Two new features landed in GridChief this week, both aimed at making your public standings page more useful to the people you share it with. Driver tags let you run sub-championships inside your main season (a rookie cup, an independents league, a no-podium challenge) or visually label drivers as Patreon or Twitch supporters. Race VODs add a Watch button to every completed round on the public page, linking straight to the YouTube or Twitch broadcast. Here's how to use both.
What driver tags do
A tag is a label you attach to one or more drivers in a season. Each tag has one of two display modes. Sub-championship mode creates a filter pill on your public standings: click Rookie, and the page reloads with points re-ranked among rookies only, using tag-relative finishing positions. Bonus points (fastest lap, pole, most gained) are intentionally disabled in sub-championships so the scoring stays clean. Badge mode is purely visual: a small colored chip appears next to the driver's name on the overall standings. Use it for supporter tiers, new members, returning champions, or anything else you want to call out at a glance.
Step 1: Open the Driver Tags tab
Go to your league Settings and switch to the Driver Tags tab. Driver tags are a Pro-tier feature, so make sure your subscription supports it. You'll see an empty list and an Add Tag button in the top right.
Step 2: Create your first tag
Click Add Tag. Give it a name (Rookie, Patreon, Twitch, whatever fits), pick a color from the 20-color palette, and choose the display mode. Sub-championship is the right pick if you want tag standings with their own filter pill. Badge is the right pick if you just want a colored chip next to a driver's name. Save the tag and it will appear in the list.
Step 3: Assign drivers to the tag
Below the tag list is a driver row for every driver who has raced in the active season. Each driver's row shows a pill for every tag you've created, outlined if unassigned and filled if assigned. Click a pill to toggle that driver in or out of the tag. A driver can belong to as many tags as you like, so someone can be both a Rookie and a Patreon supporter. If you have a large field, use the search box above the driver list to filter by name. When you're done assigning, click Update Standings and GridChief recalculates the cached standings so the changes show up on the public page.
Step 4: See the result on standings (dashboard and public)
Tags appear on both the dashboard Standings page and the public standings page, so you can verify changes without leaving the admin UI. Sub-championship tags become filter pills above the standings table alongside any class filters you already have. Click a pill and the table switches to the tag standings with re-ranked positions. Badge tags don't create a pill; instead, their chip appears inline next to the driver's name on the main standings. If a driver has more than two badges, the extras collapse into a +N chip with a tooltip listing the rest.
Why sub-championships change the points
Worth calling out because it catches people off guard the first time. When you click a sub-championship pill, positions are re-ranked among tagged drivers only. If only three rookies raced, the rookie standings score them as if they finished 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (not 12th, 14th, 15th). Points are then calculated from those tag-relative positions using your season's points system. This is what makes a rookie cup actually feel like its own championship rather than a filtered view of the main one.
Adding a VOD to a race
VOD and broadcast links live on the Results page, one per round. Open the round you want to attach a video to, and in the Actions bar you'll see an Add VOD button (it says Edit VOD once a link is set). Click it, paste the URL (YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, whatever), and Save. If you want to remove a link later, open the same modal and click Remove.
Where the Watch button appears
On your public standings page, each completed round is rendered as a card in the schedule section. If that round has a VOD URL, a green Watch pill appears in the bottom-right corner of the card. Visitors click it and the video opens in a new tab. Rounds without a VOD stay unchanged, and scheduled (not yet completed) rounds never show the button.
Practical combinations
The two features work well together. A Patreon badge next to your top supporter's name is a nice recognition; pairing it with VODs of the races they helped fund makes the page feel alive. A Rookie sub-championship plus VODs linking to the broadcaster's YouTube gives new drivers a way to watch back their own races and compare against the main field. Either feature works on its own, but they share the same surface (the public standings page), so using both at once is where they shine.
Quick reference
Tags are managed in Settings > Driver Tags. VODs are managed in the Results page Actions bar per round. Tags surface on both the dashboard Standings page and the public standings page; VODs surface on the public standings page only. Changes to tags require clicking Update Standings to recalculate; VOD changes take effect on the next page load. Both are accessible to Owners and Admins only.