The changes today included an updated secondary UK table, some slight updates for server, plus some code cleanup which should have no impact.

However there is also the ability to have ranked tournaments, where each frame is ranked as a normal ranked game. Currently this is disabled, but we can try a ranked tournament later.

Edited at 11:19 Tue 26/10/10 (BST)

Nice changes nick as per usual!

i think the ranked tournies are a great idea as it will mean that people will want to win more and there will be alot more competition within tournaments,

i have yet to see changes to the uk table ill modify my post when i do.

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stone

Can't wait for the first ranked tourny, will be good and the sooner the better!

Will we have a choice to play ranked tourney as in when invites taken choose ranked or unranked ? , or will it be set ? I don't like the idea of ranked tourneys sorry

if its 2 a day or something no one can complain as you have a choice if to enter or not, ranked random tournie would be good, not only will you know rank you get but you won't know game type either.

I think it will be in the title, like Us8 ranked tournament.

You wouldn't have to join if you didn't want to but I believe it would be awesome and may stop a few people sitting on 800.0 rank

The whole tourny would be set as ranked. Only a small % are going to be ranked i presume, don't see the problem in simply not playing in the tourny if you don't want to play rank.

I actually think using the same ranking system will put a few off entering tournaments even though it shouldnt - but we'll see.

Unless of course there are to be completely separate tournament ranking score tables and I have misunderstood.

they will use same rank system, will there be an extra tab on profile e.g.

Friendly Tournament Wins 5
Ranked Tournament Wins 3

No you've understood fine (unless we've both mis-understood)

It'll only put people off entering a small amount of tournys.

So we agree on that then - I just don't think that should ever be the case.

I'm not totally against the idea but , if i want to play ranked games i will , its there for the taking , the tourney's are fun because there's nothing lost if you lose, something to gain if you win , were not all cowboys ya know

I believe if you can beat someone confidently in a friendly tournament, you can do so in a ranked tournament, the only difference is the winner is being rewarded, the only thing that would be wrong is say onua is 950 rank and wins 2-1 vs a 720 he would lose points...

However that is the risk he is taking should he play them in ranked anyway and knows the risks involved when joining the tournament as it would say ranked. As long as the players are warned before hand I don't see such a big problem. There is obviously a big call for ranked tournaments as there is often threads asking for them, wouldn't mind a trial run.

Once again mich if everyone had that attitude then great - in reality they don't though.

I just believe a separate tournament ranking would be better all round - however it was done.

Well I think we would need a trial run to see the popularity, and how well it went to see whether they should be implemented so hopefully some time today,

There will be several trials and if popular, ranked tourneys will be introduced among the existing lineup.

Don't forget, many people were opposed to 8 and 9 ball games being added as tourneys, then opposed to marathon tourneys, then speed toruneys, then random tourneys etc..

But if we were to scrap any of those now there would be an uproar

To clarify - no changes, no special ranks, no different stats, the only difference is that all games in the tournament will be ranked.

Ranked tournaments may have been the most requested feature over the years dating way back to pool sharks, so it will be fun to see it in practice at last.

Your going to get a lot of fake newbies entering these tournies just to P people off!

Could be fun!

LOL bill, thing is with that if you do get a user who purposefully plays 100 games and has a low rank, then enters a tourny and hustles all the top players, the top player is gonna lose a fair few points. I do like this idea it just should be thought about a bit more like you should gain points for how far you reach in the tourny?

You mentioned a secondary UK table, where is it?