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.