Fixed dodging, anti-smurfs, public organizer pages, new languages and much more

Changelog 29.09.16

Anti Dodging & New Voting System

With this release we are finally fixing the issue of dodging during the voting phase of a match.

With the new voting system if players do not pick/drop during the voting phase a random server/map is picked/dropped by the bot, making it virtually impossible to dodge without repercussions.

Additionally, we increased ban times for AFKs in matches by 2x.

This feature is now available in selected regions and matches. We are planning to have it rolled out to all regions and matches in the next few days.

Anti-smurfing:

This release includes a few improvements to combat smurfing and many others will follow in the next few weeks:

Added a minimum and maximum level to join ladders. We expect this to increase fairness within ladders, allowing all ranks to have a shot at first place. Future ladders will be created with an ascending prizing order (the better the prize, the higher the minimum level), decreasing the ability of smurfs to join high stakes ladders.

DOTA 2 game registration now requires to have a public profile and over 100 hours played on the account

Organizer Page

Tournament organizations will now have dedicated pages on FACEIT where users can check out all their competitions and follow organizers. Check out an example of an organizer page by Epic Esports here.

This allows organizers to add a set of admins for all their tournaments, manage competitions centrally and showcase all their competitions in one place.

Following an organizer allows users to see tournaments in their upcoming tournaments section in the dashboard.

This feature is now available to partner organizers, but we are planning to release this to the whole user base over the next few weeks. If you have any feedback on organizing competitions on FACEIT share it here or feel free to contact us at [email protected]

Fixes/Misc:

Added Polish, Portuguese and Spanish to the available languages

Added a countdown in the match room to show how much time is left to join a match before getting DQd

Added a category for Smite products on the shop

In the profile pages games are now shown starting from the most played

Match history now shows the game mode of the match (i.e. 1v1, 5v5, etc.)

Profile page now shows the tournaments created by a user in the “My tournaments” section

Third Party tournaments can now change the start date after the tournament has started

Change “Unlimited” membership type in tournament list into “Supporter” to avoid confusion

Minor Fixes to team profiles, Russian translation, follower UI and signup

Other / Techies:

A lot of other things have been happening in the background, particularly in terms of technology stack and infrastructure. The voting system is now fully based on XMPP, we transitioned from a monolithic infrastructure to microservices and we added a lot of cool things like broker libraries betweent services that are now finally allowing us to develop a better product faster. For those of you that are interested in the tech side of things we are planning to release a first tech blog soon. Let us know if there are any topics you are particularly interested in!

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