Friday, January 29 – Saturday, January 30, 2027 · North East Regional Park, Orlando, Florida (turf). The weekend opens with Matchday 3 on Friday morning, then the first round of the Top 16 brackets (P1, P2 and M1) starts Friday night.
Championship weekend opens with the final regular-season matchday. Friday morning’s Power & Play-In Schedules settle the last group points, the standings lock at 3:00 PM, and Slot Choice follows at 5:30 PM.
Matchday 3 concludes. The league finalizes standings from all three matchdays and creates the championship brackets.
The Slot Choice Ceremony for the P1, P2, M1 and Women’s Championship and Promotion Brackets: clubs pick in Power Score order and select their first-round opponents from the bottom eight ranked clubs in their division.
First-round matches (Round of 16) officially begin Friday night. Lower brackets (8-team brackets) start on Saturday.
Championship bracket play continues. First matches begin at 8:00 AM. All divisions continue bracket play until champions are crowned, four rounds, overtime enabled, under the same rules as the regular-season matchdays.
Day 2 runs three bracket matches instead of four, leaving room for full overtime and for what makes this event special: watching championship roundnet, semifinals and finals in front of hundreds of fans, included as part of your registration.
The Power Schedule, Play-In and Slot Choice work the same way in every division. What differs by division:
| Division | Power Schedule | Play-In / other route | Matchday 3 | Movement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 23 clubs, two groups | Top 6 per group after Matchday 2 | Everyone else plays the P1 Play-In for the top 4 spots. Top 16 is a hard rule: every team in it has played Matchday 1. The rest play the P1 Survival Bracket. P1 clubs must also field a Minor team at Matchday 1 or 2, bring two Minor teams to the playoffs, or count the equivalent of 14 extra players from the club area at the playoffs. | 4–5 Power matches (2-round) | Bottom 2 relegate to P2 |
| P2 32 clubs, East and West | Top 6 per group after Matchday 2 | Everyone else plays the P2 Play-In for the top 4 spots, one guaranteed to the highest-finishing team that played in all three matchdays. The rest play the P2 Survival Bracket. The same Minor-team requirement applies to P2 clubs: field a Minor team at Matchday 1 or 2, bring two Minor teams to the playoffs, or count the equivalent of 14 extra players from the club area at the playoffs. | 4–5 Power matches (2-round) | Top 5 promote to P1; bottom 2 relegate to M1 |
| M1 | Top 6 per group after Matchday 2; qualify for Power and you must play there | Every other club chooses where its top Minor team plays: the M1 Play-In Schedule for the top 4 spots (one guaranteed to the highest-finishing team that played in all three matchdays), or the M2 schedule and its 8-team brackets. Play-In teams that miss out play the M1 Survival Bracket, its own podium, trophies and prize money, with the bottom fighting to keep their M1 status. | Friday in Orlando is Matchday 3, the regular-season finale | Top 5 promote to P2. Promotion Bracket (16) all stay M1; Survival: all but the bottom 2 stay M1, the bottom 2 drop to M2 |
| M2 | No limit to M2 teams at Matchdays 2 and 3. Friday pool play, and Friday’s finish with Matchday 2 places every M2 team into 8-team championship brackets (A, B, C, D and beyond), every bracket playing for trophies, a podium and prize money. Brackets begin Saturday. M2 squads still play M1 squads, but those matches don’t count toward the group points that decide the Promotion Bracket or promotion to P2. | Pool play on Friday | Top 5 from the highest bracket move up to M1. The B bracket and below: no promotion | |
| Women’s | Group points come from Matchday 1 and Matchday 3 only, 3 points a win, 1 for a tie. Top 8 make the Championship Bracket; the top 4 get Slot Choice and pick their opponents from seeds 5–8. Everyone else plays the Women’s Minor Bracket, seeded by the same Power Score. Miss Las Vegas and you carry five absences, but you can still play your way into the top 8 in Orlando, even into a Slot Choice seed. | 5 matches, 15 points max | Seeded by Power Score, like every division | |
How seeding works: every match counts toward your squad’s Power Score, and the Power Score sets the bracket seeding and the Slot Choice order, win your matches, and beat strong squads, to climb it. The first Power Scores publish November 9. There is a championship opportunity at every level of the league, every club has something to play for during Playoff Weekend.
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.
January 29–30, 2027 · North East Regional Park · Turf fields
The key questions for this page. The full league FAQ, all 287 answers, lives on one page.
Matchday 3 is the final regular season matchday of the PRO Roundnet season and serves as Day 1 of Championship Weekend in Orlando.
Friday, January 29, 2027 / Approximately 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM / North East Regional Park, Orlando, Florida / Turf Fields
All divisions compete during Matchday 3, including:
Matchday 3 is the final opportunity for clubs to earn group points, improve their Power Score, climb the standings, and qualify for championship playoff brackets.
Matches against divisional group opponents award group points toward standings. Matches outside the group primarily impact the Power Score. Because of this structure, standings can shift significantly throughout the day.
The League first schedules opponents from within each team's divisional group that they have not yet played. If additional matches are needed, teams may be scheduled against nearby competitive opponents to maintain balance and complete scheduling.
Every club is guaranteed a minimum of 4 matches during Matchday 3.
Matches continue throughout the day until approximately 5:00 PM before playoff brackets and evening activities begin.
Yes. Teams may move dramatically in standings, playoff qualification, or seeding based on final Matchday 3 results.
After Matchday 2, the top 6 teams from each group move into the Power Schedule: they play each other on Matchday 3 morning in Orlando. Every Power Schedule team is already in the Championship or Promotion Bracket, those matches set the seeding, the Power Score.
On Matchday 3, The Power Score builds the Power Schedule: squads are matched up to make the schedule as balanced as possible, the most even set of matches the field allows. Squads never play a team from their own group, every Power Schedule match crosses groups. If teams are tied, a secondary metric breaks the tie.
Everyone who isn't in the Power Schedule plays the Play-In for the final four at-large spots in the Championship and Promotion Brackets. In P2 and Minor, one of the four is guaranteed to the highest-finishing team that played in all three matchdays. In P1, every team in the Top 16 must have played Matchday 1.
One exception: a club whose top Minor team misses the Power Schedule chooses its path, the Play-In, or the M2 schedule (pool play), and the league places teams into the 8-team brackets from there. A Minor team that chooses the Play-In is playing for the Promotion Bracket, miss out and the M1 Survival Bracket has its own podium, trophies and prize money, with the bottom fighting to keep their M1 status. Power-qualified Minor teams play the Power Schedule, no opting down.
Once final seeding is set, teams take part in the Slot Choice presentation before the bracket starts: the picking order runs off the Power Score, and in that order teams choose their first-round opponents from the bottom 8 seeds. Slot choice takes place in the first and second rounds for the top 16 brackets, and if a team upsets a higher seed, it takes that seed's spot in the bracket.
Seeding runs off the Power Score, which weighs a squad’s group points per match together with the strength of its results, beating strong squads counts for more than running up wins over weak ones. The Power Score sets the seeding and the Slot Choice order for the Championship and Promotion Brackets, and helps decide their final spots from the Play-In Schedule. The first Power Scores publish November 9.
The Power Score ranks the squads in a division from 0 to 100. It blends two things: a squad’s record against its own division, and its Team Elo.
So a Power Score of 100 means a squad leads its division on both counts right now. Every other number measures how close a squad stands to the top of its own division, which is why a score can move when other squads’ results change.
