Media Points are the driving factor in your team's fame in CPL Manager, representing how well-known and celebrated your squad is across the community. Higher media ratings unlock powerful perks like expanded merchandise options, increased visibility, better sponsor deals, and boosted streaming viewership. While briefly touched on in the Office section, this deeper dive explores how Media Points work, how to earn them, and strategies to maximize your fame for long-term advantages.
Media Points measure your team's overall fame and prestige. They combine three core factors:
Dynamic Nature: Media Points change constantly, no static totals here:
Your Media Rating (visible in Office > Media) advances when you hit point thresholds, unlocking perks like increased sponsor offers and new merchandise articles progressively.
Team Points are recalculated from scratch at the start of every new season based entirely on your results from the previous season.
They are not a running total, the old figure is completely replaced.
Team Points = tournaments + league + ladder + tier bonus
Every tournament you finished with a recorded placement is counted — there is no "best result only". Add them all up, add your league and ladder finishes, then add the passive bonus for your tier.
Tournament placements
Scored per tournament, by final position. A tournament only counts once it has finished and your placement has been recorded.
Championship: by final position
| Competition | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5–8 | 9–16 | 17+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship (Legends) | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 |
| Challengers | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
| Contenders | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Rookies | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Series: a Swiss stage, then a 16-team playoff
| Tournament tier | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th–16th | Swiss exit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | 11 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| A | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| C | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
Open Tournaments, including Championship Stage 3: by tier and position
| Tournament tier | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th and below |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| A | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| C | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Series only pays from the playoffs
A Series is a Swiss stage followed by a 16-team playoff bracket. Only those 16 are placed, so reaching the Round of 16 is what earns points — finish the Swiss stage outside the top 16 and the Series contributes nothing, however well you played in it.
Open tournaments award no Team Points
Open Tournaments run weekly are not part of this calculation, whatever you place. They are scored for prizes and rank points only.
League finish
Your division is worth points on its own, and a top-three finish adds more. You must finish in the top six, positions 7 to 10 score nothing at all, not even the division points.
| Division | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th–6th | 7th–10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | 11 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| Diamond | 9 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| Emerald | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Gold | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Silver | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Bronze | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Iron | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ladder finish
Scored on where you finish as a share of the whole ladder, so the reward for a given placing does not change as the ladder grows or shrinks.
| Finish | Points | In a 350-team ladder |
|---|---|---|
| Top 5% | 15 | 1st – 18th |
| Top 10% | 12 | 19th – 35th |
| Top 20% | 9 | 36th – 70th |
| Top 30% | 6 | 71st – 105th |
| Top 40% | 4 | 106th – 140th |
| Top 50% | 2 | 141st – 175th |
| Bottom half | 0 | 176th and below |
Cut-offs round up, so 1st place always clears the top bracket however small the ladder is.
Passive tier bonus
Added automatically for the tier you hold when the season turns over. Nothing to play for here — it comes with the tier.
| Tier | Points |
|---|---|
| S | 15 |
| A | 10 |
| B | 5 |
| C | 0 |
Important Notes
EXAMPLE: Why a good season can still lose you points
An S-tier team’s two consecutive seasons.
The ladder result improved and the Championship run was comparable, but the league finish slipped three places, the Series ended in the Swiss stage instead of the playoffs, and there was no Stage 3 run at all.
| Source | Season one | Pts | Season two | Pts | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ladder | 45th of 603 (top 10%) | 12 | 5th of 353 (top 5%) | 15 | +3 |
| League | Diamond, 2nd | 8 | Diamond, 5th | 5 | −3 |
| Championship path | Challengers, 1st | 16 | Championship, 9th | 15 | −1 |
| Series | 14th (reached playoffs) | 4 | missed the playoffs | 0 | −4 |
| Open (Stage 3) | 3rd | 3 | did not qualify | 0 | −3 |
| Weekly tournaments | 4th | 0 | 1st | 0 | 0 |
| Tier bonus | S | 15 | S | 15 | 0 |
| Team Points | 58 | 50 | −8 |
None of the damage is visible in the headline results. The league finish moved from 2nd to 5th, which costs the top-three bonus. The Series went from a playoff place to a Swiss exit, which costs the whole entry. And Stage 3 was not reached at all. Together that is 10 points lost against 3 gained on the ladder.
Media Points turn good teams into legends. Understand and monitor regularly, earn via wins/events/fame, and unlock those sweet perks. Build your fame to increase passive income!