Finals
A league ends with a knockout. Once the regular rounds are played, the best players in the table go into a single-elimination bracket: win and you go through, lose and you're out, until one game is left and its winner is the league's champion.
Who makes the cut
The top players in the final standings, ranked by the league's own tiebreakers. How many is the season's Finals size, which your organizer sets in Settings. It's four unless they change it. If the league has fewer players than that, everyone in the table plays. It takes at least two.
How the bracket is seeded
Your place in the table is your seed. The bracket is laid out the way tournaments do it: the top seed plays the lowest, the second plays the second-lowest, and so on, arranged so that if the higher seed keeps winning, first and second can only meet in the final.
A bracket needs four, eight or sixteen places. When the cut is a different number, say a top six, the spare places are byes, and they go to the top seeds. A bye means you skip the first round and go straight into the next one. It's the reward for finishing high.
Playing a finals game
When the finals start, a Bracket tab appears in the season. It shows every round as it fills in, named for what it is (quarterfinal, semifinal, final), and it stays there after the season ends. Your finals game shows up in My matches like any other, and you report it the same way.
A finals game can't end in a draw. Somebody has to go through, so a level result won't be accepted. Settle it however your league does, and your organizer records the winner.
Finals results don't change the league table. The table is the regular season, and it stays exactly as it was when the cut was made. See Standings and tiebreakers.
For organizers
Finals live on the Competition tab (Organize → a season). When the regular rounds are done, press Start finals. That builds round one from the standings as they stand at that moment and moves the season into finals. Pressing it twice can't make a second bracket.
If the league has a Discord channel connected, the same press posts the cut: everyone who made it with their seed, record and (where the league keeps them) faction, the round one pairings and any byes, the first player who just missed out, and a link to the bracket. You can turn that post off on the Discord tab. If the post fails, the finals still start, and the app tells you.
When every game in a round is settled, press Advance round. The winners are paired in bracket order for the next round. Each finals round can take its own title and note, just like a regular round, kept separate so "Finals · Round 1" never overwrites your season's opening round.
Once the final is settled, the bracket names the champion and a Finish the season button appears beside them. The season doesn't end by itself: pressing it closes the Best Painted vote, stops the weekly recap and the player guides, and moves the league into the Archived list on your players' home screens, so hand out your awards first. You can still correct a result afterwards. More in The organizer area.
What else the finals start
Some awards only open once the finals begin. Best Painted is the main one: the league votes for a painter during the finals, not before. See Awards.