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Announcements

Use the Announcements tab in the world control panel to create and schedule messages for participants during the event. Announcements are useful for rule updates, reminders, challenge clarifications, breaks, deadline warnings, and important notices. Create announcements with a message, start time, and end time; they are visible to participants only during that window. See Making an announcement.

Use Announcements to​

  • Create participant-facing announcements for the current world.
  • Set the start time and end time for each announcement.
  • Schedule rules reminders, clarification notices, break messages, and deadline warnings.
  • Review announcements before or during the event.
  • Edit announcements if the message or visibility window changes.
  • Delete announcements that should no longer appear.
  • Use CSV import/export when you need to prepare or review many announcements in bulk.

Announcements are for timed event messages. They do not change challenge answers, registration status, or team membership.

Announcement fields​

  • Announcement/message - The content participants will see.
  • Announcement period - The start and end date/time when the message is visible.

If the current time is outside the announcement period, participants should not see that announcement.

When to use announcements​

  • Before start: welcome note, rules reminder, or "event starts soon".
  • During play: clarify a challenge, announce a break, or remind players about support channels.
  • Near the end: countdown notices and final submission reminders.
  • After the event: final message, next steps, or prize information if the event UI remains available.

Bulk announcement planning​

For larger events, prepare scheduled announcements ahead of time:

  • Welcome and rules reminder.
  • Event start.
  • Support channel reminder.
  • Break start/end.
  • Timebomb or bonus challenge release.
  • Final hour.
  • Event close.
  • Post-event wrap-up.