Category: Guides
Practical, format-by-format guides for running esports and gaming tournaments: seeding, BYEs, tiebreakers, scheduling and game-specific rules.
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Tournament Math: How Many Matches, Rounds and Hours You Need
Before you open registration, know how long your event will take. These formulas give match and round counts for every common format,…
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The Swiss System for Esports: Pairings, Buchholz and Round Counts
Swiss gives every team several matches without the cost of a round robin. Here is how pairings are made each round, how…
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Round Robin Scheduling and Tiebreakers, Explained
Round robin is the fairest format there is, as long as the schedule is built properly and the tiebreakers are decided in…
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How to Run a Valorant Community Tournament
Everything you need to run a smooth community Valorant event: choosing a format, custom game settings, map vetoes, check-in, reporting and the…
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How to Run a Counter-Strike 2 Tournament
A practical guide to running a Counter-Strike 2 community event: match settings, map vetoes, formats that fit your time, servers and the…
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How to Run a Tournament on Discord: Channels, Check-In and Results
Most community tournaments live on Discord. Here is a server layout, registration and check-in process, and reporting workflow that scales from 8…
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Single vs Double Elimination: Which Format Should You Run?
Single elimination is fast and dramatic. Double elimination is fairer but nearly twice as long. Here is how to choose, with the…
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How to Seed a Tournament Bracket (With Worked Examples)
Seeding decides who meets whom and when. Here is how standard seeding works, why the #1 seed faces the lowest seed, and…
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BYEs in Tournament Brackets: How Many You Need and Who Gets Them
An odd number of teams does not break a bracket. It just needs BYEs. Here is the formula, a lookup table for…