2.1.0
2026-07-17
DYNASTY MODE IS HERE
Build a college wrestling program from the ground up.
• Recruit future stars and win recruiting battles
• Set lineups, develop your room, and manage every season
• Play or simulate dual meets and tournament bouts
• Chase conference titles, All-American honors, and national championships
• Take on the challenge in men's folkstyle or women's freestyle wrestling
2.0.2
2026-07-07
2.0.2 - The Ultimate Wrestling Game:
- Career tournaments are now double-elimination - lose a match and battle back through the consolation bracket
- Resume a tournament right where you left off if you close the app mid-run
- Tournament brackets now seed correctly and send losers to the right consolation matches
- Profile career stats (Takedowns, Escapes, Near-Falls) are now true lifetime totals that never shrink
- Same wrestling: gameplay rules and card balance are unchanged
2.0.1
2026-06-24
Minor visual changes
2.0.0
2026-06-22
MatGrind 2.0 brings a full visual redesign across the game.
This update refreshes the main menu, live match screen, cards, tournaments, training, career screens, replays, settings, and mobile layouts.
You’ll see cleaner cards, sharper text, improved tap targets, refreshed skill challenges, and a more readable tournament bracket.
1.3.1
2026-06-05
1.3.1
Stability improvements and bug fixes for online play.
Thanks for playing MatGrind!
1.3.0
2026-05-29
MatGrind 1.3.0
New Beat the Boss challenge, sharper career dialogue, and deeper career-season improvements.
1.2.5
2026-05-20
**MatGrind 1.2.5**
- Bigger tournament sizes.
- New rear-standing counter cards — fight out when someone gets behind you
- Engine cleanup so moves always resolve from the right position
- Greco fixes
- Bug fixes & stability polish
1.2.4
2026-05-07
MatGrind 1.2.4 — What's New
Women's career path: ranking pools, weight transitions, and dual-meet headers all fixed for HS → College → Senior. Smoother run from rookie to World Champion.
Added Dual Meets to career mode.
Crashed mid-tournament? Fixed. Stuck brackets clear themselves and the Wrestle button works again.
5 new named opponents added to career mode.
Singlet creator cleaned up — dropped the unused Stripe color.
1.2.3
2026-05-01
1.2.3 — Career depth + competitive polish
Career
• +10 starting stat points; existing careers get the boost on next load
• Earn extra points: +2 for championship wins, +1 for runner-up, +1 every 10 wins
• Bigger offseason rewards (HS 5 / College 3 / Senior 2)
• Deeper opponent pools (up to 1000 wrestlers) with more name variety
• Chase Kamats joins every career as the canonical #1 rival
• Tournament record now updates after each bracket match
Wrestling engine
• Fixed upsets where a GOOD play could lose to a MISS
• Tech-fall buzzer no longer awards an escape after the threshold
• Stalling: every base-stay after the first warning awards a point to your opponent
• Wider Perfect / Good reaction windows for fairer timing
Online
• Friends tab promoted to bottom nav with user search
• In-app match challenges (no more share links)
• Live queue size shown above Search
• 60s background tolerance with push notification when an opponent is found
1.2.2
2026-04-28
MatGrind 1.2.2 — Career goes the distance
Take your wrestler from freshman year to International gold.
• Recruiting + College - earn offers based on your HS resume, sign with a program, run an NCAA-style schedule (Frostline, New Year Open, Desert Showdown, Conference, National Championship)
• Senior International - pick Freestyle or Greco-Roman, compete in the American Open, US Trials, and International Games
• Rivals follow you - your top HS rivals show up in college, your top college rivals show up at the senior level
• Sprawl ring expanded from 4 to 6 escape moves
• Get Legs In always available when you're on top
• Career save fix saves persist correctly across sessions
• Tournament leaderboard fix — career and standalone tournament wins now post to the global ranks
• Flawless Period badge now awards at 8+ points in a single period
• Restore old careers straight from the slot picker
1.1
2026-04-21
MatGrind v1.1.0 - What's New
New features
Public profiles with friends graph - add wrestlers, see their stats, compare records.
Trophy Case on your profile - Beta Tester and Founders Club honors awarded retroactively.
Two-sided flip cards - tap ? to see full stats, counters, and flavor; tap ↩ to flip back.
Featured Daily Goal - a single rotating training objective, earn bonus XP.
Win % and Pin % with 1-decimal precision and a clean zero-state for new wrestlers.
Gameplay polish
Reversals now playable without requiring a prior base setup resulting in a more natural scramble flow.
Leg-defense card pool balanced.
UI fixes
Radial card picker now fits cleanly on iPhone 17 Pro and other compact devices.
Long move names (Fireman's Carry, Mat Return (Leg), Elevate & Trip, Run The Pipe, Crossface & Circle, Cement Mixer) display fully without clipping.
Condition chips no longer push the move picker off-screen when multiple buffs stack.
Stability
Resolved an intermittent visual glitch during the pin mini-game.
Assorted type check and match-UI cleanups.