ProBots 2025 Sideloaded: The Wildcard!
Welcome to ProBots 2025 Sideloaded! We are back with a special, high-intensity wildcard season. This time, we are condensing the action into a 3-week sprint. It’s faster, it’s riskier, and full of spontaneous action.
Who will adapt the fastest to take home the $50 First Place Prize and be crowned the Wildcard Champion?
Key Dates
This season moves fast. Make sure you are ready for the deadlines below:
| Event | Date (2025) |
|---|---|
| Ladder Cut off | November 07, 2025 |
| Week 1 - First Broadcast | December 04, 2025 |
| Submission Cut off | December 08, 2025 |
| Week 2 - Second Broadcast | December 18, 2025 |
| Grand Finals - Third Broadcast | December 20, 2025 |
Upgrades, Prizes, & The Roster
This Sideloaded season is all about efficiency and intensity. We have streamlined the tournament into three explosive broadcasts. LaughNgamez will also be joining us in coverage duties, by covering one of our two wildcard brackets on his YouTube channel, the first of which will be released today! Mulebot vs BotTato
The Prize
The stakes have been raised. The winner of ProBots 2025 Sideloaded will walk away with $50 USD.
The Challengers
In this condensed season, we have a mix of fresh faces and seasoned veterans battling for the top spot:
- Returning Authors & Bots from Last Season (The Elites):
- Zozo (SamOgon), NegativeZero (Mindme), MicroMachine (RaphRR), Xena (TeamXena), BenBotBC (Blosier), Caninana (Ratosh), SharpenedEdge (DrInfy), GPT (Thom), TyrT (Tyr), Aeolus (Flowerdance), DominionDog (Fidolina).
- Returning Authors from Last Season Fielding a Classic Bot (The Veterans):
- Eris - TeamEris (the GOAT?)
- Sharkbot - Sharknice (
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- Returning Classic Authors & Bots (The Challengers):
- SmallBly (Max), Apidae (Slugger).
- New Bots - New Authors (The Prodigies):
- LunaxVRR (Lunax), ZeratulsRevenge (Wesley), Mulebot (MerkMore), Mike (Prevosta).
We are also thrilled to have Endersword & LaughNGamez returning to the talent team as commentators, joining Ketroc in a new Analyst role and our one and only host, Drekken.
The Format
This season introduces a unique format designed to test endurance and peak performance.
- Stage 1 (Wildcard): Two 8-Bot King of the Hill Style brackets, featuring the 14 lower ranked bots.
- Stage 2 (Main Event): Single Elimination Playoffs of 8 Bots, featuring the two King of the Hill winners, the Champion (Zozo), and the top 5 ranked ladder bots.
Tournament Map Pool (All maps emulate patch 5.0.14 changes)
- Incorporeal
- Ley Lines (may be removed, TBD)
- Torches
- Pylon
- Persephone
Important Rule Changes
Several rules will be altered, most of them only for this season, to fit within the wildcard theme and the constraints of the 3-week length, here are a couple highlighted ones:
- Ladder versions of the bots will be used for the wildcard. Main event qualified authors will be allowed to submit modified versions one time, before the start of the Main Event (Ro8). Submissions will be open soon.
- Authors will not be given the option to choose alternative bots for this season.
You can find this season’s detailed rulebook here, with all updated sections highlighted.
Seeding
We will be using the ladder rankings from the cutoff date to determine seeding, while Zozo claims seed 1 as last season’s champion. There will be no alternate bot submissions this season, and no submission phase for the wildcard stage. Further info can be found in the rulebook.
Main event
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Zozo - SamOgon
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NegativeZero - Mindme
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Eris - TeamEris
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MicroMachine - RaphRR
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Xena - TeamXena
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BenBotBC - Blosier
Wildcards
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Caninana - Ratosh
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SharpenedEdge - DrInfy
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GPT - Thom
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SharkBot - Sharknice
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TyrT - TyrT
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LunaxVRR - Lunax
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SmallBly - Max
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Aeolus - Flowerdance
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ZeratulsRevenge - Wesley
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Mike - Prevosta
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Mulebot - MerkMore
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DominionDog - Fidolina
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Apidae - Slugger
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BotTato - Dogtato
Rulebook
You can find this season’s detailed rulebook here, with all updated sections highlighted.
Where to watch
VersusAI’s YouTube channel for the entirety of the tournament, releasing on Thursday, December 04, Thursday, December 18, and Saturday, December 20th.
LaughNgamez’ YouTube channel for his half of the wildcard bracket, releasing daily from today
We’ll be opening submissions for Main event bots soon, as well as posting regular updates on this forum.
-Magnath from VersusAI (Magnath10 on Discord)