The new VHL website is live

If you've been here before, you'll notice things look a little different. We rebuilt the VHL website from the ground up.

The old site did its job. It existed, it showed some footage, and it pointed people at our Discord. But VHL has bigger plans, and the website needed foundations to match. The new site is faster, works properly on phones, and is built on the same technology stack that will eventually power the full competitive platform.

What's coming next is designed but not yet live: public leaderboards, player profiles, match history, and competitive seasons. Those switch on together with ranked play, powered by real match data from dedicated servers. No fake numbers in the meantime. When you see a leaderboard here, it will be real.

To mark the occasion, we're also publishing Road to VHL, a short series retracing three years of development, from a Unity prototype to where the game stands now. Start with Part 1.

See you on the ice.

Update, July 17: the move is complete. The new site now lives at its official home, virtualhockeyleague.net.