2017 Preview: New Structure and Placement process!

Toornament is onto a deep changes for 2017 and we’re happy to share them with you today!

The most prominent change is focused on the Structure creation process. Until now, creating a Structure meant picking a Structure template which can’t be modified, just reseted.

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Gone are the structure templates, you can now pick a stage… and add another one, and another one, and so on! You can add as many stages as you want, one at a time.

This new approach is perfect, i.e if you want to add a tie-break stage between Groups and Playoffs, or split your participants in an “Elite” bracket for the best ones and an “Amateur” bracket for the struggling ones.

By making our competition stages independant from each other, we give you more freedom and flexibility.

This change brings another big one: the Placement process.

Until now, the Placement process is split between two sections: Seeding is done in the “Participants” menu, while the placement itself is done in the “Placement” menu.

We merged them together into a simplified yet more powerful and flexible Placement menu.

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First, you can add participants in the Stage either by assigning them in the seeding list on the left or by manually placing them in the structure view on the right.

Note: adding participants in your stage will also become more flexible. You can for example add any participant from your tournament list. Filters like “Checked In” or “Qualified: from Previous Stage” Participants will help you see through more easily.

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Furthermore, we’ve added useful options to help you better seed you participants, like locking participants which enables you to generate a semi-random seeding with the unlocked ones.

Last but not least, our smart Seeding methods are still available to help you make the best choices.

We can’t wait to deliver these update into your hands and see what you can do with them!

Mobile app updates, November 2016

Our free mobile app Toornament eSports (iOS, Android) has been updated with two major features:

Registration

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You can now register for a tournament straight from your mobile. Esports fans and competitors can now manage the essential tasks with Toornament Esports: follow the tournaments they follow, register for a tournament and report their match results.

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Additional languages

Our mobile app now supports the same languages as our widgets: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish and adds an 8th one: Russian.

Enjoy!

Search what you need

Welcome on our new blog!

With more and more content available on our blog, we decided to jump (the shark) from Tumblr to WordPress. First thing first, you’ll notice: we have an integrated Search Engine! Better late than never 🙂

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This will help you easily find the latest updates, tutorials, infographics and columns we’ve been published for a couple of years now.

Our most important post is of course the ever-growing Knowledge Base. In case you haven’t bookmarked it yet, we made you sure it’s linked from the blog homepage. Happy reading!

Battlerite is on Toornament

Have you met Battlerite, the latest competitive sensation?

Despite its limited availabity (20$ for early access), Stunlock Studios’ latest production is met with praise from the PvP community.

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Think about a top-down view, arena where you move your character with ZQSD keys and aim with your mouse.

Add various heroes, teammates and you get a fast-paced, skill-demanding team brawler which calls for another one and another one.

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At Toornament, we believe Battlerite could beyond its older brother Bloodline Champions and become a real Esport. That’s why we’re already supporting the game and expect numerous Battlerite tournaments from the community!

[Organizers] Toornament supports the LoL Tournament Codes

We’re happy to report that Toornament now fully supports League Of Legends Tournament Codes!
These codes will help you tremendously by putting your participants in the right lobbies and automatically retrieve scores from their games and results for their matches. Here’s how it works:
but the code, results and stats will still work.