Nouvelles WGT Golf

We released some upgrades to the product earlier today and here are the highlights:

• Top Players list ordered correctly
• Leaderboards showing both tiers
• Resolved some cases of the session time-outs in game
• Resolved some cases of swing meter stuttering
• Improved messaging for cancelling a tournament, noting it will forfeit your tournament entry

Thanks for your support.

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We made some updates to the product today, and here are the highlights. As always, you can check the Announcements & Latest News forum for full details on our system updates.

• Progress bar loader – a new game loader shows you the progress of the load, so you know how far along you are.
• Online status sort – the WGT Players list is now sorted by online status by default, making it easier to form multiplayer games.
• See More Friends – you will now see up to 250 of your friends in the Friends widget on the left hand side of your screen.
• Screen resolution alert – if your screen resolution is lower than the recommended 1024x768, you will be alerted.

WGT players from 170 countries have now completed 2 million rounds and hit 20 million golf balls since October. We'll keep the features, prizes and tournaments coming, so keep playing and thanks for all your support!

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Thanks everyone!

Since WGT players from the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada became eligible to compete in WGT tournaments on November 1, we've gotten many questions about when eligibility will open for other countries. As you can imagine, different countries have different requirements for contest and sweepstakes, but we are steadily working through them to open up to as many countries as we can. Stay tuned, because there are definitely more to come!

Check out our newest video tutorial on how to start a multiplayer game. Learn how to create your own game and invite people to play, and how to make yourself available for a multiplayer game.

WGT players have completed 1 million rounds as of today, less than one month after the Beta went live! We have more exciting features, prizes and tournaments coming, so keep honing your skills and thanks for helping WGT reach this important milestone.

Ready for the next level of competition? We've enabled the Amateur tier at WGT! The top players in the community have been moved automatically to the new tier, where they will be playing from a new teebox. They will compete against other Amateur players in tournaments, and qualify for bigger purses and better prizes. As the WGT golfing community increases in size and ability we will continue to add higher tiers.

All players are elgible to qualify for the Amateur tier, so keep on playing!

(Please note that per our Terms & Conditions, each player may use only one account.)

Check out our newest game tutorial on how to aim your shot, for those of you who are unfamiliar with our target tool:

Check out our newest game tutorial on how to hit the ball, for those of you who are unfamiliar with our swing meter: