Blitz League
How It Works
The path
Verify
Run /verify in Discord to link your World of Tanks Blitz account. Your verified role is your ticket into the queues.
Queue
Open the queue on the site and pick a format — 2v2, 3v3, 5v5, or 7v7. Balanced teams are put together for you automatically.
Play
Confirm you're ready, veto maps with the other team, then play your series in the training room. One replay upload per game keeps the result official.
Climb
Win to gain rating, lose to drop. Every queue size tracks its own rank, and the leaderboard ranks you by Total points — all of your playlist ratings added together.
Match format
2v2 & 3v3 — Best of three
4 maps are drawn and each team bans one, leaving 2. Map 1 is played twice — once on each side — and Map 2 decides it if the series is split 1-1.
5v5 & 7v7 — Best of five
5 maps are drawn and each team bans one, leaving 3. Maps 1 and 2 are each played twice, and Map 3 decides it if the series is split 2-2.
Full rules, side assignment, and conduct expectations are on the Rules page.
Why it's fair
Balanced matchmaking
Teams are built from players close to each other in rank first, only widening the search if a match takes too long to find.
Replay-verified results
Every game's stats — damage, kills, assists, blocked — are read straight from the .wotbreplay file, not self-reported.
Performance-based rating
A win with a strong individual performance is worth more than a carried win, and a loss with a strong performance costs you less.
How a match is made
Join
Pick one or more playlists and click Find match. Searching several at once is fine: as soon as one finds you a match, you are removed from the others.
Search
Each playlist has one waiting pool. The matchmaker starts with whoever has waited longest and fills the lobby with players from the same or neighbouring leagues. When many players join at once, it pauses for a few seconds to compare them together.
Ready check
When a lobby is found, everyone has 2 minutes to confirm on the site. The match starts the moment all players have confirmed. Anyone who doesn't confirm is removed from the queue and logged for staff; everyone else stays queued while the lobby refills.
One at a time
Ready checks run one at a time within a playlist, so a busy playlist forms matches back to back. Different playlists run independently, and matches already being played never hold up new ones.
How teams are balanced
Once a lobby is set, the matchmaker tries every possible way to split it into two teams and keeps the fairest one. It compares in this order, and a later check only decides when the earlier ones are tied.
- 1
Rank
The two teams' average rank is kept as close as possible.
- 2
Hidden skill rating (2v2 and 3v3)
A private rating built from your Blitz stats and your results here keeps small teams level. It is never shown, and it carries over between seasons.
- 3
League performance
Your career performance score from the replays of your league games.
- 4
Blitz stats
Win rate and average damage from your regular Blitz account.
- 5
Language
When everything else is even, players who share a language are put on the same team.
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Variety
Teams avoid repeating the same recent teammates.
Early in a season everyone starts unranked, so the first matches lean more on the stats-based checks until ratings spread out.
Waiting in the queue
Why is the queue slow?
Usually there are not enough players in that playlist yet, or not enough close to your rank. Queue for more than one playlist to be found faster.
When does the search widen?
Normally everyone in a match comes from the same or neighbouring leagues. After about 3 minutes with no suitable lobby, the search widens by one league. After about 5 minutes you are matched with the closest available players, so you are never left waiting forever.
Why was I removed?
You didn't confirm a ready check, or your tab was inactive for about 10 minutes. Keep the site open while you search.
How rating works
The ladder
Four leagues (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond), each with five divisions of 200 points: 4,000 points to reach Legend. Legend has no divisions and is ranked by position. Every playlist has its own rating; your overall rank is your best playlist.
Wins and losses
Every game moves your rating by a base amount that depends on your league. Lower leagues gain more per win and lose less per loss, while higher leagues need a better win rate just to hold their place.
Opponent strength
Beating a stronger team is worth more, beating a weaker one is worth less. Strength is judged from both the visible rating and a private skill rating, so a strong new player isn't over-rewarded just because their rating hasn't caught up.
Your performance
Your share of damage, kills, spotting, blocked damage and objective points in each game adjusts what you earn. A strong game boosts a win and softens a loss, but it never turns a win into a loss or the other way round.
Series, not single games
A whole series counts as about one and a half average games, whether it ended 2-0 or 3-2. That keeps 2v2 and 7v7 climbs comparable, and one series can only move you so far.
Always something at stake
Winning a series always gains you points and losing one always costs you some. The best player on a losing team gets a small gain instead of a loss.
Season rewards and league ranges are on the Rewards page.
FAQ
Common questions
Quick answers. For the full rulebook, see the Rules page.
Getting started
2 questions
How do I start playing?
Join the Discord server, run /verify <your exact in-game name> to link your account, then just join a queue on the site — no sign-up elsewhere needed.
Why does /verify only work for EU accounts?
WG's regional servers are separate, and players on different regions can't join the same training room — EU is the only region with enough players right now to support real queues.
Queues & matches
10 questions
How do queues work?
2v2, 3v3, 5v5, and 7v7 lobbies are always open — join one, and once it fills, a ready-check starts automatically.
What's the ready-check?
Everyone in the filled lobby has 2 minutes to confirm they're ready. Anyone who doesn't gets dropped from the queue automatically.
What happens if I miss a ready-check?
You're removed from that queue — no penalty beyond that on the site itself, though repeatedly no-showing tends to get noticed by staff.
How are teams decided?
Balanced automatically using a skill rating the matchmaker tracks in the background — not the same number as your visible rank, and not something you can see directly, just something that keeps games fair.
What's mapban?
Once teams are set, both sides vote on maps automatically — no admin needed.
How do I submit match results?
Upload your .wotbreplay file after each game. Matches are best-of-3 (2v2/3v3) or best-of-5 (5v5/7v7), so upload one file per game played, not one for the whole series.
Does the order I upload replays in matter?
Yes. Upload each game in the order it was played, as soon as it ends. Once a later game is recorded, the site won't accept an earlier one, so uploading game 2 before game 1 can lock game 1 out.
Why didn't my replay count?
A few common reasons: the battle didn't have a decisive winner (draw/unfinished), it's a duplicate of one already recorded, it was uploaded after a later game in the series was already recorded, or the roster in the replay doesn't match who's actually in your match. Replays also have to come from PC or Android — iOS can't produce them.
What if the series never finishes?
It just stays open until the deciding game is uploaded — there's no time limit, though staff can step in if something's actually gone wrong.
Can a match get cancelled?
Yes — staff can void a match if something legitimately went wrong (disconnect, dispute, etc.). If you think a match should be voided, report it rather than assuming it'll get caught automatically.
Rating & rank
5 questions
How does my rating change after a match?
Once a series is decided (not after every individual game), you gain or lose rating based on the result, how tough your opponents were relative to you, and how you personally performed — carrying a win earns more, a strong performance in a loss softens it.
What are the ranks?
Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, each split into five divisions, then Legend at the top (no divisions there — you're ranked by position instead).
Is it easier to climb than to hold a high rank?
Yes, by design — climbing out of Bronze is worth more than climbing out of Legend, and holding a high rank is deliberately harder than reaching one.
Is there a limit to how much I can gain or lose from one match?
Yes — no single series moves your rating by more than 300 points, regardless of the rest of the math.
Do 2v2, 3v3, 5v5, and 7v7 share the same rank?
No. Every playlist has its own rating and rank, shown separately on your profile. Your rank icon is your best playlist, so an unplayed format never lowers it. The leaderboard ranks players by Total points — all of your playlist ratings added together.
Seasons
2 questions
What happens when a season ends?
Visible rank resets for everyone. Your hidden matchmaking rating does not — that keeps games balanced accurately even when everyone's back to a fresh rank.
Do I lose everything I earned?
Every season starts everyone from zero, with no head start from the last one. Your past seasons stay on your profile, and your hidden matchmaking rating carries over so your first games are still balanced.
Rewards
3 questions
What do I get for playing or ranking up?
Season rewards are based on the league and division you finish the season in, using your best playlist rating. You must play at least 5 ranked series to qualify, and every league from Bronze to Legend has its own rewards. The full list is on your profile.
How does the leaderboard work?
Players who have reached Legend (4,000+) in at least one playlist this season are listed first, on the Legend board; everyone else is on the Other board. Within each board players are ordered by Total points, the sum of all your playlist ratings. If two players have the same total, whoever reached it first ranks higher.
What do the top players get?
Players who reach Legend are rewarded by their place on the Legend board: the Top 3 get special podium rewards, with further tiers for the Top 10, the Top 30 and everyone else in Legend. If fewer than three players reach Legend, the next-highest totals fill the podium. See the full reward list on your profile or in the Discord rewards channel.
Conduct
3 questions
What happens if I'm reported for bad behavior?
Staff review player reports and can take action, including banning someone from queuing, for a set time or permanently.
Can I get unbanned?
Contact staff — bans are reviewed case by case.
Where do I get help or report a problem?
In our Discord server: open a support ticket there and staff will help with match issues, reports and anything else.
Ready to prove it?
Join the Discord, run /verify, and open the queue.