January, in Orlando.
You travel to play roundnet in the middle of winter, and the weather is normally amazing.
The season ends here. It comes down to these two days in Orlando for the chance to win a trophy for yourself and your club.
This is the Championship, part two of the Championship Weekend. Here is how the two days fit together.
The last regular-season matchday. Minimum four two-round matches, final group points on the line.
Standings lock at 3:00 PM. Then, on stage in front of the whole tournament, banquet tables for the top 8 seeds, captains and owners pick their first-round opponents live. Finish higher, choose your matchup.
Round of 16 starts Friday 6:30 PM. Saturday runs 8:00 AM until champions are crowned.
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Registered clubs send 7-to-8-player squads to represent their club, playing the ASL squad format, to bring home the league championship for their division.
The 7-to-8-player format rewards depth and chemistry. Every player matters, and every point builds toward something bigger.
Your finish here sets your status for next season. Promotion and relegation keep every match meaningful, champions rise, and the next contenders are born.
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Year five, and the worst-kept secret in roundnet: nobody comes just for the bracket. Two full days in Orlando in the middle of January, and a weekend that feels like a family reunion with a championship inside it.
You travel to play roundnet in the middle of winter, and the weather is normally amazing.
The best clubs in North America meet here to decide who truly belongs on top.
Your whole squad under one roof, late-night games, the pool, talking roundnet until nobody’s left awake.
Friday’s first rounds and the finals, played in front of everybody.
The 7-to-8-player format rewards depth and chemistry. Every player matters.
The coast on one side, the theme parks on the other.
Cinderella Castle · Photo: Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Universal globe · Photo: Kev Cook, CC BY 4.0 · Cocoa Beach Pier · Photo: Leonard J. DeFrancisci, CC BY-SA 3.0 · SeaWorld lighthouse · Photo: Jeremy Thompson, CC BY 2.0
The PRO and Women’s Finals: the brightest lights and one of the loudest, largest crowds in the sport.
Hundreds of players, nets everywhere, and whole delegations rolling in wearing one color.
A real prize pool across the divisions, the 2027 table is in the Prizes section below.
The jumbo scoreboard, the opening ceremony, both national anthems, and Slot Choice, live on stage.
The Playoffs finalize your tier, P1, P2, Minor and Women’s, and earn your place for the year ahead.
You switch partners all day, every match with your team, for your club, in your jersey, representing something.
Two full days of nonstop action, where every match counts.
Your win–loss and your PRO Score move all weekend, play well and your owner sees a future pro.
Represent your city, your colors, and your conference in every match.
Trophies and prizes in every division, and nobody goes home early.
January sunshine, energy and atmosphere, the biggest event in PRO Roundnet.
Promotion decided live, a possible back-to-back champion, and world champions playing on their own squads against each other.
You are playing for your seeding, too: how you finish this season is a big part of where you start the next one. Your results feed bracket qualification, seeding and the Slot Choice order.
One of the largest in the sport, every single year.
The season and the standings build to one weekend, and there’s always a comeback story.
Wristbands, the professional playoff booklet, and a weekend run on the PRO Score app, scores and standings live all weekend.
The whole league together for two days, new faces, real friendships, one community.
North American roundnet unified, and the CEO of Spikeball shows up, year after year.
Food trucks and the concessions tent keep the whole weekend fed, right by the fields.
How teams get in and how seeds are chosen.
P1, P2 and Minor are open divisions, women can play there. The Women’s division is an additional division for women’s squads.
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Every team plays out for final placing.
*Every team in the P1 Top 16 has played Matchday 1, that’s the requirement for this bracket.
Locked into this bracket. These matches are pure seeding.
Carolina Reapers
Lehi Raptors
San Jose Shockwave
Atlanta Puffins
LA Goats
Minneapolis Motion
Les Patriotes De Quebec
Rochester Red Hots
New York Subway Surfers
Dallas Lonestar
Vancouver Sentinels
Seattle RainFriday morning: the top 4 take the last 4 spots in this bracket.
Illinois Inferno *
Philadelphia Lemon Lads
Richmond Spin Doctors
State College Nittany Lions
Wasatch Warriors
Albany Gladiators
Columbus Chinchillas *
College Station Aggies *
Boise Bandits
Gainesville Gremlins *
Chattanooga Trash Pandas ** Did not attend Matchday 1. Eligible for the Survival Championship.
Eligibility: every team in the P1 Top 16 has played Matchday 1, and a club keeps its Championship Bracket pathway only by meeting the Minor-team requirement (a Minor team at a matchday, two Minor teams at the playoffs, or 14 extra players from the club’s area).
*The December 5 Atlanta matchday may change seeding, but not the teams in the Power Schedule or the Play-In Schedule.
Every team plays out for final placing.
Every team plays out for final placing.
*One of those four spots is guaranteed to the highest-finishing team that played in all three matchdays.
Locked into this bracket. These matches are pure seeding.
San Diego BreakersNew York Subway Surfers P2Les Patriotes De Quebec P2
Buffalo Bulls
Idaho Falls Freeze
Denver RamsState College Lions P2
San Francisco Bridges
St. Paul Sleepers
Austin Bats
Kirkland FogRochester Red Hots P2Friday morning: the top 4 take the last 4 spots in this bracket.
Ontario Pioneers *
Kansas City Smokers *
Polk County Swans *
Michigan Superiors *
Virginia Beach Surfs Up
Miami Manatees *
Long Island Lookouts
San Luis Obispo Stampede *
Pittsburg Steel *Illinois Inferno P2 *
Central Florida Snowbirds
Washington HuskiesLemon Lads P2
Milwaukee Milkers *LA Goats P2Dallas Lonestar P2 *
Clemson Tigers *
Knoxville Suns *
Arizona Monsoon *
Portland Riot ** Did not attend Matchday 1. Eligible for the Survival Championship.
Eligibility: one of the four Play-In spots is guaranteed to the highest-finishing team that played in all three matchdays, and a club keeps its Championship Bracket pathway only by meeting the Minor-team requirement (a Minor team at a matchday, two Minor teams at the playoffs, or 14 extra players from the club’s area).
*The December 5 Atlanta matchday may change seeding, but not the teams in the Power Schedule or the Play-In Schedule.
Every team plays out for final placing.
Every team plays out for final placing.
Top 8 make the Championship Bracket. Group points come from Matchday 1 and Matchday 3, so nobody is locked in yet: Friday in Orlando decides it.
#1Goats · Southwest#2Huskies · PNW#3Sentinels · PNW#4Raptors · Rocky Mountain#5Bandits · Rocky MountainEvery team plays out for final placing.
Every team plays out for final placing.
*One of those four spots is guaranteed to the highest-finishing team that played in all three matchdays.
Locked into this bracket. These matches are pure seeding.
Richmond Spin Doctors - MinorCarolina Reapers Minor ASeattle Rain M1San Jose Shockwave MinorVancouver Sentinels M1 AWasatch Warriors AttackCarolina Reapers Minor BAtlanta Puffins MinorNew York Subway Surfers - MinorAlbany Gladiators Minor ALehi Raptors AnthrosIF Freeze Minor AlpineEach club’s top Minor team, and the club chooses the Play-In or the M2 schedule (pool play). The top 4 on Friday morning take the last 4 spots in this bracket.
San Francisco Bridges Minor AMichigan Superiors MAustin Bats MinorPenn State Lions M1Long Island Lookouts - MinorKansas City Smokers MinorLes Patriotes De Quebec MinorBuffalo Bulls MINOR ALehi Raptors BladeVancouver Sentinels M1 BSt. Paul Sleepers Minor AIF Freeze ArcticWasatch Warriors ChampionsPhiladelphia Lemon Lads MinorSLO Stampede Minor
Houston Crusaders Minor ARichmond Doctors MBMinneapolis Motion Minor College Station Aggies MinorLA Goats MinorKirkland Fog M2San Diego Breakers MinorPittsburg Steel MRochester Red Hots MinorWashington Huskies M3Seattle Rain M2Albany Gladiators MINOR BNew York Subway Surfers - Minor CPolk County Swans MinorMiami Manatees Minor AGainesville Gremlins MinorOntario Pioneers MPortland Riot MinorAZ Monsoon MinorMilwaukee Milkers Minor ADenver Rams MinorBoise Bandits MinorIllinois Inferno MinorColumbus Chinchillas MinorDallas Lonestar MinorEligibility: one of the four Play-In spots is guaranteed to the highest-finishing Minor team that played in all three matchdays. Qualify for the Power Schedule and you must play there: no opting down.
*The December 5 Atlanta matchday may change seeding, but not the teams in the Power Schedule or the Play-In Schedule.
Every team plays out for final placing.
Every team plays out for final placing.
A third of the season is played at the Championship, against the best players in the league, so the playoffs are the best PRO Score point grab of the season. This is where you build your PRO Score, move your PRO Score. Play against the best, become the best at the playoffs, in a championship that will make legends.
Dallas Lonestar · P1 · Texas Conference
Minneapolis Motion · P1 · North Central Conference
Dallas Lonestar · P1 · Texas Conference
Rochester Red Hots · P1 · Northeast Conference
Atlanta Puffins · P1 · Southeast Conference
Straight from the players’ mouths
The squads setup is game-changing. It’s so much fun and brings people together. I absolutely LOVE it.
This event is AMAZING! There is nothing like the team atmosphere this format creates!
Loved getting to play with all different teammates and getting to play tons of different players.
ASL Squads format was the most fun roundnet I’ve ever played! I’m excited to go back and play people from all over again!
It was the most well-run roundnet tournament we maybe have ever been to. So well-organized, such a clear schedule.
This event was the funnest roundnet event I have ever attended. Not only was it a blast and a half, but I felt closer to everyone in the roundnet community than ever before.
Only thing better than playing was meeting and getting to know players from all around the country. Already looking forward to next year’s big event!
The best part about this event was the sense of team spirit and involvement within the roundnet community.
Congrats on an incredible event and weekend. Even with horrible weather, the energy and vibe was incredible.
This was the most fun I’ve had at a tournament in my entire 5-year roundnet career!
Last year’s champions, the squads that finished on top of each division.
Friday morning is the last word of the regular season, and it sorts every team into its bracket.
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The pool starts at $6,600 guaranteed and builds with every squad that registers.
A guaranteed minimum of 24 squads · 168 players · $6,600 is guaranteed, 8 squads per division. Every squad after that builds the pool.
If the same number of teams participate as last year, the same squads in every division, this is the pool. Beat last year’s turnout and every prize goes even higher.
Set each division below and watch the whole prize table move.
Swipe or scroll sideways, one division at a time.
The pool builds with every squad that registers, it only goes up.
Every prize is paid per squad, not per player. Every bracket champion takes the largest share of that bracket’s pool, plus the All-Star Hat Tourney pays $600 to the winning squad.
Beat last year’s numbers and it all goes even higher, we want to pay out more than ever before.
The Championship and Promotion Brackets don’t get drawn. They get chosen, on stage, in front of the whole tournament. Nothing else is scheduled against it. Don’t miss it.
Two days, start to finish. Friday runs on the clock, and Saturday’s finals are set, with everything else flowing around them.
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The weekend officially opens.
Final regular-season matches, all divisions. Four matches minimum.
Final standings set. Brackets are built.
The Friday-night show, banquet tables for the top 8 seeds, captains and owners picking their opponents live. How it works.
Championship and Promotion Brackets start Friday night. Lower brackets start Saturday.
Brackets run all day, four rounds, overtime on.
The first champions of the weekend are crowned.
The P2 championship, with promotion to P1 already settled on the court.
The Minor championship match.
Right before the PRO Finals, see the section below.
Semifinals and finals in front of hundreds of fans. Fewer matches Saturday on purpose, room for full overtime, and for everyone to watch.
First-time players can play Minor at the Playoffs for a club that is not their boundary club. The request form is only for players whose closest club is within 60 miles: it takes your closest club’s owner saying yes (the League asks them), and Board approval, and requests must be in by January 22, 2027. If your closest club is more than 60 miles away, you do not need the form or any approval at all.
Tyler Fernandez7.0
Fredric Hinkle7.8
Luke Mowry8.0
Rahul Murthy7.3
Aniket Matharasi7.1
Micah Allin7.3
Luis Orozco7.0
The Playoffs, and your whole season, in your pocket.
The details: you get wristbands, the professional playoff booklet, and a weekend run on the PRO Score app, scores and standings live all weekend.
Every player carries a PRO Score, the league’s career rating from 1 to 10.
The app is coming by the end of November, for iPhone and Android.
Every squad plays for more than itself, you earn points for your conference all weekend. The strongest conference takes the award, and every player in it earns a digital patch, displayed on their player profile here on the website. All eight conferences are in it, and the same points race decides the Top 10 Strongest Clubs.
Saturday, right before the PRO Finals. Fun to play in, super fun to watch.
Selected as a conference All-Star? You are invited to play, unless you are in the PRO Finals. Squads are completely random, drawn from the voted All-Stars.
Matches are 1 round to 21, hard cap. The winning squad keeps advancing, and wins $600. Make the All-Star final and you play in front of hundreds of fans waiting for the PRO Finals.
No club near you? You can still play the Championship, bring a 7-player squad and play a real M2 championship bracket in Orlando.
Players with no club nearby, and groups playing outside the league system right now.
5 of the 7 must be local, same boundary rules as every club. Up to 2 can come from anywhere, as long as they are not contracted players.
A first taste of the Playoffs, built to turn into a full club next season.
Expansion squads start with a call, book a meeting with Alex and he’ll talk you through it and get your squad set up.
Past Championships, in print, flip through the official playoff programs and meet the 2025 Regular Season All-Stars.
Announced January 2026 at the Orlando Playoffs, every conference’s selections, names and photos, in the official announcement.
The printed program from the 2026 Playoffs, schedules, club listings, hall of fame and full rosters. 24 pages.
The printed program from the 2025 Playoffs in Orlando, schedule, conferences, hall of fame and full rosters. 40 pages.
The printed handbook from the second ASL Program Playoffs, 82 squads, 600 players, 54 pages.
The first Spikers Program Playoffs handbook, 43 squads, 300+ players, 32 pages.
Every year, every division, swipe through each podium, in finishing order.
Orlando, Florida · January 30–31, 2026
2026 Playoffs · P1, the top finishers in the P1 bracket, in order.
2026 Playoffs · P2, the top finishers in the P2 bracket, in order.
2026 Playoffs · P3, the top finishers in the P3 bracket, in order.
2026 Playoffs · Women’s Pro, the top finishers in the Women’s Pro bracket, in order.
2026 Playoffs · Minor M1, the top finishers in the Minor M1 bracket, in order.
2026 Playoffs · Minor M2, the top finishers in the Minor M2 bracket, in order.
2026 Playoffs · Minor M3, the top finishers in the Minor M3 bracket, in order.
2026 Playoffs · Minor M4, the top finishers in the Minor M4 bracket, in order.
2026 Playoffs · Minor M5, the top finishers in the Minor M5 bracket, in order.
2026 Playoffs · Strongest Clubs, the Top 10 clubs of the playoffs, ranked on their squads’ best finishes.
The 2023 to 2025 podiums live in the History archive.
For Fans, Family & Friends
You don’t have to play to be part of the weekend. Championship Weekend is built like a show, and it is at its best from the sideline.
Finals under the lights. Saturday night, one court, and the whole crowd packed in around it.
Every club, one field. 49 clubs in the Florida sun, the whole sport in one place.
Matches all day. Top-level roundnet from 8 AM to the last final, most of it a few steps from your chair.
Moments like this. Championship celebrations happen ten feet from the sideline, not behind a fence.
Spectator passes are on sale in the league’s own registration system, guest checkout, no account needed.
Every squad has someone making the calls, and in this league, the calls are on the record.
The captain runs the day. Lineups, subs and Slot Choice picks, every call stamped to the captain who made it.
Wins and losses follow the captains and coaches who made the assignments, a coaching history that builds season over season.
The next role in the game. Playing careers end. Leading doesn’t have to.
Championship weekend only, the short set. Every other league answer lives in the one full FAQ.
The Playoffs. After Matchday 3 finishes on Friday in Orlando, the season moves straight into championship brackets, Friday night and all day Saturday, January 29–30, 2027 at North East Regional Park. Every division crowns a champion.
Every club, at every level. P1, P2, M1, M2 and Women’s all have a championship bracket in Orlando, plus survival and lower brackets, so every squad has something to play for all weekend.
After Matchday 2 you are in one of two schedules for Matchday 3. Power Schedule: top 6 per group, every Power club is already in the Championship or Promotion Bracket. Matchday 3 is the most competitive schedule of the season, 4–5 2-round matches that set the Power Score and the Slot Choice order. Play-In Schedule: everyone else, playing for the top 4 spots. Seeding runs off the Power Score. For P1 and P2, the club must also meet the Minor-team requirement, in one of three ways:
That count is cumulative across forms: a Minor team’s players count toward the 14, and players the club sends to the all-conference Women’s team count too. Each player counts once and must be a registered player from the club’s area.
The spirit of the rule is to help the league have competition for those that are benefiting from the highest level of competition.
A Friday-night event in its own right, banquet tables for the top 8 seeds in every Championship and Promotion Bracket, and nothing else scheduled against it. Friday at 5:30 PM, right after standings lock at 3:00 PM, each club’s captain and owner comes up in front of the whole tournament and picks its first-round opponent live. Picking order is set by the Power Score. The highest-ranked clubs pick their first-round opponent from the bottom eight in their division. Slot choice takes place in the first and second rounds for the top 16 brackets, and if you upset a higher seed, you take their spot in the bracket.
Yes. You can still play, in the Survival Bracket. The Championship and Promotion Brackets are the part that needs the full season: P1 clubs must attend Matchday 1 to reach the Championship Bracket, and missing it also costs you five absences in the points-per-match math, miss Matchday 2 and those matches are forfeits instead: the squads that showed get the 3 points, yours gets 0, and the matches still count as played for both sides, they show in the W-L-T record as a win for theirs and a loss for yours.
A way in for players with no club nearby. Build a 7-player squad and play the Championship at M2 level. 5 of the 7 must be local under the same boundary rules as every club. Up to 2 can come from anywhere in the country, as long as they are not contracted players. It is built so new clubs can feel the Playoffs, and come back as a full club next year.
Friday starts with Matchday 3, a minimum of four guaranteed matches. Bracket play starts Friday at 6:30 PM and runs Saturday from 8:00 AM until the champions are crowned.
Winners-bracket matches are: four rounds to 21, with no cap, under the 2026 IRF / USA Roundnet ruleset. If a bracket match is tied after four rounds, overtime decides it. Regular-season matches have no overtime.
Yes. P1 bottom 2 drop to P2. P2 top 5 rise to P1, bottom 2 drop to M1. M1 top 5 rise to P2. M2 top 5 from the highest bracket rise to M1. M1 relegation runs through the playoffs only: the bottom 2 M1 Survival squads drop to M2, and no Minor squad drops off the regular-season standings. Your finish in Orlando sets your division for next season.
On the league’s PRO Score app, scores and stats run on it all weekend. Questions: email playoffs@proroundnet.com or message @proroundnet on Instagram.
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January 29–30, 2027 · North East Regional Park · Turf fields
The league’s third year runs on a new fall schedule.
Year 3
Promotion and relegation. New clubs on the map. Every score from this January still unsettled. The league’s third year is where it all levels up.