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# How to Setup a Community on Challonge.com

# Creating a Challonge Community for your organization

Hello! If you're looking for the steps to create a Challonge Community, you've come to the right place!

Communities allow organizations and hosts to create a centralized communication and tournament/competition system. Think of it as your website within the Challonge ecosystem. 

|| You'll need to be signed into your _verified_ Challonge account. If you don't have an account, you can create one for free here: https://challonge.com/users/new?continue=/
|| If you have a new account, you must verify your account before creating a Challonge Community. To do so, _click your username on the top right_ of the screen > _Click 'Settings'_ > _Click 'Send a New Link' to complete verification.'_

1. **To start, head over to https://challonge.com/communities/about and _click 'Start A New Community For Free'_. **

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/create-community-1_1h98ge5.png)

2. **Customize Your Community**

* Name - what is your community called? 
* Customize your Challonge URL for searchability and personalization. For instance, if your Community's name is 'The Best Store Ever', your custom URL would look like the beststoreever.challonge.com. 
* Who's your community for? (You can select all of these if you'd like!)

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/create-community-2_zgooa7.png)

3. **Don’t forget to add in your location so that current and potential members can check if the community they’re joining/joined is within their own hometowns, region, and country.**

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/create-community-3_1uo2t38.png)

4. **Lastly, before hitting that submit button - don’t forget to add all your active social media accounts! This is a great way to further connect with new and future community members!**

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/create-community-4_l7bzmr.png)

||| If you receive an error saying "you're not allowed to do this, you must verify your account before creating a Challonge Community. To do so, _click your username on the top right_ of the screen > _Click 'Settings'_ > _Click 'Send a New Link' to complete verification.'_

5. **Add a community profile & banner by clicking the two camera icons**

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/create-community-5_j7ae70.png)

6. **Provide additional information about your community!**

* Description - what does this community do? Why should participants follow you?
* Social Media - if you didn't add any in step 4, no worries! You can do so here as well. 
* Collaborators - This is how you add other admins/hosts/moderators to your community. There's two types of collaborators: 

      Admin Collaborators - have the exact same permissions as you, the owner (except they cannot delete the community), so choose carefully who gets this level of access. 
      **Manager Role** - Managers are able to a) create tournaments b) post announcements _within a tournament_ (manager's cannot post community-wide announcements). The manager role within a community exists only for the tournament aspect, they don't have the same level of community access. Managers cannot: change the logo or banner, post community announcements, delete the community, change the community description etc.

* Games - Click 'edit' to show what games your community hosts. These games will populate on your community page and allow greater discoverability when users search for a tournament,

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/create-community-6_1k91pmm.png)

7. **Understanding Community Tabs**

* Overview - the default page when you go to a community. It shows a) recent community announcements b) upcoming tournaments and more!
* People - Who follows and manages your community. 
* Announcements - A record of all your community announcements. You could also post a new community-wide announcement from this tab. This sends an email to each player that follows your community. 
* Tournaments - as you begin to host tournaments, each and every one will populate here. From upcoming, in-progress and even completed tournaments. 
* Events - Events are best used for multi-day, well events! You can learn more about them here: https://kb.challonge.com/en/category/events-19qmfr5/
* Ratings - Ratings allow you to track how well players are doing within your community. For Dice Throne, ratings are going to be super important. You can learn more about ratings here: https://kb.challonge.com/en/article/how-to-create-a-challonge-community-rating-xjihi4/
* Templates - You can create community templates that are able to be used by community admins or managers. This is the same process as creating a Challonge Tournament, however when you go to create a new tournament, you can just do so via this tab. You can learn about templates here: https://kb.challonge.com/en/article/creating-using-tournament-templates-1bh8spw/
* Settings - change various information about your community, add or remove admins/managers etc. 

8. **A PRO Community**

Challonge Premier is a fantastic option for those who want to remove ads across Challonge.com. With Challonge Premier, you get 1 PRO Community license allowing you to upgrade your community. Here's what you get:

* **No ads** within your community or tournaments hosted within your community for you, and anyone else who visits those pages. This means that players registering for a tournament within your community will not see ads _even if they're not_ a premier subscriber. 
* **Removes fees** for paid events. 
* Host tournaments with **up to 512 participants**. A free Challonge account and basic community can only host tournaments with up to 256 players
* **Enhanced Ratings** settings. A PRO Community gets greater control over their leaderboards and allows you to tailor them to your community. 
* & more! 

You can learn more about upgrading to premier and to a PRO Community by clicking the 'Upgrade' button. 

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/create-community-8_183zkec.png)

Best of luck hosting tournaments in your new Challonge Community. If at any time you're in need of support, reach out to helpdesk@challonge.com