Platform Update: August 2026 - Hosting the Hosts

TWL is on a mission: to power the people who run competitive gaming. We've always been a place to compete - and now we're doubling down as the platform that also hosts the hosts. You can run your ladders, leagues, and tournaments, while getting hands-on support from a team that's been doing this since 2001, and you keep full control of your data and your autonomy. Your competition, your rules, your community, your brand, our infrastructure.

Two partners are already calling TWL home: SNP Esport with a $600 regional Battlefield 6 league, and Silly Hats Only keeping competitive UT2004 Instagib CTF going. Here's everything that's landed since June.

🏆 We Power Your Competition

We believe the best competitive scenes come from the communities that love them. If you're running (or dreaming of running) a ladder, league, or tournament:

• 💸 It's easy. Hosting, brackets, standings, match comms, archives, scores, bots and much more.
• 🛠️ You get real support. From your first rulebook to live finals, we're in the trenches with you.
• 🔐 Your data, your autonomy. Your community and your records stay yours. TWL provides the platform, not the strings.

Want in? Join the TWL Discord and talk to us - we'll get your competition stood up.

🎮 SNP Esport — Battlefield 6, Three Regions, $600

SNP Esport is our flagship partner hub, running a Battlefield 6 8v8 Conquest Season 2 on TWL right now:

• 🗺️ Regional Swiss league: Americas, EMEA, and Asia each run their own bracket, feeding a cross-region Grand Final for the global title.
• 💰 $600 USD prize pool for their T8 season.
• 🏅 Pro-grade standings powered by the new Swiss system — score-group pairings, Buchholz strength-of-schedule tiebreakers, live result dots, and stat cards.
• 🔮 Crowd predictions let fans back their favorites on every match.
• 🚀 12v12 and 16v16 are coming soon — the next frontier of competitive BF6 Conquest.

Check out the action at snp.teamwarfare.net.

🎩 Silly Hats Only — UT2004 Instagib CTF Lives On

Silly Hats Only is a brand-new partner hub keeping Unreal Tournament 2004 competitive:

• ⚔️ 3v3 Instagib CTF round robin - every team plays every team across the classic UT2004 map pool, with the top two meeting in a championship final.
• 💰 Cash-prize events and a community that's here for the love of UT.
• 🎨 A fully custom theme, on-site community Discord chat, and admin-formed teams balanced by skill.

Jump into the action at sillyhatsonly.teamwarfare.net.

🏆 Platform Updates Since June

• 🎯 Swiss System launches: The pro-style non-elimination format is here - every team plays every round, paired against opponents with a similar record, with Buchholz tiebreakers and an optional knockout playoff for the top teams.
• 🗺️ Regional tournaments: Split one advertised event across regions with a clickable world map, per-region brackets, and an optional cross-region Grand Final - powering SNP's Season 2.
• 🏃 Round Robin "Open" mode: Leagues can run as flexible "play whenever" round robins - all fixtures active from day one, one-click finalize when every match is done.
• 🗺️ Per-map score reporting: Competitions can capture a score for every map played instead of a single total - standings and brackets stay in sync automatically.
• 📝 Deep match history: Per round, per map, per playerr statistics are available, admins get review queues and a full audit log.
• 🏆 Prize pools: Competitions can display a prize pot with a "Contribute" button - money flows straight to the organizer, TWL never touches it.
• 🧩 Modular map selection: A rebuilt pick/ban engine with pluggable schemes - random, exclusion, inclusion, decider protection, and full ban-pick, with captains alternating live on the site.
• 🎬 OBS broadcast suite: Drop a real player trading card, live scoreboard, team card, or match ticker onto your stream with a single URL - no subscriptions, no graphics packs.
• 🎴 Collectible player trading cards: Flippable stat cards with VETERAN badges, scouting reports, PUG records, and your featured team's logo - on the site and on stream.
• 🕒 Team timezones everywhere: Teams show a derived timezone badge, and match times respect daylight saving - no more showing up an hour early.
• 🔐 Sign in once, play everywhere: Your session and linked Steam/Twitch accounts now carry across the main site and every partner subdomain.

🏛️ The Records Room - Two Decades of History

The archives got a huge upgrade, powered by an automated Wayback Machine recovery pipeline:

• 📚 598 ladder snapshots across 20+ games - from America's Army and Tribes (2001) through CoD, BF1942, RTCW, and Quake to UT2004 and BF3 (2013).
• 👥 156,000+ named players and 18,000+ team entries recovered and searchable by name - clan tags ignored, so Fatz finds =13SC=Fatz.
• 🕵️ "This is me": Played back then? Claim your historical identity for a hand-verified VETERAN badge, an EST. year, and your full era history on your player card.
• 🗓️ Snapshot timelines let you watch a ladder evolve through the years in the new Records Room browser.

🛡️ Trust & Privacy

• 🔏 Privacy policy: A full multi-language policy — zero emails stored, hashed IP logs, no ad pixels, and full player control over your data. Read the policy

🤝 Come Build With Us

Whether you run a 5-player clan ladder or a 32-player international league, we want to power you up. You get great support and your data and autonomy stay yours.

Join the TWL Discord — let's talk.