This page journals the ongoing development of Melee.
We have partnered with Ravensburger to launch a new hobby game retailer signup website for the highly-anticipated trading card game Disney Lorcana. With this web tool, retailers can select their product distributors for Lorcana, the Ravensburger Trading Card Game, which features licensed Disney characters like Mickey Mouse and Elsa from Frozen.
This web tool is:
Creation of a Melee account is required
User accounts are no longer tied to a single Organization. Now a user account can create or be staffed on an unlimited number of Organizations. To accommodate this change, users associated with multiple organizations will now select the organization when creating a tournament or tournament hub.
To improve the navigation for players, judges, and organizers we’ve introduced a new section to the profile settings page called “Associations”. Links to the associations can be found on the user dropdown. Each tab in the Associations section of a user’s profile includes a sortable table for each decklist, tournament, and Organization a user has access to.
In preparation for MagicCon Philadelphia, we are announcing a new way for players to view their matches on Melee; the Player Portal.
The Player Portal is designed spefically for mobile and specifically for in-person tournaments.
The Player Controller will still be the place for decklist submission, viewing standings, and viewing your opponents' decklists. However, the new mobile first design of the Player Portal will make playing in in-person tournaments much smoother.
Links to the Player Portal are individual to each player and can be found in registration confirmation emails and on the Player Controller for that tournament.
Organizers now have the ability to print player decklists from the Tournament Controller. Organizers have a ton of options for collation, ordering, language, and grouping of decklists. Organizers can print decklists for an individual player, an individual match, or all decklists submitted for the tournament.
We've added several links to the Player Controller to surveys to collect information about player experience while at tournaments. This 1 minute survey allows players to provide feedback about Melee and organizers. We hope organizers will be able to use this information to improve player experiences at events.
Melee with the help of Magic judges and Wizards has translated the site into each several new languages!
You can change your preferred language in your user settings.
Melee Premium was not achieving the goals it was created for so we've decided to remove Premium from the site. We plan on revisiting Melee Premium in 2023. Features that were locked behind Melee Premium will be available to current Melee Premium subscribers until Decemeber 17th, when they will become available to all users. This includes the Archetype Matrix and Advance Decklist Search.
Also, there's no ads on the site anymore. We likely will add more relevant ads to the site in the future. For example, ads for tournament organizers and their tournaments. In the meantime, enjoy an ad free experience.
Supporting a greater number of tournaments outside of the US has led us to prioritize support for non-USD currencies. Organizers are now able to select their preferred currency when creating a tournament and players will then register using that currency. The amount stays in that currency all the way until the organizer receives their reimbursement at the end of the tournament, so there are no exchange fees. International currencies have their own payment policies and fees, which you can view on the Entry Fees and Payments page.
We also now support payments made via Venmo!
Over the last month we’ve been working with DreamHack and Wizards to start offering RCQ Event Kits for Round Two. The process from applying to run Regional Championship Qualifiers (RCQs) all the way to submitting RCQ winner information has been streamlined for this round. If you have previously been approved to host RCQs, you have automatically been approved and allocated kits for this round. Find more information about RCQ’s at https://mtgmelee.com/DreamHack.