How to Seed by Rating

Seed by Rating

In order to utilize seed by rating, you must have a PRO Community. You can get a PRO Community license by subscribing to Challonge Premier.

Seeding a tournament via a community rating is an excellent tool for PRO Communities looking to expedite the tournament seeding process. In most systems, players/teams that are ranked higher on a given leaderboard receive a higher seeding and therefore a more favorable round 1 matchup (or byes).


To seed a tournament by a rating, the following conditions must be met:
You must have a PRO Community
You must have a community rating for the game you're hosting


Create a Tournament

You'll need to create a Tournament on Challonge and select the leaderboard(s) affected by your tournament's results.



As players begin to register for your tournament, you'll notice that on the participants tab there's a rating associated with their name.



The default seeding on Challonge is based on when a player registers. In our example above, 'Jack' was the first player to register for this tournament and currently holds the #1 seed.

Above, you can see that we have 8 returning players and 4 new players. With ELO ratings, typically, a player starts with an '1000' rating. From match wins / losses, the rating goes up and down. Players who haven't participated in a ranked tournament within your community will start with whatever the default rating is for your leaderboard. In our case, 1000 is the starting ELO.

How to set your tournament to seed by rating.

At the top of the participants page, there's 3 options. Naturally, you'll want to select Seed By Rating.



You'll be prompted to confirm your choice, click Ok.

Once the action has been preformed, you'll get a confirmation message letting you know that the bracket has been successfully seeded by players' ratings. The table will also be sorted by rating from highest to lowest.



Over on the bracket tab, you'll see that the changes made in seeding are reflected automatically.



Seed By Rating does not continually update as players register for the bracket. If more players were to join, and you wish to continue seeding by rating. You must go back into the participants tab and execute the 'Seed By Rating' option again.

Updated on: 24/10/2024