LaneSmash

 is a community-run event held on the Jaeger server, and is run by the PlanetsideBattles team.

LaneSmash is a 24-versus-24 format, pitting two teams against each other over a 'lane' of (typically) five facilities, with most standard equipment available for use. Each faction begins with a major facility or large outpost, and one outpost, and must fight to capture and defend a neutral outpost before their opponent, before attacking their opponent's facilities if successful—otherwise defending their own.

LaneSmash tournaments have been hosted several times over the history of PlanetSide 2, and the tournament is currently on its seventh iteration—having started on the 29th of January, 2022 and ending some time in the middle of March.

Format

 * External Link: Season Seven ruleset

Match Rules and Tournament Format
LaneSmash matches pit two teams of twenty-four players against each other over pre-decided 'lanes'. Most LaneSmash lanes are composed of five facilities, with each team owning a major facility/large outpost and an outpost, with a single neutral outpost between their two territories.

Both teams start a match in the region of their "home base," that being their major facility/large outpost, having had half an hour to prepare vehicles and other force multipliers. On match start, teams are then given half an hour to capture as many facilities within the designated lane as they can from their opponent. Players are able to freely move within the lane and, if using a vehicle, any adjacent facilities.

After thirty minutes elapses, or if one team loses their home base to their opponent, the round ends, and players swap home bases for another round. At the end of both rounds, a winner is determined based on facility captures—whichever team captured the largest number of facilities is the victor.

The tournament itself is played over a groups stage and a playoffs stage. In the groups stage, teams compete to win the most matches and, where ties exist, earn the highest number of points (by capturing facilities). In the playoffs stage, teams are organized based on their groups performance, and play down to a finals through raw wins-and-losses.

Equipment Restrictions
Though the format's exact ruleset changes on a season-by-season basis, it typically only places a hard ban on the Construction System (and thus the ANT), with granular removal of other items as necessary to try and balance matches as closely as possible.

Almost all equipment available for purchase with Certification Points is allowed for use, though anything that requires an alternate currency to purchase (such as A7 or Merit) is restricted due to an inability for PlanetsideBattles to distribute the currencies en masse. Time-limited or grind-locked equipment, such as Campaign or Directive rewards, are also under a blanket restriction.

Outside of these rules, bans are typically placed to address gross faction imbalances, such as bans on empire-specific MAX abilities or empire-specific rocket launchers.

Season Seven (2022)
Season seven of LaneSmash was organised by Baumi, HuntingLeopard, Hailot, Knaroef, and plAyed.

Matches were streamed on the PlanetsideBattles twitch.tv channel.

Season Five (2020)
n/a

Season Four (2018)
n/a

Season Three (2017)
n/a

Season Two (20??)
n/a

Season One (20??)
n/a