Race Season Nine Preliminary Information

We're planning for the season to start on approximately Saturday, 18 October (NZ time). This is less than two weeks from now.

We're currently considering switching to shorter but more frequent race seasons. Our current expectation is to make Season Nine a four-week season, followed by a Season Ten starting in December.

The new Demigod item will apply to the next three Seasons.

A new type of race mechanic we're testing for Season Nine is an event where the ladder consists of the time it took for players to kill a specific boss (for example, Vaal Oversoul). This type of event encourages a completely different style of racing than we've seen so far.

Masters/missions will likely be disabled in most types of races.

We're considering a Famine (Flasks and life/mana/ES don't refill in town) Fixed Seed race as the Signature event.

We will continue to award alternate-art Unique Items. Because of the shorter seasons, there will be fewer different items per season.

We're also working on improving the in-game Event UI. This change will probably be included in 1.2.4.

As a side note, we're also planning a one-week Rampage/Beyond hybrid league in the gap between the end of the current challenge leagues and the deployment of 1.3.0 in December.