So, it's time to take stock of 2023. It turned out to be rich in both content and events in general. In the spring, problems arose with the Xtreme-Jumps and Cosy-Climbing sites, and this negatively affected activity in kreedz as a whole. The Baltic community announced in November that it would be closing next year, Chinese since June have actually only been adding maps, although there is still a considerable audience there, judging by the stream's online of recent cups. We were left alone from the international communities for some time, fortunately Cosy has already returned, albeit in a less active state than before, and XJ should be revived soon.

Despite all this, we didn’t give up our work; during this year, in addition to the releases, news about new maps and lan pack updates, we created a full-fledged 100aa server, which is now connected to the general rating, the servers completely switched to Steam, and at the end of the year we held 4 tournaments in a row. Of course, this became possible thanks primarily to koala, who spent an unprecedented amount of money on prizes. Although kreedz is traditionally more about enthusiasm, it is pleasant to note that the participants, our wonderful commentator MEDVDED_EBUN, lxr and I received payments (the total amounted to almost 3.5 thousand dollars). At the same time, 60 thousand rubles came from dislike, and we will definitely use this money next year, as well as funds from other donators.

Now let’s take a break from the retrospective for a moment and look at the main menu of the site. Notice anything new? Yep, new pages have appeared in it! I have already written about some of them during the year (rules, movies, tutorial), but besides them, in the rating section there is a list of players distributed by their skill level. We touched on this topic during the streams, and after that I received a personal message with a proposal describing a similar system. But the point here is that it has existed almost since the first year of foundation, but we have been hiding it all this time, linking the points not to it, but to the scheme familiar to all of you. We did this in order to encourage those who were demotivated by the too high level of top players, which seems unrealistic for a beginner to reach. I think we were able to squeeze a lot out of this idea, and we will continue to stick to it, leaving the skill rating as background information, and we will reveal its work later only in general terms.

And finally about the maps. The number of community maps accepted this year has broken all records, and as a New Year's gift, our mappers are giving us 6 more new winter-themed maps:


All of them were made as a part of the winter map competition, and we would like to reward mappers with prizes, so we invite you to vote for your favorite maps right here, in the comments below the news. Write three maps that you liked more than others, and after two weeks we will count the votes (each mention of a map = 1 vote). Don’t worry, there are no maps higher than hard here, so you will be able to evaluate every single one :) Thanks to edZika, hfour and TyIIIkA for carefully checking the maps, their work is worthy of sincere praise!







I don’t dare distract you any longer from your rest and holiday table. Next year, I wish you to properly distribute your energy and enjoy both kreedz and life in general. On behalf of the entire team, I wish everyone Happy New Year!

2Dex
bhop_avantura	done in 01:13.61	(01:11.53 Juby)	4 place	27 Exp	2
fof_chillbhop	done in 01:04.69	(01:02.35 6dAs)	5 place	26 Exp	1
k_ice	done in 02:22.55	(02:09.53 Creep)	2 place	29 Exp	2
kzpl_christmasmission	done in 00:46.15	(00:43.27 seniug)	2 place	29 Exp	2
zr_hetablock[hard]	done in 01:31.69		1 place	30 Exp	1
all1aNcE
ih_cbbleblock	done in 02:15.91 WR!	(02:24.90 colcolx)	1 place	50 Exp	6
kzcn_hopdown	done in 02:21.95 WR!	(02:25.39 Dolphin)	1 place	50 Exp	8
mad_bhopit	done in 02:59.17 WR!	(03:25.06 Creep)	1 place	50 Exp	10
c1s3lk4r
bhop_avantura	done in 01:20.04	(01:11.53 Juby)	16 place	16 Exp	2
dumbleblock	done in 02:11.07	(01:44.98 HaMMa)	2 place	29 Exp	2
hb_dropzone2	done in 02:59.18	(02:27.87 brokoly)	11 place	20 Exp	2
kz_anubis	done in 03:03.68	(02:34.71 all1aNcE)	12 place	19 Exp	2
kzra_bhopmemories	done in 02:51.04	(02:01.15 Toff1fee)	4 place	27 Exp	2
Hong10
hkz_chas	done in 02:31.45 WR!		1 place	60 Exp	1
kzzNk_snow	done in 02:55.84 WR!		1 place	60 Exp	1
inactive
cray_tunku_fast	done in 01:31.26 WR!	(01:33.74 inactive)	1 place	20 Exp	3
sl_hb_Mrazota	done in 02:59.42 WR!		1 place	60 Exp	3
sl_hb_siNtez	done in 03:40.33 WR!	(03:45.38 Marusya)	1 place	60 Exp	4
sl_toon	done in 02:13.22 WR!		1 place	50 Exp	3
Kris
abu_hb_hamma	done in 01:38.55 WR!		1 place	60 Exp	3
kzra_shortclimb	done in 03:03.91 WR!		1 place	60 Exp	2
kzsca_we_cliff	done in 01:19.11	(01:18.81 colcolx)	2 place	0 Exp	2
mad
5oXen_minipit	done in 02:40.51 WR!	(02:49.45 mad)	1 place	30 Exp	2
abu_bhop	done in 03:25.38 WR!	(04:43.93 Creep)	1 place	60 Exp	2
millyrock
bhop_halloween16	done in 00:45.08 WR!	(00:47.06 millyrock)	1 place	20 Exp	5
pepi
cobkz_rush_race	done in 01:29.44 WR!	(01:30.68 colcolx)	1 place	50 Exp	2
sonyamarmeladova
cray_tunku_fast	done in 01:31.76	(01:33.74 inactive)	2 place	29 Exp	2
tasi
nz_stonetown	done in 00:48.63	(00:42.65 inspare)	9 place	0 Exp	3
Rejected demos rush_stones_teaamd3d_0253.28.zip - +use script trust_undergroundhops_teaamd3d_0148.13.zip - +use script
Deleted demos cray_tunku_fast_inactive_0133.74.zip kzsca_we_cliff_Kris_0120.72.zip 5oXen_minipit_Zilelele_0249.45.zip bhop_halloween16_millyrock_0047.06.zip nz_stonetown_tasi_0049.81.zip

P.S. Thanks to skarp for checking the demos!