Case study · Side project · Pyramids Q Player Platform

A cup lasts six weeks. This keeps players playing for the rest of the year.

Alongside Pyramids Cup 8 we started building an off-season platform for the same community: player profiles, Pyramids Q Inhouses and Pyramids Q Fantasy. It is separate from the cup and its numbers are never added to the cup's.

Player profilesInhouse matchmakingRatingsDiscord botNext.jsSupabase

Live

pyramidsqueue.com/profiles, live: top five, best per role, team cards

Why build it

Grow the player base

A reason to join and stay in the community when no cup is running.

More teams

Players meet, play together and find teammates, so new teams form before the next registration.

More competitive players

A rating and a record players can show captains and scouts, built game by game.

Player profiles

Live · 72 profiles and growing

Submitted in Discord with one command, checked by staff before it goes live
Peak rank, Legendary rank and seasons reached, from Master to Sovereign
Verified Pyramids Cup history and placements, back to the first editions
Current cup stats and the inhouse rating side by side
A profile score with its parts shown, best player per role, and compare
Download as a card, a story or a post, or share a link
Create your team: up to five cards and a team score in one image

A full profile: score, seasons reached, badges and rank positions

Pyramids Q Inhouses

Live · Season 1 · prizes by TUN and DUSK

Balanced 5v5 custom games, run by our community bot in Discord. Ratings only change after staff approve a game, so the leaderboard can be trusted, and the results feed every player's profile.

Join a queue in Discord; at ten players a five-minute ready check starts
Teams balanced by rating and by each player's chosen lanes only
A private lobby thread and team voice channels per game
Both sides report the winner; every player enters their line (champion, K/D/A, MVP)
Staff check the result and lines against the scoreboard before any rating moves
Missed ready checks are penalised: out for 3, 5, then 10 lobbies, then the season
A High-Level queue for the top teams and invited players
Report a player and rate the night, both straight to staff

Inhouse session ended banner — Session open, game results and session ended posts in Discord

Pyramids Q Fantasy

In development

Pick a team from cup and inhouse players and score on their real, staff-approved results. A fantasy card mock-up exists for one player today; the game opens once a full season of inhouse data is in.

Built on the same system as the cup

The platform runs on its own bot, PQ Community, so a change to inhouses never restarts the tournament bot. It shares the database and the website with the cup, so a player's cup history and inhouse rating sit on one profile, while the two sets of numbers stay apart.

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