Question 1

Introducing Social Image Sharing

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Share your match results easily on Facebook and Twitter using Social Image Sharing.

|| This is an experimental Challonge Labs Feature. The Social Image Sharing is available only for Single Elimination, Double Elimination, Round Robin and Swiss tournament format.

When creating a new tournament, scroll down to Experimental Features and check the box to enable Social Image Sharing.

Next, start the tournament and begin reporting scores. Here's how to upload Match Attachments and Report Scores.

Once all scores are submitted, click the arrow icon for Share Match Results.

Select your preferred Social Media platform.

| Facebook

| Twitter

Question 2

Why Some Participants Go Straight to Round 2

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Why Some Participants Go Straight to Round 2

In single and double elimination brackets, you'll often find that some participants skip the first round (they receive byes).

|| This cannot be avoided unless the number of participants is a power of two (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, …) — a number that can be repeatedly halved until only 1 person remains.

Imagine you paired everyone in round #1 of a 5 player bracket: 1 v 5, 2 v 4, 3 v ?.

To avoid this, an initial qualifying round will occur to create a balanced bracket. Following this rule, round #1 would have 4 v 5. The winner, or qualifier, would advance to join players 1, 2, and 3 in the next round. The bracket at this point becomes balanced with 4 participants, which is a power of 2.

Question 3

What does "Split Participants" mean in a double elimination bracket?

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Split Participants allows organizers to host single stage (and two stage tournaments) with participants starting in the losers bracket (aka "lower bracket").

Single Stage Double Elimination Tournament With Split Participants

|| Host a single stage double elimination tournament with participants starting in the losers bracket

| To set up a single stage tournament with participants in the losers bracket simply select the "Split Participants" option.

| The bottom half of your participants will then start in the losers bracket

Two Stage Double Elimination Tournament With Split Participants

|| Host a two stage tournament where the performance of participants' in the group stage (aka "pool play") will determine which participants start the final, double elimination stage in the losers bracket

Here's a look at the Double Elimination group stage with two Pools of 16 participants each. They are labeled as "Group A" and "Group B".

Here are the standings at the end of the group stage, which shows two players advancing from each group. The number of participants you adv

Question 4

How to Create and Assign Stations

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How to Create and Assign Stations

| When creating a tournament that is large enough to need more stations A station can be any location that a game or match will be taking place during an event or tournament. Stations can be anything; courts, rinks, diamonds, tables, consoles, PCs, chessboards, dart boards, corn hole boards, swim lanes, you name it. Challonge has convenient and easy-to-create stations and assigning matches to them is just as convenient and easy.

| When in the tournament screen, click the Create new station button in the Stations tab.

| From here, enter the station's location in the Name field.

|| You can also add a live stream link if individual stations have different streams running!

||| From here, there are two options: you can either manually assign matches to your stations or have Challonge do it for you!

| To manually assign a station, click the radio button next to whichever match-up and then click the Assign Match button.

| Or, you can have Challonge assign match-ups to different stations by enabling these toggle switches located beneath your stations:

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Question 5

How To Upload Match Attachments & Report Scores

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As a participant, you can help ensure the reporting of accurate scores by uploading match attachments along with every reported score. Follow these steps to learn how to upload match attachments and report scores in Challonge.

Match Attachments can be anything required to verify the match scores including but not limited to a screenshot at the end of the match, a photo of of the table, scoreboard, or screen, or even a video of the match itself. Tournament Organizers that are Challonge Premier Users enable all participants to upload files that are up to 25 MB in size, which is increased from the 250 KB standard limit provided to all organizers.

| First, visit the tournament bracket you are participating in on Challonge. If you have an opponent scheduled, you'll see two different ways to report the scores. The first is the large "Report Your Scores" button, which brings up the same window as second option which is clicking the paper and pencil icon next to your match. You can choose whichever path you prefer.

| Now that the "Report Scores" modal window has appeared, start by first selecting the "Attachments" section.

| With-in the "Attachments" section, select and upload the image you have to support the score you will soon report. You can also enter a

Question 6

Hosting Paid Tournaments

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Hosting Paid Tournaments

Start accepting fees for registration, the venue, the prize pool, or other types of revenue upon tournament registration through Challonge's paid tournaments feature.

| Visit the Settings Tab | Scroll down to the "Registration" section to configure your settings.

In order to help facilitate, manage, and maintain registration fees, Challonge does charge a per transaction service fee of $0.75 for non-Premier users and $0 for Premier users (upgrade here). This Service Fee is applied at checkout, so if you had competitors purchase an entry as well as any merchandise the fee would all still only be a single $0.75 service fee from Challonge upon checkout.

Currently, we enable all payments through each organizer's own, individual Stripe account, which has its own credit card processing fees. According to Stripe's website, it starts at 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction and we encourage all organizers to explore that and sign up directly through Stripe as well.

To see more on Stripe, view our Stripe Article here.

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