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One of the main Toornament specifities is that it can adapt its features to each Esport discipline it supports.

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Because each game works its way, esport wise. Street Fighter IV means 1v1, counter picks and different characters. Starcraft means maps and races, Counter-Strike and LoL a team based.

We help tournament organizers by adapting our fields and settings to their games. Toornament now supports more than 70 Esport disciplines, but we know their more on the way.

Of course, our platform perfeclty works with every game (or any sport), it just comes in “vanilla” flavor. When your start a tournament on a game non supported by Toornament, just have to pick the “generic discipline“ setting.

The other way is to simply contact us : we’d be happy to help and add your game to our supported discipline pool !

This is what recently happened with Lightbulb Crew’s Games of Glory. We’re going even further with some games APIs, such as DotA and soon, League Of Legends…

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To contact us, just click on the blue “?” button on the lower right corner of your dashboard, or just tweet to us on twitter, toornament !

A Toornament case study : ESWC COD 2015

Last week end, the ESWC held its first COD exclusive tournament at Le Zénith Paris. This top tier event was a great opportunity for us to showcase all the tools and new features recently released on Toornament.

We first worked with ESWC tournament director Sylvain Maillard to set up the formats, structures, seedings and the permissions for his admin and referees teams. The pools were generated from the initial manual seeding and all matches were played from three spots : the two gaming stations and the main stage.

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The ESWC COD 2015 is the first event using our new Toornament TV (see all details here). A Toornament TV display was put in the heart of the gaming zone, helping everyone (admins, players, medias) passing by to get all the necessary informations in the glimpse of an eye.
Later, Toornament TV was also used on the streams, to provide with in-between matches contents.

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Our mobile app is now out for iOS and Android and was used by admins, players and a few in the know spectators. As expected, the mobile app will bring great informations in real time for everyone, everywhere. It worked so well during the event that we’re about to build a solid score ticker offer in the next few days, bringing all the major tournaments and games results on Toornament !

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All in all, we’re very happy with the way Toornament handled all the needs from ESWC. Our goal is to provide an exhaustive array of features, all tightly packed in a smooth experience, whatever the screen it’s used on.

At the time of writing, our team is now at Dreamhack France, another great Esport event using Toornament !

Featured tournament : IEM San Jose

The Intel Extreme Masters are back this week end, with two exciting tournaments we will follow and update Live !

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The League Of Legends tournament is one of the first international event since October LCS World Championship Finals in Seoul.

Western top teams such as Cloud9, Solomid and Alliance will battle for the $50,000 cash prize.

Starcraft II will also be represented with $25,000 , with the whole Korean stars squad including ForGG (who just won Dreamhack Winter), Bomber, HerO, Polt and friends.

We will be following and updating each tournament results, schedules and stream links this week end, with our embedable widgets.

Happy cheering !

Toornament interviews, with Konstantin Schmidt : “Minor issues will always occure, you just have to be ready to resolve them quickly.”

We happy to start on our blog a serie of interviews focusing on Esport tournament organizer. Whether they run local, friendly tourneys, online leagues or big, pro events, organizers always have a great amount of experience and tips to share.

Let’s start today with Konstantin Schmidt, founder and owner of Rush, a new breed of E-sports place in Germany. He’ll share with us his views and advices on everything Esport organization. Let’s fire the questions !

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Hello Konstantin, can you introduce yourself to our readers ?

My name is Konstantin Schmidt, I am 23 years old and the founder of Rush e-sports center. Rush e-sports center is the first of it’s kind in Germany aiming to make E-Sports available to a wider audience by hosting tournaments for everyone on a regular basis.

What are your favorite tournament formats and why ?

A group stage played in double-elimination followed with a double-elimination KO stage. Why? We have teams with far ranging skilllevels. We feel this gives less skilled teams a fair chance to go far within the tournament.

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As a tournament organizer, what are the main challenges and issues you have to face ?

The organization is key, everything simply needs to be on point. A minor delay here and there can cause overall delays of an hour or two. Next to that all hardware needs to run smoothly, the servers need to be running on point.

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What are your top priorities, motos and tips to built a top notch tournament ?

Set up your gameplan and make sure you can stick to it – this mainly involves the schedule, people hate waiting. At the same time you have to be flexible and prepared for most “hickups”. Minor issues will always occure, you just have to be ready to resolve them quickly. This may be tough for the first 2-3 tourneys, but you get the hang of it. If it is a LAN tourney, entertainment during the breaks is a big plus for most gamers.

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New business models such as paid registration and crowdfunding may change the way you build tournaments in the near future. Are your embracing those new leads ?

Our whole business is based on paid registration, allthough we try to have tournaments funded by sponsors as much as possible and thus be able to host tournaments for free for our customers. Crowdfunding is something we are looking into at the moment, but have not yet actively persued.

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We recently saw new tournament format, with complex structures. The International 4 may be the most (in)famous example of this trend. Do you think Esports should explore new formats, or comply to the existing ones, already tested and widely adopted ?

Esports is mainly followed by young people who, as gamers, must be quick to adapt. This combined with the fact that it is a very young sport makes esports probably the best place to try out new things. We ourselves have changed our formats several times over the past months because we just felt we found better alternatives.

Any finals words of wisdom, for the people about to organize their first tourneys ?

Do not underestimate the organization going into these things and give it your best effort. You may feel like it’s a bit too much at times, but once it’s all ongoing and you see how much people appreciate these tourneys, it will be all worth it. And thank you for supporting this great sport!

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Thanks Konstantin !

If you want to know more about Rush Esport Center, go check their website and Twitter.

If you want to be featured in our Interview series and share your passion for Esport event organization, just contact us !