The Toornament Knowledge Base

Need some help, inspiration or answers? You came to the right place! This post aggregates all the tips and tutorials we’ve published so far.
We’ll keep it updated it as new content arrives, so you’d better add it to your bookmarks…

Enjoy our FAQ and keep this in mind: every feature on Toornament is free to use!

General Guides

• Start here: Your First Tournament

How to run your tournaments, step by step example guides

• Clash Royale
• FIFA
• Vainglory

How to make great tournaments

• Clash Royale
• Overwatch

Disciplines

• Detailed Statistics
• How to find a League Of Legends Match ID
• How to get your Dota 2 Match ID
• BloodBowl 2 Advanced Statistics
• Tools and In-Game Integration
• How to use the “Pick & Ban” feature for Hearthstone
• In case you ever need a Hearthstone Deckbuilder
• LoL: how to use the Tournament Codes
• CS:GO – How to use Toornament with eBot
• CS:GO – How to use Toornament with AdminBot
• Missing Discipline
• My game is not on the Toornament list. What to do?

Structures

• Create your structure
• Which tournament format should you pick? A quick guide
• How many phases do you want in your tournament?
• You can change the size of your tournament
• Make your own March Madness on Toornament!
• Stages
• Explaining Single and Double Elimination structures
• Introducing the Bracket Groups
• Let’s talk about the Loser Bracket
• What does “Skip 1st round” mean?

Seeding & Matches

• Placement
• How placement works
• Editing your Losers Bracket placement
• Configure your matches
• How to define your match format
• Tips: setup the Double Round Robin format
• The Pairing Table
• Why you need to validate Groups
• Scores, results and report
• Check out these different ways to award points
• The difference between “Scores” and “Win-Draw-Loss”
• How to and why use Tiebreakers
• How does the “Participant Match Reporting” work?

Administrators

• Tournament management
• How do I delete, or archive my tournament?
• Can I run a private tournament?
• How to manage your admins permissions
• Use the Match Lobby to give your participants informations
• Participants management
• How to manage your participants the best way possible?
• Add Custom Fields for your Participants
• Manage your Registrations like a Pro
• Export your Participants and Registrations lists

Participants

• Guides and Tutorials
• Here’s all you can do as a Participant
• Discuss with your opponents thanks to the Match Lobby
• [FR] Tout ce qu’il faut savoir en tant que Participant
• Report your match scores and results
• Pick and Ban your Hearthstone Classes

Share

• General Advice
• Using Toornament as a Media
• Why it matters to (full)fill your tournament with information
• Your new tournament home page shall look good
• How we can help you promote your tournament
• 5 tips to promote your tournament
• Streams
• How to add streams to your tournament
• Which stream / video services are supported by Toornament?
• 9 tips to build a great stream experience

Develop

• Beta Public API
• Organizers, medias, developers: how to use our API
• API 101: two basic tutorials to start developing with our API
• Use this free PHP Script to batch edit your Match Schedule

Miscellaneous

• Other guides and advices
• How can Toornament improve your Event Production?
• 5 tips to run a better tournament
• 9 great general tips for your event
• How to produce an on time tournament
• 3 points to unify your community organizers
• The tournament legal matters 101
• How to distribute a prize money?
• How much should you charge for your event? 10 tips to get the right price