Renown Season 3 Is Here: A New Era of Competition

This isn't just a new season; it's a new era for Renown. We're introducing our own proprietary AI moderation system, a brand-new season reward structure, pro-level practice tools, a public API, and a huge list of the features you've been asking for.

The ticket system: Play, earn, win

With Season 3, we're moving to a more dynamic and engaging way to reward your grind: the Ticket System.

The concept is simple: play matches, complete challenges, and be a good teammate to earn tickets. At the end of the season, these tickets become your entries into a random draw for some insane skins. Every ticket is an entry, so the more you earn, the better your odds.

But this isn't just about playing more. The system is designed to reward good behavior and punish the bad. You earn tickets for completing matches and challenges, but you'll also lose tickets for things like abandoning matches or receiving a ban. This ensures that the most dedicated and positive members of the Renown community have the best shot at winning.

To kick things off, here's our first skins lineup:

AWP | Dragon Lore (~€6309)
Karambit | Fade (~€1984)
M4A1-S | Fade (~€531)

For a full breakdown of the rewards, challenges, and rules, visit the new Seasons page. We've also published a blog post explaining the philosophy and details behind the new system.

RenownAI: Moderation that understands Counter-Strike

You've seen us talk about "AI-powered moderation" before. But our previous system could only see a fraction of the match, sometimes lacking the context needed to make the right call. We knew we needed something smarter, something that understood the nuance of a Counter-Strike match at a much deeper level.

So, for the last six months, we built it ourselves.

RenownAI is a massive upgrade, designed to bring a new level of fairness in moderation never seen before. It's an intelligence engine trained on millions of interactions of our own matches, and it understands that context is everything. It analyzes voice and text in over 50 languages alongside game-defining actions like teamkilling, going AFK, or force-buying when the team is on eco. For you, this means we can tell the difference between a player having a bad round and one who is intentionally ruining the game.

This new level of understanding also powers two new features that will help you become a better teammate:

Most Friendly Player (MFP): Good behavior deserves recognition. After each match, RenownAI highlights the teammate who demonstrated the best communication, sportsmanship, and teamwork.
Personalized Feedback: On every match page, you'll now see a clear breakdown of your performance across communication, sportsmanship, and teamwork to understand your impact beyond K/D.

RenownAI is our commitment to building the best community experience you've ever had, and this is just the beginning. As the system matures, we'll continue to build on it, and we have a lot of ideas for how its intelligence will be integrated deeper into the Renown experience.

You can explore the full system on the new RenownAI page, and for a deeper look into the tech, we've published a new blog post explaining why we built RenownAI and how it works.

Clearer moderation and penalties

With the intelligence of RenownAI comes a more transparent and predictable penalty system. We're rolling out a new behavioral level system for toxicity and griefing offenses. Each violation increases your level, leading to escalating penalties. A clean 60-day record will lower your level, giving you a clear path to redemption.

Most importantly, you will now receive clearer, more detailed reasoning when a sanction is applied to your account. Combined with the personalized feedback available on your match pages, you'll have a much better understanding of our rules and how your actions impact others.

Check out all the details in the Offenses and Penalties section in the new RenownAI page.

SCL Practice Servers for Premium users

We're thrilled to announce a partnership with SCL, a professional Counter-Strike training platform trusted by top-tier players and teams. Starting today, all Renown Premium members will receive full access to SCL's Individual plan at no extra cost. They offer a wide range of training modes where you can:

Sharpen your aim with dedicated prefire, spray control, and refrag practice modes.
Practice realistic site holds and retake scenarios against intelligent bots.
Master hundreds of essential smoke, flash, and molotov lineups for every map.
Analyze your decision-making with a 2D replay viewer and get AI-powered insights to fix your mistakes.

This is an incredible tool to sharpen your skills and gain a competitive edge. You can find more information and get started on the new Practice page.

A new look for Renown

With Season 3 comes a new visual identity for Renown. We've updated our branding with a warmer, deep wine-red, and we're introducing more ways for you to make the platform feel like your own.

The highly requested dark mode (Carbon) is now available for all players! For our Premium members, we're adding a collection of themes to better suit your style, from the pure black of Obsidian to the deep green of Forest.

Additionally, Premium users can now apply a subtle visual flair to their profile with new avatar effects, like the flaming Inferno or a cosmic Galaxy glow.

Check out the themes in the top menu. Premium users can find avatar effects under profile settings.

Developers: Our Public API is live

You asked for it, you waited for it, and we promised we'd ship it this year. Today, we're launching v1 of the Renown Public API.

This is your chance to build community tools, stat-tracking websites, Discord bots, and more using official Renown data. The API provides access to player stats, match data, leaderboards, and much more. This is just the beginning, and we'll be expanding the API's capabilities over time.

Check out the full API Documentation to get started.

And yes, it's free. Completely free. No surprise invoice because you dared to download a demo file.

Some of the most requested features

This update is packed with quality-of-life improvements straight from your feedback.

Miniprofiles

Get at-a-glance information about any player by simply hovering over their avatar. See their rank, Elo, and recent win rate without ever leaving the page.

Match lobby chat

It's finally here! You can now coordinate map picks, strategize, or just banter with your teammates before the match even starts. The match lobby chat is fully integrated with RenownAI from day one, so be a good sport!

Track your rivals

Rivalries matter. You can now visit any player's profile to see your lifetime win/loss record against and with them. Keep tabs on your friends (and your enemies).

Under the hood platform improvements

We've also made a bunch of other changes to improve the core Renown experience.

Improved queue times: We've optimized our matchmaking algorithm to reduce queue times without compromising match balance.
New invite wave: Our eligibility criteria have been refined, allowing us to invite more legitimate players while maintaining the high quality of the Renown community.
Anti-cheat & anti-smurf: We've deployed significant upgrades to our detection and actioning systems for both cheaters and individuals using multiple accounts.
Improved friend list statuses: Your friends list is now more informative, showing when a player is away and the last time they were online.
Expanded queue hours: We're keeping the servers open longer. Matchmaking now runs until 03:00 CET every night, with queues opening daily at 13:00 CET.

A thank you to our Premium members 💙

To everyone who has supported us with a Premium subscription, thank you! Your support is what makes all of this possible.

We know that recently, the value of the subscription hasn't been where we want it to be. We've been focused on building this foundation for the future, and we appreciate you sticking with us. To show our appreciation, every player with an active Premium subscription at the time of the Season 3 launch has received one free month of Premium on us.

For those who want to try Premium or have let their subscription expire, we're running a limited campaign for 50% off your first month. This is one of the few times we'll run a promotion like this, so it's the perfect time to jump in and experience everything Season 3 has to offer.

Thank you for playing, thank you for your feedback, and thank you for helping us build Renown into something special.

Season 3 is live now. Jump in, explore the new features, and we'll see you on the server!