Clash of Clans update Sneak Peek #2: Legend League Tournaments

***Update: Supercell has just revealed the third teaser: The Dark Spell Factory and a new Poison Spell. Read more here.

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The upcoming Clash of Clans update is shaping up to be quite massive, as Supercell revealed today a major shake up coming to the multiplayer leaderboards scene.

"Big changes are coming to the multiplayer leaderboard scene! There are new Leagues, a new Tournament and crazy sounding things like Legend Trophies," Supercell Games teased.

Today's sneak peek is more of a massive explanation of the changes coming to multiplayer — particularly aimed at creating a new challenge for top players.

The biggest change will be the introduction of the Legend League at 5,000 Trophies and a new, monthly Legend Tournament in the Top Players list. Here are the details for this league:

• Your current global rank is featured on your League Badge in your Profile
• Your final global rank and Trophies will be permanently saved to your Profile when the Tournament ends
• The Top Player tab will feature last season’s Legend League Tournament winners
• Trophies above 5000 will be reset down to 5000 when the Tournament ends, and deducted trophies will be converted into Legend Trophies
• Legend trophies will be permanently featured in your Profile and cannot be lost

To better understand the reasoning behind these changes, Supercell has posted a lengthy explanation in which they dive deep into the world of competitive Clash. It basically boils down to this:

"Nowadays, reaching 3200 Trophies and becoming a Champion is a great accomplishment, but it is far from the ultimate symbol of prestige it was in 2013. There is a vast competitive spectrum beyond 3200 Trophies that is going completely unrepresented. Again, we’ve been intensely watching how many Trophies players have, and the situation feels somewhat familiar.

– The most competitive Trophy range is around 4700 Trophies

– Less than 150 players in the entire world have over 4800 Trophies

– NOBODY has over 5000 Trophies

We've placed the new Titan League to again contain only the most explosively competitive players in the game. Just like we did for Champion League in 2013, we are placing Legend League to where no player has been: 5000 Trophies. Also, Just like Champion League felt in 2013, the new Legend League will, at first, feel immensely difficult and ultra-exclusive.

It will be an incredible achievement for the first players who pass 5000 Trophies and become Legends, and it won't end here. Without a doubt, more and more players will push into Legend and beyond."

Supercell went on to say that the competitive Clash experience "can be way better" and that they've been looking at feedback from competitive players to address certain key issues like long matchmaking search times, repeatedly lopsided Trophy offers, and low mobility in the Trophy ladder. Here's what Supercell had to say today:

"We’ve already taken countless small measures to try to address these issues over the years, but there has always been one simple, unchanging problem: there are not enough players at the top. When there are too few players, matchmaking suffers, Trophy offers get worse, and pushing trophies becomes more and more difficult. The best solution has always been to try to get as many players as we can into the most competitive Trophy range, but finding a fair way to accomplish this has been a massive challenge.

The new Legend League Tournament is our biggest and boldest step to try to finally address these problems for good. Over time, these Tournaments will be pushing more and more competitive players together, but how does that actually work?"

With Supercell acknowledging that the best Clash experience "happens when players are not too distant from one another and battles come frequently," they will be implementing Trophy resets.

"At the end of every Legend League Tournament season, everyone's final standings will be recorded, featured throughout the game, and Legend League players who are above 5000 Trophies will be reset back down to 5000 Trophies. Yes, every month, all Legends get a fresh start and another chance to push for global rank #1,

Our goal here is to nail down a competitive "sweet spot" in the Legend League for our most competitive players. Over time, more and more Clashers will join Legend to compete and this spot will only become sweeter. High-level matchmaking response times will improve, Trophy offers will recover and, eventually, there will be enough mobility in the Trophy ladder to make it possible for anyone who is a serious contender to push to the top."

Here's where things get really interesting, or complex. Since Trophies are a measure of prestige in Clash of Clans, Supercell has developed a unique system to enhance prestige-building season after season with the addition of Legend Trophies.

"Legend Trophies permanently preserve the extra Trophies that get reset to 5000 at the end of each Legend League Tournament season. As an example, if you end the Legend League Tournament with 5100 Trophies, you will gain 100 Legend Trophies when your Trophies get reset to 5000 at the end of the season."

These Legend Trophies will accumulate season after season and nothing will ever reset or reduce Legend Trophies. They are yours forever and are visible to everyone else. Supercell says they are looking for even more ways to feature this number competitively around the game.

Additionally, your best ever League Legend Tournament result will be permanently stored in your profile and visible to all as a symbol of prestige. And lastly, the top League Legend Tournament players will be featured on the global Top Players list for the entire next season after that Tournament ends.

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Holy crap. Got all that? Today's "sneak peek" makes yesterday's look at Level 5 Dragons seem like nothing!

"In the Clash Team, we feel that this is only the first step in growing the potential and improving the experience of high-level competition in Clash of Clans. We will continue to find ways to provide more excitement and activity to each competitive season, and get more players involved to make the experience as fun as possible. We are incredibly excited to see how the competitive scene evolves over the next few months and look forward to seeing more and more Legends join the competition!" Supercell concluded, promising more sneak peeks for the upcoming update tomorrow.