What's New
31 October 2026
Race, religion and postcode are private to you
Current31 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~5h
- Your race, religion and postcode can only be seen by you. Before, anyone could read them, even without signing in(~2h)
- Only a team's owner can hand over ownership of the team(~1.5h)
- Exported brackets and posters only load images from ESPODIUM's own storage(~1h)
- The privacy policy describes more accurately who can see your phone number and email(~30m)
30 October 2026
ESPODIUM Monthly: an even team picture and deeper Magic Chess results
30 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~3h
- The champion team picture is a grid of equal tiles, and the cover keeps it clear of the headline(~1.5h)
- Magic Chess solo tournaments list the top 4 or top 8 instead of only the winner and runner-up(~1h)
- Game icons sit beside the game name instead of filling the section page(~30m)
Profile photo uploads no longer fail without a word
30 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~2h
- If your phone's photo picker closes without handing over a photo, the profile page now says so and suggests what to try(~1h)
- A photo that takes too long to open shows an error instead of waiting forever, and phones show a spinner while it opens(~1h)
29 October 2026
ESPODIUM Monthly counts the month it covers, and fills its pages
29 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~4h
- An issue ranks players by their MMR on the last day of its month, so a September issue no longer shows October results(~1.5h)
- Leaderboards show the top 8 in solo and the top 4 in team(~30m)
- The certificate count is complete: a month with more than 1,000 certificates showed exactly 1,000(~30m)
- Pages with only a few entries now fill the page: tournament posters on the champions page, bigger rows on short leaderboards, and game logos in full colour(~1.5h)
A Magazine link in the menu and footer
29 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~1h
- ESPODIUM Monthly now has its own Magazine link under More and in the footer, showing up once the first issue is out(~1h)
ESPODIUM Monthly, a magazine of the month on the platform
29 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~40h
- Once a month ESPODIUM publishes an issue at espodium.com/magazine: the champions of every tournament that ended, the top 10 players by MMR, the commander and hero picks, the community highlights, what changed on the platform and what is coming up(~16h)
- You read it page by page like a magazine, one page at a time on your phone and two pages side by side on a laptop, with arrows, swipes and a page bar to jump between sections(~12h)
- Each issue has a cover story on the tournament of the month, with the champion team's players side by side in one picture(~6h)
- When an issue goes out it is pinned on the General feed, announced in the bar at the top of the site and sent as a push to anyone who turned notifications on(~6h)
The ceremony says why a winner could not be shown
29 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~30m
- When an award has no winner recorded yet, the ceremony stage now says so and points to Admin > Awards to pick one, instead of a bare could-not-load message(~30m)
Archivo joins the font choices, with a Condensed option
29 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~1.5h
- Pick Archivo in Settings > General > Appearance for a sharper, esports broadcast look across the site(~1h)
- With Archivo picked, switch on Condensed for narrower, taller letters. Turning it off brings back the normal width(~30m)
Share feedback surveys by link or QR, and add your own questions
29 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~6h
- Organizers can share their tournament's feedback survey as a link or QR code, ready for posters or the venue screen(~2h)
- Add up to five questions of your own to a tournament's survey: short answer, paragraph, choices, yes or no, or a 1 to 5 rating(~2.5h)
- Preview the full survey from the Feedback tab at any time, including your own questions, and see their answers there(~30m)
- The home page now shows what players rate Espodium out of 10(~1h)
Soft music on the Espodium Awards page
29 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~1.5h
- The awards page plays the ceremony's own music very softly in the background, starting on your first tap since browsers keep sound off until then(~1h)
- A Music pill under the title turns it off or back on, and the page remembers your choice; it stays off by default when your browser's data saver is on(~30m)
Nominee names read in full under the awards tiles
29 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~30m
- The name under each nominee's portrait on the awards page now runs to as many as four lines instead of being cut to one with an ellipsis, so names such as Magic Chess Go Go National Championship read whole(~30m)
28 October 2026
Long real names fit on the Espodium Awards nominee card
28 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~30m
- The real name in quotes above a nominee's name on the awards card now shrinks to fit its line instead of being cut short, so every nominee's full name reads on the card and in the saved picture(~30m)
A big countdown to the close of Espodium Awards voting
28 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~2h
- While voting is open, the awards page shows a large clock under the title counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the close, ticking live(~1.5h)
- Awards that already have nominees now come first on the awards page too, matching the ceremony, with the empty ones after(~30m)
Long names fit on the Espodium Awards nominee card
28 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~1h
- A nominee name too long for one line on the awards card, such as Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, now wraps onto a second line above the portrait instead of being cut short with an ellipsis; the saved card picture gets the same(~1h)
Tekken 8 top players on the home page and player resumes
28 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~1.5h
- The Tekken 8 and eFootball home pages now show their solo top 10 instead of an empty team board(~30m)
- Player resumes now show rank and MMR for a game even if the player never added a game profile for it(~1h)
The awards ceremony plays the awards that have nominees first
28 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~30m
- In the Espodium Awards ceremony, awards that already have nominees come first in the running order and the empty ones wait at the end, so the show does not open on a blank award(~30m)
A Gold Gala ceremony for the Espodium Awards
28 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~6h
- Admins can play the Espodium Awards on a venue screen with the Gold Gala show: each award's title, a card for every nominee, the line-up, the reveal and the final results, from a Play ceremony button in Admin > Awards(~3h)
- The stage wears the same gold and drifting light as the awards page, moving a touch quicker, so the show and the page read as one(~1h)
- A Read the write-up setting puts each nominee's blurb beside their card as This year, on every nominee or on the winner only, with the note written for a winner as Why they won(~2h)
Missing players on Tekken 8 and eFootball leaderboards
28 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~1h
- Ranked players who never added a game profile now appear on the Tekken 8 and eFootball leaderboards, and their own pages show their rank(~1h)
Eliminations in Drag mode for lobby results
28 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~1h
- When you drag teams into finishing order, each team now has its eliminations box, and the points count them the same way Pick does(~1h)
Clearer PUBG lobby results
28 Oct 2026 · BrahderLau · ~1.5h
- A PUBG squad lobby's result pop-up no longer shows two teams as if they played each other. It shows every team's placing(~1h)
- Lobby cards in the same stage now line up, and round headings no longer repeat the lobby name(~30m)