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# How to Start a Voting Contest

# Bracket Voting

Decide the best choice for your group with the **Voting** feature.  Allow anyone with a Challonge account to cast their vote on who or what will advance to the next rounds and ultimately, be crowned as the grand winner.

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After providing basic information for your tournament, start the bracket by adding participants as choices for the voting contest. This can be done from the **Participants** tab.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/voting-1_mflke0.png)

|| Voting is available for Single Elimination, Double Elimination, and Swiss tournament formats.

Under the **Predictions and Voting** panel from the tournament **Settings**, select **Enable voting for open matches - Voters must register for Challonge** then Save Changes.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/1jpg_1e5nawj.jpg)

|| Voting can be enabled at any point of the tournament as long as matches are available from the tournament's Settings.

Go ahead and start the tournament.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/voting-2_1bc6yn4.png)

Users will see the matches open for voting if they're logged in to their Challonge account when viewing the bracket.


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Users who are not logged in will be guided through the account setup process. Once a user has successfully created and [verified the Challonge account](https://kb.challonge.com/en/article/requiring-verified-email-address-12s0b4b/), he/she can now submit votes.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/31jpg_2f3pk3.jpg)

Once votes are submitted, users will see live percentages of voting results.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/screenshot-2025-12-19-at-12425_3z3lyg.png)

Continue working your way up to the next rounds and select winners based from the number of votes.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/screenshot-2025-12-19-at-12434_olit1j.png)

Once all scores are reported, be sure to end the tournament and the final results will appear. 

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