Friday's are usually a bit special on PlayStrategy because we have a 24 hour tournament dedicated to a single variant in our 'Yearly' category: playstrategy.org/tournament/history/yearly.

Well every variant on PlayStrategy has had it's Yearly, and these will return in 2025, but we have 9 more Friday's in 2024 before then...

So to fill the gap we will have a 'Medley Marathon' every Friday. Think of the Medley Shield but in 24 hour form!

The first in the series is the Shogi Medley Marathon: playstrategy.org/tournament/uvYp9lXO.

You can see the full list for the rest of the year in the calendar: playstrategy.org/tournament/calendar.

We'll also take this opportunity to share that PlayStrategy is getting busier each month, with October being a new record for games played on the site, over 26000. This is double what we were getting as recently as June! Standard Chess remains our most popular variant, but Brazilian Draughts is catching it up... Bestemshe has seen a very high games per day rate (averaging over 100 each day since launch), with Mancala games doing very well at the moment.

The number of users visiting the site every day is at nearly 300, with over 1250 unique users coming to PlayStrategy in October. All these figures are constantly on the rise, so thanks to all of our users for being here and playing your favourite games!