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# How to Host a Leaderboard Tournament on Challonge

## Highlight Overall Rankings

Just like in any sporting events, video game tournaments, and other types of competitions, the Leaderboard is a new tournament format on Challonge that displays all participants, scores, and overall rankings. This format is suited to highlight the performance of your participants in all kinds of events and competitions.
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Click the **Create A Tournament** button, then select **Tournament**.

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After filling in the basic information about your tournament, head to the **Game Info** section and type the game you’re playing and select it from the drop-down menu. Next, select **Single Stage Tournament** and choose **Leaderboard** as the format. You may also specify how many rounds will be played.

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Don’t forget to select the necessary options and fill in the Start Time and Date of your competition. Once you’re done, hit **Save And Continue**.

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Once you’ve invited or filled the leaderboard competition with players from the **Participants** tab, you may now start the tournament.

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Visit the **Report Scores** tab and input scores for each participant. You may also add and remove sets as needed. Click **Save Scores** then **End This Round** when you're ready to finalize the round.

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|| All the scores from each set will be added up automatically in the **Total Points** column.

After ending any round, the total points and ranking will be displayed on the bracket.

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If you have 2 or more rounds to go, just select from the drop-down menu and report the scores.

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Once all scores are reported for the last round, you will now be presented to end this tournament from the **Report Scores** or **Leaderboard **tab.

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