World Tag League (2021)

The World Tag League is an upcoming tag team speedrunning tournament promoted by the International Spyro Grand Prix (co-chaired by CrystalFissure and Nintendogen64). The tournament is scheduled to commence in June 2021 and will be the second tournament in the World Tag League lineage.

Progress
▼ The tournament has been planned and will be starting soon.
 * ► Sign ups have begun

Teams of Two
In a significant departure from former RIPTO-affiliated tournaments, the ISGP World Tag League was a tag team affair. Rather than the tournament being mostly comprised of singles matches, every match in the World Tag League was scheduled to be a tag team match. Therefore, every match would be a 2-on-2 match.

Goals and Objectives
Rather than matches in the World Tag League being to complete a certain objective in the run, the World Tag League's matches would be placed into the following groups:

Bingo (Lockout/Non-Lockout): As in previous tournaments, teams may elect to compete in a Bingo match where goals must be completed in Rows, Columns or Diagonals. Once a team fills out a row, column or diagonal, they'll win the match. The lockout variant of these goal means that once one team has completed a goal, that goal becomes locked and the other team is unable to complete it.

ISGP Race (Lockout/Non-lockout): An ISGP Race is a variant of the Bingo match type in which teams need to still complete a series of objectives chosen from a pre-made board. However, competitors do not have to complete objectives that form a row across the board, they only need to do one per column instead. Otherwise, it is similar to a Bingo match. The lockout variant of these goal means that once one team has completed a goal, that goal becomes locked and the other team is unable to complete it

Tag Team Lockout: Teams must work together to complete a board comprised of pre-made objectives. Like the lockout variants of previous match types, once a team has completed an objective, the other team is then unable to complete it. The match is over when the board has been filled out. The team with the most objective completed is the winner.

Complete X before Y: The closest match type to a traditional singles match; in a complete X before Y match, members of a team must both complete the end goal of Y. In order to do this, however, objective X must first be completed.

FUTCH: FUTCH is a specific match type which works similar to a Scavenger Hunt race where competitors earn points for doing certain actions. Unlike a Scavenger Hunt, competitors can also lose points if they perform certain actions. The one who gets the most points wins the match with an optional time limit or destination.

Points
The point allocation for the World Tag League was as follows:

Tournament Progression
The World Tag League (2021) will consist of three (3) rounds - the Block Stage, the Semi-Finals and the Grand Final. The Block Stage will feature two even blocks (A Block and B Block) competing in a round robin tournament to determine the qualifiers for the Semi-Finals. The top 3 teams from each block will progress to the Semi-Finals and square off in single elimination tag team matches with the winners of the 3 Semi-Final matches progressing to the Grand Final. The Grand Final will be a triple threat tag team match with the winning team earning a title shot at the ISGP Tag Team Championship.

Drop Outs and Replacements
If a team drops out of the World Tag League they will not replaced unless there are extenuating circumstances surrounding the drop out. This would include dropping out before official competition begins - thus allowing for a replacement team to be found prior to the commencement of the tournament - or a drop out within the first 48 hours of the tournament commencing. If a team drops out or withdraws from the tournament then any points they have accumulated will be stripped and their total point allocation will be set to zero. Any team that may have lost to the dropped out team will receive the usual 2 points on the grounds of forfeit, however their win/loss record will reflect the original outcome of the match.

Accepted Games
All games playable in the International Spyro Grand Prix were also playable in the World Tag League. These games were as follows:
 * Spyro the Dragon [NTSC-U/PAL]
 * Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage/Gateway to Glimmer [NTSC-U/PAL]
 * Spyro: Year of the Dragon [NTSC-U/PAL]
 * Spyro the Dragon [NTSC-J]
 * Spyro x Sparx: Tondemo Tours [NTSC-J]