Independent Associations Championship 12

The 12th Independent Associations Championship is an international tournament currently being held in Muralos and Almuzahara.

Host selection
IAC-12 received three host bids. The first bid was posted by Muralos and Almuzahara. Hot Skitty on Wailord Action posted a bid of their own with a highly unconventional format, in order to force a host vote, rather than the Muralos/Almuzahara bid being selected without a vote by the IAC-OC. HSoWA did not actually intend to host IAC-12, simply to force a vote. Squidroidia posted a similarly unconventional bid for reasons unknown.

Draw
Teams were seeded into one of six pots according to the interim IAC ranking system introduced at IAC X, updated as of the end of the World Cup 87 finals; ties between teams with the same rank were broken by the order in which the tied teams registered for the tournament, with the first team(s) to register seeded highest. Muralos and Almuzahara were seeded in Pot 1 by right as hosts.

Tiebreakers
In the group stage, the ranking of teams in each group will be based on the following criteria:
 * 1)  (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss);
 * 2) Points in matches between tied teams;
 * 3) Overall goal difference;
 * 4) Overall goals scored.

In the event that more than two teams are initially tied and at least one team wins or loses a tiebreaker, the tiebreaking procedure will restart from the first tiebreaker for any teams which might still be tied. In the event that all results are equal, the teams' ranks will be determined by drawing of lots.

In the knockout stage, if a match is tied at the end of normal playing time, two fifteen-minute periods of will be played. If the match is still tied at the end of extra time, a will be held to determine the winners.