Introducing Social Image Sharing
Share your match results easily on Facebook and Twitter using Social Image Sharing. || This is an experimental Challonge Labs Feature. The Social Image Sharing is available only for Single Elimination, Double Elimination, Round Robin and Swiss tournament format. When creating a new tournament, scroll down to Experimental Features and check the box to enable Social Image Sharing. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/9/e/a/99ea6ef0934f9800/social-media-1png_1PopularWhat 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 || Host a single stage double elimination tournament with participants starting in the losers bracket | To set up a single stage tournament with participants in thePopularHow 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. | When in the tournament screen, click the Create new station button in the Stations tab. ![](hPopularRank and Tie Break Statistics
Rank and Tie Break Statistics Match Wins Rank by number of wins. If ties are possible in your game, they'll be factored in as well. Game/Set Wins Game/set refers to the sets of scores that are reported for a match. For example, in the image below, the score sets are 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, so "Player 1" has 2 set wins, and "Player 2" has 1 set win. Points Scored The total number of pPopularLearn About Challonge Competition Formats
Find out the best format for your competition. We currently have six (6) Single Stage tournament formats, four (4) 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. |PopularHosting 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. | Visit the Settings Tab | Scroll down to the "Registration" section to configure your settings. *Note:Some readersTeam Registration
Team Registration If you're hosting a team sport or esport tournament, Challonge can facilitate that using rosters. | First, check the box labeled "Require participants to register as a team" under your tournament "Settings" tab and hit Save. *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 host a siSome readersResetting a Tournament
Resetting a Tournament Sometimes as a tournament organizer, it is necessary to reset your tournament to make a variety of changes. Whether you need to add a last minute participant, add a match of third place, or for a variety of other reasons, resetting your tournament is necessary to make large-scale changes. | First, go to the "Settings" tab of your tournament | NSome readersGranting 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. | First, go to your 'Tournament Page' and click 'Settings' | Next, scroll all the waSome readersHow to add Custom Form Fields To Prediction Contests
Gather more information about your Prediction holders. Custom Fields empowers tournament organizers to gather more detailed information about participants (individuals or teams) at the time of registration. Using a similar process for Custom Registration Fields, tournament organizers now have the option of enabling Custom Fields for submitting predictions. ||| Custom Form Fields for Prediction ContFew readersHow to Delete a Tournament
How to Delete a Tournament A tournament can be deleted from its Settings page. | First, go to the tournament settings page | From Settings, scroll down to advanced options, then select the "Delete" tab. Click the delete button to remove all traces of your tournament. | WFew readersHow to host a Free For All Tournament on Challonge
Free For All is the perfect format for running Battle Royale and Racing tournaments. || Please take note that the Free For All format can only be used in Single Stage tournament. || Free Challonge users can only host Free For All tournaments with up to 16 participants, while Premier subscribers can host up to 100 participants. | Click the "Create A Tournament" button and select "Tournament" from the drop-down menu.  at the time of registration. It can also be used to present registering participants with any type of necessary waiver, agreement, media release, and/or acknowledgment of rules and reasons for disqualification. We're excited to see all the creative uses for custom fields. | When creating your tournament (and in "Settings"), enable tFew readersRequiring Verified Email Address
Enjoy Challonge's features by verifying your email address. As a tournament organizer hosting a tournament with open registration and/or a sign-up page, we strongly encourage that you require participants to verify their email address first. This is a prerequisite to ensure that your participants get email notifications about their upcoming matches, the tournament results, and community announcements. A verified email address is also required before allowing participants to [upload match atFew readersUsing Stripe
Using Stripe When creating an event or tournament that requires an entry fee, the use of Stripe is necessary to collect payment. | In order to utilize this option, simply select "Host a sign-up page" while creating a tournament, and select "Paid" in the registration fee field. Doing so will prompt the user to "Connect with Stripe" | Upon clicking "Connect with Stripe" a signup box will appFew readersPrinting your Bracket
Printing your Bracket To print the bracket for a Challonge tournament, follow the printer icon link to the right of its bracket. || We generate images for this purpose so they can easily be scaled to fit a page. If the image is not up to date, please allow a few minutes for it to update. ||| Brackets created using our bracket generator do not have printer-friendly images. You'll need toFew readersEnabling Region Locking
Host regional competitions and allow specific countries for your registration. Region Locking helps tournament organizers control the participant registration from specific countries they only wish to invite. Organizations and pro leagues handling international competitions can take advantage of this feature. This is also recommended for locally hosted tournaments that aims to reduce lag, delay, and high latency issues for online matches. Click Settings from the bracket and scroll down tFew readersIntroducing Challonge Time Trial
Simulation racing, speed running, and any other timed events are all possible on Challonge. In order to create your Time Trial log into challonge.com and select 'Race' from the 'Create A Tournament' dropdown menu. Next, complete the Time Trial race settings and advanced options. Here you can give your Time Trial race a name, description, game type, start time,Few readersWhat is the Ideal Banner Size for my Community?
What is the ideal banner size for my Challonge Community? The ideal banner size for your Challonge Community is 1920px x 820px, and depending on the screen size and resolution certain parts become visible. To help you create the perfect banner for your Challonge Community here are three templates to download. Available Templates: [Adobe Illustrator (.ai)](https://drive.google.cFew readersEmbedding 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. VFew readersRunning 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. | This can be enabled through ticking the checkbox beside 'Enable bracket prediction' under the 'Predictions and Voting' panel in your tournament's settings | Once the tournament is created, add participants fFew readersPlacement Matches (includes 3rd place match): Eliminate ties in both single and double elimination tournaments
Using Placement Matches Placement Matches allows competition rankings from 1st through 16th to be clearly defined. The host has the option of selecting how many ranks should be defined using placement matches from 3rd through 16th. If the host selected 16, then participants will continue to play in placement matches until the ranks of 1 through 16 can only be populated by a single participant. ||| Placement Matches are only available for single and double elimination bracket formats. |Few readersWhy is my tournament flagged as toxic?
Preventing unlawful and inappropriate content when using Challonge Our goal is to provide and sustain a safe, welcoming competitive environment for all. The Toxicity Checker we have implemented works by blocking content that is found to be harmful, or that may have violated our Terms of Service. In order to prevent this warning message from coming bacFew readersHow to Host a Leaderboard Tournament on Challonge
Highlight Overall Rankings Just like in any sporting events, video game tournaments, and other types of competitions, the Leaderboard is a new tournament format on Challonge that displays all participants, scores, and overall rankings. This format is suited to highlight the performance of your participants in all kinds of events and competitions. Click the Create A Tournament button, then select Tournament.  | First, go to a match that is already assigned to a station's score reporting | Next, clFew readersTeam Tournament Creation
Team Tournament Creation If you're hosting a team sport or esport tournament, Challonge can facilitate that using rosters. | First, check the box labeled "Require participants to register as a team" under your tournament "Settings" tab and hit Save. _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 stFew readersHow To Use Tournament Check-in
Tournament Check-in As a tournament organizer, you may require participants to check-in minutes, hours, or even days before the actual start of the competition. It also helps you know who is actually taking part and you'll be able to plan ahead for any substitution. Similar to managing check-ins for Events, this can also be done on a single page with all the registered participants. After providing theFew readersHow to Create a Private Tournament
Control your audience. Tournaments are always welcome to be shared and discussed, particularly for huge sporting or gaming events. At the same time, we understand that this is not always the case. Regardless of the size of the competition, tournament organizers also host private tournaments amongst their peers. Tournaments being held in the office, schools, or even at home can be made private with this process. During the tournament creation, scroll down to Advanced Options > PermissFew readersWelcome to Challonge! Here's How to Get Started as a Host
Lets get you set up to host a tournament Since 2009, the mission of Challonge has never wavered. We strive to make tournament management easier. Whether that tournament is a 500+ player esport tournament, or a group of 4 friends playing a tabletop game, Challonge has you covered. In this guide, we’ll cover the very basics of creating your first tournament and help you get underway. Create an account for free at Challonge.com ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/useFew readersHow 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: | First, go to the 'Settings' page on your user profile. 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 thFew readersHow 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. 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/99ea6ef0934fFew readersHow 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! | First, go to your tournament settings | Next, click on the arrow to theFew readersReopen Tournament
Reopen tournaments and secure your progress Errors occasionally occur in tournament management, particularly in score reporting and match advancements. These can be spotted even after the tournament has already ended. Participants may also request to double-check and rectify their ranking if the standings are not accurate. Use this feature to reopen already finished tournaments, review past matches, and make the necessary adjustments without starting from scratch. Visit a tournament thFew readersHow to submit game artwork for related tournaments?
Learn how to submit game artwork for related tournaments. There are two ways to create artwork for your game to be displayed on Challonge. We've provided templates available for download so feel free to try it. Please keep in mind that adding custom game artwork into Challonge is currently only available to the game's creator, developer, or publisher. | Template A This template uses a horizontal cropping. It is ideal for game art that uses a detailed background or places their logo on theFew readersHow to Hide the Bracket Preview
Finalize the bracket first. Tournament registration is now open, participants are coming in and the bracket is already filling up. The first thing they see is a preview of the bracket which is not yet definite and is still subject to change. As a tournament organizer, you still have a job to do: reordering the grouping/seeding according to rank, or even shuffle for transparency once everyone has already signed up. In some cases, participants are skeptical with the pairings or even assume tFew readersHow to apply Free Pro Community License
Upgrading to Challonge Premier comes with a lot of exclusive features and earning one free Pro Community License is one of them. | First, visit the community you want to upgrade and click the "Upgrade to Pro" button. | Congratulations! Your community is now upgraded to Pro. ||| Please take note that each Challonge Premier account only comes witFew readersRenaming your Tournament
Renaming your Tournament Sometimes when we make a tournament, we want to change its name for a number of reasons. Maybe there was a typo, a change in sponsorship, or you want to archive it years later. Regardless of your reasoning, Challonge has made it simple to change the name of your existing tournaments! | First, go to the "Settings" tab of the tournament | Next, scroll down tFew readersSending Private Messages in a tournament
Sending Private Messages in a tournament Communication is one of the key factors for having a successful tournament or event. As a tournament organizer, sending of private messages within a tournament is a huge advantage especially for releasing announcements, reminders for upcoming matches, sudden change of rules and many more. | Click the Standings tab. | At the end of the Standings table, you shouldFew readersEditing 'Best Of' Round Labels
Setting 'best of' round labels If you're hosting a bracket, you may want to specify on the bracket page how many possible games can be played in a match to determine a winner. | First, create your bracket on challonge.com. For this example, we're using a single elimination bracket with consolation matches enabled.  Create a template from an existing tournament Step 1: Go to the bracket page of the tournament you wish to copy Step 2: Next to the title the tournament, you'll see a 'link' icon. Click that then > click 'Create template from this tournament' _Note: You don't need to own the tournament to cFew readers