Question 1

Why Some Participants Go Straight to Round 2

Accepted Answer

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 2

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 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

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 $0.50 for non-premier users and $0.25 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 $0.25 or $0.50 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.

Question 5

How to Report & Indicate Forfeits

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How to Report & Indicate Forfeits

Various circumstances can cause a player or team to forfeit a tournament match. Luckily, Challonge makes it easy to report that forfeit and displays it accordingly on the actual bracket.

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| Find the participant (individual or team) that is forfeiting. In the example below this is Evrin.

| Under the participants tab, remove Ervin from the tournament

| Confirm is removal and that all open matches will be forfeited

| View the bracket to see the participant name has been stricken and the opposing participant automatically advances with no score being reported

Question 6

Team Registration

Accepted Answer

Team Registration

If you're hosting a team sport or esport tournament, Challonge can help participants register as teams.

| First, check the box labeled "Require participants to register as a team" under your tournament "Settings" tab and hit Save. Note: If you want your tournament to be publicly discovered by potential participants, you'll also want to host a sign up page and make it publicly visible. If you plan to send direct invitations to register and participate, you would still host a sign up page but not make it publicly visible. __

| Next, promote your registration link to potential team registrants. They will be prompted to create or log into their Challonge account.

| Once logged in, individuals can register an existing team they've previously formed or "Register A New Team", which we've done below.

| Registering a new team can be completed in a few simple steps

| Now, your team is created, and you'll have a new team page o

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