• Participant Management

  Inviting Participants In addition to hosting a sign-up page where participants may register on their own, tournament organizers can also manually invite them. This is helpful in making sure that everyone is in place before the competition starts. With the help of this feature, participants can be assigned to their matches, change displayed name in the bracket, remove, and even make substitutions for last minute changes.Some readers

• How to Join a Tournament

  How to Join a Tournament If you're looking for a game to play, the best way to find tournaments is by either searching tournaments in your game/activity of choice, or by looking for communities that are interested in the same things. Both of these options are easy to complete: | Simply go to http://www.challonge.com/tournaments or click the magnifying glass in the top right and search for a relevant tournament. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f98Few readers

• Hosting a Sign-Up Page

  Hosting a Sign-Up Page Challonge allows you to host a sign-up page for your tournament if you would like to open your bracket for public registration. This allows anyone signed into a Challonge account to register as a participant. This option can be configured during the initial tournament creation process, or from your tournament's 'Edit Settings' page for existing tournaments. | Click on 'Settings' within your tournaments and head to the "registration" section. Select 'host a sign-up pageFew readers

• How to Change Your Display Name on the Bracket

  Display Names are tournament-specific and can be different from your Challonge Username Changing your Display Name not only adds character, it also helps organizers confirm your identity and makes matchmaking easier for everyone. | As an organizer, you may ask your participants to change the Display Name with a specific ID or game alias (e.g. PSN, Xbox, Steam, Discord, IGN, forum name etc.). Start by registering to this tournament. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/Few readers

• How to Start Tournament

  How to Start Tournament Challonge was founded on the idea of easy tournament running, and because of this, we've made it very easy to get your tournament started. Once you have all your participants entered, and you are ready to get your tournament underway, its straight forward on getting going. | First, go to the "Bracket" tab of your tournament | Next, click the "Start Tournament" button ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/99ea6ef0934f9800/screenshot-2024-06-06-132255Few readers

• How To Cancel Tournament Registration

  How To Cancel Tournament Registration Participants can follow these steps to cancel their own registration for any tournament. | First, log into Challonge. | Next, click 'Your Tournaments' and select the tournament you are wanting to unregister from. || Note: Tournaments are you participating in AND hosting will appear in this list. | Next, fiFew readers

• Why can I not register for a competition?

  Tournament Registration Restrictions There are currently two reasons why registration is denied for certain users: The user has been added to the tournament organizer's blocked list. The user must contact the tournament organizer outside of Challonge to resolve any issues. Country-specific events The user might not be located in the approved list of participating countries. Q: A tournament organizer can share admin access to other users for any tournament. If an admFew readers

• 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)Few readers

• Refunds for Paid Tournaments

  Refunds for Paid Tournaments Challonge offers the option for event and tournaments organizers to have paid tournaments. Currently, tournaments are only payable through Stripe. (See our article on Stripe). Payment for a tournament is done through Stripe on Challonge, but is handled directly by the tournament organizers. Challonge does not handle the money received from a paying participant, it goes directly to the organiFew readers

• How to Recover a Missed Invitation

  How to Recover a Missed Invitation If a participant can't find their invitation email, there are a couple of ways that invitation can be recovered. | For tournament organizers, an invitation can be resent by simply clicking on the exclamation point icon next to the invited participant Once clicked, the participant should receive a new invitation email within 5 minutes. For tournament parFew readers