ESPODIUM patch notes: September 2026

September was the month ESPODIUM learned to run console events properly. We shipped 85 releases, from version 3.32.3 to 3.54.2. Most of them were fixes found while running real tournaments. These notes cover what changed for players and organizers; the full changelog lists every release.

Console events: Stations, Top N and quick results

Solo tournaments for Tekken 8, Street Fighter 6, FC26 and eFootball no longer need a game profile. You play under your ESPODIUM name, and admins can switch the game profile requirement on or off per game.

Organizers can now list the consoles at the venue in a new Stations tab and switch stations on for a tournament. A match that is ready goes to a free station by itself, or you assign it and move, hold or free it as play goes on. Players get a notification telling them which station to go to. There is also a TV board that lists every station and the matches up next, made for a screen at the venue. Later in the month the tab got simpler: fewer boxes, shorter labels, and it reads better on a phone.

Preliminaries can now stop at Top 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64 instead of playing down to one winner. Advance Top N seats the qualifiers in the next stage, and you choose whether to keep the bracket order, reseed them or draw them at random.

For results, organizers can switch a solo tournament to quick results and type a 1v1 score straight on the match card. The detailed editor is still there for game-by-game results, and it now shows each player once with the score boxes lined up. 1v1 brackets gained a 3rd place match, and every match in a single or double elimination stage has its own number (Match 9, say) that shows the same everywhere: bracket, Stations, TV board, chat rooms and the schedule.

Tekken 8 also got its fighter list, all 42 fighters from the official roster. In detailed results, organizers can pick the fighter each player used in every game.

E-certificates

Finished tournaments now have a Certificates tab. Players and teams can download their certificate as a PDF or image, or copy it. Each one carries a code and a QR that anyone can check at espodium.com/certificates.

Organizers pick a template and choose what appears: name, country, team members, placement and signatures, with a live preview. Silver organizers can upload their own background and signature images. Tournaments can also list sponsors and partners, which show on the overview and on the certificates.

Your earned certificates are listed under a Certificates tab in your settings, and your public profile lists them with a Verify link.

Help, inside the chat

A Help button now sits at the top of the chat panel. Ask in plain words and the assistant answers from the help articles, with links to read more. Common questions are one tap each, including how to register as an organizer and how to sponsor or partner with us.

When a question needs a person, one tap opens a private conversation with the ESPODIUM team in the same chat. Your question and the conversation so far travel with the request, so nothing is asked twice. Support's reply arrives as a notification, and the Help button shows a dot when we have answered.

Organizers and their teams

Organizer accounts now have proper member management. Owners and admins can promote a member to admin or move an admin back to member, remove someone, and hand the whole organizer over to another member. Anyone can leave an organizer they no longer work with, except its last owner. A "What can each role do" panel spells out the rules, including the one people trip over most: roles govern the organizer account only, and every active member can still run tournaments.

Organizers can also add marshalls in the Crew tab, and the credit shows on each marshall's profile.

Brackets, PUBG Mobile and test tournaments

Squad and duo stages can now use League points and the Knockout preset, not only Pool rotation, and both play to the end. Standings in those stages count every placement in the lobby rather than just 1st to 8th, and PUBG lobbies got bigger, with divisions.

Test tournaments are now private. Only their organizers, admins and crew can open one; everyone else gets a Not found page. They stay out of every list, the calendar, the feed, search and player records, and they never count toward MMR.

Custom bracket templates now need a Silver membership to build or edit. Templates that already exist stay available to everyone.

Security

Two holes are closed. Saving results, finalizing matches and building or resetting a bracket now check that you actually run the tournament. Players can no longer approve their own registration or skip the entry fee; only organizers can approve or reject an entry.

Smaller things worth knowing

• MMR history. A player profile charts MMR game by game, with a weekly average for players who have competed across several weeks.
• Posters. Pick one of three poster templates and it arrives filled in with your tournament name, dates, prize pool and game. Sponsor logos stay in your organizer library for the next event.
• Matchday posts. An admin can pick a tournament and have its matchday posts written and queued, one per match day, each with a fixture card.
• Events. The ticketed event form is split into labelled sections, events can list an agenda, and the cover image uploads from your device.
• Profiles. You can say whether you are a student and where you study, with suggestions from about 2,800 Malaysian schools, universities, polytechnics and colleges.
• The front page has a Host a tournament button beside Find a tournament, with live counts of open tournaments, organisers and players.

The rest of the month was fixes: long lists that now load in full, Dream Team squads that save and settle properly, dates that stay put while a page loads, and a site that no longer crashes when your browser translates the page. Each one is in the changelog with its version number.