Connect FACEIT (required)

You must connect your FACEIT account to take part. Registrations without a linked FACEIT account are not counted — FACEIT is the only platform we track (Premier is excluded).

Overview

SOLDIER MODE Summer Edition runs for 26 days. This scoreboard ranks how much you improve over the challenge — your FACEIT Elo climb (weighted by level) together with your in-game performance.

Duration

26 days — Monday 29 June 2026, 00:00 UTC through Friday 25 July 2026, 00:00 UTC (covering 29 June to 24 July inclusive). All times are in UTC. A match counts toward the ranking if it started before the deadline — a game you launch in the final minutes still counts, even if it finishes after the clock runs out. Because of that, the standings are not frozen the instant the countdown hits zero: the scoreboard keeps updating for a short while after the end while those last in-window games finish and their results come in. During the challenge the scoreboard refreshes automatically about every 10 minutes once your matches finish — give it a few minutes after a game. Winners are announced on 25 July 2026.

Registration

Connect your FACEIT account and enter the challenge password (shared in the Skool) to join. Registration is open from 24 June until 6 July 2026, 00:00 UTC — it stays open for the whole first week after the start on 29 June, so you can still join once the challenge is already running. If you join after the start, your Elo climb is measured from when you register, so jump in early to get the most time. Late joiners must complete the full Skool protocol or they are disqualified.

Scoring — exactly how the leaderboard is calculated

Your total score is a weighted sum of five metrics, each measured across your FACEIT matches in the challenge window:

• Elo climb — 80%
• ADR (average damage per round) — 8%
• First kills (opening kills) — 4%
• K/R (kills per round) — 4%
• K/D (kill/death ratio) — 4%

Each metric is normalised against the best value in the field — the field leader on a metric earns the full weight, everyone else scores in proportion — and is then multiplied by its weight. The five weighted parts are added together to give your total.

Elo climb is difficulty-weighted so that climbing at a higher Elo counts for more:

• Your raw Elo gain (end minus start) is multiplied by a difficulty factor that rises from 1.0x at 1000 Elo up to 2.5x at 2500 Elo and above — each Elo point is worth more the higher up the ladder you earn it.
• A soft cap then applies diminishing returns to very large swings, so a single lucky run can never build an uncatchable lead. Steady improvement is rewarded and lower-Elo players stay competitive.
• Elo losses count at face value (no extra penalty for playing at a high level).

Eligibility

If your FACEIT account already has an Elo (you were placed this season), you are ranked as soon as you play your first match in the challenge. If you have no FACEIT Elo yet (not placed this season), you need at least 10 FACEIT matches in the challenge first, so your climb has a fair baseline. Completion of the full Soldier Mode protocol is verified inside the Skool, not by this scoreboard: 50 FACEIT matches during the challenge, the daily post with your 15-minute mechanics practice recording, and your daily demo self-review (12 rounds). Anti-smurf: at least 45 FACEIT matches in the last 3 months, no new accounts, and no queuing with friends on new accounts. The demo reviews and practice videos are submitted in the Skool; we do not track them here.

Prizes

1st — Improvement Camp Hall of Fame, lifetime membership, 3h coaching with pienix (1 month of weekly mentorship) and a $300 skin of your choice with the Soldier Mode winner nametag. 2nd — 3 months free membership, 1h coaching with pienix and a $100 skin of your choice. 3rd — an offline demo review by pienix and 1 month free membership.

Complaints

Any complaint or dispute must be raised before the challenge ends and before prizes are paid out. Once the challenge has ended and the prizes are settled, complaints can no longer be accepted. After the challenge, only your scoreboard position can be corrected retroactively — settled prizes are final.

Support

Questions and support go through our Discord.

Platform House Rules

Flashback provides the technical registration, match tracking and provisional standings. The named challenge host confirms eligibility and winners and is responsible for funding and delivering advertised prizes unless the challenge rules expressly identify Flashback as the prize provider.

The host or Flashback may investigate, suspend or disqualify a participant only on reasonable evidence of a material rules violation, cheating, manipulation, account sharing, smurfing, false eligibility information or abuse of the platform. Except where an immediate temporary suspension is reasonably necessary to protect the competition, the affected participant will be told the material reason and given a reasonable opportunity to respond before the final prize decision.

Automated standings can be corrected when verified source data is late, incomplete or wrong. Any correction or operational change must be objectively necessary, proportionate and announced to affected participants; it may not be used to arbitrarily change the scoring or advertised prizes after the challenge starts.

By joining, you accept these Challenge Rules and the Flashback Terms of Service. Mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected.