For a few years, gaming centers have been popping up around the world and are yet an other sign of an ever-growing esport market. However, while at the beginning of the 2000’s, gaming centers were more of an underground and discreet little place, they are now a very bright and high tech open space, with colorful decoration, giant screens and all the latest equipment.
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Category: Business
Toornament evolves
As you may have noticed, we rebranded the website last week. This is the first step of a full-scale evolution for Toornament in the coming months and years. We are indeed moving to a business-to-business (B2B) model, relying on our robust tournament engine to provide organizers with all the tools they need to create and manage their esports competitions in the best conditions.
As such, we decided to deliver our software as a service (SaaS), with premium features packaged in paid plans tailored for professional organizers.
For the amateur and esports enthusiasts, rest assured that Toornament will still provide access to the core features of the organizer software for free, for you to organize a tournament on any game, for your friends and communities.
Thank you for your continued support and trust in this adventure, and we will be back soon with more exciting news about what is yet to come!
Austrian eBundesliga on Toornament
Skilled Events GmBH is an Austria-based esports company with 15 years of experience in the field. They are working with the Esports Federation of Austria to provide players all across the country with great and compelling competitions, and are notably the organizers of the biggest e-soccer league in Austria, the eBundesliga, in cooperation with the official Bundesliga.
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A new LOL official league happening on Toornament!
On this day last year, we announced our partnership with Riot Games for the French League, entirely managed via Toornament, and with a custom website we built for them.
This partnership is carrying on, and it gets better, as it has been extended to the 2nd Division of the French League. This means that Toornament is now the go-to platform for the whole circuit in France, from the LOL students league to the pro players that have a shot at the LEC.
This new website dedicated to the 2nd Division comes with a brand new design, but retains the features and navigation of its 1st Division counterpart, to create a coherent environment for players and spectators alike.
We are pleased and proud to be the official solution chosen by Riot Games for the entire French esports ecosystem, and we have other exciting things to come working closely with them!
Contact us at [email protected] if you would like to discuss building your own esports platform!
Use Case: LANA France
Today we want to introduce one of our first ever professional organizers, LANA France, a nonprofitable association that has been created in 2000, organizing events around video games. They made a name for themselves during the great era of LAN Parties (with the MaxLan), and now accompany communities in creating their events and exhibitions, by bringing them expertise and skills relevant to esports tournaments.
Here to talk more in depth about their experience is Cyril Grosjean, VP of LANA France:
We have been using Toornament since 2013 to manage our competitions (around a hundred now). It made the whole management, registration and communication process way easier for us.
On our latest project, Moselle Gaming Network, we needed a new feature to let participants choose their city of participation from a list of allowed cities. Indeed, this League of Legends competition was held simultaneously across 5 cities, and only participants from these cities were allowed to take part.
We then used the Toornament API to build a custom registration form directly on our website.
The advantages of this solution were numerous:
– We could build the feature in a few hours, tailored to our needs
– We now have the players only using our website, and do not need to have them go to and from Toornament and our own website, which prevented confusion sometimes felt by some of our younger players
– We could communicate entirely on our own media and networks, controlling the entire process and user experience
In the future, we plan on integrating Toornament even further in our websites, to allow for a fully white-label experience, with all tournament information being directly available on our website, which we know is possible thanks to Toornament.
Thank you Cyril for your time and insight on the work of an organizer, and congratulations the great environment you provide to your players!