Introducing CEVO PUG Parties, Ranks, and Awards

Tonight, as part of a major update, we're introducing Parties, Ranks, and Awards, alongside a much needed refresh of the CEVO logo, client, and website.

It's no secret that our users have asked for an easier way to play CEVO PUGs with their friends. Our response is parties. To PUG with friends, simply create a new party, chose the server locations you'd like to queue for, and invite your friends. The days of awkwardly reading out server names and stuggling to join the same server are over. With CEVO Parties, you'll always join a server with enough slots for your entire crew.

Another major part of this update is the addition of ranks and awards. We wanted to provide our users with an easier way to gauge pug performance over time, so we've created an entirely new visual ranking system to help you track your progress. CEVO ranks are MMR based, and consist of 4 tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and a top "Elite" tier. We're also introducing a stats based award system, with 12 possible awards that are distributed at the end of every CEVO pug.

Lastly, we've given our site, logo, and client a general refresh. You'll notice much needed improvements to the navigation, user, and settings dropdowns. We've also adopted a new logo, and updated the client UI to match.

Here's a breakdown of all of the changes:

PARTIES:

Create a Party by clicking the “Create a Party Now” banner on the HOME tab of the client or click the “Create a Party” option in the PUGS tab of the client. Either will work. We don’t care. Take your pick.

Join PUGs as a party and don’t waste time searching the Server Browser or inviting your friends through Steam - we'll do that for you. We'll assign you a server and you'll be loaded directly into it once the queue pops and you all ready up. Parties take priority when assigning teams, so if you aren’t +buddy’d on CEVO, fear not...you will still be on the same team. But you should +buddy your friends anyways…they are your friends after all.

Only MVPs can create parties, but they can invite MVPs and non-MVPs alike.

Non-MVP users can activate a FREE 24 hour trial of the Party system by clicking on the “Create a Party Now” banner on the HOME tab of the client. We want everyone to join in the Party.

Each player in your party has a reserved slot in the server that your party gets assigned to.

Choose from three locations at a time and the service will look for the most optimal location. 3 people in your party? We’ll do our best to find a PUG that hasn’t started yet with 7 people, reserve the last 3 slots for your party, and you’re good to go.

Once you make a party and invite your friends, when a server is found you will be notified and will have to READY through the client. When your party is fully READY, you will automatically launch CSGO and connect to the assigned server in 5 seconds.

The PUG process will play like normal except you don’t have to type “.ready” Your party will be automatically set to “.ready” once you are verified in the server. Another little bit of simplicity for you all.

RANKS:

Every user who has played a PUG has a Rank based off of a HIDDEN MATCHMAKING RATING (MMR). We’ve actually been tracking users' MMR for a while.

Ranks are only visible to MVPs.

MVPs will see their rank after they complete their first PUG.

There are 10 ranks:

Your current rank is visible (if MVP) on the HOME tab of the client.

At the end of a PUG, you will see a PUG overview which will show you your change in MMR and your progress to your next rank. Non-MVPs will see this too, but they won’t know which rank they currently sit at.

MMR is calculated based on a couple of things: Whether you win or lose the PUG The score differential of the PUG (in other words a 16-0 is more beneficial than a 16-14) Your performance within your team (your Efficacy) Your current MMR in relation to the MMR of other users in the PUG



AWARDS:

At the end of your PUGS, you will see new stats overviews in your client from your previous game. In addition to seeing the change in your MMR, you will also see PUG Awards from the game. These are awarded based on certain statistics from the PUG. Here are the available Awards for PUGS:

MVP: Awarded to the player with the highest Efficacy

The Professional: Awarded to the player with the highest ADR

The Assistant: Awarded to the player with the most assists

The Marksman: Awarded to the player with the highest accuracy

The Headsplitter: Awarded to the player with the most headshots

Bombsquad: Awarded to the player with the most bomb plants

Forgettable: Awarded to the median efficacy on the losing team

Mortality King: Awarded to the player with the most deaths

Amateur Hour: Awarded to the player with the lowest efficacy

Master Baiter: Awarded to the player who died last in the most rounds

Battering Ram: Awarded to the player with the most entry kills

Ace of Spades: Awarded to the player with the most 5-kill rounds