Deadlock by VALVE is one of the most anticipated and celebrated Third Person Shooter game, with already dozen of thousands of fans challenging each other. But you may be wondering how to run a Deadlock tournament with your friends or other purposes?
If you’re a Deadlock tournament organizer, welcome on Toornament.com! We’re thrilled to have you onboard the most powerful eSport platform in the industry and we’ll help you make great Deadlock tournaments. Now, if you’re running your first competition on Toornament, here are some useful steps to follow:
1. Create and provide all the information
Your first step is to create your Deadlock tournament by defining its name, logo and organizer identity. Here you can also define the number of participants and if it will be individual player or team composed of multiple players.
Participants are always in need of information: what’s the schedule, is it played on internet or offline, are there special rules, some prize to win, how to contact you etc. You can file additional fields from the “General Settings” section to provide all necessary information your participant may need.
2. Choose your Deadlock tournament structure format
Toornament offers the widest choice of tournament structure format. Whether you want a basic single elimination bracket, a round robin stage, Swiss system, custom bracket or a league, you have up to 9 different structure formats usable for a Deadlock tournament. You can also add multiple structure formats together, such as a round-robin stage followed by a single elimination bracket.
Once your structure format select, you can access advanced options to configure it, including your match format.
3. Setup participant registrations
Now that you’ve created your tournament, open its registrations so that participants can apply and validate them. The “Registration” section will allow you to customize its dates, registration payment and all the automated messages that will be sent to your players during their registration process.
You can also setup additional fields to your registration form and request team and player more information. From the “Custom Fields” section, you will be able to choose from a wide choice of fields to request usefull information about the team or player ranging from date of birth, country, Steam ID, social network account etc.
4. Publish and share your tournament
Once you have completed all the information of your tournament and configured the registrations you can publish it. This action will make your tournament visible on the Toornament.com section https://play.toornament.com/games/deadlock. To do this go to the “Settings > Global Operations” section of your administration interface and click on the “Publish” option.
Your tournament is now visible to all and you can start share its link on your social networks.
5. Manage your participant registrations
Once registration opened, teams will have acces to its form on your tournament public page.
6. Place your participants
Toornament can place automatically your Deadlock participants, following different methods: participant number or random. Participant number is great if you want to dispatch the top seeds (participants with the highest trophy count or level).
Ultimately, you can manually place every participant of your tournament: learn more on how placement works
7. Launch match and report results
Now that your tournament is ready you can launch its first matches.
You or your admins can then report all the results and scores in real time from the tournament dashboard and “Matches” section.
You can also configure the tournament match settings to let your participants report themselves their match results.
8. Master the basics first, experiment then
You now know everything on how to run a Deadlock tournament. Later on, we’ll invite you to check and learn more about all Toornament advanced features from our Help Center… In the meantime, happy tournament!