Originally posted by Brad on the Steam forums.

Greetings!

For those of you interested in multiplayer I wanted to give you a preview of what we have planned.

So Season 1 begins this week. Friday. All the rankings will be reset (Season 0 will be archived and we will be updating the UI in the future to allow people to go back and look at previous rankings).

At the end of Season 1, we will begin a tournament of the top N players that are in the Legendary bracket in which we will have one Stardock observer in the game to moderate (along with N streamers). Replays will be made available post-game.

Obviously, this means between now and then we will have released an update to Ashes that has observer mode and streamers since our season system relies on it.

The top M finalists will get some sort of prize. 

N and M will be determined in the near future. We are still, obviously, pretty new to this. On the bright side, Stardock has hired Adrian Luff, a Blizzard veteran of 15+ years who is most notable in his work in the creation of Battle.net who will be leading our efforts in this area. 

If you have any questions, please post them here.