Tournaments, parties and friends

0.1.9 adds cups with brackets and prizes, a leaderboard and player profiles, and parties and friends to play with, and the play menu was laid out again round all of it.

Tournaments

• Cups from 1v1 to 5v5. Moderators set them up with a start time and a prize pool, everyone online hears about it and you sign up from the play menu.
• At the start time everyone signed up and online is drafted into even teams by Elo and seeded into a knockout bracket, and the top seeds get the byes.
• When your match is ready, a banner on the play menu counts down and takes you straight in. A team that isn't there within 4 minutes loses on a walkover.
• A draw at full time goes to golden goal, so the next goal wins. Cup matches are never ranked.
• The winners share 70% of the prize pool and the runners-up 30%, paid even if you've gone offline, so a 20,000 gold cup pays 14,000 and 6,000.
• Both finalists get a trophy for their profile, a gold cup for the winners and silver for the runners-up.
• Win the latest cup of a type and you hold its title, like "3v3 Champion", under your name until the next cup of that type is won.
• Click any live match in the bracket to watch it from the stands.

The leaderboard and profiles

• The leaderboard ranks everyone who has finished a match by Elo. The top 10 are on the play menu, the top 50 on their own screen, and your own line is always shown. In town it sits in the corner of the screen.
• Profiles show a player's kit, rank, Elo, record, titles and a trophy cabinet. Open yours from your name on the play menu, the Profile button or Tab in town. Click anyone on the leaderboard to see theirs.

Parties and friends

• Parties of up to 5. You can invite anyone and an invitation lasts 2 minutes. The leader searches for everyone and the party always plays on the same team, so a party of three queues for 3v3 and up.
• In a team cup the leader's sign-up enters the whole party.
• You can add anyone as a friend by name or from their profile, see who's online, and invite them to your party or ask to join theirs. You can have up to 100 friends.

A new play menu, and the locker

• The play menu is laid out again, with the locker, your party and friends on the left, Quick Play and the town in the middle, and tournaments and the leaderboard on the right.
• The locker shows your whole bag on the play menu, so you can wear or sell a piece, or change class, without walking to town.

How it plays

• The ball is drawn as a real ball now, rolling as it travels and spinning when it's struck.
• One-button shooting. The shoot button now sprints as it kicks, so every kick is a full-power shot. A card explains it the first time you play, and you can switch to two buttons, with kick and sprint apart, in Settings > Controls or from the pause menu.
• Turning takes a moment now. Players have a little weight when they change direction, which makes them easier to follow online. The Lakaka is left as it was because it already glides.
• Online, the ball is drawn on one path through time and players near the ball are drawn closer to where they really are, so what you see round the ball is nearer to what the server decides.