Paris Games Week 2017: ESWC is back!

This week in Paris will be held the annual Paris Games Week, with lots of major video games actors like Twitch, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft and many others gathering to present their latest games or products.
And of course, Esports will also be part of the show, with the ESWC occupying the largest spot of the exhibition to shocase four epic competitions:


First off, Quake Champions will make an epic comeback onto the ESWC stage with a 16-players tournament competing for a 10,000€ cash prize!


How could an ESWC happen without a Counter-Strike: GO competition? The setting is simple, an international pro team, and three french teams (one professional and two qualified through open online qualifiers) will try to claim the title and the 50,000€ cash prize for themselves.


Next, one of the landmark disciplines in ESWC events recently, Clash Royale will have its tournament with 48 of the best players in the world coming to Paris to discover who is the best, and gets to go back home with their share of the 15,000€ cash prize. Offline Qualifiers will be held today on-site to select the last players to join the final stage of the competition.

This event will also feature the first iteration of the ESWC on FIFA18, latest installment of the legendary game. Two tournaments will be held simultaneously to find out the best PS4 and XBox One players, that will then compete in a Grand Finals to succeed to PSG DaXe and grab the fair share of the 15,000€ cash prize.

For all information, see the ESWC Official Website, and see you in Paris!

October New Disciplines

With October came a bunch of new disciplines on Toornament. Shooters, Racing Sims, Sports games, nothing has been forgotten!
Along the new disciplines, the two latest maps for Rainbow Six: Siege, Coastline and Skyscraper, have been added to the map pool of the discipline.

Aftercharge
Asymetric tactical shooter by Chainsawesome Games (PC).

COD: WWII
Back to having feet on the ground, by Activision (PS, XBox & PC).

Destiny 2
MMO Futuristic Shooter by Bungie (PS, XBox & PC).

Eternal Arena
Mobile MOBA by NetEase Games (Android & iOS).

Fortnite
Sandbox survival game, with Battle Royale by Epic Games (PS, XBox & PC).

Forza Motorsport 7
New installment of the famous racing sim by Turn10 Studios (XBox & PC).

Gran Turismo Sport
Latest title of another legend by Polyphony Digital (PS).

Hyper Universe
Side-scrolling MOBA by Nexon (PC).

Rugby 18
Rugby simulation game by Bigben interactive (PS, XBox & PC).

Star Wars: Battlefront II
Action shooter based on the legendary series by EA Dice (PS, XBox & PC).

WWE 2k18
Professionnal wrestling game by 2K Sports (PS, XBox & PC).

Organizers and Participants, to your competitions!

Welcome the new Toornament Logo!

We are proud and excited to reveal our new brand logo!

This new logo was the logical step with all the recent changes brought to the platform since the Version 2 was released a few months back. A new system structure, a new participant interface, new API features soon, it all called for a design evolution to mark the occasion.
Plus, the idea was to have the logo circles be self-sufficient, recognizable outside the website, even without the rest of the name.

Improvements to the logo came in two main ways: proportions and width (plus color depth). The new logo is more balanced, and has an improved depiction when in small size, besides other logos or placed above vibrant colors.

For all of you users of our API, here are the new “Powered By” images that you can use on your pages:

White Version

CS:GO Advanced Statistics are back on!

For all of you, Counter Strike: Global Offensive fans, we are happy to announce that the detailed statistics are back for all tournaments using either eBot or AdminBot.

It’s entirely automatic, if you are using one or the other of the bots, after matches are played, detailed statistics will be retrieved and displayed on the public pages of the matches:

Have fun, and it’s time to leave a mark through godlike stats!

Use Case: Quakecon 2017

In the end of August was held in Texas the latest edition of the iconic event for all Quake fans, the Quakecon. The event boasted Professional and Community Events, in the form of the Quake World Championship (Duel and Sacrifice) and BYOC LAN Tournaments.
Toornament.com was the Technical Partner of the event, and we are going to see how did the organizers benefit from our features, and how we could allow them to create the best event for their needs.

The first step was to provide a clear and complete registration process to their participants. The idea was to have the participants pre-register on Toornament, and then get definitely validated on site.
Their LAN information (row, seat etc.) were then added to all the information they already provided through the Custom Fields, like their in-game IDs or email addresses.

Admins checking Participants in

Another tall order was that the tournaments were featuring many different formats and structures. One of them was a challenging Free-for-All custom format for the Road Rage tournament.
This format was made possible thanks to some of our advanced features, and a few tricks to allow for more versatility within standard structures. If you wish to learn more about it, see how to create your own FFA tournament.

The FFA format used for the Road Rage Tournament

There was also the question of making all information and results about the ongoing competitions available to everyone on site. To that end, they used the Toornament TV, our sharing TV Module, to display all live results, brackets and tournament information on a huge screen:

Quakecon Toornament TV on site

How would participants report their scores, and advance forward?
To ease up Admins’ lives, Participants could use Toornament to report their match results after each game (either through the website, or the Mobile Application):

Admins reminding participants they would report their results through Toornament

Before the competitions started, The Quakecon media staff sent our dynamic Widgets to their press partners. Thanks to the Widgets, they could communicate on the event, its results and stories, as can be seen here on Millenium:

Millenium coverage of the Quakecon thanks to Toornament widgets

And to conclude, we’ll give Aaron “Kuffs” Tygart (Head Admin of the BYOC Competitions) the floor:
We can tell that Toornament contributed to the success of our event by simplifying interactions between admins and players. We hosted 9 BYOC competitions at Quakecon 2017 and we learned very quickly how to benefit the most of the platform: registration process, sharing modules with a gigantic Toornament TV visible by everyone and super easy score reporting process by the players.