Competitive Seasons

Seasons give your instance a competitive reset. At the start of each one, regular-match Elo returns to 5000, so the ladder starts fresh and last season's grind doesn't lock in the top of the leaderboard forever.

Seasons are optional, turn them on from Settings → Application → Seasons.

The season ledger

Seasons are a continuous, non-overlapping timeline. Each one has a number, an optional description, a start date, and an end date (leave it empty for an ongoing season). Dates are in UTC and begin at 00:00.

The Seasons page shows the Active season with a countdown to its end, and lists the rest in the Season Ledger as Upcoming or Ended. From there an admin can:

• Change Start or Change End Date (Set End Date on an ongoing season)
• End Now or Make Ongoing
• Delete a season
• Grant Award to a player or team for the active season

Giving the latest season an end date, or ending it with End Now, creates the next season starting at that exact moment, so play is never left between seasons.

Deleting a season removes it and reverts its matches to no season. Elo history is kept, not destroyed, only that season's per-season stats are cleared.

What's season-scoped

Once seasons are on, Elo and stats are attributed to whichever season a match falls into. That flows through the platform:

• Leaderboards list every season in their time selector and default to the current one.
• Player profiles add a season picker (S3, S2, ...) beside L30, 7D, and 90D, which scopes every stats tab to that season's dates.
• Off-season matches (outside any season range) are tracked separately.

On player profiles

Season pace

When a player has a rating from the previous season, the Elo card on their profile races this season against it. S3 vs S2 plots both seasons by match number, so match 20 of this season sits over match 20 of the last one, and the card reads:

• vs S2: how far ahead or behind the player is after the same number of matches, or against last season's final rating once this season has run longer.
• S2 peak: last season's best rating, and where the player finished on that season's leaderboard (Finished #4 of 61).

Switch the card to All time for the ordinary Elo chart. Season pace follows the player's Competitive ladder when they have one, otherwise the one they played last.

Season compare

Range settings → Compare vs → Or a season compares a player against themselves in an earlier season. Every stats tab shows that season's numbers beside the ones in range, and the ELO tab lines the two seasons up match by match. See Comparing.

Season dividers

The profile's match list is split where one season ends and the next begins. Each divider shows the rating reset and a recap of the season that ended: final rating, best rating, and record. The Elo charts draw each season start as a break, so a reset doesn't read as a losing streak. See Match history.

Season awards

Ending a season, with End Now or by moving its end date into the past, hands out four built-in awards:

Award	Goes to
Season Champion	First on that season's Elo leaderboard
Season Runner-Up	Second
Season Third Place	Third
Season MVP	Highest average impact across the season's Competitive matches

Season MVP needs at least 5 Competitive matches in the season, so a single good game can't take it. Only Competitive matches count: impact is measured against a player's teammates, which means nothing in a Duel. If nobody reaches five, no MVP is awarded.

Season awards appear under Honors on the player's profile and count toward the Awards leaderboard. Moving the season's end back into the future takes them away again.

Rebuilds

Season Elo and stats are recomputed automatically as matches finish. Changing a season's dates in a way that moves matches in or out of it, or creating a season over dates that already have matches, flags the season Rebuild Required, marks its standings out of date, and queues a rebuild on its own. The flag clears when the rebuild finishes.

Rebuild ELO runs the same recompute by hand: that season's Elo and stats, from every match in it. It runs in the background with live progress (Rebuilding season ELO… · 3/25 Matches), and can be canceled while it's running.

Rebuilds run one season at a time. Asking for another while one is running queues it instead of dropping it, and only the season being rebuilt has its button disabled. If a season's dates change mid-rebuild, it runs again for the new dates.

TIP

A rebuild is a maintenance tool, not a routine one. Normal play keeps a season current on its own.

Related

• Stats & Leaderboards, what Elo measures and how leaderboards are ranked.
• Leagues, league seasons are a separate concept: a competition with divisions and a schedule, rather than a scoring window.