Patch Notes - 1.8.1

Highlights
This patch brings some super useful quality-of-life tools and some balance adjustments to the sponsor missions.

Sponsor Missions
We are adding a brand-new sponsor mission: Quiz.

When you accept a sponsor with a Quiz mission, you will be able to take a 10-question quiz about CPL. The number of correct answers required depends on the mission difficulty:
- Easy: 3 correct answers
- Medium: 6 correct answers
- Hard: 9 correct answers

You can only take the Quiz once. If you fail, the mission will be failed for that sponsor week, so take your time before submitting your answers.

The questions will be randomized and focused on all things CPL. We believe this will be a fun and useful way for players to learn more about the game and understand its systems better. All answers can be found within the help center documentation.

We are also making a few additional sponsor mission adjustments:
- The chat mission is being removed. While it did bring more attention to chats and social interaction, it also became repetitive and encouraged message spam.
- The interview mission will now count as completed only once the interview finishes, rather than when it is accepted. This prevents players from accepting and then canceling without consequence.
- The ladder rounds mission is being adjusted. We are increasing the number of rounds required, as the previous requirement was too low overall.

Notes
We are adding a new notes system for tactics, connected directly to matches.

You will now be able to add notes to each tactic, helping you keep track of ideas, adjustments, weaknesses, setups, or anything else you want to remember.

On top of that, when watching a match, you will be able to add notes at specific timestamps tied to the game and round, you just need to right click on the map and select "Add note here". These notes will be saved automatically so you can review them later, and they will also be linked to the related tactic.

To make this smoother, we are also adding a few quality-of-life improvements:
- You can now click the tactic name shown in the match viewer to open that tactic’s page.
- The tactic preview area will now show recent matches where each tactic was played, making it easier to understand how and where your tactics have been used.
- A new Notes button will be added to the top-right area of the header, giving you quick access to your latest notes.

These are going to be VIP premium features only.

Full list of changes
- Sponsor mission adjustments
- New Quiz sponsor mission
- Tactic notes
- Match timestamp notes
- Clickable tactic names in match viewer
- Match history in tactic preview
- Notes button in the header

This changes are now live.

Season 11 Recap

Season 11 has officially concluded. Here’s a full breakdown of last season’s competitive highlights and league movements.

Season 12 Preview

Hey everyone , here’s what’s coming for Season 12.

Player salaries & new gear adjustments
As previously announced, we are making adjustments to player salaries so that more successful teams have higher salary costs, while newer teams have cheaper and more manageable salaries.

We are also making balance and price adjustments to current gear, while adding new special gear variants with different boosted stats and price discounts.

Upcoming Update — Gameplay Balance

We’re preparing a new balance update focused on making combat outcomes feel more consistent and team building choices more meaningful, along with giving more prestige to the leader role.

Max Stats Reduced to 110
Maximum player stats are being reduced from 120 to 110. In practice, 110 will now represent the power level that 120 was meant to represent, and the stat curve is being adjusted so previous stat levels should also feel stronger than before.

There haven’t been enough boosts, or high enough limits, for players to realistically reach 120. Because of that, the unreachable ceiling has been making players perform worse than intended relative to their actual stat level.

This change helps keep stat scaling cleaner, easier to understand, and better balanced across all systems, especially with talents, boosts, and future progression mechanics.

New Leader Passive
Leaders will now provide a passive skill boost to the rest of the team.

Players other than the leader will receive a 0.2% small boost to all skills for each of the leader’s level, capped at 5%.

This makes the leader role more impactful outside of direct performance and gives teams another reason to develop strong leadership within their roster.

To support this change, we are also increasing the amount of academy tryouts generated with the Leader icon. This should make leadership prospects more accessible and give managers more opportunities to develop future leaders from their academy. Additionally, we are increasing the leaders generated in the transfer list.

Morale Boost Removed
With the addition of the new leader passive, we are removing the old morale boost.

Previously, morale gave players up to a 3% skill boost mostly for staying active, only dropping after several weeks without logging in. Since this was effectively a passive bonus with little decision-making behind it, we’re replacing it with the new leadership boost, which makes the bonus more intentional and tied to team-building.

Weapon Talents Rework
Weapon talents are being reworked.

Instead of giving a flat Aim + Handling boost when using a specific weapon, weapon talents will now improve the actual performance of that weapon more directly.

This means these talents will actually impact things like recoil mitigation, accuracy, etc in a way stats are not doing.

The goal is to make weapon mastery feel less like a hidden stat boost and more like real specialization.

Damage Distance Penalty Rework
Weapon damage distance penalties are being adjusted.

We noticed weapon damage was falling off too abruptly and too soon, sometimes causing a weapon to suddenly feel much worse from only a small change in distance.

Overall Goal
The goal of this update is to make combat feel more consistent, make sure stat related boost only leave, and make specialization systems more meaningful without relying too much on simple stat boosts.

More exact numbers may still change before release.

Thank you,

The CPL Manager Team

Upcoming Update — Economy, Gear & Godlikes

Hey everyone,

We’re rolling out a set of changes aimed at improving long-term progression, team building, and how money flows across the game.

Godlike Players Enter the Transfer List

We’ll now be introducing very high-tier “godlike” players into the Transfer List on a regular basis (roughly every 2 weeks).

• Gives top teams meaningful ways to invest their wealth
• Makes the Transfer List a real alternative to academy development
• Opens up new strategies: build, buy, or mix both

These players will have great limits and a unique new icon "Fire Heart", which gives a permanent 4% boost but the player does not get any of the other hearts.

We are planning to introduce the first godlike player as soon as next week.

Salary System Rework

Player salaries are being rebalanced to better reflect team performance.

• Salaries will scale with team points and big competitions success
• Top teams will pay more, especially with trophies
• Rookie teams will pay significantly less
• Average teams should see minimal impact

This keeps competition fair while making success come with real financial pressure.

First salary update with this system will come in next season update.

Gear Rework + Special Gear

We’re updating gear and adding more interesting options.

• Balance adjustments to underused itemsIntroducing
• Special Gear with rotating items with extra boosts and unique stats
• Better UX/UI, with better visibility of equipped gear and improved flow
• We will reevaluate the gear cost to align with current money flow

These gear changes will see the light starting next season.

These are all changes in our go-live list so this will bring us one step closer to the official launch.

Thanks,

The CPL Manager Team

Patch Notes - 1.7.0

Highlights

This patch brings several quality-of-life improvements along with bug fixes. We’ve started with an overhaul of the Academy pages and navigation. Previously, all pages were grouped together; now they’re organized into clearer categories. For example: 

• Academy → Training
• Academy → Matches

This update also introduces a new Tactics page, which will exclusively feature Pool Party for now. As a result, that map has been removed from the regular tactics page. Overall, this should create a more seamless experience when managing both your main roster and academy.

Next, we’ve revamped the Finances page, now featuring:

• Weekly insights and net structure
• 5-week projection
• Financial status and risk indicators
• Income and cost breakdowns
• Recurring income and expenses
• Categorized transactions

Finally, we’ve delivered two improvements that were previously promised: 

• A button to close your account directly, without needing to contact support
• Clearer visibility of which skill is being trained when selecting premium analysis. This also includes a fix for spillover premium training, where if player skill is maxed something else is trained instead and nothing is wasted.

And a quick note about the new sponsor system: Last week sponsor generation was outdated. We actually have made adjustments to further reward missions and you should expect an income very similar to the old system now. Apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused, and you can expect today generation to be correct.

Full list of changes

• Academy navigation restructure
• Finance page enhancement
• Close account button
• Improved view for premium analysis
• Several of bugfixes

This will be rolled out Tuesday 28 afternoon.

Season 10 Recap

Season 10 has officially concluded. Here’s a full breakdown of last season’s competitive highlights and league movements.

Season 11 Preview

Hey everyone, here is what’s coming for Season 11.

We’re introducing a set of changes aimed at improving progression, reward distribution, and long-term balance across all competitions.

Ladder Rewards Overhaul

We’ve reworked ladder rewards so progression is meaningful across all tiers, not just the very top.
Top 60% → 300 RP
Top 40% → 600 RP
Top 20% → 1000 RP
Top 40 players → 1240 RP base
From there, each position adds +40 RP, scaling up to 3000 RP for #1

This ensures that more teams earn relevant rewards and that percentage-based bonuses from seasonal focus have a stronger impact.

Championship RP Rebalance

Before introducing seasonal focus, we’re adjusting Championship to reduce snowballing slightly since right now is granting more than Ladder + League combined and the seasonal mission reward would just exacerbate that effect.

We are also removing the RP from the Championship stages qualification and moving it to the Contenders / Challengers groups instead.

Championship Legends
1st: 6000 => 5000
2nd: 5500 => 4600
3rd: 5000 => 4200
4th: 4500 => 3600
5–8: 3000 => unchanged
9–16: 2000 => 2500
17–25: 1000 => 1800
26–32: 500 => 1300

Championship Challengers
5–8: 1350 → 1500
9–16: 950 → 1000
New: Group 3rd/4th → 700
New: Group 5th/6th → 400

Championship Contenders
New: Group 3rd/4th → 250
New: Group 5th/6th → 150

Seasonal Focus & Missions

Next season introduces Seasonal Challenges. You’ll choose one competition to focus on:
- League
- Ladder
- Championship

Each focus comes with:
- A passive +5% RP bonus in that competition
- A set of placement-based objectives

Even if you don’t complete your objective, you still benefit from committing to a focus.

Mission rewards scale by difficulty:
Easy → +10% RP
Medium → +30% RP
Hard → +60% RP

In addition to RP bonuses, missions also grant CPL and Media Points:
Easy → 3 Media Points
Medium → 6 Media Points
Hard → 10 Media Points

Tier Adjustment
We are reducing the A-Tier cutoff from 35% to 30%.

We identified a large number of A-Tier teams consistently dominating the Contenders tournament, which indicates the current threshold is too low. This change raises the competitive floor and improves mission targeting.

Sponsor System Rework

Sponsors are being redesigned to provide more consistent and scalable value.

Weekly secured income now scales with your media rating
Mission rewards scale with your media points

Sponsors will include a mix of objectives such as:
- Win 30 rounds in league
- Play 10 scrims
- Create a tactic with 6 waypoints

This creates a clearer connection between activity, performance, and earnings.

Map Pool Update
All v2 maps will enter the active pool next season.

v1 maps will remain available for a few seasons to allow time for migration. While there may still be minor issues, the new system makes them significantly easier to identify and fix.

We are very excited for the coming season and it's a big step towards the official launch. Lets go!

Best regards,
The CPL Manager Team

Roadmap Update – What’s Next for CPL Manager

A lot has happened since our last roadmap. We ran into major challenges, especially around the game engine and map upgrades, but those are soon behind us.

We’ve regrouped and realigned on what truly matters to move toward a full launch. Here’s what we’re focusing on:

CORE FEATURES IN PROGRESS

Seasonal Missions

We want a system-driven way to guide your progression and give purpose to every season.
You’ll be able to pick goals tied to specific competitions, for example:
- Finish top 3 in your league
- Get 15 wins in ladder
- Reach championship playoffs

Tactics Editor Tutorial

Creating tactics is one of the deepest parts of CPL, but also one of the hardest to learn.
We’re building a fully guided in-game tutorial covering everything:
- Basic waypoint setup
- Advanced behaviors (waiting, syncs, etc.)
- Utility usage (nades, flashes)

This should make the transition from beginner to advanced much smoother.

Tactics Easy Mode

We’ve heard this loud and clear: the current editor can feel overwhelming.
We’re introducing a simplified mode with:
- Presets
- Autogenerated structures
- Streamlined UI

This will allow new players to create simple tactics without diving too deep.

Introductory Phase & Missions

Already well in development.
New players will go through a structured onboarding path with:
- Limited UI at the start
- Progressive unlocks
- Guided missions
The goal is to ease players into the game before they fully enter competition.

Sponsor Weekly Missions

We’re making sponsors more engaging with the introduction of missions lasting 1–3 weeks with different focuses:
- Competitive (win X matches)
- Economic (earn X money)
- Progressive (train players)

Gear Shop Rework & Special Gear

This was already in our last roadmap and is currently under discussion for best direction.
One confirmed addition:
- Limited edition gear with unique boosts

Translations

Still planned, but low priority.
We appreciate everyone who has offered help here

Finances Page Rework

The current finances page is too basic.
We’re building a more advanced system with:
- Detailed reports
- Forecasting
- Suggestions for better management

Modular Home Dashboard

We want to improve the social and informational side of the game.
You’ll be able to customize your homepage by adding/removing modules like:
- News
- Chats
- Rankings
- Community content

WHAT'S NOT A PRIORITY (For Now)

These features are not canceled, just not part of the pre-launch focus.

XP Rework
This was important when skills had less impact, but with the current game engine, it’s no longer urgent.

New Maps (Dustline, Mirage)
Even though Dustline is well advanced:
- Map v2 upgrades already add complexity
- 3 maps are enough for launch
- Better for new players to learn the game first

Champions League

We’ve replaced this concept by improving the Championship system.
The result delivers the same competitive feeling, and we’re very happy with how it’s working.

Cosmetic Features

Cosmetics matter for long-term retention, but:
- Not a launch blocker
- Will be added progressively each season

Community Tactics

We still love this idea and we'll see it through as we think it's a great way to collaborate, we just don't think it's a launch blocker.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS

These are features and adjustments that we'll be pushing from time to time rather than in one big deploy.

Documentation

We already had a big start with the help section, we'll keep updating material

Mobile experience

We have a big list of things to tackle and we'll be adding improvements in small patches

Economy adjustments

We have several tweaks planned to improve the financial aspect of the game and how it scales for the average user.

Fame adjustments

We are looking into leveraging an activity bonus factor for streaming revenue, so there's some incentive to build your streamers from the ground up rather than buying from TL being the only alternative.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Our priority is clear:
Make CPL Manager more accessible, structured, and engaging for new players, without losing depth.

We’re excited about this direction and believe it sets a strong foundation for launch.

Thank you!

The CPL Manager Team

Patch Notes - 1.5.0

Highlights

Not a huge patch, but a solid set of improvements across the board.

First we have search & filter capabilities to the tactic stats page, allowing for easily finding the data you are looking for.

Then we have some small tweaks to the tryouts algorithm:
- Players limits minimum strength will be changed from 80 to 60, so tryouts limits from scouting power up to 60 will be slightly worse but start ramping up at 61. This should result in less lucky draws in early levels. 
- We know some people been seating for a long time at 100 scouting power and not getting anything, we are adding a new mechanic where every day after reaching 100 will bump up the minimum limits of the tryouts, starting at 727 and up to 740.

Then we are doing some small tweaks to the academy tournaments:
- We are rescheduling it to run early and all day on Sundays, which is a completely free day
- We are adding a red dot notification whenever a new tournament is created and you haven't joined
- Pool party map will be updated to v2. Being a small map we don't think this needs any preparation and we can just do it right away.
- Players who won 4 amateur tournaments in a single season will get a prodigy icon the next season :fire:
We hope these changes increase the attendance of these tournaments.

Then we have chat notification settings added to your user page, this allows you to control the red dots notification you get from ladder chats, league chats, etc, including the new amateur tournament notifications.

As of the tactic editor, we are removing the edge constraints that made it hard to place points near map borders.

Finally we have a bunch of bug-fixes specifically related to 2-level deep tactics, where they are sometimes not found during search, not saved in preparation screen, etc.

Full list of changes
- Search & filter options for tactic stats
- Academy algorithm adjustments
- Academy 2v2 tournaments changes
- Chat notification settings
- Tactic editor edge constraint remove
- Tactics 2-level deep improvements

This is live effectively now.

Season 9 Recap

Season 9 has officially concluded. Here’s a full breakdown of last season’s competitive highlights and league movements.

Patch Notes - 1.4.3

Highlights

We’ve got a lot of quality-of-life features coming up. Starting with Premium Custom Competitions, which will include:

• Custom tournament logo
• Custom trophies
• Custom coin prizes and distribution
• New formats swiss and swiss + playoffs
• Up to 48 max participants
• Custom schedule and pace

These will have an additional creation cost, as expected, but there will be no difference in joining cost.

Next, we’ve added a couple of community goodies. Community teammates will now be highlighted with a distinctive color to easily recognize them across the site.

We’re also introducing a new role: Trainee. This will be the default role for new members when they join a community and will restrict access to community demos. This helps prevent users from joining just to gather information.

Moving on to ladder updates:

We’re adding a Top 10 fraggers ranking and a Ladder Chat. We’re also removing the ladders listing page and replacing it with a single direct link to the ladder to save clicks.

We’re also introducing Skill-Specific Training. This feature can optionally be paid with Coins or CPL and would allow to focus on one specific skill to train when analysing.

Additionally, we’re adding a clickable round list in the match replay, allowing users to quickly switch between rounds and save time.

Lastly, we’ve made a few communication and usability improvements: 

• Expired gear messages will now show which player had the item equipped.
• Tactic Editor improvements, including:
  • No more ghost APs that you can drag when hidden
  • Added "save as new" feature
  • Small bugs fixed

Full list of changes

• Premium custom competitions
• Community trainee role
• Community teammate color
• Ladder top fraggers
• Ladder chat
• Specific player training
• Active map pool display
• Add round selection to match replay
• Gear expired player info message
• Tactic editor improvements

This is scheduled to release this Thursday.

Maps and GE smooth transition

Hello everyone!

We’ve been working hard on the Game Engine this season. Here’s what’s happening.

The Problem

• Incorrect pathfinding (players choosing inefficient routes)
• Enemy detection issues (targets not seen when they should be)
• Nades thrown from invalid positions, or not thrown at all
• Players positioning too close to walls
• Players not positioned in the 3x3 grid

The Initial Fix

Update the affected maps and deploy the improved Game Engine.

The Complication

We’ve tried pushing similar fixes in past seasons. While they worked technically, they changed how tactics behaved, which caught many active managers off guard who were used and planned on the "incorrect" behaviour. Because of that, we rolled the changes back.

The Final Plan

We’re introducing fixed maps as separate v2 versions.

These will run on the latest Game Engine without affecting your current tactics. Here’s how it will work: 

• You'll go and select the tactics you want to migrate, and choose "Migrate to v2"
• Invalid tactics (likely all of them) will be clearly flagged
• An Autosnap button will adjust tactic points automatically. Once saved, the tactic will no longer be marked as invalid
• Even if valid, tactics will still need to be simulated and tested by the manager to confirm working as expected

This allows everyone to adapt gradually without breaking existing setups.

Autosnap in action:

Note that we are also introducing small tweaks to the map layouts, including: 

• Map-specific improvements, like nades not working over the truck in mill
• Removing some diagonal walls or tiny columns
• Reducing flashes radius by 20%
• Geometrically adjusting the map grid for more consistency in positioning

Rollout Timeline

• Today: Mill v2 is added
• Season 10: Mill v2 replaces Mill and becomes the 3rd map in the BO3 rotation
• Season 10 start: Castle v2 is added for testing and adjustments
• Season 10 mid-season: Train v2 is added for testing and adjustments
• Season 11: Train v2 and Castle v2 enter the official rotation, migration complete

We’ve consulted community leaders on the pace of this transition. The majority preferred a faster rollout. That said, Mill v2 is more than 40 days away from being played officially, and we’ll closely monitor feedback and adjust if needed.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Season 8 Recap

Season 8 has officially concluded. Here’s a full breakdown of last season’s competitive highlights and league movements.

🏆 Ladder – Top 3
(◉‿◉) lotb
the bones
Justice for oxbow

🏆 Major Tournament – Top 3
Kaldheim
team XepcoH
ɴᴏᴠᴇ

🏆 Minor Tournament – Top 3
Mike Tyson
Ursuletul
xxx

🏆 Rookies Cup – Top 3
ɢɪɴᴋɢᴏ
lost in ԁαʀκηєѕѕ
tHread

🏆 End-of-season Tournament (S-Tier) – Top 3
Kaldheim
Justice for oxbow
Milan

🏆 End-of-season Tournament (A-Tier) – Top 3
Ursuletul
ThunderBirds
Mike Tyson

🏆 End-of-season Tournament (B-Tier) – Top 3
ᴅᴜᴄᴋ ʜᴜɴᴛᴇʀꜱ
вяαιηѕтσям
Inglourious Basterds

🏆 End-of-season Tournament (C-Tier) – Top 3
Viikinkit
Furious Duck
lost in ԁαʀκηєѕѕ

⬆️ Promotions to S-Tier
The following teams earned promotion to S-Tier for the new season:
jojo
ThunderBirds
TSB
Ursuletul
Aggression
p.I.xels
Laget
Mike Tyson

🧹 Cleanup
156 inactive teams were removed during the season update.

Season 9 is now live.

Good luck to all teams competing — and welcome to the new season.

Season 9 Preview

Hello everyone, big season ahead. Here’s what’s coming:

New Championship Structure

Game engine updates

Hello everyone! we are excited to announce some upcoming game engine changes for next season.

These changes were done with the following goals in mind: 

• To have stronger players feel more impactful than weaker ones, making it an obvious decision to go for better and more skilled players.
• To make games feel more consistent, with less jumps in players performance and outcomes.
• To increase the impact of some skills like teamplay and gamesense.
• To increase the impact of each individual skill points, so 5 points feel like a big deal.
• To have stacked players at long distance really be a risky decision, leveraging the importance of teamplay skill and/or spreading players.

We changed the engagement delay to a fixed amount of calculation frames. They are now independent of the skills. This means the following skills have lost their impact in them: quickness, awareness, determination.

Removed/fixed mechanics

As part of the consistency updates we have removed or fixed the following features: 

• Wiggle: this refers to the sidestep movement players sometimes do long distance. We have decided removing this from the game engine as it sometimes may create weird scenarios, losing line of sight, dodging nades, etc. We are however, doing a visual only version, just for the aesthetic flavor.
• Distance limit: there was a limit set to 400 distance, where any player further away than that was not being seen. We think there's no reason to have this now and removing will allow for more opportunities to long distance fights.
• Recoil debuff bug: there was a bug where the debuff from recoil when shooting weapons would linger for the rest of the round, negatively impacting players who got an early kill and then went to another fight.

What to expect from these changes:

• You may see long distance fights take longer than before if you are stacking players, specially when using pistols
• You may see backstabbing or catching off-guard more rewarding
• You may see faster and more consistent reaction times from players
• You may see stronger players perform better but weaker players perform worse

That's the TL;DR; version, keep reading if you want to see a list of technical changes.

The following additional changes have been made: Gamesense

• Have gamesense weigh in decision of first target when player is the first to shoot from the stack, threat level etc
• Have gamesense determine if player shoots same enemy as teammate, with drastic less chances the more teammates doing it

Teamplay

• Move stacking debuff mitigating to individual teamplay rather than average of players
• Mitigates the reduced chances to target same enemy as multiple teammates

Movement

• Increases dodge chance which basically adds up to the miss chance of enemy targeting the player
• Increases dodge chance when moving up to a max of 10 steps

Aim

• Adjusted scaling so each aim skillpoint feels impactful

Quickness

• Removed impact on engage delay, now constant
• Increased max turning speed from 16 degrees to 20 degrees
• Adjusted scaling so each quickness skillpoint feels impactful

Awareness

• Removed impact on delay before turning towards enemies outside vision, now constant
• Awareness now impacts turn speed when enemy outside vision
• Adjusted scaling so each awareness skillpoint feels impactful

Handling

• Increased positive impact on recoil
• Increased mitigation of distance penalty on accuracy
• NEW: Increases chance to shoot chest instead of legs
• Adjusted scaling so each handling skillpoint feels impactful

Determination

• Removed impact on retargeting delay, now constant
  
• NEW: Retargeting to a new enemy after a kill grants up to 5% more accuracy
• Adjusted scaling so each determination skillpoint feels impactful

Additionally we made a few adjustments to accuracy calculation:

• Removed awareness and determination from hit formula
• Keep handling in but only for long distance scenarios
• Stacked players accuracy now heavily decreases long distance

We aim to push this on Day 1 next season.

Event Tweaks

Hey everyone! Happy Sunday!

I want to give you a heads-up about some changes to the event system coming next season.

Right now, several events are either broken or effectively useless (many were tied to morale), and event point decay per season is so aggressive that progress is barely noticeable. Long term, we want this system to become more interactive, with meaningful choices for how players handle situations.

For now, these are balance and reliability fixes.

EVENT CHANGES

Podcast

• Condition:player streaming
• Frequency: once per week (was once per month)
• Money: $0 (was $500)
• Event points: 2
• Chance: 20% (was 1%)

Donation

• Condition: player streaming
• Frequency: no more than once every 10 days
• Money: $300
• Event points: 1 (was 0)
• Chance: 20% per fame level

Meet & greet

• Condition: random
• Frequency: once every 10 days (was every 20 days)
• Money: $0 (was $400)
• Event points: 2 (was 1)
• Chance: 20% (was 10%)

Birthday party

• Condition: on player birthday
• Frequency: once every 30 days (didn't have a cooldown)
• Event points: 1 (was 0)
• Chance: 100% (was 50%)

Great win

• Condition: win official game
• Frequency: once per week (didn't have a cooldown)
• Event points**: 1 (was 0)
• Chance: 20% (was 5%)

Interview

• Condition: official game mvp
• Frequency: once every 10 days (didn't have a cooldown)
• Money: $500
• Event points: 1
• Chance: 15% (was 1.5%)

Fine for toxic behaviour

• Condition: lose league game
• Frequency: once every 7 days (didn't have a cooldown)
• Money: -$800
• Event points: 0 (was 1)
• Chance: 3%

Fine for teammates fights

• Condition: lose ladder game
• Frequency: once every 10 days (didn't have a cooldown)
• Money: -$500
• Event points: 0 (was 1)
• Chance: 3%

Late to online event (NEW)

• Condition: play tournament game
• Frequency: once every 20 days
• Money: -$300
• Chance: 3%

EVENT POINTS DECAY

• Before: −50% every season
• Now: −10% per season (rounded down)

These are quick and low effort changes, but they can make a big impact and overall better experience.

Thanks,

The CPL Manager Team

Patch Notes - 1.3.4

PATCH NOTES - 1.3.4

Highlights
Mostly quality of life stuff, starting with a rework of the league and tournament chat system with proper alerts when new unread messages come in, as well as proper pagination for many messages.

These and other notifications will now show up live, without the need to refresh the page for a better experience.

We are also updating the dropped weapons assets during replays. You may have seen them as rectangles in the map of different colors, we are going to show the actual silhouette of the weapons.

Then we have decided to change the default weapon and defuse kit pick up range to 0, so if you don't unlock the leadership perk players will not deviate from their path to pick a weapon and they'll only pick by stepping on them.
We hope this saves from some frustration and keeps the setting for those who are fine risking having their players stepping outside of their path to pick a better weapon.

Lastly some bugfixes as always, specially targetting the match report page on overtime matches as it is showing completely wrong info in terms of rounds and player stats.

Full list of changes
- League and tournament reforged chat system with notifications
- Live notifications without refresh
- Update dropped weapons assets
- Set weapon/kit pick range default to 0
- Match report page overtime fix
- Several bugfixes

We aim to push these changes on next Thursday at around 2pm CET.

Elevating the Major

With a big Champions League not being implemented, the Major will be the only large seasonal tournament, so it’s critical that it delivers the highest possible quality and prestige. Based on observations from recent seasons, we believe the following changes will significantly improve the overall experience.

These updates aim to reinforce the Major as a truly prestigious competition, where teams earn their place and every match matters.

Reducing number of teams to 32
The current 48-team format has proven too large. Moving to a 32-team tournament creates a more competitive environment, reducing filler matches and inactive or idling teams.

Double round robin
With 4 teams per group, we can introduce home and away matches between all participants.

Qualification criteria
Auto-qualification slots are reduced to 16, awarded as follows:
- Previous season’s Major winner, 2nd & 3rd place
- Previous season’s Master League winners
- Previous season’s S-Tier EOS winner
- Previous season’s Ladder Top 3
- The 5 highest-ranked teams that do not already qualify through the above criteria.
*If any team meets more than 1 criteria a new rank-based slot opens up.

This approach rewards both recent champions and long-term performers who have consistently accumulated rank points.

Stage 3 rework
The next 32 highest-ranked teams will enter Stage 3, joining the 32 teams advancing from Stage 2.

Stage 3 will consist of 16 groups of 4 teams, playing a mini-tournament format.
The 16 group winners will qualify for the Main Event.

New schedule
We are moving to a split schedule, with a maximum of:
- 2 matchups on Wednesday
- 2 matchups on Saturday

Sunday Scheduling
Matches will no longer be scheduled on Sundays.
This provides additional rest and preparation time between stages and prevents rushed transitions during decisive rounds.

Sundays are being reserved for special events or large-scale competitions planned every now and then.

Championship Branched Tournaments
With the Major becoming more selective, a significant number of strong teams will inevitably fall short of qualification and be grouped together with much weaker teams in the Minor. This creates an uneven competitive experience and undervalues high-performing teams that narrowly miss the Major cut.

To address this, we propose restructuring post-qualification tournaments into a tiered Championship system, ensuring teams continue to compete against opponents of comparable strength throughout the season.

Instead of treating these as separate, disconnected tournaments, all post-Major competitions will be unified under the Championship umbrella, with clear divisions reflecting performance and progression.

This way each tournament will be easy to find from the Championship page rather than standalone competitions in the tournaments list.

Proposed Championship Structure
- Championship – Legends (The major)
  – Auto-qualified teams
  – Stage 3 group winners
- Championship – Challengers  (Formerly "The Minor")
  – Stage 3 group losers
- Championship – Contenders  (New)
  – Teams eliminated in Stage 1 and Stage 2
  – Excludes C-Tier teams
- Rookies (Unchanged)
  – C-Tier only

Benefits of this structure
- Strong teams that narrowly miss the Major remain in meaningful, high-quality competition
- Reduced skill disparity within each tournament
- Clear seasonal progression path between Championship divisions
- Stronger identity and prestige at every level of play

This system preserves the exclusivity of the Major while ensuring that every competitive team has a tournament that feels earned, relevant, and worth fighting for.

We are super excited about these changes, feel free to leave your feedback as we are aiming for this to be the final structure before going live with the game.

Season 7 Recap

Season 7 has officially concluded. Here’s a full breakdown of last season’s competitive highlights and league movements.

Patch Notes - 1.3.3

PATCH NOTES - 1.3.3

Mechanics changes Highlights

We are going to remove the broken heart icon as we don't think it's adding anything good to the game right now. Instead, we'll add a new Small Heart at the 50 official games checkmark that proves a 0.5% performance boost.

Tryouts generation frequency will be adjusted. It will now start at 20% at level 1 (and then increase by 1% daily). This way, you should see TOs appear much more frequently, even with a low Scouting Power.

Lastly we are removing the ability to replace a tryout when accepting a new one. This will force managers to kick an existing rookie and as such more likely avoid replacing by mistake. In order for this to be possible we are reducing the number of minimum academy members to 2, so you can kick a player to make room for another.

Quality of Life Highlights

Season 8 preview

Hello everyone, here’s a quick overview of some changes coming starting next season.

League updates

League Updates

Season 8 is just around the corner and we have an update scheduled for league structure and system changes.

League filling & balancing

Next season, all four Master leagues will be fully populated.

To achieve this, teams will bubble up starting from Emerald Division until all leagues are filled.

Additionally, Emerald, Diamond, and Master divisions will be balanced based on team rankings, ensuring each league has a fair mix of top, mid, and bottom teams.

Reworked prizes

We are adjusting the league prizes, specially focusing in the highest leagues, giving a more fair RP to those who deserve it.

See new rank points prizes below.

Bottom leagues cleanup

We have quite a mess on the lower divisions, with new users stacked up in Gold division.

For those, there won't be any bubble up, and only the top 3 teams will be promoted automatically.
All other teams remain in their division with an exception:C-Tier teams in Gold will be demoted to Silver. Unless of course they finished top 3.

New users will start in Silver, and each Silver league will allow a maximum of 3 human-controlled teams. This rule will only apply to bottom divisions.

New promotion & demotion system

Moving forward, a new competitive promotion system is being introduced:

• #1 in each league → automatic promotion
• #2 → qualification tournament vs:
  • - another #2 from a parallel league
  • - a #8 team from the higher division
• #9 and #10 → automatic demotion
• #8 → qualification tournament to avoid relegation
  

This means a minimum of 50% teams will stay in the league, creating meaningful competition without chaos.

Match streaming revenue update

Streaming revenue has been reworked:

- Matches vs bot teams now grant a fixed 1,000 CPL.

- Matches vs human teams grant higher revenue, scaled by:

   - Both teams’ media points

   - The league division

Let us know if you have any questions,

Thank you

Patch Notes - 1.3.1

Highlights
The first patch of the season brings several quality-of-life upgrades and an early testing version of Dustline (d2).

A very important reminder for this initial test phase is that the map is still subject to adjustments as we refine it.
Feel free to explore and try different ideas, but avoid building final, long-term tactics for now.
Any significant map update could invalidate or corrupt them. We don’t expect major layout changes, but visibility and utility interactions may still be tweaked.

Then we have an improvement to the forget tactic logic, there's been a scenario since forever where a team may play the same tactic they've just lost. This seems to only happen when the tactic pool is empty and the CL needs to randomly choose a new one that could be the last one used from the previous cycle.
But we have now made it so it will always be a different tactic since is something very frustrating to see.

Moreover, we made a quick update to ladder scoring system by adding Buchholz. When teams are tied by points, Buchholz score will be the next thing taken into account by the matchmaker and if same Buchholz then round difference.

Lastly i have several bugfixes coming up including fixing the player stats for this season.

Full list of changes
- Dustline available for testing
- Win rates visible in the preparation screen
- Challenge and invitation notifications moved to the sidebar
- Improved “Forget Tactic” logic
- Ladder updated to use Buchholz as tiebreak
- Several bugfixes

These changes are set to be pushed later today / early tomorrow.

Thank you!

CPL Manager official launch news

Hey everyone!

The design team has gathered and discussed which features are mandatory before we can finally be loud about the game’s existence. We believe these features are core to the long-term experience, and it's important to have them ready before we start promoting the game.

Here's the list:

• Bug resolution and site stability

It is one of our biggest priorities at the moment to make sure the site runs super smooth, we are going super hard next season making sure everything that's already released to work flawlessly.

• Expanded Mission System

We’re going all-in here. We’re adding a broad set of missions that everyone can aim to complete, with new and exciting rewards. 

• Weekly missions
• One time missions
• Seasonal missions
• Special challenges / event driven missions

• Full Documentation

Yes, this has been missing forever. We’re planning a fully revamped help system that will cover everything players should know about the game, including clear guides for new and returning managers: game flow, tactics, scouting, academy, tournaments, economy, and more. 

• Gear Shop Rework + Special Gear

A full rework is planned, likely landing next season. This includes a major change to durability where gear will now expire after a set amount of time, along with new, more powerful special gear that won’t always be available.

• XP Skill Tree Rework

A cleaner, more meaningful progression structure with clearer strengths and deeper role identities. Entry fragger, lurker, sniper, support, all will receive unique talent paths with stronger impact on team building.

• Translations

Proper multilingual support so more regions can join in smoothly.

• Complete Jersey customization

We’re adding all missing jersey parts and colors, as well as unique skins that will be available before launch.

• New Map: Mirage

The winner of the last community poll and the upcoming fifth map. The designs are ready, and with Dust entering next season, Mirage development will begin right after.

• Cosmetic Additions: SP Skins

Purely visual skins for players who want to show off their style. This includes skill-bar skins, portrait frames, weapon skins, and more.

• Champions League

A major competition for the best teams across the highest leagues. This weekday event will be the main objective for players who don’t have time to participate in weekend championships. There is no set date to finish all these but we are hoping to be pretty much done by March 2026.

• More payment methods

We are planning on adding Paypal and other payment methods to streamline your coins purchase process.

There is no set date to finish all these but we are hoping to be pretty much done by March 2026, and we will of course keep working on stuff beyond that point as well. We would love to hear what you think about these features and if there's something you think is a must before an official launch.

As always thank you for your dedication to the game, as a gift here is a preview of the new Mirage map.

Locked tournaments, community tactics and more!

Hey everyone! 

We've got some updates regarding the end-of-season tournaments, and a sneak peek on some things we are looking to add to the game.

End-of-season tournaments changes

Locked tactics system

From now on, once the tournament starts, your tactics will be locked. This means you’ll play the entire tournament with the same set of tactics for each map, no mid-event changes. The goal is to reduce the stress of spending an entire day preparing and anting opponents. We also think this format will add a fresh twist to the competition, creating room for surprises and underdog runs.

Stream share adjustment

We're setting a fixed stream share revenue of 500 CPL for each match across all tiers of this EOS tournament. This is mostly because the previous revenue was inconsistent and unbalanced compared to the major tournaments, so standardizing the amount should help close the gap and provide more predictable rewards.

Community Tactics!

We are working on a way for communities to collaborate on a tactical basis without the need of sharing/copying. The plan is to introduce a few slots per community where you can build and edit tactics together. How will it work? 

• Each Community will have a few slots for shared community tactics for each map and side. (The number and unlocking conditions are still up to debate.)
• Each slot contains a tactic that can be edited by each member of the community (maybe this access will later be part of the role management).
• Community Tactics can't be copied, saved out or "filled" with existing tactics. They can only be manually edited by the managers.
• Community Tactics can be selected in match preparation/tactics screens and simulation.

Our current thoughts about this system: 

• Shared Community Tactics will provide a means for communities to actively work together, so there is some benefit besides the "in-group" socializing.
• Preparations for important matches, or tactic ideas can be worked on and tweaked by the whole community.
• We won't allow for too many of these slots to not make "Piloting" a thing, where a Team only uses comm-tactics and can get remotely be controlled by another team.
• This could create some help for newer teams that want to work together to get better without the need of copying other people's tactics

Modular Home Dashboard

We're excited to announce a new VIP-exclusive feature coming soon: a fully modular Home dashboard! Drag & drop your favorite sections into any order to create the perfect overview for your needs. Prioritize what matters most: Next Matches, Tournaments, Team Stats, Finances, Betting, Missions, League/Ladder Standings, and more.

We are looking forward to hear what you think about this changes. Please let us know!

Thank you

Patch Notes - 1.3.0

Highlights

Season 6 preview

Hello everyone!

In today's season preview we'll go over the changes planned for season 6.

Tiers update - A-Tier adjustment

We are pretty happy with how the C-Tier introduction worked out. We are not going to change much to the tier system other than reducing A-Tier population from 40% to 35%.
Despite this reduction there will still be more A-Tier teams this next season than season 5. This is mostly because an increment in the number of users overall.

Tournaments adjustments

We've been doing a lot of bugfixing and hope this next season all tournaments will run super smooth. We also added some quality of life improvements like pregenerating 3rd match in bo3.
And we are also making it so it's impossible for more than 2 teams from the same community to land in the same group, which is something nobody really wants.

Championship adjustments

We are tuning down the rank points prize of the playoffs. Since the teams not making out of the group stage don't receive any rank points it feels too punishing for them if the ones who made it receive that many rank points.
9-16th place rank points 3000 => 2000
5-8th place rank points 3750 => 3000
4th place 4500 (unchanged)
3th place 5000 (unchanged)
2nd place 5500 (unchanged)
1st place 6000 (unchanged)

Additionally we are going to keep working on the championship dedicated page to provide more information, as well as sending reminders to join and prepare.

Minor / Rookies cup adjustments

We are going to increase the number of slots for the minor tournament to 48 to mimic the format and schedule of the major.
These extra 16 teams will be those positioned #33 to #48 in Stage 3, and will be seeded to the bottom of the groups.
We are going to reduce the match stream money from 750 to 500 to compensate for the extra number of games.

We are doing the same with Rookies Cup and simply increasing the qualification slots from 32 to 48 on the preliminary phase.

Ladder and league adjustments

We are going to reduce the number of games of these two major competitions in order to add some breathing room on the first week of the season.

This will allow top teams to rest and weaker teams to prepare for championship Stage 1.

The way we are doing this is by reducing the number of teams per league from 12 to 11. This will reduce the number of league games from 22 to 20.

So league will start on Day 4 rather than Day 2. The prizes will stay as is.

As far as ladder goes we are reducing the total number of games from 30 to 26. So rather than starting on Day 2 it will start on Saturday Day 6.

We hope these changes make first week of the season feel more like a preseason and not so rushed. While also setting the ground and space for a soon to come Champions League.
For those of you who don't know, the Champions League is going to be a competition where the top teams from the top leagues are invited, and will be as prestigious as the championship.

ACADEMY REWORK

We have outlined a plan that would make the academy experience more exciting and fun.

Starting age

First, we are going to change the starting age for tryouts, from 13 to 15. That means it will take 2 seasons less for them to graduate.
We know this means 2 less limit points to upgrade, but don't worry. We are going to make the necessary adjustments so the starting limit compensates for that. These tryouts will also be more trained.

New scout staff
We know how frustrating it could be to not know about the tryouts special abilities before it's too late. So we are introducing a brand new staff called the Scout.

The way it's going to work is the staff can sit down and interview new tryouts. By finishing an interview you'll get to know extra info about the player like skills, abilities and favorite weapon.

So in order for that to work we are hiding some of the initial data randomly, this is basically 11 data points, 8 for all skills + 1 for fav map + 1 for fav weapon + 1 for special abilities.

We are also going to decrease the number of days to accept tryouts from 7 days to 2, more on that in the skills overview below.

This is what the scout skills will look like:

Insight: Initial knowledge about a Tryout. Higher star level increases the number of info points initially revealed fom 1 to 5.

Interviews: The talent scout can do interviews to uncover additional info points. Higher star levels decreases the time it takes to unlock and discover new info from 5 to 1 day.

Attraction: Increases the time TOs consider joining your Youth Academy. Higher star levels increases this time by 1 to 5 days.

We believe this changes will make the academy a bit fast paced and attractive.

Now to wrap up, a quick update on dust2. It is very likely we are pushing the map this season to be played on scrims and custom competitions. Stay tuned!

Patch Notes - 1.2.5

Highlights

We are adding a few more quality of life improvements and utilities, as well as the stalled academy 2v2 tournaments.

I want to highlight the ladder betting system, where you will be able to bet on the result of the top matches of the ladder to make small profit and have fun in the process.

Then we have the archive tactics feature which can be used to move some old tactics you don't use anymore but don't want them deleted either, so they can be moved away from your main tactics area and unarchived in the future if needed.

Then we've been getting several match reports since we implemented that feature, so we are now adding the option to share demos to admins so they can watch and review rather than depending on the server admin all the time.

We are also very excited to introduce Missions to the game. You can work on a mission tasks and complete them for rewards. We'll add more missions in the future but for now we are happy to add a getting started mission to help out newcomers onboarding.

And finally, we are adding two new leader settings to choose the pick up range for guns and defuse kit. This is how close they have to be in order for a player to abandon their position or path to go pick it. This is something that should come useful for people who find picking up stuff messing with their tactic and don't want to take risks.

Full list of changes

• Choose match time for custom leagues,
• New leader settings, select pick up range for guns and defuse,
• Ladder betting,
• Getting started mission,
• Share match demo to admins,
• Archive tactics,
• Tactic stats pagination,
• Academy lineup page,
• Academy tournaments (2v2),
• Close account button

Patch Notes - 1.2.4

Highlights

Big patch coming through with a lot of utilities and quality of life improvements.

We got some special "training programs" to buy from the shop with coins that will allow you to be more specific with players training. Where instead of training say aim and handling the player will solely train aim.
We decided to have this use coins rather than CPL cause we don't think is a mandatory decision, since not long ago we did a lot of improvements to the training system where players never train the same skill more than 3 days in a row, etc.

We are also adding a special "emergency reset" option for talents reset. This is a luxury alternative for people in a rush that wants to reset a player talents as soon as possible. Again we are confident about having a coins price for this since we recently made talents reset be on specific talents and not the entire tree, taking just a few days to complete.

Then we have the afterplant presets, this has been talked about for a while now.
You'll be able to keep a separate set of post plant points you can edit and pull up at any time for different tactics. And you can also just load them as "shadow points" in case you just want to copy a specific position.

Then a quick update regarding max players. At the moment there is no limit set regarding how much players one can have, we are changing this and setting a limit of 10 players, not counting the academy players.
There's two main reasons for this:
- Avoid people from needlessly bidding in lots of players on the TL
- Avoid newcomers to accidentally buy lots of players while experimenting and go bankrupt

The rest of the updates are pretty self explanatory, we got community trophies, 

Full list of changes

- Special programs training
- Emergency talents reset
- Afterplants presets
- Max players set to 10
- Report match button
- Duplicate loadout feature
- Tactic stats by season
- Delete all filtered stats button
- Loading selected match type tactics in preparation window
- Tryouts / scouting extra info about frequency
- Community trophies
- Team community history
- Onboarding page for new users

This is scheduled to be pushed 26 Friday

We are recruiting!

Hello everyone,

Season 5 is here!

Welcome everyone to season 5!

Season 5 Preview

Hello everyone!

I want to give you a glimpse of what we've been working on and what's coming up for the next season.

Tiers update - C-Tier and new distribution

We’re making two big changes. First, we’re introducing a new tier to the game that will represent new users.
- Every new user will now start in C-Tier.
- If they’ve been playing for more than 30 days, they’ll be automatically promoted to B-Tier at the next season update.,
- This means everyone who creates their account before Day 5 will be promoted to B-Tier in the following season, otherwise staying on C-Tier one more season.,

Once in B-Tier, users will never demote back to C-Tier. You can think of C-Tier as the “unranked” tier. We’re doing this to properly establish B-Tier, since it was previously skewed by new users and early quitters.

New tier distribution:

S-Tier: Top 48 teams (same)

A-Tier: 40% of active teams (excluding S and C tiers)

B-Tier: 60% of active teams (excluding S and C tiers)

C-Tier: Teams less than 30 days old

Tournaments landscape / Championship

We’re very happy with how the championship and Road to Major layout turned out, and it’s been great to see it so well received.

We’re keeping the same structure for next season, but adding two major quality-of-life improvements:

• Dedicated championship page. Instead of searching for each tournament stage, there will be a streamlined page where you can see the overall competition status, stages, and more.,
• New match types. Since users often want different tactics and settings for these big tournaments, we’re adding new match types distinct from the global “tournament” type, making setup easier.,

Simulator / Game Engine Update

As some of you know, the simulator and the game engine weren’t fully aligned, with similar but slightly different code.

We’ve finally been able to make the game engine a single redistributed package used by both the match processor and the simulator.

This should result in:

• Higher fidelity for the simulator,
• Fewer inconsistencies between simulated and actual matches

Shirt customizer

We have many features planned to make the game more attractive and fun like custom SP bars, weapon skins, and more. For this next season, we’re starting with the shirt customizer.

This feature will let you design your own shirt using specific assets for each part of the jersey (collar, shoulder stripes, etc.), while also choosing your own colors and skins.

We’re launching a very basic version as the foundation for future assets and skins.

Reworked message system

We’re making a quality-of-life rework to the system messages. Messages will now be divided into categories so they’re easier to follow and less overwhelming.

• Reports (e.g., when a player levels up) will be separated from good news (e.g., winning a tournament).
• A new Global Announcements category will highlight important updates that aren’t part of regular news posts.
• Challenge notifications will be moved to their own dedicated icon, making them easier to track.

Maps rework

This is not coming right up but wanted to share with you a plan we have in place to improve all maps. Some have more problems then others but overall this is what we identified:
- Elevation visiblity issues
- Inconsistent mask, not pixel perfect detection of enemies or placement of nades
- Unnatural placement of players in the map like half body inside the wall
- Dumb or inconsistent default pathfinding

Dust2 is being developed as we speak with all the above fixed and will serve as a staple map to improve the others.

We estimate to have a working version of Dust2 by season 6 where it will be available only via scrims/custom tournaments so people can get to know the map before officially released on season 7.

And once we have 4 maps it will be easy to leave 1 completely out to be reworked/fixed.

As always, thanks everyone for your commitment to the game.

Patch Notes - 1.2.2

PATCH NOTES - 1.2.2

Highlights

We have an exciting update for the 2D viewer experience.

This is an improvement to the control bar that now highlights key moments like kills and bomb plants, as well as showing the time when the bomb is planted. This also comes with several fixes to the viewer, like the control bar sometimes being shorter than it should, etc.

Then we are adding a "save as" feature to the tactic editor.

This should be useful when preparing and making small changes that are worth creating another version of the tactic under a new name.

Lastly, we have two new community features: the community bank, which is basically a way to store and spend coins from the community rather than individually. All community transactions are recorded and monitored.

The second feature is an increase to the community members cap. Note that this will cost coins, although it’s a permanent upgrade.

Full list of changes

• 2d viewer improvements with new control bar
• Tactic "save as" feature
• Community bank
• Community member extension to 14

This is scheduled to be pushed later this week.

Patch Notes - 1.2.1

Highlights

We've got some pretty big changes coming up before major starts.

This includes a rework of the preparation screen, which is pretty much the same as the current one but we are moving it to a dedicated page rather than a popup. It also features several improvements like accurately loading the default settings, a button to restore/unprepare, and being able to access your preparation even when game is being played for the sake of transparency and debugging potential issues in tactic selection, etc.

We are also removing the visualization of where grenades are thrown from and their trajectory with fow ON when they are not in the line of sight. It was never the intention to display this and it was a hard to fix bug lingering for some time.

Then we've found a replacement for the Morale Boosting skill of the coach. This is going to be "Versatility Training" and it will allow the coach to change a player's favorite weapon for a big amount of money and time.

This also comes with a small refactor and boost to favorite weapon, where player performance improves 0.5% when using it and the weapon mastery talent further increases this by 0.5% each point, for a total of 3% performance boost.

Lastly we are adding a community applications feature where managers can apply to a community with a written presentation and the community can review and accept or reject. This should streamline the process of recruitment.

Full list of changes

- New preparation page with several improvements like proper load of default settings and rollback option
- Coach new skill + fav weapon train
- Remove bugged nades from fow ON matches
- Community applications

This is scheduled to be pushed on Monday afternoon.

PS: Afterplant presets is still being discussed and reviewed. Thanks for your patience.

Patch notes - 1.1.2

PATCH NOTES - 1.1.2

Highlights

Some changes we had to delay last season but are now good to go.

We got a undo/redo tool with ctrl+z hotkeys for the tactic editor.

We got a rework to the community rank points algorithm so rather than averaging between all members it will just pick the top 6 teams. This way there's nothing setting back communities to invite more people as it won't move their community ranking if the new member happens to be low in RP.

Also adding a "My community" menu at the bottom of the sidebar for easy access.

Full list of changes

• Tactic editor undo/redo
• Community rank points rework
• Community page hits
• Community news comments
• My community new menu

Season 4 is here

Welcome to a new season of CPL Manager!

This season is all about the exciting rework of the tournament system — featuring a single major tournament and a road to it with equal opportunities for everyone.

Tournaments incoming updates

Hey everyone happy sunday!

Big announcement incoming.

We got to experiment a lot with different tournament schedules these past seasons and after a lot of consideration, we got some direction on where we want to go and what the tournament landscape should look like.

The overall goal is to find perfect balance between having a packed action calendar and not burning out managers. As of right now there are too many competitions for top managers to prepare for and there's also too many prestigious trophies going around for people with just 1 season in the game.

So what we are going to do is remove the per tier majors and minors as they are right now, and instead we are going to keep a single big championship that will span throughout the whole season, in what we could call the "road to championship major".

Here is how that's going to work:

Stage 1 - B-Tiers

A free to join tournament for all B-Tiers to play very early in the season.
The top 32 teams advance to stage 2.

Stage 2 - A-Tiers + stage 1 winners

A free to join tournament for all A-Tiers to play very early in the season and the winners of stage 1.
The top 32 teams advance to stage 3.

Stage 3 - Main qualification

The 32 winners of stage 2 will play along the 16 lowest ranked S-Tier teams.
The 16 winners advance to the main event.

Main event

Prestigious major championship tournament with a total of 48 participating teams, including the top 32 S-Tier teams + the 16 winners from Stage 3.
Each phase will be played in its own day to give plenty of time for teams to prepare.
Finals played on the last week.

Then we'll have this additional competitions:

Minor tournament
The 32 teams who failed to qualify to the main event in Stage 3 will be playing a minor yet unique tournament in same schedule as the major.
Finals to be played on last week of the season as well.

Rookies cup
A free to join rookies cup will be available to play by all the teams in B-Tier and A-Tier. Except those that got to qualify for major/minor.

Invitational tournament
This is the current major/championship we have right now played at end of season, the qualification structure for this will remain the same but this tournament will be less prestigious with prizes and trophy reflecting that. This aligns with our idea that "weekend tournaments" shouldn't be as prestigious as long ones.

Open tournaments
Just like the ones we are having now, played every other day. So far seemed like a great addition.

So what this new system will allow is for the most prestigious competitions to be played throughout the season, while having the top teams focus only in important matches and keeping the early qualifications for the lower tier teams, which will have a fun experience trying to get to the top.

This also adds a big motivation to reach S-Tier to get to the championship easier. Which by the way we are reducing the minimum # of slots from 56 to 48.

As always reach out if you have any questions.

Patch Notes - 1.1.1

Highlights

Mostly small improvements to features released like the chat system.

I also revamped the media page with a much cleaner version along with a help section.

Also adding community roles and the ability to transfer founder powers, much needed.

Full list of changes

- Chat system improvements
- Revamped media page
- Small menu and header restructuring
- Community updated banner style to match the other banners
- Community roles
- Community news
- Small QoL improvements and mobile tweaks
- Pool party tac editor

This is already live

Upcoming academy changes

Hello everyone!

Have an announcement to make regarding upcoming academy changes for next season.

Tryout generation changes:

The first change is going to be about the tryout generation algorithm. We are going to reframe it by getting rid of the restrictive cooldown and we’ll set a “Scout quality” boost instead.

The way this is going to work is that everyone starts with the lowest scout quality value possible; as days go by you’ll see this number increasing along with the quality of the tryouts you get. So the more time you wait, the better tryouts you’ll receive.

So once you get a player you like you can accept it and every other tryout will be automatically rejected, and then your scout quality will reset.

With this system we are getting rid of the frustrating cooldown and we are giving control to the managers to either settle for an average tryout or keep waiting for something better. The min and max quality will remain the same as the current system, so it’s not like the quality will scale indefinitely, there’s a limit.

We’ll also set a “pity timer” so if the unlucky ones haven’t got any decent tryouts in X days, one will spawn for them.

2v2 competitions in new map:

We know just waiting for the rookies to grow gets a little boring, so we are throwing a very fun competition in there to be held weekly in a revamped mini‑map from beta.

Here’s how that is going to work:
- The map is “Pool Party”; anyone who played CS back in the day will recognise it immediately.
- The map is going to be 2v2, as such tactic creation will be limited to just 2 players.
- Another limitation in the tactic editor will be a max of 5 points rather than the classic 9.
- There’s gonna be 2 separate tiers/divisions, 16–17 yo and 18–19 yo.
- When registering to the event one will pick the 2 players from the academy that should sign up and meet the age criteria.
- The prize for this competition is simply a boost in fame for the rookies. We don’t want this event to feel mandatory but rather optional, while still giving a little something, and since some people were wishing for a way to farm rookies’ fame this is the perfect fit.

More news coming soon!

Patch Notes - 1.1.0

Highlights

First patch of the season, mainly focusing in the mobile experience which is long overdue. Including most of the site pages as well as the fully working tactic editor and a much better 2d viewer.

Additionally a UI improvement to the way trophies are displayed, with options to customize how many and which trophies to showcase.

A big one is the private messaging between users, this is gonna be an early and somewhat limited version but it will at least come in handy for in-game communication.

Finally the ability to share demos for your community, and a ton of bugfixes.

Full list of changes:
- Trophy presentation rework
- Several mobile fixes
- Finished tactic editor mobile version
- Revamped mobile 2d viewer
- Private messaging
- Demo sharing
- New sidebar tactic menu
- Lots of bugfixes and server optimizations

This will be pushed Thursday 17 at 4pm CET

Season 3 updates

Hey everyone!

Welcome to season 3, i'm going to explain the biggest changes now.

Revised tactic editor

We've reworked the tactic editor, now it should be faster and easier to use, with many features to make your live easier. We also been working on a mobile version, while is still not 100% finished it's much more usable than before and you can get to change small stuff.

Here is the full list of changes:
- Performance improvement
- High quality image
- Mobile working version (still in progress)
- Smooth points selection/deselection via both clicking map and sidebar
- Points movement with arrow keys
- Zoom and pan
- Multi points movement via multi selection
- Flash toggle only toggles flash area and not nade
- Path swap between players
- Point order swap within player path
- Afterplant visibility toggle

I'll probably make a short video explaining most of these.

Gear added

Very excited about this one, we've added the Shop with gear items you can buy and equip your players to boost their skills. We've also added the option in the lineup page to choose which games should use equipment as well as match preparation.
An important note, is that every game except training games (scrims / custom competitions) spend gear if enabled.
Meaning playing any type of non-custom tournament like **qualies**, opens, major counts towards the gear durability, as well as league and ladder matches.

Then just a reminder about the system changes we announce sometime ago:
- 56 teams in S-Tier
- A-Tier competitions now have **FOW OFF**
- Minor/challengers tournaments require qualification just like major
- Added small weekly tournaments, that can only be played once per week

Patch Notes - 1.0.4

Highlights:

A very small patch ahead of the majors and the upcoming season. The most important thing is that as of right now when a team goes bankrupt the user is simply banned, which is definitely not the best experience, so we've reworked that so the user retains access to their account and once they log in they get a screen with an option to reset their team and get a new one.

By the way we are going to reschedule these patches to every Monday to match when new seasons are up.

Full list of changes:
- Users receive a message when news are posted
- You can now undo adding a player to blacklist
- Season preview page (pushed off-schedule)
- Added team reset option for bankrupted users
- UI now shows vest health
- Several bug fixes

This is live already.

Patch notes - 1.0.3

Highlights:

Not a lot of stuff coming up in this patch, as we've been fixing some significant bugs and we are also heads down working on the bulk simulator and tactic editor page revamp.

Full list of changes:

- Dedicated page for custom competitions
- New banner/logo popups with requirements/info
- Added filters for total skill points and total limits to teams ranking
- Added match type filters to players ranking
- Several bugfixes

This is live now, sorry for the late notice.

Tournaments, tiers and more

Hello everyone, big news incoming!

I know we are still a few weeks to go before next season but wanted to share the plans for the most important aspects of the game that's been heavily discussed in the community.

TOURNAMENTS
The goal of these changes is to find a balance between having a lot of action during the season while also not overcharging managers with matches to prepare.

Majors
We are happy with current state of majors but feel like with the tiers system we are not gonna see as many teams as we'd like, so we are reducing the number of slots for the qualies as well giving the chance to everyone who tried to compete.
- Qualification slots 16 => 8
- Everyone who failed to qualify but tried at least 5 times will auto qualify the day before major. They won't be granted any RP/Money from this qualification.

Minors
You can think of these as the current opens, we'll do 2 every season just like now, but instead of having a massive preliminary stage we are going to also have qualification tournaments for these.
- Renamed open => minors
- Not free to join anymore, needs to win qualification tourney with 8 slots

High stakes
Just like current season we are going to hold a mid-season big tourney with all tiers. The only difference is that we are not going to have a massive day of matches on a Friday, but rather we'll play the Swiss rounds in weekends of the 1st and 2nd week. This way we can add some action to the weekends and the preliminaries don't feel bloated.
- Preliminary/Swiss stage to be held on weekends on 1st and 2nd week, 2 games each day for a total of 4 games per weekend and a grand total of 8 rounds.
- Since matches will be generated as soon as season starts, seeding will be based on early rankings.

New opens
This will be open sign-up weekly tournaments with low reward, autogenerated as soon as one is filled. Each team will only be able to play 1 open per week.
- **16 slots low reward** tournaments (RP + Money)
- Generated weekly per tier, as soon as one is filled another is generated
- Teams can only play 1 per week
- Generic trophy

Patch notes - 1.0.2

Highlights:

We have a big one coming up in this patch, which is the introduction of Custom Competitions. These are custom tournaments where you can pick the format and play with friends or whoever you like.

Another one worth explaining is the turn speed change when throwing nades. As you may already know, players need to face the direction they are throwing the nade before throwing it. The way it currently works is that players quickness skill affect how fast they turn to throw the nade, the impact is pretty slow but there's still a few degrees difference between low and high quickness.

So we want to get rid of that and make it a flat turn speed, what does this mean for your tactics? probably you won't have to worry about it but in essence your players will likely throw nades slightly faster than usual so maybe check your tactics nade timings just in case.

Other than that these are all self-explanatory bugfixes and quality of life improvements

Full list of changes:
- Reintroduced demos
- Morale modifiers fix, deleting expired and duplicates
- Players turn speed when throwing nades was scaling with quickness, removed scaling and now is flat speed
- Custom tournaments / leagues added
- New privacy settings, share to admins and community
- Added teams page hits and last visitor
- Tracking matches views now
- New blind indicator also on simulator
- Map filter for matches
- Paginated played matches
- Added name of tactics being deleted/duplicated
- Added tactic type column on tactic stats page
- Added transfers to hall of fame

This will be pushed 19 Thursday around 3am CET.

Patch notes - 1.0.1

Hello everyone! we have now setup a deployment schedule where fixes and changes will be pushed every thursday morning. Those changes will be notified a few days in advance. This is our very first official patch marking the 1.0.1 version.

Highlights:
We got many quality of life improvements as well as small bugfixes and changes that will positively impact the experience.

Player training at it's last stages should be less frustrating now where if one skill is only 1sp to be maxed and the trained amount was 2sp then the overflow is not wasted anymore but applied to the other skill in the focus combo. Also skill decaying before training should help keeping players at their max at all times.

We are also increasing the time before players meet and get visible in fow ON matches by 0.4 seconds, we are experimenting with different values so we are going slow, we want to make sure the fights don't seem to abrupt and are more enjoyable.

Full list of changes:
- Training overflow correctly applying to the non-maxed skill
- Training focus skill RNG capped at 3 days in a row
- Players decay now happening before training, training rescheduled to a few hours later in the morning
- New notification alerting of next ladder opponent
- Increased visibility threshold from 0.6s to 1s when fow ON
- Updated banner layout and recommended size
- Added match type filters in matches page
- Morale detailed info
- Restore defaults button
- Save as demo to avoid matches being wiped on season update

To clarify once more, this changes will be live on 12 June 3am CET

Welcome to season 2!

Hello everyone! kicking of season 2 with finally an implementation of a news system.

Here's a rundown of all changes.

New Tiers A and B
All current users are now categorized as either Tier S and A based on the end of season 1 ranking, a 3rd Tier B was created and assigned to all season 2 new users.
Each tier has a unique set of open tournaments and majors. Fog of war is only disabled for Tier B tournaments and Iron League games

Fame Rework
We’ve overhauled how Fame is earned, more ways to gain Fame through matches and other events.

• Streaming: +12 => +6,
• Ladder games: +3 to loser players, +4 to winners except MVP, +5 to the MVP,
• League games: +4 to loser players, +5 to winners except MVP, +6 to the MVP,
• Tournament best player: +50,
• Inactivity decay: -6

Financial adjustments
The Academy’s upkeep cost is going up from 0 to 2200 CPL per week League matches streaming payouts will see a 10 % decrease.

Talent Reset System Rework Resetting your talent tree is getting an overhaul, one-click resets now refund a portion of spent points. When a talent is orange it means your selection was saved and locked, if it's light yellow it means you are currently selecting the talent but have not yet saved, so you can right click to decrement and add the point somewhere else.

“Stab” Talent Redesigned as “Point-Blank”
Renaming and rebalance, the old stab talent becomes Point-Blank, focusing on close-range bonuses with a gun rather than a knife.

Map Rotation
Say bye to Train and hello Mill!, next season rotation is Castle - Mill

Specials Icons Changes
Removed: Resilient, Cyclothymic, Cheerful, Grumpy
Reworked: Toxic, Try-Hard Some of these didn't make sense and were leftovers from beta, and some needed a rework

Ladder changes Ladder had some improvements and experience will be much better:

• No streaks
• Better matchmaking
• Less likely to face the same opponent
• Consistent map cycle

Leadership perks Some small changes and new features, mainly the introduction of vest repair.

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