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Hello,

Jump down to the Federation part if your only interested in what is new on ChatFighters.

Tournament

Our third ChatFighter wide tournament came to a successful finish.
Join me in congratulating our winners of the The ChatFighters Cruiserweight Championship Tournament:

• Winner TheSuperboy

Our community voting decided our special awards:

• Best Jobber award goes to: Diego S
• Best Finisher award goes to: TheSuperboy
• Best writer award goes to: TheSuperboy and TJ-Pro in the "Semi Finals Match - Fall Counts Anywhere""

Your awards are visible on your character sheets and in the chat. (contact me if you wish to remove it)

A big thanks go out to all participants of the tournament! And of course to the organizer Starfox. Another special thank goes to ErikAtlas for opening up the RUMBLE and ROAR about the TOURNEY

Starfox shared his experience during the tournament based on that - and even more talks behind the scenes, a few adjustments are made to the internal site system.

With the experience of three tournaments and the aftermaths that follow, a few changes will be made.
For example, Starfox decided to skip our usual qualification rounds and allowed swooping in characters from an alternative list instead.

Federations

First, I'm very happy how Federations got accepted since we launched them on 2021-01-14 and there are used in a wide variety of range! Which is great!

Main change: Federations can use the tournament system to visually enhance and track Fed-tournaments.

Changes for Federation admins

• Reminder: Federation has the own Help Page, which just got updated to include the new features from today.
• Reminder: Fed-Admins can send bulk messages to members
• Reminder: You can change your HUB to your likings. I see a lot of Feds using the default layout.
• Reminder: Change the picture of your Fed to make it more attractive
• Update: The wall panel can now be configured in the Hub Editor to select the number of posts for each page.
• NEW: Federations now have the option to use the ChatFighters tournament system!
  • Go to the new Tournament page and click on Start Tournament. Follow the simple Tournament editor.
    • If you don't have the Tournament tab, go to the Admin tab and click on "Edit Buttons" and activate the Tournament subpage.
  • If you have already an ongoing tournament, you can still use the new subpage, just configure the current state of your tournament in the simple tournament editor.
  • Past tournaments will be archived on your Fed.
  • Just try it, you can delete and cancle a tournament at any time if it does not work out.
  • Completed Fed-Tournaments with a winner selected will be shown on the ChatFighters main Tournament page.
  • Like Federations, the fed-tournament system is a toolbox, you can use it for whatever you like. Therefore Fed-Tournaments will not grant ChatFighter wide-character sheet awards.

General changes for Federations

Our Federation page got updated too.

• By default, the page only shows "Active federations"
• A new "Archived federations" view is available
  • A Federation becomes archived if it had no updates in the past 60 days. (new story, character, etc.)
    • Once a day the system checks if an update happens and moves it automatically out of the archived state.
  • A archived Federation has no differences to active ones, except that it is not shown by default on the Federation main page.
  • No worries, we will not delete Federations.
• Table view can be selected for Federations. Doesn't look as cool (more like Excel) but it shows lots more details, and the ability to sort.
  • Might look horrible on a smartphone, but hey, so does Excel! ;)

I highly recommend to Fed-Admins (and anyone else who is interested) to subscribe to our Change Log. Bugfixes and small features or improvements will always be posted there. Some might affect how Fed's are working.
On the matter of changes:
Any website is a living and breathing system and must change over time. No Website will ever be finished. Will every change be good? No. Are continuous changes necessary? Yes. If you disagree, create and launch your own website, and then never change it!

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WatchFighters

On a side note, we are working on a new project, https://www.watchfighters.com; it will be a new member next to https://www.meetfighters.com and https://venus.chatfighters.com.
If you are an individual content creator, looking for sponsors, or if you run your own video portal website, you can get in touch with us for future cooperation. Send a mail to: [email protected] or contact us on the Help and Support page.
Some of you joined the very early times on ChatFighters, and should remember that we embedded a lot of feedback in the site, we plan to do the same with WatchFighters. Let us know what you think!

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This concludes the small site update.
Congratulations again to Starfox for running and completing a successful Tournament.TheSuperboy for almost breaking the site with a total of four awards!Diego S and TJ-Pro for their well-earned community awards!

And thanks to everyone else for participating in the Tournaments, voting, creating Federations, posting Stories. And being an active member on ChatFighters!

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