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How to Create and Assign Stations
How to Create and Assign Stations A station can be any location that a game or match will be taking place during an event or tournament. Stations can be anything; courts, rinks, diamonds, tables, consoles, PCs, chessboards, dart boards, corn hole boards, swim lanes, you name it. Challonge has convenient and easy-to-create stations and assigning matches to them is just as convenient and easy.
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What does "Split Participants" mean in a double elimination bracket?
Split Participants allows organizers to host single stage (and two stage tournaments) with participants starting in the losers bracket (aka "lower bracket"). Single Stage Double Elimination Tournament With Split Participants
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Using Stripe
Using Stripe When creating an event or tournament that requires an entry fee, the use of Stripe is necessary to collect payment.
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Hosting Paid Tournaments
Hosting Paid Tournaments Start accepting fees for registration, the venue, the prize pool, or other types of revenue upon tournament registration through Challonge's paid tournaments feature.
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Discord Bot Integration - Setting up
How to add the Challonge Discord Bot Once you have opted in for the closed beta you should be greeted by this on your Community Integrations Settings. Clicking connect will redirect you to Discord Auth page, where you h
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Team Registration
Team Registration If you're hosting a team sport or esport tournament, Challonge can help participants register as teams. _Note: If you want your tournament to be publicly discovered by potential participants, you'll also want to host a sign up page and make it publicly visible. If you plan to send direct invitations to register and participate, you would still hos
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Granting Admin Access for your Tournament
Granting Admin Access for your Tournament When hosting a tournament, sometimes check-in, management, score reporting, and managing participants becomes too much for one person to handle. Luckily, Challonge has an easy feature to grant other Challonge users the ability to help manage a tournament.
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How to Delete a Tournament
How to Delete a Tournament A tournament can be deleted from its Settings page. ](https://drive.google.c
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Introducing Challonge Time Trial
Simulation racing, speed running, and any other timed events are now all possible on Challonge. In order to create your Time Trial log into challonge.com and selec
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How Timezones Work for Start Times
How Timezones Work for Start Times Each user account on Challonge has a time zone set for the account. This time zone can be changed from the user settings page: When a tournament organizer sets a start time for a tournament, the time zone of the organizer will be used, unless specified otherwise by utilizing the start time options
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Discord Bot Integration - Tournament Notifications
Discord Tournament Notifications There are 5 settings currently available for Tournament Notifications. Enable Notifications at Tournament Start This means when you start a tournament it will send a message telling your Discord members that the tournament has started on the specified channel. 
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Embedding Brackets into your Website
Embedding Brackets into your Website Embed codes can be found for any bracket on the upper menu to the right of each bracket. This HTML code snippet will allow you to easily embed a bracket on your website. Simply copy the embed code and paste it into your website's HTML to embed the bracket. V
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How to Move Any Tournament into your New Community
How to Move Any Tournament into your Community Grouping your tournaments for your loyal followers has never been so easy. Putting all of your tournaments into one place, your community, is a simple solution to have a central location for your followers to find any tournament you will be running, or ever have ran!
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Editing Round Labels in your Tournament
Editing Round Labels in your Tournament When you create a tournament, sometimes you would like to customize it to fit the venue, or the brand that you represent. Or, sometimes you just like to have unique identifiers or theming. A very easy way to do this is to edit the labels on your rounds to say whatever you would like. In addition to custom round labels, you are also able to set the amount of games per match for each round of the tournament.
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Discord Bot Integration - Announcement Notification
Discord Announcements Notifications There is currently 1 setting available for Announcements Notifications. Enable notification when an announcement is created When an announcement on your community is made the bot will automatically send a message containing this announcement to the specified channel. ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7742410/67475615-1bde0b8
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Discord Bot Integration - Match Notifications
Discord Match Notifications There are 2 settings currently available for Match Notifications. Enable notifications at match start When you start a match it will send a Discord DM to the participant. This requires the participant to authenticate his Challonge account to Discord.
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Running a Prediction Contest
Running a Prediction Contest The Challonge prediction system can be used to run March Madness style prediction contests for single elimination and double elimination tournaments.
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Team Tournament Creation
Team Tournament Creation Some games, sports, or activities are team based. With this being said, Challonge offers team based tournaments and events to facilitate this fact. When creating a new tournament, check the box labelled "Require participants to register as a team".
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Discord Bot Integration - User Authentication
Discord User Authentication To connect your account to discord you need to go to your account settings' Authentication page. At that page you should see a Connect with my Discord Account Button That will redirect y
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Discord Bot Integration - Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting The settings is disabled Check if the settings for the notification that you want is enabled. The Bot is not in the Guild You can use the Change Guild option to reinvite the Bot to the guild. The Bot is in the Guild The Bot might not have access to the channel that you specified on the Integrations Panel. A good way to find out if the bot can send to that channel is to check the user
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Discord Bot Integration - Participants Notifications
Discord Participants Notifications There is currently 1 setting available for Participant Notifications. Enable Pinging for Participants This will enable a UI element on the Match Details modal that will allow you to ping the user, the message is currently premade and there is a limit of 5 seconds before you can send the ping again. The ping button will only show up if t
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How to Edit your Community URL
How to Edit your Community URL When signing up for a community, there are two options, Pro Membership and Free Membership. With a Pro Membership, you receive a dedicated sub-domain name (e.g. example.challonge.com). With a Free Membership, there are still options to customize your community URL (e.g. challonge.com/communities/example).  Single Stage tournament formats, three (3) Two Stage tournament formats, and three (3) Racing formats readily available on Challonge to help manage your next competition. Single Stage Tournament Formats Single Elimination is one of the simplest and most popular tournament formats. It’s a knockout tournament wherein winners from each match advance to the next round and losers are automatically eliminated.
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