Summoner Trials

You aren't matched against anyone in particular. You compete against the table, and only the games you play after signing up count.

• No schedulePlay whenever you like, within the tournament dates. You don't need to be available at a set hour.
• No screenshotsNothing is reported by hand. It all comes from the data Riot publishes for each game.
• A game quotaEach tournament sets how many of your games are tracked. Once you hit that number you stop scoring, so every one counts.

Only games in the queue the tournament is set to — solo/duo, flex or normal draft, whichever the tournament page says. And of those, four cases are dropped:

• ·Games played before you signed up.
• ·Remakes. Riot flags them separately, so they don't count as a loss and can't complete a punishment.
• ·Games played in a duo with another entrant. You may not party up with another entrant to queue together. If you were both searching separately and matchmaking put you in the same game, that's fine: what isn't allowed is teaming up on purpose.
• ·Games played while a punishment is undecided. Until you accept or reject it, nothing you play counts — and it isn't recovered afterwards.

Four terms, and only one depends on winning:

• Participation · 10Flat, for playing the game. Depends on nothing.
• Performance · 0 to 100Your percentile within your role. It's the term that weighs most.
• Result · +30 or −20A win adds 30, a loss takes 20. A good loss can still be a net gain.
• Feats · variableWhatever you pull off that game. Rare things pay far more than common ones.

A game can come out negative, and that's deliberate: it happens when you lose while performing in the bottom 5% of your role and earn no feats. It's rare — one in ninety-four during testing — but when it happens, it subtracts.

The 0-100 performance figure isn't your raw stats: it's your percentile within your own role. A support and a marksman are measured on different scales, so playing support costs you nothing.

KDA, kill participation and damage per minute weigh the same, with vision and your role's defining stat slightly below: CS per minute in the lanes, assists for support.

Measured on a real game: a 19/4/9 marksman scores 125.9 and a 2/8/24 support scores 119.7. Opposite roles, equivalent score.

Every player has 20 feats live each game: 10 team ones, 8 individual ones and 2 specific to their role. Riot credits the team ones to all five players equally, so nobody is penalised for the position they play.

The points aren't guesswork: they come from the real percentage of games each one is achieved in, measured across 10,020 performances. Anything happening in under 1% of games pays 100; anything above 30%, 3.

Counter feats pay per repetition — two team aces is 200 — and 6 of them are threshold feats: you either get them or you don't, and they pay once per game.

The full list of all 20, with what each one takes, lives in the seals and punishments guide.

You win a game as marksman performing above three quarters of all marksmen, and along the way you take first blood and your team kills Baron:

That same game, lost, would have scored 131: feats and performance aren't lost by losing.

The balance penalty only touches players who lose more than they win: with an even or winning record it's zero. It's there so that grinding many bad games doesn't beat playing few good ones.

Rejecting or failing a punishment subtracts a further 100 points, each time.

−25 / −100

Your games don't show up the moment you finish them: they land when someone syncs the tournament. Any entrant can do it from the button above the standings, once every ten minutes. If you just played and don't see it, give it a few minutes — Riot's API also takes a little while to publish the game.