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Discover video game tournaments management and integration solution Toornamentat GDC 2023   Paris, March 9th, 2023: Toornament provides the most comprehensive solution to manage and organize competitions whatever the game or platform. Its unique tools allow studios and publishers to embrace competitive gaming experience by creating white-label tournament environments inside and outside their video game. Make your game competitive ready As more and more studios are creating multiplayer video games, they want to develop their own ecosystem with in-game tournaments and online platforms. These are indispensable to grow their community, serve its needs…

As an organizer, you know that the step of placing participants in your tournament stages is essential for its smooth running, but can be tricky to achieve. Thankfully, Toornament helps you manage your tournament seeding and placement easily with all the flexibility you could need. The difference between seeding and placement Before getting to the heart of the matter, we must clearly differentiate between the seeding and placement notions regarding participants. Seeding is the action of attributing a seed number to a tournament participant, who is given a preliminary ranking for the purpose of the placement. The participant is then…

The Toornament January update is out and has content for both the organizer software and the website builder. What to expect: new disciplines, meta data and web analytics available for your competition website. Latest disciplines and game’s maps added We are always on the lookout for new disciplines to be added to Toornament.com so that … Continue reading “What’s new in January?” The post What’s new in January? appeared first on Toornament Blog. Source link

The management of your tournament registration is a key step in the organization of your competition and its success. We explain how to manage it and take advantage of other Toornament features. The first thing that determines your registration process is whether your tournament is played between individual players or teams. This choice is available at the first step of your tournament creation on the Toornament dashboard, where you can also define the number of participants. By choosing teams as participants, a single person (usually the captain or manager)  will be able to register his whole team, by providing the…

The Toornament API gives you direct access to all the tournament data you generate with the organizer software. But what can it be used for? In this article we will see in detail five of the most popular and handful uses of the API. 1. Display of tournament data in white label One of the most common uses of the Toornament API is to display competition data on one’s own website. By retrieving raw data generated by the tournament management software, an organizer can display them wherever and however he sees fit. The content fully blends into the website and…

For the first time in a long time, Riot Games has decided to change the formats of the MSI and Worlds 2023 international competitions by introducing new structure types. We show you how to reproduce the new formats with Toornament. Earlier in January, Riot Games published a long post to announce and explain the new formats that will be used in its two major international tournaments : the Mid-Season Invitational and the World Championship. Riot Games has made changes both in the number of participating teams and the structure of the formats with several objectives in mind: creating more opportunities…

In this article, you will learn how to create and share your esports event website, with all its tournaments, thanks to the latest Toornament features. Historically, in the 90s, esports saw light with the organization of Lan Parties, all around the world. From tiny events to massive productions, those shows usually proposed more than one tournament to their visitors and gaming communities. It was not rare to have some of them gathering thousands of participants split between dozens of tournaments.LAN Parties still often bring together a wide variety of games requiring very different tournament formats and score systems. Fortunately, thanks to…

Toornament accompanied African company SAGES to organize the Sahel Esports Champions, a FIFA22 tournament made of multiple national qualifiers and a regional offline final in Dakar, Senegal. The African esports ecosystem has been growing steadily for several years. More and more tournaments and their champions arise across the continent with the support of private and public partners. The Sahel Esports Champions is one of them. The competition took place as part of “Novembre Numérique”, a celebration of Digital Cultures of the French Institut around the world, and with the support of the Culture mobility fund in the Sahel. Organized by…

As an esports tournament organizer, you usually need to fulfill a set of rules and apply for an authorization with the publisher to be able to organize a competition on a game. In this post, we will see what are the usual restrictions asked by the publishers, and how to request and apply to get a community tournament license. The first thing to do before pitching your customer with a wonderful esports project is to check if you have the right to use the video game needed. Unlike sports, the medium used for esports tournaments is a video game protected…

2022 was quite a year for Toornament and its team. Following a previous year of hard development, 2022 saw both the release of major features and the launch of subscription plan offers tailored to the needs of esports tournament organizers. 2022 in a few figures First of all we thank all the amateur and professional organizers who have chosen Toornament in 2022 to organize their tournaments and bring esports to life on a daily basis. You are 5,500 new active organizers to have joined us in 2022! Newer and older organizers have created…