With the E3 approaching, rife with announcements that will shape the future of esports (new titles, new hardware…), we thought that was the appropriate time to take a look behind us, to ponder the long way that has been traveled already.
Category: Business
Case study: A1 Gaming League
For this new Case study, we visit Bulgaria, with one of the country’s leading provider of telecommunication services and digital solutions: A1.
They approached us to build an esports platform to organize a year-long circuit of online tournaments and qualifiers, leading to offline finals during the Aniventure Comic Con, in September 2019.
To achieve this goal, we built a custom-made website based on the Toornament technology, for them to organize as many tournaments as they wanted, all in their brand design, and thus was born the A1 Gaming League Platform:
The website has an information section and a partners showcase, but also news, livestreams, tournaments and rankings linked to the games that are part of the circuit.
The esports aspect of things is handled with the Toornament API, providing schedules, information and results directly on the website:
Contact us if you wish to learn more about how we could work together on your own esports project!
The most comprehensive tournament engine
The structure is an important part of any successful tournament, an essential element that will keep the players and audience invested in the competition, through progress, twists and storytelling. And in this respect, having a choice when selecting the structure best suited to the situation is key. That is why we took on building a comprehensive tournament engine that handles a lot of different tournament structures, adjustable and complementary.
Our structures are split into two categories, the ones for Duel matches, and those designed for Free-for-all matches:
Structures for Duel matches
The Duel structures, built around matches involving two participants, are the most common, just like in regular sports. Either two players or two teams will face off, in an organized series of match, some with elimination involved, some without. There are four bracket-based structures, and three ranking-based ones available on Toornament:
- Single or Double-Elimination Brackets, Bracket Groups and Gauntlets
- Round-Robin Groups, Leagues and Swiss Systems
All structures come with advanced seeding options (ability to manually create matches in a league, or switch participants in a Double-Elimination loser’s bracket) and match format customization (to have your matches played in Best-of 1, semifinals in Best-of 3 and grand finals in Best-of 5 if need be).
Structures for Free-for-All matches
With the advent of the Battle Royale genre, we had to come up with solutions for organizers to smoothly organize their competitions, with tools built with this new way to compete in mind. Up to 100 players per game, matches spanning a dozen of games, results based on in-game rank and kills? All of this is covered in our FFA Structures, that come in 3 variants:
- Simple Stage, to create matches at will, for all purposes
- Single-Elimination FFA Bracket, built with the same logic as its Duel counterpart, but on another scale entirely
- FFA Bracket Groups, for when you have so many players you need to have them split into groups
These structures work conjointly with an advanced match format built to accommodate the Battle Royale features, among others.
So if you plan to organize an esports event, and are looking for the best structure, here is the Structure Guide you need to read to take your pick!
The Toornament API now has Webhooks!
We are excited to announce that Webhooks are now part of the Toornament API! Webhooks are a way for two applications to quickly and easily communicate with one another. Think of it as a ‘reverse API’, our Webhooks will let your application know that something happened in one of your tournaments, without the need for you to monitor everything at all times.
Our current set of webhooks, bound to be expanded, covers the whole spectrum of participant actions, from the registration to the check-in, so that you get notified whenever a participant performs an action in one of your tournaments, so you can automatically act upon it, or receive a notification, or build anything you want, really!
For example, imagine you want to send newly-registered players a customized email, thanks to the registration.created Webhook, you will receive a notification when a new registration is created in your tournament, and you will be able to configure any reaction you want to it, including custom emails!
This is a huge step to leverage the Toornament technology and to develop your own platforms (such as the French League of Legends official league or the Splatoon 2 tournaments website)!
You can find more about our Webhooks in our Developer Documentation, and don’t hesitate contacting us for questions and business inquiries!
Case study: Introducing the new Splatoon 2 tournaments website
Attention, Inklings and Octolings! Whether you’re just starting to dip your tentacles into the world of Splatoon 2 tournaments, or even if you’re a certified splatter, check out the brand new Splatoon 2 tournaments website!
We are proud to be the technical solution Nintendo has chosen to build their platform on, using our Toornament technology and API.
With this new online community, you can assemble your own teams, recruit new members and join regular online tournaments – for fun, or for glory! Don’t have any teammates in mind? Simply sign up, head to the “Find a Team” section and you’ll be teamed up with similar solo splatters.
So, what are you waiting for? Get out there and claim your turf!
And if you are an organizer, do Contact Us if you are interested in having your own esports platform!