At this stage the tournament has been created - the first thing you will see then is the Tournament Settings page.
All settings and configuration options are available in a menu located on the left side, most of these options was adjusted during the creation process.
You will recognize some of them, you can scroll further down unless you want to do changes to these settings.
Control Panel
The control panel is where you take the tournament through the different stages.
Publish Tournament
By clicking Publish, the tournament will be live on Challengermode. This means that Users on Challengermode will be able to sign up to your tournament if they have the link.
When a tournament has been published, you invite specific users or teams directly with the invitation tool (see below) and they can see the tournaments you host via your profile page.
Seed Tournament
The "Seeding" of a tournament is the process that determines who will play against who in the first round of the tournament. (Where teams end up in the bracket.)
With automatic seeding, the participants will be randomly seeded into the Tournament Bracket (this is the only seeding option available in this simpler tournament tool).
Please note that unless you manually click the seeding button ahead of time it will be done automatically by Challengermode once the tournament starts.
Start Tournament
Again, unless you start the tournament manually ahead of time, it will be automatically seeded and started at the time tournament start time chosen.
When the tournament has started the first round of matches will also start and players will get their game lobbies (unless you've scheduled a different time for specific rounds.)
Complete Tournament
Once all matches have been played succesfully, the tournament will complete automatically. If this does not happen, you can also click the Complete Tournament button manully. Completing the tournament will pay out any prizes to the winners and the results of this action is final.
About and Appearance
This is where you can add information, rename your tournament and add links for contact (help) info and for related videos.
Description
This information will appear on the Tournament Overview page for any user that visits your tournametn. You can provide general information about the tournament, additional rules, how to contact you and/or info about you or your organization. You can format text with markdown, click "here" as in the picture above for instructions and help with formatting.
Video URL
If you have a related clip about you, the tournament or your organization you may insert a link to the video here (for YouTube, copy the embed link).
Contact url
If you have a Discord channel that you'd like participants to use for communication with you/admins or each other, you should add a link to the Discord Channel in this field.
Appearence
This is where you customize how your tournament should appear to others.
Logo
The logo will appear at the upper left on the Tournament Overview.
Banner
The banner appears at the top of your tournament and will be visible in all tournament tabs such as brackets, matches and teams for example.
Thumbnail
The thumbnail is the image that is displayed in a preview of your tournament on other pages, such as on your profile.
Settings
This is where you will be able to adjust your tournament settings in greater detail.
For example, you can change the start date, adjust the team size, max number of participants, choose game mode and more.
Minimum teams
By adjusting this value you can change the minimum required Confirmed teams for the tournament to start. This number also determines the number of prize slots available (see below).
For example, if there is a minimum of 4, and only 3 teams have confirmed their participation at start time - the tournament will not start.
Maximum teams
If you want a more exclusive tournament or have a set amount of teams in a qualifier, a lower value might be more fitting. If you want as many players as possible to be able to participate, you should enter a higher value.
Custom Prize Text
If your tournament does not have a sponsored prize pool, but rather a product prize or the honor of winning, you can enter a catchy custom prize text in this field. It will be displayed on the Tournament Overview page.
Reservations (Invite-only)
By checking this option you will restrict people from signing up to the tournament on their own. With this option enabled you will have to send invites directly to the Users on Challengermode that you would like to have participating in your tournament.
This is a good idea if you have a closed tournament for just a selected few friends or if it's a big qualifier tournament in which specific teams are meant to participate.
Team Size
Depending on the game mode, you would want to have different team sizes.
For a 1v1 tournament, 1-2 players would make sense. For a Bomb Defuse tournament, you should set the team size to 5.
Tournament Chat
By enabling this option a Chat window will appear on the Tournament Overview page, anyone who is logged into their Challengermode Account and visits the Tournament Page will be able to write in this chat.
Game Settings
Map & Mode
Choose the map and game mode for your tournament. Although you can pick any combination of maps and pick modes that you'd like, it's recommended to stick with the standard combinations such as:
- 5v5, Summoner's Rift, Draft Mode
- 3v3, Twister Treeline, Draft Mode
- 2v2, Howling Abyss, Draft Mode
- 1v1, Howling Abyss, Blind Pick
- 5v5 ARAM: Howling Abyss, Blind Pick
Schedule
Start date and time
If you would like to postpone the tournament's start time or change the start date completely, this is where you do it. You need to click Save at the bottom right for any changes to occur.
Confirmation window minutes (check-in)
By changing the Confirmation Period you can adjust how much time players have to ready up before the start of the tournament and claim a spot. It's recommended to be at least 30 minutes.
Each player has to Confirm Participation individually to be seeded.
Brackets
You can change the format of your tournament here, the bracket type, the amount of games played in a match and if there will be a bronze (third-place) match or not.
Bracket type
You can choose between a Single Elimination tournament or a Double Elimination tournament.
- Single Elimination: A traditional tournament format where half of all participants are eliminated each round (and half continue playing) until there is only one winner left. Participants are eliminated after one match loss.
- Double Elimination: Losers of one round continue playing in the lower bracket, while the winners continue playing in the upper bracket. Participants are eliminated after losing two matches. A tournament of this type will take about twice as long as a Single Elimination tournament.
If you decide to not have a bronze match, the teams eliminated in the Semi Finals will share the prize pool for 3rd and 4th placement.
Match & Round Settings
You will be able to adjust the amount of games to be played in a match (Best of 1, Best of 3 etc) for the tournament as a whole - or for individual matches and/or rounds.
If you have selected all matches to be Bo1 - but want the finals to be a Bo3 and start at a specific date, you can make all these changes here.
By expanding the selection for a specific round and/or match, you can enter specific settings for that particular level of the tournament. For example, the two different matches in the Semi Finals can be played at different dates or times.
Prizes
This is where you can add a prize pool to your tournament. The prize money will be added from your Challengermode Wallet. If your wallet is empty, you will not be able to fund the tournament with any prize money. If you have other prizes in your tournament, please specify these in Settings - Custom Prize Text.
If you do add funds to your prize pool you will be able to distribute the money in a way that you think is fitting. Below is an example image of how you might distribute a prize pool of €4:
Hosting & Roles
In this section you are able to add Challengermode Users as Admins, Moderators or Casters to your tournament. Depending on the role they are given, they will have different tools and rights in.
Assign Role
To assign someone a role you simply search for the user in the Search for user... field.
Enter the Username in the field, then choose a suitable role for the User in the Select Role drop-down menu.
There are currently three different roles you can assign a user to.
Caster
A user with the role Caster will be able to join any match in the tournament bracket as a Spectator. If your tournament will be streamed and casted by one or several users, add them to the list of Hosts & Roles as Casters.
They then join the Leauge of Legends lobby via the Challengermode on-site Lobby, when joining the in-game lobby, they join the Spectator slot.
Moderator
A Moderator has no tools to manipulate the bracket or lobbies. The moderator is simply there to moderate the chats and make sure that all the users are attended to and get the help they need via the different tournament chats.
Admin
In a bigger tournament you might need help to keep track of things, or you might be several people hosting the same tournament.
If that is the case, you should add the other hosts as Admins to your tournament.
These Admins will be able to use the lobby tools, pause/resume games, discard lobbies etc.
They will be able to do most of the things that you are able to - except some crucial things such as cancelling the tournament and changing the prize pools.
When you have successfully given a User a role, it should look as on the example image above.
Invitations
If you have an "invite-only" tournament or if you want to send out invitations to specific players or teams, this is where you do it.
Depending on if it's a Solo or Team tournament you can either search for indiviudal players or teams.If the Team Size for the tournament is 2 or more, you can only invite teams. You will then have to search for the teams name in the field "Search for team...".
After sending an invitation to the player or the team captain, they will then have to accept the invitation and join the tournament to appear in Participants/Teams.
!Note: The tournament must be Published (Control Panel - Publish) before you are able to invite anyone to the tournament.
Announcments
If you need to postpone the tournament or want to quickly inform the participants about something, you can enter a message in this section.
The message will then appear for all participants whether they are in a tournament lobby, looking at the bracket or are reading through the tournament description at the tournament overview page.
You are now ready to start your tournament!
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