sneaK's Community

I love doing this every year to show how much we've grown as a community, but also as a report card to ensure that we are doing things right! 2019 was undoubtedly our best year on record, and I would like to share the statistics of this year with you!

Skill Surf:

• In 2019, we had 182,721 unique players from 155 different countries. This is a growth increase of 22% since the previous year!
• We had 45.5 years of play time on surf this year. Absolutely unprecedented number.
• The player with the most time in 2019 had a whopping 1,471 hours!
• We currently have 742 maps in rotation throughout all of our servers, this is up 70 since last year when I made the year in review post.
• In 2019, we had a ton of new personal bests! This includes 91,925 bonus completions, 303,426 map completions, and 2,612,395 stage completions.
• The quickest map time in 2019 was completed by a-ha!, on his own map of surf_abstract_final in 15.128 seconds. The slowest map time of 2019 was 3 hours, 8 minutes, and 39 seconds on surf_classics3. Hey, a completion is a completion!
• The most popular map by playtime was surf_kitsune_fix, with 11,136 hours played. That is 464 days of play time. Surprisingly enough, bringing up a close second was surf_summer, with 10,522 hours (438 days) of play time.
• 19% of connecting players are free-to-play, non-prime players.
  
• Here is an enhanced stats page of the past year!

Competitive Servers:

• In 2019, we had 189,576 unique players from 159 different countries. This is a 45% increase over 2018!
• We had 48.4 years of play time on our competitive servers this year.
• The most popular map for Retakes is de_mirage, followed by...

• Added new surf maps:
  • surf_grotto (Tier 3 Staged)
  • surf_hotwheels (Tier 2 Linear)
  • surf_intra (Tier 4 Linear)
  • surf_uhhh (Tier 1 Staged)
• Surf Timer - When using !hide, players footsteps around you are no longer audible
• KZ - Fixed some players unable to access ztopwatch
• Added bhop_colour_lr_v1_fix (Tier 1)
• Fixed crash on bhop_ala_laupapa
  
• Fixed SMFC not displaying in ranking info on Retakes servers
• Fixed odd overlap of points being displayed on Retakes servers
• Adjusted rate of points gain/loss for ELO differentials on Retakes servers (see more here)
• Improved Discord logging for admins/mods

Happy Holidays all! Here is a quick roundup of updates that have happened over the past few weeks through today:

• All timer servers now return to the last map that was on after a update/crash/restart rather than a static default map.
• Added surf_epiphany (T5 Staged)
• Added average map time to web surf stats page
• Updated the following KZ maps to their new global versions:
  • bkz_apricity_v2
  • bkz_nocturns_blue
  • kz_akrh_warehouse_v2
  • kz_catalyst
  • kz_illusion
  • kz_lost_marketplace
  • xc_supermario_go
• Added missing KZ map images for discord record announcer (thanks Ocelot!)
• Added bhop_legoverse (Tier 3)
• Temporarily disabled the bonus ELO gained on Retakes from killing a higher ranked player while a more mild algorithm is procured

Expect some more content related updates early January, I've had quite a bit on the burner the past couple months that will be coming to fruition soon.

• Added am_austria to 1v1 Arenas servers
• Added extended kill feed information to 1v1 Arenas servers, same as Retakes (through smoke, while flashed, noscope, etc)
• Added matchmaking-like rank system to the scoreboard on Retakes servers. The points threshold mimics that of actual matchmaking ranks - percentiles match up with our existing database
• Updated GOKZ to 2.3.0
• Added surf_minecraft_2020 (Tier 2 Staged)
• Added new bhop maps:
  • bhop_162
  • bhop_2hrs
  • bhop_accelerate
  • bhop_affliction
  • bhop_air
  • bhop_alprazolam
  • bhop_aphrodite
  • bhop_askowo
  • bhop_bloodflow
  • bhop_boredom
  • bhop_cover
  • bhop_decimus
  • bhop_devblock97
  • bhop_etizolam
  • bhop_forget
  • bhop_futile
  • bhop_growfonder
  • bhop_hades
  • bhop_haunt
  • bhop_how2strafe
  • bhop_kuukkeli
  • bhop_lightningroad
  • bhop_lightsout
  • bhop_linear_concrete2
  • bhop_linear_dust2
  • bhop_linear_forest2
  • bhop_linear_minimal
  • bhop_mdstrafe
  • bhop_mourning
  • bhop_myp
  • bhop_norma
  • bhop_offerline2
  • bhop_one_fall
  • bhop_puffs
  • bhop_purea
  • bhop_quaker
  • bhop_quaker2
  • bhop_rbth
  • bhop_red_shade
  • bhop_ripchy
  • bhop_ruins_of_hopcity
  • bhop_sakura_project
  • bhop_solitude
  • bhop_spdmp_2hr
  • bhop_stoitnamalchika
  • bhop_strvfe02
  • bhop_strvfe03
  • bhop_toroux
  • bhop_tsture
  • bhop_tumi
  • bhop_unrealverse_beta
  • bhop_waff1e
  • bhop_wire

We are also very aware of the once daily crash issue with Beginner and Easy Surf servers. This started after the Operation update, which Valve introduced a very sizable memory leak into the CS:GO Dedicated Server application. The issue seems extremely prevalent with higher population servers. I'm hoping they will be fixing it soon, but I have been working on mitigating the issue in various ways (subtracting a couple available slots, fixing a couple small leaky plugins, etc). This may ultimately require a twice daily restart so the issue doesn't persist. Hang with us, we'll get it right!