Taken from the roladder:

With the history of 7 years dedicated Red Orchestra competitive play and hosting the most important leagues,
ladders and tournaments for the modification and Ostfront 41-45,
ROLadder.net now proudly presents the first major competition for RedOrchestra2:Heroes of Stalingrad.
The ROLadder.net OpeningCup will offer veterans and newcomers the competition to measure themselves with the best teams
from NorthAmerica and Europe.

Hopefully there will be a lot of teams entering and it will be a good way to start learning the maps etc.

RO:HOS preload is available in Steam, go get it!

Tripwire released a new patch last night and the changelog looks nice and long.

http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=61596

And now the changelog:
-New maps (Commissar's House, Station, Spartanovka, Pavlov's House)
-Client Performance Optimizations-Client and Server crash fixes

From the ROLadder website:

It's been a long time since we started the project to create a fresh RO:Ladder site for RO2:HoS, but after coding several thousand lines of Ruby on Rails, CSS and Javascript and working uncountable hours at graphical design it's finally done!

After the old website has been on duty for quite a few years and was kinda flawed here and there, we decided to build up this version from scratch. The new RO:Ladder is from ground up custom tailored to the needs of a competitive scene and offers lots of worth seeing features to provide a more active and interesting community. Therefore we're very happy to welcome you on our new website and we're awaiting all the old veterans from Red Orchestra:Ostfront 41-45 and plenty new teams from other games finding their way to RO:Ladder. Only a short while after the release of Heroes of Stalingrad we will kick off the most thrilling and diversified competitions for the Red Orchestra series.

The actual state of the website is by far not the ending of the development, despite the core features are already up and running, we have a long list of things we'd like to implement during the next weeks and months. For this reason and to enhance the website we'd like you to send us plenteous feedback about the functions, bugs or even ideas about new features.

Welcome to the all new RO:Ladder!

We are looking to get evenyone registered at the site as quickly as possible and added to the roster. Any questions / queries please lt us know.