Albion Online Announces Final Crystal League Championship for September, With Changes to Come

Christina Gonzalez Updated: Aug 28, 2023 1:20 PM Posted: Aug 28, 2023 1:20 PM ET Category: News 0

Albion Online is getting ready for big changes. Not only will the next major update, Wild Blood, be out in October, the devs have also announced the final Crystal League Championship. Yep, final.

The Crystal League Championship will happen once again in September and there will be rewards to earn for the champions. Yet, this is the last Crystal League Championship, and the team’s announcement explained why changes are on the way. Not only will this be the final championship, Lethal Crystal League will be removed altogether. Going forward, the Crystal League won't even grant Season Points starting from the beginning of next season. Sandbox Interactive wants to promote other guild activities, so they're making a series of major changes.

“While this is of course a big change for our Crystal League players, we trust that our community can stage their own exciting tournaments and perhaps other competitive formats, and we’ll support Custom Matches with a new Observer Mode to encourage this.”

Yet, before they say goodbye to this particular tournament, there's one more champion to be crowned on Albion East and Albion West. On September 16th, at 10:00. UTC the East server will begin its tournament. Albion West will begin on September 17th at 17:00 UTC.

Ambitious competitors who’ve been racking up those season points can push forth in their quest for a final crack at this particular type of PvP glory and prizes like the Saber tiger Rex Switfclaw skin, Recruiter’s White Tiger Swiftclaw skin, Recruiter’s Giant Frog mount, Occult Cougar Swiftclaw skin, and gold for all.

For this final tournament, a team has to have five consistent players to earn points. So if you change the lineup during the season, each of these changes will count as a separate team. During the tournament, players can still make substitutions, but going into this final League championship, you'll have to stay consistent. The top six Non-Lethal teams and the top two Lethal Crystal League teams on each server will qualify for the tournament. There's also a new one minute timer to accept match invitations to speed things up.

Read all of the details, including on streaming and other tournament rules, over at Albion Online.

Christina is MMORPG.COM’s News Editor and a contributor since 2011. Always a fan of great community and wondering if the same sort of magic that was her first guild exists anymore.