Oceanic Developmental Tournament (ODT)

Oceanic Developmental Tournament 2024

The Oceanic Developmental Tournament aims to create a pathway to professional sport, building a positive, aspirational, and competitive competition across Oceanic Region for League of Legends.

Registration is free

The games are free to play.

Registration is by invitation from META Esports, QUT Sport or earned from Oceanic Intervarsity promotion.

The Team manager will be contacted by QUT Sport or META Esports will the appropriate details to complete registration. 

Player registrations will not be considered complete unless all player agreements have been obtained from the Team Manager.

There will be an onboarding session for team managers and players. Your Team manager will receive those details after registration.

• Wednesday 6 March ODT onboarding

Competition Prizing and awards

Medallions

1st, 2nd and 3rd place medallions will be available.

Match Days and Times

Match times and days will be on Thursday evenings between 14 March to 9 May from 5.45pm -10pm AEST Brisbane daylight saving times.

Match Times are final. Changing match times as a flow on effect and impacts other teams and rounds. Lobby for booking in and prep is completed.

Player Registration

• Ensure the valid op.gg account is added to your registration. This will be your highest level and or ranked account. If this is not your highest level or ranked account, please provide these details for scouting.  Suspected Smurf or boosted accounts will be removed from the competition.
• If you use a shared account, your account will be banned. No exceptions. Suspected accounts will be referred to RIOT games and if identified by RIOT games as a shared account the player will be banned in accordance with the Penalties Index.
• ODT players cannot play in Oceanic League of Legends Intervarsity. An OLI Division 1 (or 2)  player who plays more than 2 matches in ODT, on call up, will be considered ODT level and team locked to team until the end of the season. 
• LCO players cannot play if you have a current contract listed on the Global Contract Database. Further, generally, you cannot play if you are listed as a contracted LCO substitute. However, leave may be granted to play in ODT for non-playing substitutes, please refer to FAQs (This is subject to change).  

Sport Athlete Training offered to Esport Athletes

It is our commitment to athletes in Oceanic to help improve the community and wellbeing of all competitors. During the year it is envisaged that online athlete training session will be available to competitors.

This is optional training to support the community in safety and inclusivity.

Promotion and Relegation

Promotion and relegation aims to create a whole of bridge from foundations (high school sport) to Elite (Intervarsity) and to mastery (Professional League) for oceanic athletes (FTEM framework).  

2 positions are available for universities OLI teams to compete in ODT.

On completion of the Oceanic League of Legends Intervarsity competition the top 2 Division 2 teams and top 2 Women’s teams will be offered to compete in Stage 1 Trials to progress to Stage 2 Trials. The top 2 Division 1 teams progress to Stage 2 and compete against 2 winners of  Trials 1. The winners of Trials will compete against last season's ODT univesity teams. This will be repeated each season in a mid and end of year promotion and relegation cycle.

LCO developmental squads, which may be labelled Academy teams, do not need to compete in the Promotion Relegation round.

Impacts on midyear and end of year student graduations

It is understood that players may graduate midyear and end of year from their university.  

• Midyear students who have completed their studies may compete in semester 2. This considers their university graduation ceremonies and exiting from university.

• End of year graduates are not allowed to compete the following year.

Impacts on Teams midyear and end of year

Promoted Universities ODT Teams roster is unlocked from season to season.

• This aims to support developmental pathways from foundations to mastery for athletes (FTEM framework) in line with annual university sport scholarships processes in rising sport and esports scholarships.
• Also, to encourage university sport supported teams elevating the oceanic competitions.  

However, in operation:

• University ODT teams require the same constraints as normal OLI on selection of their team, i.e. must be enrolled students. Note that teams may still be relegated to OLI in mid-year promotion and relegation cycle.

Exception starting teams 2024 

University teams UNSW and QUT, highest based seeds ODT 203, are starting teams in the ODT. Both teams will be required to compete in the mid year promotion and relegation round. Teams unable to contest a position will be refered to next university highest seeded team in 2023. This is applicable for this season 1 2024 only and will ccontinue to progress with promotion and relegation roundpost each season for entry and play in ODT. 

Details Promotion / Relegation 

Scrims will be opened on Discord in February.

Scrims will be opened in Discord in February.

Spectating and viewing

Live streaming will be undertaken from the QUT Sport Production Studio at QUT Gardens Point Campus X Block X104. 

All games will be streamed each week through the QUT Esports Twitch main and B Streams.

Match schedule will be posted on Twitch and RevSport.