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Important updates from the Battlesnake Team.

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What's new at Battlesnake in 2023?

We're thrilled to finally share the exciting changes we’ve made to Battlesnake including our website’s new look, new ranking system, and a new way to compete!

2022 Season Featured

Happy Holidays from the Battlesnake Team!

We're so grateful to have such a dedicated global community of developers who play Battlesnake, and wish you all a safe & happy holiday season 🎄

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Are you creating awesome Battlesnake content? Share it and get rewarded!

We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Battlesnake Creators program, a brand new initiative to celebrate creative contributions made by Battlesnake Developers from around the world!!! 🎉

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Applications Open for Fall Cohort of the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship!

Applications are now open to join the Fall 2022 cohort of the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship, a collaborative initiative that supports women and non-binary developers from across Canada in taking the next step in their journey as a professional developer—through Battlesnake.

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Announcing the 2022 Summer League Tournament Qualified Battlesnakes

With the Summer League leaderboard official closed, let’s take a look at the top tier Battlesnakes who qualified for the live tournaments on Saturday, July 23rd and Saturday, July 30th on Twitch.TV/BattlesnakeOfficial 🏆

2022 Season

Summer League 2022 Registration is Open!

A new map is revealed and deadly hazard walls are in play—get your must have Summer League info right here.

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Applications Open for the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship

Applications are now open to join the Summer 2022 cohort of the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship, a collaborative initiative that supports women and non-binary developers from across Canada in taking the next step in their journey as a professional developer through Battlesnake.

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New DigitalOcean Engine Regions: Toronto, Frankfurt, and Singapore

In November 2021, Rob was able to announce an incredible new Battlesnake feature he had been working very hard on: Engine Regions. Today, we are pleased to share that he has emerged again from behind his monitors to let us know that we have expanded global coverage with new Engine

2022 Season

Teams are Evolving

As we hinted in the November 2021 Developer Update [https://blog.battlesnake.com/battlesnake-developer-update-november-2021/], we are planning to completely redesign how we represent teams of developers on the Battlesnake Platform. Before we can introduce anything new, we need to retire the existing team system. This process will occur over a

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Wrapped Mode!

In preparation for the 2022 Competitive Season, we are introducing a new "wrapped" game mode! Wrapped mode dramatically expands the game board by allowing Battlesnakes to wrap from one side to side and top to bottom (and vice-versa) in a seemingly infinite loop.

2022 Season

Spring League and 2022 Competitive Season

It's here! The 2022 Competitive Season starts this week with a brand new game mode, a new map, and a whole new matchmaking system. We're going to detail everything you need to know to compete throughout the year, starting now with Spring League. Let's go!

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Meet the inaugural Developer Fellowship cohort!

While we officially welcomed these amazing developers to the Fellowship back in 2021, before the 2022 competitive season kicks off, we wanted to formally introduce them to the community in the most Battlesnake way possible: through their spectacular sense of humour!

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Introducing the new 'Trans Rights Scarf' Customization

We are incredibly excited to announce the launch of our newest community customization, the "Trans Rights Scarf" Battlesnake head, created in collaboration with Fall League People's Choice Award Winner penelopezone. "It's been important to me to express my gender identity in all walks of my life since I came out.

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Announcing Playback Settings

We're so excited to introduce our new Playback Settings which lets you configure and persist common playback settings for all your games.

2021 Season

Quick Start Streaming Guide

This guide will walk you through one way to get your first Battlesnake livestream running, using Twitch as the streaming service and StreamYard as your broadcasting studio.

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Announcing Engine Regions

Are you playing Battlesnake from outside of North America? Today we're releasing a beta feature that could make your Battlesnake faster, and local testing much easier. We've heard from many in the community that running a Battlesnake server locally is challenging when you're located far away from our main infrastructure

2021 Season

Get Started with Live Coding using our new Quick Start Guide!

We're thrilled to announce the release of our new brand new "Quick Start Streaming Guide", an easy-to-follow tutorial to help you get started with live coding Battlesnake as a new streamer. TLDR. Using only your browser, free web-based software and built-in peripherals, you can start live coding today! In this

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Let the battle begin for the 2021 Battlesnake: KubeCon Cup

Battlesnake is excited to be hosting the first ever KubeCon Cup – a chance for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/] attendees to roll up their sleeves, cozy up with their favorite cloud stack, and build a web server to compete in real-time against developers all over

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Fall League 2021 - Competition & Tournament Details

Fall League 2021 begins tomorrow, September 24th at 12:00 pm PDT! As always, we're making some changes to the competitive ladder and tournaments to address concerns, incorporate feedback, and hopefully build on the Battlesnake league format :) We love hearing your ideas to make Battlesnake Leagues better and more fun

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Battlesnake Raises $1.5M to Build eSports for Developers

Today, the Battlesnake team is excited to announce $1.5M in funding to build gaming and eSports for developers.

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New Community Snake Customizations

Today we’re releasing some new Battlesnake Customizations, available immediately to everyone! Mystical Head and Tail Set New Mystical Set, designed by Aileen the Prize QueenIntroducing the new Mystic Moon tail and All-Seeing Eye head! As part of Summer League 2021 we ran the Casters Crown Championship where each member

2021 Season

Introducing the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship

❗Applications for the 2022 RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship close May 21st, 2022! Learn more at fellowship.battlesnake.com [https://fellowship.battlesnake.com]We are excited to announce the launch of the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship [fellowship.battlesnake.com], an exciting new initiative from RBC [https://jobs.rbc.com/ca/en/

2021 Season

Announcing the 2021 Summer League Tournament Brackets

With the Summer League leaderboard official closed, this weeks update is all about which of the Top Teir Bhumba's have qualified for the live finale tournament this Saturday, July 31st at 10am PT / 1pm ET on Twitch [https://twitch.tv/battlesnakeofficial]. Gold Tier The top 32 Battlesnakes in the Gold

2021 Season

Subscribe to the New Battlesnake Community Calendar

We are excited to announced the launch of the Official Battlesnake Community Calendar, a Developers one-stop-shop to discover all the happenings around the Battlesnake Community.

2021 Season

Welcome to the 2021 Summer League ☀️

With the record-setting 2021 Spring League now firmly entrenched in the history of Battlesnake, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our next phase of the 2021 competitive season - the Summer League!