Clash of Clans Announces Major Update and $700K World Finals

Supercell has announced a major Clash of Clans update and revealed details of its 2026 World Championship Finals, introducing a reworked Star Bonus, four Magic Snacks, animated Emotes, Ranked Medals, and a new Prestige Shop. The announcements arrived on Nov 10, 2026, through the first episode of the Clash On presentation and a separate esports update.

The gameplay changes will arrive later this month. Meanwhile, the 2026 World Finals will take place offline in a closed event studio, with the teams competing for the world title and a share of the $700K USD prize pool.

Clash of Clans Reworks Star Bonus Rewards

The revised Star Bonus will depend on Town Hall level instead of Ranked League, making resources, including ore, accessible without requiring players to reach higher leagues. The existing League Bonus will continue to depend on the Ranked League.

The new system introduces two reward milestones:

• Two Stars: A Snack Pack containing one Battle Bake.
• Five Stars: Elixir, Gold, Dark Elixir, and Ore rewards, alongside another Snack Pack containing a random Magic Snack.

Stars earned through casual battles, ranked battles, and revenge attacks count toward progression. Clan Wars, Friendly Challenges, and Practice Battles are excluded.

Gold, Elixir, and Dark Elixir will enter the Clan Castle Treasury, while Shiny, Glowy, and Starry Ore will go to the Blacksmith. New indicators will show reward destinations before collection.

The daily refresh schedule remains unchanged, and unfinished progress carries over.

On their first login after the update, players will receive a fresh Star Bonus and one stacked bonus. Supercell has based the reward values for each Town Hall level on what the highest-performing players at that level previously earned.

Four New Magic Snacks Explained

The update introduces four consumable items:

• Battle Bake: Multiplies gold, elixir, and dark elixir looted in the next home village or ranked battle. Available in 2x, 3x, and 4x variants, identical Bakes stack by use rather than combining multipliers.
• Clan Castle Slice: Automatically provides free reinforcements for the next three Home Village or Ranked Battles. A charge is consumed only when reinforcements are deployed.
• Loot Cart Lolly: Triples the loot stored in the next three collected Home Village Loot Carts. Each collection consumes one charge, and excess rewards are lost if storage capacity is insufficient.
• Star Bonus Snack: Grants an additional daily Home Village Star Bonus available for 48 hours. It appears exclusively in five-star snack packs and queues behind unfinished bonuses.

Magic Snacks will automatically activate the next time players log in after their 24-hour activation countdown expires, rather than disappearing. This also applies to Clan Castle Cake, whose timer begins upon activation. While Cake is active, the Clan Castle fills automatically, and its request and fill buttons are disabled.

Clan Castle Slice waits until the cake timer ends.

Battle Bakes also work during Resource Fest, multiplying additional elixir, gold, and dark elixir available on bases. They do not affect event currencies, league bonuses, or star bonus rewards. The extra loot comes from the attacker's side, so defenders do not lose additional resources.

New Ranked Rewards and Prestige Shop

Supercell is adding Ranked Medals to reward competitive performance.

Players below the Legend League will receive them when trophies are reset at the end of each tournament. Legend League participants will earn medals every Battle Week according to their position after Sunday's Battle Day, even when a tournament is not ending.

Higher leagues offer more medals, while storage capacity depends on the Town Hall level. The first earning week begins Nov 16, with initial payouts scheduled for Nov 23. Previous league placements will not generate medals.

The Prestige Shop combines the Ranked Shop, Clan War League (CWL) Shop, and Fancy Shop while retaining their separate currencies and offers. Some purchases require specific league achievements. For placements before the update, eligibility requires players to have signed up and competed in the relevant league, with qualifying achievements reflected in their All-Time Best rank.

Legend League I guarantees at least 2K ranked medals weekly, while Legend League II offers a maximum of 3.5K. Reaching that maximum requires earning 40 trophies on every attack and defense. Legend League II payouts depend on actual trophy performance rather than a fixed conversion rate.

Emote Collection and Leaderboard Changes

The update introduces animated emotes as cosmetic reactions for battles, leaderboards, and chat. Players can collect them in sets of five, unlocking a bonus reaction after obtaining the first four. Each Emote has a rarity that determines its availability.

The default collection unlocks at Town Hall 3 after the initial tutorial. Other emotes will be available through Trader, the Ranked Prestige Shop, and Chests. Supercell is also introducing the Chief's Inventory, which separates Emotes from Magic Items.

Players can configure defensive reactions for results ranging from zero to three stars, select an offensive reaction to leave after attacking, and assign a leaderboard emote for finishing in the top three of a ranked group or town hall leaderboard.

Emotes will appear on victory screens, welcome-back screens, battle logs, replays, ranked and town hall leaderboards, clan chat, and the Builder Base Elixir Cart defense list. They can also be sent as individual messages in Clan Chat and Global Chat groups.

They will not appear during live battles, and players cannot currently mute them.

Supercell has limited their appearance to one reaction per attack or defense, while Clan Chat messages will have a cooldown. Players can also choose not to leave an offensive reaction.

The former Top Players leaderboard will move into the Town Hall leaderboard. Players can access its previous view through the All Townhalls filter and use the Local/Global toggle to switch between regions.

Clash of Clans World Finals 2026: Qualified Teams

The Clash of Clans World Championship (CWC) 2026 World Finals will take place on Nov 14-15, 2026. Supercell has confirmed eight qualified teams, with participants earning their places through three qualification routes.

Monthly Final winners

• June: ZOOS Esports
• July: Repotted Gaming
• August: Vatic
• September: HTM Esports

Chinese Qualifier

• FuChing No1

Last Chance Qualifier

• Tribe Gaming: First place and reigning world champion
• CB7 Esports: Second place
• MG Esports: Third place

The tournament will use a double-elimination format, meaning teams must lose twice before elimination.

The four highest seeds were assigned based on each team's standing in the leaderboard. FuChing No1 received the fifth seed through the Chinese Qualifier, while the three Last Chance Qualifier teams secured seeds six, seven, and eight according to their final placements.

World Finals Broadcast and Viewing Details

The official broadcast talent lineup includes Woody, Clash Bashing, CarbonFin, iTzu, and Lexnos. Community casters will provide coverage in 13 language categories:

• Hindi: RS Clash and Aijaz222
• Korean: 빠다 (Fada)
• Japanese: Yuta and Keisuke
• Spanish: Shion and Style
• Brazilian Portuguese: Marinaul and Bruna
• German: byHenrik and SirIron
• French: Skarex and Gouloulou
• Italian: Medda and Haplo
• Turkish: Clash Tuber
• Indonesian: Chief Raian Gaming and BangSkot
• Persian: Clash With Mr Mills
• Traditional Chinese: Turtle
• Vietnamese: Akari Gaming

Viewers can watch the tournament through the official Clash of Clans Event Site, which will also offer bracket predictions, in-game rewards, and #ClashWorlds trivia. The platform provides the event schedule and details of the available viewer rewards.

Supercell is reshaping Clash of Clans through broader progression options and new competitive incentives, with the World Finals putting its esports ecosystem at the forefront.