October 6, 2026
Pay at the Store & Shareable Achievements
Play Network
New Features
- Pay at the Store — When a paid event allows it, players can reserve their spot online and pay in person at the store, and events that only take payment in person can now be joined directly
- Shareable Achievements Profile — Players can opt in to a public profile that shows off their earned achievements, with a link to copy and share, and can turn it off again at any time
- Even More Achievements — New achievements celebrate reaching the top cut, going undefeated, winning as the lowest seed, finishing with a winning or even record, meeting the same rival across events, playing a variety of deck-defining cards or sticking with a favorite, mirror matches, and reward store purchases — plus a consolation badge for finishing last
- Event Invitations — Players invited to an event can accept or decline straight from their invitation email, accepting the terms and finishing their player profile along the way if needed
- More Ways to Sign In — Players can sign in with additional login providers enabled for their game, and choose exactly which permissions a connected partner app receives when they sign in to it with their account
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the deck builder rejecting valid decks when a required card, such as a starting character, was picked in its dedicated slot
- Fixed text deck lists exported for a supported game not importing back cleanly — cards now land in the right sections without duplicates
- Card details now list their attributes in the order the publisher has configured
Improvements
- When an event closes deck submissions automatically, players now see exactly when that will happen, in the event's local time
Retailer Admin Panel
New Features
- Payment Method Choice — Choose whether players pay online, in person at the store, or either way when creating a paid event, with the default coming from the event template and pay-at-store players tagged in the player list
- Deck Status on Pairings — Filter matches by deck status and see each player's deck — valid, invalid, late, or missing — right on the pairings tab, plus a sortable Table column on the players tab while an event is running, so judges can find and fix deck issues fast
- Round Repair Safeguards — Repairing a round or breaking a match now spells out the results and later pairings it will remove and asks for a typed confirmation, and rounds can no longer be repaired, broken, or cleared once the next round has started
- Registration Invitations — When a game requires accepted terms to register, adding a player who isn't eligible yet shows a QR code to the sign-up page, and CSV imports invite those players by email instead of leaving them out
Bug Fixes
- Fixed players who had favorited an event being skipped when registering players from a CSV import
- The Judge at table column now appears on the pairings tab on phones
Improvements
- Repairing a round now generates a fresh set of pairings rather than repeating the previous matchups
- Power-paired rounds now seed from the same standings players see, so matchups follow the posted rankings even when players are separated only by tiebreakers
- Events follow their template's decklist requirement, and organizers see a clear explanation when a decklist setting is locked
- The Recurring badge on an event now links straight to the schedule it was created from
- Long deck names on the pairings tab are now neatly truncated, with the full name on hover
Publisher Platform
New Features
- CSV Lists for Segments — Upload a CSV of players or stores to filter the list down to exactly those rows, review any rows that didn't match, and save the result as a segment for messaging
- New Achievement Conditions — Reward placement going into the top cut, reaching the top cut, winning as the lowest seed, positive or even match records, going undefeated (with Swiss-only and draw options), finishing last, facing a repeat opponent, playing distinct or the same deck-defining cards, mirror matches, and reward store purchases
- Deck-Defining Card Grouping — Choose whether deck-defining card achievements count each exact card, each card name, or each value of a card attribute such as set
- Store Player Wins Achievement — Reward stores when a player who has played there goes on to win a qualifying event
- Deck Re-validation on Rule Changes — Optionally re-check unlocked decklists for upcoming and in-progress events that are still accepting submissions whenever deckbuilding rules change, with a status indicator showing when re-validation is scheduled or running
- Decklist Requirements — Set whether events created from a template never, optionally, or always take decklists, and whether organizers are allowed to change it
- Registration Terms Requirement — Optionally require players to have a full account and accept the current terms before organizers can register them, with anyone not yet eligible invited by email instead
- Sign-In Providers — Connect additional login providers from a new Authentication tab so players can sign in with accounts they already use
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the country filter missing stores whose country was saved under a full name or alternate spelling, across store, application, event, and change request lists and their CSV exports
- Fixed warehouse orders and inventory including items from other games that share the same warehouse
- Fixed sorting change requests by store or state
- Store metrics CSV exports now respect the active search
Improvements
- Publisher editors and admins can now generate metagame analysis themselves and choose whether it's shared with publishers or organizers
- Change requests now show the Game Store ID as a column, filter, and searchable field, name the store on the detail page, and can be exported to CSV
- Store metrics now have a searchable, sortable Legacy Store ID column, which also appears in CSV exports
- Event templates can now default to letting players pay in person at the store
- Reward store orders can now be filtered by Order ID
- Warehouse orders from a publisher's other sales channels now appear in the orders list for some publishers