ESPODIUM patch notes: 1 to 8 October 2026

The first eight days of October brought 115 releases, from version 3.54.3 to 3.91.5. That is more than all of September. The biggest pieces are a new mini game, a feed for the whole community, proper duo brackets and a way to find teammates. The full changelog lists every release; these notes pick out what you will notice.

Dye Hard, our first mini game

Dye Hard is a daily colour memory game. You study a hero, commander or fighter, watch one of its colours turn grey, then dial it back from memory within 20 seconds. It covers Mobile Legends, Magic Chess: Go Go, Tekken 8 and Valorant. Ten rounds a day earn 30 coins, and the week's top three in each mode win 150, 100 or 50 more.

It grew quickly over the week. PK mode lets you challenge a friend, live or through a link they play later. Party mode puts up to 8 players on the same heroes live. Streamers get a mode with a big room code and QR on screen so viewers can scan and take a seat, plus a winner-stays-on arena where each 1v1 winner faces the next challenger. After a round you can share a story card of your hero, original against yours.

Dye Hard lives in a new Mini Games section, which also took Draft's place in the menu bar. Draft itself moved to More. The leaderboard can be filtered by character, and tapping a player opens their profile when they have claimed a handle.

A General feed

The feed now has a General side for questions, announcements and community posts about ESPODIUM itself, separate from the game feeds. A switch at the top moves between your game's feed and General, and the Feed button remembers which one you used last.

Birthdays live there too. On your birthday a card wishes you happy birthday and tags you, showing the day and month only, and you hear about it the day before. A switch in your profile turns it off. Each feed can also keep one post pinned at the top for announcements. Tapping a tag, comment or reply notification now opens that post instead of the top of the feed.

Duo tournaments that actually run

Duo tournaments can now be bracketed. Each duo plays, ranks and advances as one entrant. For Magic Chess: Go Go, a duo lobby is four duos (eight players), and each player enters their own finish, 1st to 8th, and commander. A duo scores both players' points added together, and the top two duos in a lobby move on. Magic Chess duo tournaments run single elimination, double elimination, round robin and Swiss, the same formats as solo.

Duos show as their two players everywhere: brackets, standings, schedules and registrations. You also no longer type a pair name when inviting a partner.

Recruiting and Looking for team

Teams can now say they are recruiting, and for what: players, a coach or an analyst. Players can switch on Looking for team for each game, which puts a green ring on their photo. Both appear first in the Teams and Players lists, and both lists have a filter to show only them. Owners set it under the team name on their team page or in Profile; players set it on their player page or in Profile. Our article on setting your status walks through it.

Student tournaments

Organizers can mark a tournament as a student tournament. Players then need a school or university on their profile to register, and if something is missing, a short form asks for it right there without losing the registration. Students can add an optional student number under Education. Only organizers of student tournaments the player joins can see it.

Certificates, again

Certificates went through several rounds of changes. They now read in the language you use the site in, across all 11 languages, with Arabic right to left. The top 8 of the final stage get a Certificate of Achievement and everyone else a Certificate of Participation, and organizers can change that cut-off. Organizing teams and crew, from casters to marshals, get a Certificate of Appreciation. Anyone who cannot scan the QR can type the certificate code at espodium.com/certificates.

The certificate editor now works like a design tool: click any part of the certificate to open its settings, add a shade behind the text on busy artwork, and remove backgrounds you no longer use.

Tournament tools

• Character stats. MLBB, Honor of Kings, Dota 2 and LoL tournaments get a stats tab for heroes or champions, with picks, pick rate and win rate. Valorant shows agents and Tekken 8 shows fighters.
• Maps and stages. Organizers can record the Tekken 8 stage or the MLBB map for each game.
• 1v1 standings for eFootball, Tekken 8 and other 1v1 games now follow how far a player got in the bracket, with played, won, drawn and lost.
• PUBG Mobile pool stages use groups and suggest setups that fit your team count, like 3 groups of 8 for 24 squads.
• Fan votes are simpler: each award is its own tab, with one rule per vote and results as a podium.
• Finished tournaments open with a short results summary naming the podium.
• Posters made in Poster Studio end with a QR code that opens the tournament page.
• Organizers can now delete a stage after typing its name to confirm.

Privacy, articles and smaller changes

Your public profile now shows only the day and month of your birthday, and visitors who are not signed in no longer see a player's full name. Team, streamer and organizer pages open with their content already there instead of a loading spinner, which also lets search engines read them.

We also started this Articles section, with guides and how-tos written by the ESPODIUM team, and these patch notes are part of it. EA SPORTS FC now shows as EA SPORTS FC 27, and each tournament keeps the edition it was played on.