Independent Associations Championship 12

The 12th Independent Associations Championship was an international tournament held in Muralos and Almuzahara.

Host selection
IAC 12 received four host bids, one of which (from Tequilo) was later withdrawn. The first non-withdrawn bid was submitted by Muralos and Almuzahara, featuring a conventional group-stage-to-knockout format. Hot Skitty on Wailord Action unveiled a rival "cursed bid" with the aim of forcing a vote after the controversy that followed the IAC Organising Committee's unilateral host selection the previous cycle. Squidroidia submitted 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 was 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 were initially tied and at least one team won or lost a tiebreaker, the tiebreaking procedure would restart from the first tiebreaker for any teams which might still be tied. In the event that all results were equal, the teams' ranks would have been determined by drawing of lots.

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