What is Longshanks?

Longshanks allows organizers to easily publicize events and automatically manage player pairings. It allows players to easily find and participate in local events and see what other events are happening around the world.

Since 2017, Longshanks has been the de facto online home of competitive Guild Ball, a tabletop miniatures game by Steamforged Games. A sister site was created in 2020 for Godtear, another Steamforged game. The two systems were combined in 2021 and support was added for additional game systems. (If your favorite game isn't supported yet, contact us to see if it can be added!)

Why the name?

In the lore of Guild Ball, tournaments and games between the various guilds are organized by a powerful and secretive society known as "the Longshanks." Since this site was originally developed specifically for Guild Ball, the name was a perfect fit.

Since expanding to support other game systems, we have outgrown the "Longshanks" name reference. We choose to continue using it as a respectful nod to the game that got us started and all the players and event hosts who have supported us since the beginning.

Acknowledgements

Ben Redmond

Ben created the first Guild Ball ranking system and was a significant inspiration for Longshanks.

Kevin Stewart

Kevin has been instrumental in providing feedback on the functionality of the Longshanks system. He has also provided a number of ideas and suggestions that have been crucial to the site's success.

Special contributors

Players marked with the Longshanks badge contribute to Longshanks in a variety of ways, including testing and troubleshooting new features. Their help is greatly appreciated!

Finding help

Before contacting us, please read through the Help pages. You may find the answer to your question here.

If you can't find what you need or require additional assistance, there are several ways to cantact us. Please choose one of the options here for any questions or requests.

User requests

Users may submit requests for changes, upgrades, or new features using the User Requests page. Other users can vote for and againsts each request, with overall score influencing when requests are implemented.

User requests page

Data privacy

Every effort is made to be in complance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other worldwide data collection laws.

For more information on our data privacy policies, please see the section on security & privacy. If you have any questions regarding these or any of our other policies, please contact us.

Data usage

Unauthorized duplication or reuse of the data presented on Longshanks, either in whole or in part, is prohibited.

This requirement allows us to comply with GDPR data removal policies. We are unable to anonymize or delete unauthorized copies of data at user request, therefore such copies are not permitted.

Ownership & copyright

Longshanks is incorporated in California as Longshanks, LLC.

Longshanks owns the aggregated statistical data and representations generated by the system in response to user queries. Player, event, and game data submitted by users are the property of those users. Most user-submitted data may be anonymized or removed at any time by the submitting user and/or the user the information is about. Non-user-editable data can be anonymized or removed by administrators upon user request.

Longshanks is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the individuals, companies, or other entities that appear on or are referenced by this website unless indicated otherwise.

No challenge to copyright or claim of ownership is intended in relation to any third-party intellectual property that appears on Longshanks. Names, images, logos, and other intellectual property relating to specific companies or game systems are the property of their respective owners and are used either with permission or under the assumption of fair use.

If you believe that any of your copyrighted work appears on Longshanks in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact us. To help resolve the situation as quickly as possible, please include a description of the copyrighted work, where it appears on the site, your relationship to the copyright owner, and a statement describing your objection.