ToorAdmin, Author at Toornament Blog

Light theme !

Here are today’s new features, one invisible and other much more visible.

First, we’ve had our server maintenance process and internal changes, enhancing Toornament’s global performances and responsiveness.

Second, we’ve added a new color for our widget : Light. This white, clean look will make our widget a perfect embedabble content for more sites using white backgrounds and clear color schemes.

You just have to pick it from the “Share” tab in your dashboard. Here’s one in the flesh :

A full black theme is also on the way.

Meanwhile, other features and improvement are on the way, just let us know what you’d like to see !

[Organizers] What does “Skip 1st round” mean ?

Each organizer have their way to put people into a double elimination structure. Most of the time, participant are placed into a bracket following their given seedings, or their performances in the previous stages of the tournament (i.e groupstage), or from qualifiers.

What’s next ?

Here’s our weekly glimpse at what’s incoming on Toornament – and how you could decide on what’s next !

(photo : CC Eager)

Right now, our main projects are :

Personalized participant info fields

You’ll be able to fill in more infos about your participants, from their Battle.net ID to their age, nationality, complete names etc.

Swiss System

One of the popular tournament structures is being added to our platform ! Swiss system tournament, that you may have encountered in chess tournaments, will add another way to create fair match ups between your participants.

Mobile App

We introduced our mobile app a few weeks ago and are happy to report that its availability is now a matter of days on iOS and Android. We hope you’ll like this V1 !

Paid registration

Our popular feature is expanding each day : after Euro and Dollar, Toornament Paid Registration will support English Pound, Swedish Krona and Danish Krone.

After a closed invite access, we’re now opening this feature to more and more organizers. Just fire us an email !

Toornament TV

Our smart content display for public screens and in between matches sequences now handles Bracket Groups. You’ll be able to request Toornament TV in your dashboard very soon.

WHAT’S NEXT ? WHAT IF IT WERE UP TO YOU ?

As Toornament is an ever-evolving project, we keep on working on various matters, from UX to new features and for our next leads, we’d like to hear from you.

Which feature would you like added on Toornament ? How would tweak the UX ? We’re all ears for your suggestions here on our blog or through twitter !

[Organizers] Basic : explaining Single and Double Elimination structures

What is the difference between a single and double elimination tournament ? Most of you seem to know the answer, but for the newcomers, here are some single answers, doubled (pun intended) with how each structure will impact your work load as a tournament organizer !

[Organizers] Let’s talk about the Loser Bracket

“Double Elimination” is a very popular tournament structure in Esports, despite its more intricated nature.

The relationship between Winner and Loser brackets can at some point make the audience and the organizers alike scratch their heads. Who goes where, who faces who, at which stage ?

So here’s our take on the right way we correlate the two brackets, especially how and where a player from the Winner Bracket ends in the Loser Bracket.