As announced earlier, the KiO World Cup Qualifiers are going to start on July 7th.

Qualifier tournaments will be held each hour from 15:30 CEST to 22:30 CEST for 16 days. That’s 128 tournaments, and each tournament winner qualifies for one of 32 groups in the next round.

You can play any number of qualifier tournaments until you win one.

Good luck!

Kick it out! 10.0 is scheduled for release on may 27th 2020 which is the 10th birthday of Kick it out! 1.0!

This article explains the changes in KiO 10.

Clan Master Cup

The Clan Master Cup is a totally new Clan tournament which is held each saturday at 19:00 CEST. It’s a one-for-all-tournament which means that each clan can participate with ONE team only. The first team of each clan that joins the tournament will represent the clan. The winner’s clan gets the Clan Master Cup (not the team!) and an entry in the new Clan Master Cup hall of fame.

Other Clan Improvements

Clans are important for our game, so there are even more improvements. Clan admins will be able to make other teams new admin directly in the clan management. No more need to send us a message. Also, clans can be deleted using a new item from the shop. So also no need to send us a message, and, even more important, wait until we execute the change.

And there’s more: Whenever a team above level 30 joins a clan, you will see that in the newsticker.

Help and Support

The Wiki will be integrated directly inside the game on the help screen. We are currently working on improvements in the english version, this will propably not completed when KiO 10 is released but somewhat later. Furthermore, the ingame message system will be replaced by an e-mail system.

Improvements for Beginners

We have many more users since a couple of months, and we found that we should make their KiO lives easier. We are going to remove the strength limitation of player transfers and we will change the player offers in the shop.

Fan Clubs

A completely new feature are the Fan Clubs. Your club can have multiple of these, and you get them when you solve special challenges which show up only once on fridays as you play. Fan Clubs increase the number of stadium visitors, or allow you to increase the ticket prices withoug risking lower number of visitors.

Specialist Eraser

There will be an often-demanded new item in the June Season Pack: The Specialist Eraser. This rare item allows you to make a specialist a „normal“ player, and then to make him a different specialist by using the well known specialist training.

Adjustments

We will do some additional adjustments as follows:

• In the simulation, some parameters will be scaled down for low morale (below 5). This means that losing against a team with morale 0 but surprisingly right counter formation will be much rarer. Also the chances to win against a low morale team with same formations (or even the right counterformation) are even higher than before. No changes for high morale greater than 4!
• Payouts will be adjusted in Universe Cup, Galaxy Cup (higher) and Clan Cup (much lower) as they currently do not match the importance of those tournaments.
• The list of highest or worst results will be removed because it heavily downgraded the server performance.

Please note that there will be no new version of the game for Windows. This means that certain features (those which depend on the app) are not supported on Windows, while server-only changes are.

Thanks for supporting us and for playing our game for more than ten years!

Due to some indicents in the past considered unfair play by many users, we are going to introduce the following minor rules changes for next season:

Coach setup

The coach currently tries to improve your setup if it has strength below 97 AND 10% below the best strength possible (but not if you have team strength below 70). This only happened in league matches, but we are now extending this to Universe Cup, Galaxy Cup and Clan Cup matches.

Furthermore, as the coach setup often was not very good (ignoring specialists and such), we improved the coach’s algorithm a bit. This is of course not meant to support lazy managers, because any top manager will be able to set up a better squad especially for a given opponent, but a bad auto-setup honestly does not change the result of any match.

Organized tournaments

Recently we noticed that organized tournaments are held in huge numbers to solve the clan challenge „win x tournaments“ quickly. Self organized tournaments are meant for fun, and not for simplifying challenges, so starting next season, organized tournaments stop counting towards that clan challenge.

Clan agent

As you know, we disabled all clan agents due to some kind of misuse. We reconsidered the whole feature and came to the conclusion that the clan agent is not a feature we absolutely need. As a consequence, we are going to remove all clan agents in the foreseeable future from all teams.

Future sight

We are aware of the fact that most these changes are concerning the clan features. Of course the clans are an important element of the game, that’s why we need to take care that they allow for a great and fair play oriented experience. That said, it’s a good thing that we are going to improve the clan elements in the planned KiO 10 large update: There will be a new weekly clan tournament which also smaller clans will have a chance to win, and we are going to add a „close clan item“ which allows to remove a clan without members immediately. This currently is done manually, and on weeksends not fast enough if someone wants to remove his clan and join another one. And there will be more, so stay tuned!

And stay healthy!

Next week we’ll have a short week because thursday is Unity Day in Germany. Now, we said, let’s make a whole Special Week!

Starting today, we are having the Ruby Special, which means you get 3 free ruby for each pack purchase.

This is active until October, 7th, midnight CEST!

Furthermore, the new update is now active on server side, so top scorers in top leagues get the scorer cannon, also the luxury training center now can also produce specialists with the same (low) propability like the large training center. And bot matches are not counted anymore in the paper scissors rock statistics. That said, we again want to make clear that statistics make no sense if you have only a couple of matches. So, winning 4 matches and losing 1 is NOT equal to 80:20, it might just be a random deviation! The more matches, the better statistics become, more than 100 matches are optimal.

On oct 1st we are going to bring you the new Season Pack Autumn. It will contain mostly the same as the current pack, as this is quite well received. On oct 3rd we’ll but the 100% platinum specialist in the ruby shop. And on top of all that, we have a very close clan championship this weekend!

So, have a great time in the game!