Hello everyone!
There have been a lot of requests to set up some sort of gaming event in order to coordinate times when players will be online, and available to play in the PvP matchmaking queues!
This has been a high-priority for me, and I appreciate the patience being shown by the community over the past month since the first Early Access release.
I've been cooking up a few different ways to implement something like this, but completely forgot that Steam has support for this via the Steam Groups feature, so let's see if this will fulfill our needs.
I've created three events:
Friday, 19 July @ 20:00 each region: Kaz Ball Open - 1
Saturday, 20th @ 15:00 each region: Kaz Ball Open - 2
Saturday, 20th @ 20:00 each region: Kaz Ball Open - 3
Steam's event system uses your local time to determine whether or not the event has started, so this may be a little bit confusing. I'm open to some discussion surrounding how to best deal with our regional timezone differences, but for this event I'd like to define some time zones that are relevant to Kaz Ball's regional matchmaking system.
EU = UTC
NA = EST (UTC-5)
Asia = JST (UTC+9)
SA = UTC-3
AU = UTC+10
You'll likely need to adjust for your local time if you wish to compete in a specific regional slot. Feel free to participate in one or more regional slots if you wish.
I've also set up some new channels in Discord for each region so players can try and interact with each other a little better, or to gauge who is online, etc.
I look forward to seeing everyone!