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Toornament sponsors the first Biz-Esports Summit

We’re super excited to be the Gold Sponsor of the first Biz-Esports Summit!

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Held over two days in Los Angeles, the Biz-Esports Summit gathers a unique concentation of leading Esport professionals from

  • Activision Blizzard
  • Twitch
  • Amazon
  • ESL
  • WME-IMG
  • Faceit
  • Razer
  • Azubu
  • Newzoo
  • Superdata

And top tier organizations such as

  • Fnatic
  • Cloud 9
  • Team Liquid 
  • Immortals 
  • Counter Logic Gaming

And much more!

Our CEO Matthieu and Marketing Director Michael will be there to give a speech and do some networking.

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Two Esports veterans – and friends: ESL’s Carmac and our CEO Matthieu Dallon

Feel free to come say hi and have a talk between two panels!

[Organizers] Make great Overwatch tournaments with Toornament

With the great success of Overwatch, we decided to share some easy and essential tips to run a great Overwatch Tournament.

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Here are the 4 rules of thumb to make a great Overwatch Tournament:

1. Set the rules

Overwatch boasts a vast array of maps and custom settings. Remind your participants the ones you picked through the tournament’s description/rules and custom fields.

2. Pick the right format

With short matches but numerous players, Overwatch requires the right structure and the right amount of manageable matches. You can create stages at will, and have your tournament follow the exact format you have in mind!

3. Share the love

Players, admins, spectators, media… So many people constantly asking what’s up, what happened, what’s next. Keep them up to date in real time with our Widgets, Toornament TV and Mobile App.

4. Get support from your participants

Managing multiple matches can prove overwhelming sometimes… With our new Participant match report, let the player handle their match report themselves and save (pay)loads of time…

With these tips in mind, you can dive into the game and run great competitions the best way possible. And wait until you discover all our advanced features and tools… Happy fragging!

eSports digest, week 20

Want to keep up-to-date with the fast moving eSports industry? Here’s your weekly digest of trends, facts and results.

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The hero eSports deserves, but not the one it needs right now

The latest attempt to an eSport Federation, the WESA, is being panned by the community and the media alike. While some members have come to its defense, others are already rumored to abandon ship. Ruling the world is no easy task.

eSport is just like Sport

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Ah, the Twitch Chat. The infamous flood of lolz and memes can also show its worst side at times. That’s what we all saw and read during the Dreamhack, where each Hearthstone player TerrenceM appearance on stream unleashed a smelly wave of racist jokes and insults. Blizzard and Twitch want to change that. Seeing how traditional sports struggle to silent their most racist fans, we wonder how they’ll prevail. Silence spell card, anyone?

It’s in the game

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Popular sports club are diving into eSports. This week, UC Sampdoria (Italia) and West Ham United (UK) signed their first FIFA player. Popular German club Shalke 04 went a step further and bought Element’s LCS spot and some of its players. Big move.

Faker faked its slump

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Let’s remix Gary Lineker famous football quote: “LoL is a simple game. 10 gamers run after each other with spells and at the end, Koreans always win.” That’s what everybody thought while SK Telecom took home yet another trophy, the Mid-Season Invitational. And to think the team was said to be in slump for the past few months…

An epidemic of non-endemic

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The much awaited ELeague from Turner is about to start in a few days. We know the teams (pretty much all the top CS:GO teams) but what about the title sponsors? Here they are :
Arby’s, Credit Karma and Buffalo Wild Wings. Anything special? None of them is related to gaming, which is a great sign of eSports entering the mainstream market.

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems?

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To the excitement of its 12 million active players, Valve released its Compendium for The International 6, included in a seasonal Battle Pass. Loaded with even more bonuses and eye candy than last year, it is poised to push the money prize to new heights – we’re talking 25 to 30M$ range. But we also hope the publisher will deliver on its promises, as huge delays on rewards delivery plagued the fan experience last year. And again: this year’s Compendium is way more generous than its predecessor.

Our new Facebook Page is your new eSports calendar

We’re happy to announce our new Facebook Page, “Toornament eSports”

Yes, it’s 2016 and we’re launching a Facebook page. But make no mistake, this is not just your regular fanpage!

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We thought our Facebook page as an eSports calendar embedded right into your Facebook timeline. As many people use the famous social network to manage their calendar, we thought it’d be cool for them to track eSports tournaments too.

Just “Like” our page and participate in our events to be notified of all the major eSports tournaments around the world.

Our Facebook page is a nice sidekick to our main website and mobile app to discover and follow eSports tournaments everyday, from everywhere.

Like the Toornament eSports Facebook Page

Use case: ESWC COD 2016

For the second year in a row, we’ve powered ESWC’s famous COD tournament, making extensive use of our features and testing a few new ones. Here’s the breakdown!

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1 Paid Registration

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The Online Qualifiers for each region all went through our Paid Registration system to collect the participants’ fees coming from all-over the world.

2 Structure

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The tournament organizers picked a “Bracket Groups + Single Elimination Playoffs” structure, and manually modified the Playoff seeding to even the rest time for all the teams.

3 Overlays

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A premiere. Tapping into our API, the production crew was able to generate real-time overlays with all the results, scores and maps. The regular method is to manually check a match result and then create a graphic through Photoshop, before sending it over the screen. We all know this is a hassle which lacks reactivity and can lead to typos and errors.

These automated overlays are one of the numerous uses you can make from our API.

4 Toornament TV

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The Toornament TV was the Gaming Zone welcome screen, so that every participant, journalist or admin could be up-to-date in the blink of an eye. It was also put to good use on the main stage and streams. Information is key!

5 Widgets

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Most media such as Dexerto, Millenium and aAa used our widgets to display the latest results in real-time, allowing their reporters to focus on interviews, photos and analysis.

6 Mobile app

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We advertised our mobile app to everyone from the audience to the players so that everyone could know everything from anywhere!