Over the past weekend, Ubisoft had an esports panel during the Season 7 LAN Finals, that included Justin Kruger - Community Developer for the game, Cary Lambert - Esports Manager and Parker “Interrobang” Mackay - Pro League Caster, to present the newest changes being added to Pro League for this next season. The format is getting a full revamp in a more competitive and fair way.

These changes are as follows:

The format will now be a double round robin in which you play each other team twice a season (Once before, and once after the midseason Major as there is a DLC dropping in the middle of the season).

Each team will play once a week.

Matches are now a Best-of-One, in which the first team to win 6 rounds takes the map. Furthermore, there is no overtime in a maximum of 10 rounds.

The Paris Major will be in the middle of season 8.

The top 2 teams in each region will still attend the Pro League Finals.

Pro League Finals will remain as Best-of-Three.

Season 8 will begin in June and end in November.

Season 9 will last from December until May.

In the event of a tie during the Pro League Finals, there will be tiebreaker in which there will be 5 rounds and a role swap every round. The first team to win 3 rounds in overtime wins the map.

The 8th placed team in Pro League will be automatically relegated to the Challenger League, and the Challenger League champion will get automatically promoted to the Pro League.

The 7th placed team in the Pro League will face the 2nd placed team from the Challenger League for the last Pro League spot in a Best-of-Three.

The Pick and Ban system remains the same as announced before (each team bans 1 Defender and 1 Attacker).

The role change remains the same as announced before (5 rounds on DEF/ATK and 5 rounds on ATK/DEF).

The Challenger League will keep its 3 month seasons. Its Season 8’s qualifiers will last from June to August, and the actual Season 8 for the Challenger League will last from September to November.

Season 9’s qualifiers will last from December to February and the Season 9 season will last from March to May.

We are sure that these changes will help the growth of the game, and will make it a more spectator and player friendly experience.

Season 8 will be starting sometime in June, so get ready to see this new format in action very soon!