot: so a team with two Challenger-tier players would outrank a squad with only one Challenger player.

Besides the seeding, the event will remain much as it was for Spring, with a single-elimination, best-of-three bracket. The top two teams will advance to the Qualifier Finals on May 25 and face the 2016 NA CS Spring Split's 5th and 6th seeds Dream Team and Enemy.

Josh "Gauntlet" Bury is a Mysterious Challenger. You can find him on Twitter.