The Hosting Advisory would like to update the community of the many changes & projects we've been working on.

Title Time

After several discussions throughout this community's history, the Hosting Advisory has come to a final decision.

To recap the discussions for those who need one, the advisory & the mods made a decision to only enforce one kind of advertised time in the title of match posts. The two options included advertising the start time of the match in the title of posts & the other was advertising the whitelist off time (when the game opened).

After multiple discussions & feedback from the community, we've decided to go with Opening Time (whitelist off time).

This also means the required information in match posts, opening time has been switched with start time.

This rule takes affect 2 weeks from today & all matches posted after 2 weeks that don't follow this rule will be removed. The Hosting Rules page has been updated to reflect this change.

Team Styles

Team Styles are now required before the team size in the title of match posts. These were added for clarification on what team type the host is hosting, and for better sorting of matches on match calendars. Here is the official list:

This rule takes affect 2 weeks from today & all matches posted after 2 weeks that don't follow this rule will be removed. The Hosting Rules page has been updated to reflect this change.

Match Title Format Change

To accommodate Ghowden's match calendar update, the match post title format has been changed.

• Every match post title must follow the following format:

• Mmm DD HH:MM UTC - Region - Host Name's #MatchCount - Team Style Team Size - Scenario #1 - Scenario #2 {Extra}

Here's an example title:

Jul 01 19:45 UTC - EU - Walden's #177 - Chosen Teams of 3 - CutClean - Genie

This rule takes affect 2 weeks from today & all matches posted after 2 weeks that don't follow this rule will be removed. The Hosting Rules page has been updated to reflect this change.

Donation Rule Change

The donation rule has been reworded for more clarification.

Here is the updated rule:

Donators may receive in-game benefits that are cosmetic, but may not receive any priority or advantage over other players, including but not limited to:

• Can not be pre-whitelisted

• Can not be given reserved slots

• Can not be given the ability to spectate the match

• Can not be given special items

Match Post Rule Change

The addition to the Match Post Rule is:

• Correct grammar, spelling and capitalization are required in match titles.

• Hosting under a name that is offensive to a large group of people or could be interpreted as an insult to one or more persons is not allowed.

• Hosting under a copy-cat/"fake" name is not allowed.

Sidebar & Wiki

• The old Scenario List has officially been moved from /r/ultrahardcore to the new one on /r/UHCHosts, with the new format.

• The old Scenario List has been removed.

• The sidebar of both /r/UHCHosts & /r/UHCMatches have been merged, we don't want hosts or players going to different subreddits both used for hosting to get information.

We are constantly working on adding, updating, fixing information on all of our wikis & we would love if you could help us with that. Use the appropriate links below if you have anything we can do to our wikis.

• Suggest a Scenario
• Suggest a Tool

Banner Contest

We have noticed that people really want to see a new banner, but instead of a new banner for the /r/ultrahardcore subreddit, we figured there should be a banner contest, but for /r/UHCMatches & /r/UHCHosts .

So we are announcing that there is officially now a banner contest for /r/UHCMatches & /r/UHCHosts and people can submit their submissions to the Hosting Advisory using these links:

• /r/UHCMatches Banner Contest Submission

• /r/UHCHosts Banner Contest Submission

The contest will be ongoing for a couple of weeks, and the winner will be announced on the Community Post. We hope that makes people who want to see a new banner happy to some extent, and those creative minds busy.

Good luck to all!

Community Feedback

Recently, Walden left a comment on the Community Post asking the community what they thought of the Hosting Advisory & what ideas they have for it. Two new idea comments that stood out to us were these two: One, Two.

Due to these two comments, we are officially announcing

• The implementation of a Hosting Ban List.

• Every time we think of a new rule or idea, this account, /u/HostingAdvisory, will put a comment with this header in the community post:

• Hosting Advisory Update

Thanks for reading & we hope this, as well as all the projects we are constantly working on, will improve the quality of hosting in our community. As always, we would love to hear your feedback to help shape our next direction & update.

Have fun hosting!

- The Hosting Advisory