2025 Collegiate National Championship

After an electrifying Nationals tournament in 2024, we’re excited to announce that the 2025 Collegiate National Championship (CNC) will be held at Life Time Peachtree Corners in Atlanta, GA! We’ll be using the same 64 team format as last year, plus introducing a 32 team bracket for 2nd teams and schools without a bid!

SCORING
Rally Scoring - Games to 21, win by 2, win on serve

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
- Any college student taking a minimum of 6 college credits at the university they are representing can participate
- A player can only play in one bracket, you cannot do multiple brackets.
- Players cannot be partnered up with students from a different school
- A school may only bring one team for both the 1st Team Bracket and the 2nd Team Bracket, however you are allowed to bring as many players as you want for the Challenger Bracket
- Your school must have earned a bid from the 2025 season to sign up for the 1st Team Bracket
- Teams for the 1st and 2nd Team Brackets must be comprised of 2-3 male and 2-3 female players

SCHEDULE
Friday, April 11th - Group Play for the 1st & 2nd Team Brackets and the Challenger Bracket
Saturday, April 12th - Round of 64, 32, 16, and 8 for the 1st Team Bracket, Round of 32, 16, 8, 4 for the 2nd Team Bracket, Group Play and Playoffs for the Challenger Bracket
Sunday, April 13th - Semifinals and Championship for the 1st Team Bracket, Finals for the 2nd Team Bracket, Consolation matches for all teams eliminated before Sunday.

See the schedule in the photos section for more details!

64 SCHOOLS - 1ST TEAM BRACKET
In order to compete in this bracket, your school must have earned a bid through one of these ways:
- Earned at the 2024 Collegiate National Championship (24 given out)
- Earned at a Super Regional (4 given out at each, 4 Super Regionals)
- Earned at a Campus Regional (1 given out at each, 18 Campus Regionals)
- Earned through Dual Matches (2 given out)
- Given a Wildcard bid (4 given out)

The 64 schools that receive a bid will be sorted into 16 groups of 4 teams, with all groups having an equal amount of DUPR. After group play finishes, all 64 teams will then be sorted into the 64 team single elimination bracket. In order to become the National Champion, you’ll have to win 6 elimination matches in a row!

32 SCHOOLS - 2ND TEAM BRACKET
This bracket is open to both 2nd teams from schools that have a bid, or the 1st team from schools that didn’t get a bid.
- If your school has a bid, you can sign up for the 2nd team bracket immediately
- If your school doesn’t have a bid, you can sign up the 2nd team bracket after March 9th if there are still open spots
- It is first come, first serve for signing up in the 2nd team bracket. You are allowed to sign up now, and change the players on the team later. You must know your final players on each team by the time registration closes.
- If there are no more spots in the 2nd team bracket, you can sign up those players in the challenger bracket.
- If your school earns their bid after you already signed up for the 2nd team bracket, you will be promoted into the 1st team bracket
- The combined DUPR of your top 2 male and top 2 female players must be higher on your 1st team than your 2nd team
- If you have a bid, you must play in the 1st team bracket, you cannot opt to only play in the 2nd team bracket
- A school can only sign up 1 team for the 2nd Team Bracket

CHALLENGER BRACKET
The Challenger Bracket will be split into Men’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles, and Women’s Doubles. Depending on the registrations, more splits will be made based on DUPR to create high-quality games for all Challenger Bracket players.

SCHOLARSHIP MONEY BREAKDOWN
(1st team bracket)
1st - $15,000
2nd - $5,000
3rd & 4th - $2,500
5th - 8th - $1,250

(2nd team bracket)
1st - $3,000
2nd - $1,000
3rd & 4th - $500

(Challenger bracket)
$1000 - School that brings the most players to the tournament
$1000 - School that brings the best performing challenger teams (min. 3 teams)
$500 - For the winner of each challenger bracket

ALL-AMERICA TEAMS & EAST-WEST GAME
For the second time, we will be recognizing the top players in the country by naming All-America 1st, 2nd, and 3rd teams. There will be 8 players (4 guys and 4 girls) on each team, for 24 players total. On each team, 4 of the players (2 guys and 2 girls) will be from the East, and the other 4 from the West. The Mississippi River is the separating line for the states that are considered East or West.

On Friday night at 6pm, the East and West sides of the All-America 1st team will face off in an exhibition match called the East-West Game! The winner will retain bragging rights until next year's East-West Game. The West won 4-0 in 2024, here is the link

Players will be considered for the All-America teams by these criteria in this order:
1. DUPR
2. Tournament Performance
3. Tournament Participation