In Brief:
- Origins Trading Card Game has announced the Harvest Bowl. The tournament has 1,024 spots split between two qualifiers on Nov. 28, followed by a 128-player final on Nov. 29.
- The official account said 32 tournament promos are up for grabs, and this is the first Origins tournament to use a sideboard.
- According to the team, the event belongs to a monthly Early Access tournament series that will continue until the full set launches in February.
Sign-ups are open for the Harvest Bowl, a 1,024-player Origins Trading Card Game tournament and the first time sideboards have been allowed in Origins competitive play.
The official @origins_tcg account announced the event on X and listed two qualifiers and 32 tournament promos. “Halloween is over but we’re not done with pumpkins yet,” the account wrote.
Halloween is over but we're not done with pumpkins yet
Announcing our next tournament: The Harvest Bowl
▸1024 spots
▸2 qualifiers
▸32 tournament promos
▸First Origins tournament with a sideboard
For more information, check out Discord or Steam@origins_tcgView on X ↗
Two qualifiers, one final
Each qualifier takes up to 512 players, and both are on Saturday, Nov. 28. Qualifier 1 begins at 10 a.m. EST (4 p.m. CET). Qualifier 2 starts at 4 p.m. EST (10 p.m. CET). The two have separate sign-ups and separate check-ins.
The format in both is double elimination with best-of-three matches. A first loss sends a player to the losers’ bracket, and a second loss ends their run. Each qualifier moves 64 players forward: the top 32 from the winners’ bracket plus the top 32 from the losers’ bracket.
Those players make up the 128-player final, which is its own tournament on Sunday, Nov. 29, at 10 a.m. EST (4 p.m. CET). The sign-up pages describe it as “A 128 player seeded Swiss bracket with a 8 player Top Cut.”
The earlier slot is filling faster. At the time the sign-up pages were fetched, 476 of Qualifier 1’s 512 places were taken, against 337 of 512 for Qualifier 2.
Sideboard rules
Each player may submit a sideboard of up to three cards along with their deck. Cards are swapped one for one between games, and players don’t need to declare what they changed.
The tournament pages state that the sideboard is “Not a rule of the game: an option of this tournament.”
The listing says decks are free. Check-in and deck submission both open two hours before start time and close five minutes before it. Anyone who misses check-in won’t play.
Once the bracket is under way, the clock matters. Starting in round two, players get 15 minutes after a match is ready to open their match room. A player who doesn’t can lose by forfeit if their opponent claims the win.
Who runs it
OriginsMeta lists both qualifiers as community tournaments. The organizer is apixtwts, and the judges are aldrymus and luigidavdasragoni. The full event takes place on the OriginsMeta site, and according to the listing there will be an introduction in the Origins Discord. The @origins_tcg post also sent players to Discord and Steam for more details.
Links to the event’s rulebook and FAQ are on the sign-up pages.
A monthly series to February
A follow-up reply from @origins_tcg put the Harvest Bowl in a longer schedule. “The Harvest Bowl is part of our Early Access tournament series. We’ll run one of these per month until our full set launch in February,” the account said.
Koin Games develops Origins, which is in Early Access on Steam. Each player builds a 25-card deck around a legendary character taken from myths, folklore and classic stories, and matches are short PvP games with simultaneous turns.
October’s Crimson Cup came before this one, and the developers called it their biggest tournament ever. Its $10,000 prize pool came with tournament promo cards that the team said will never be re-released. According to @origins_tcg, after almost 11 hours of play the Crimson Cup’s top four competed for first place and the first ever 1/1 tournament promo card.
A banner on the OriginsMeta tournament pages notes that the Origins TCG Alpha Edition has been on Kickstarter since Oct. 27.