Organize your first tournament
Once you're registered and logged in on Toornament, head over your Organizer Dashboard and let's organize!
We strongly recommend creating a project to hold your tournament(s). In your Organizer Dashboard, you're gonna see a button to create a new project. Simply click it, and fill in the name of your project.
Projects are useful to gather tournaments, admins and everything about your competitive endeavors in a single place.
You may now manage the tournaments in your project, and create a new one from the Project interface. You could also directly create a tournament, and later associate it with one of your projects.
If you have other administrators to manage the tournament with you, we have a whole Permissions System to let you organize things and have everyone able to do his job!
The next step is for you to choose what kind of tournament you want to play. How many participants are you going to pit against each other? Will they all play a League or Swiss System? Or maybe you want to split them into several Groups, and then seed the best ones in a Bracket? The choice is yours, and if you need a hand making your pick, we got some advice for you: how many phases to play and which format to choose.
Next logic step, unless you prefer keeping your tournament private, is publishing it, so that potential participants can find it, and apply for registration.
Publishing your tournament will make it visible to everyone.
You have several choices when it comes to sharing the tournament, you can use our widgets to integrate on your website share the link to the public page of your tournament, that can be found on the main dashboard (as per the screenshot above) share the link to the registration page, that is available under the "Registrations" menu, and is easily accessible from the main public page.
It's now time to open your registrations! Don't hesitate using Custom Fields for your participants to fill, if you need more information about them when they register.
Alternatively, you can also manually create participants directly in your tournament, but you will have to fill in their Toornament Account Emails in the info to make sure they can enjoy everything the platform has to offer.
When your participants are created, or accepted through registrations, your next mission is to place them in the structure you've created. The detailed process is explained here, but to make it quick, you get to choose which stages each participant will play in, who they're gonna face, when and in what order.
In most of the cases, match results will have to be manually entered. If you enabled the Participant Report, your participants will be able to report their results on the website after each match they play in your tournament. You'll only be needed in case a dispute emerges.
Once the matches are all played, you can either place the qualified participants in the next stage if you have one, or build the Final Standing to let the world know about the results of your competition!
Create the tournament
We strongly recommend creating a project to hold your tournament(s). In your Organizer Dashboard, you're gonna see a button to create a new project. Simply click it, and fill in the name of your project.
Projects are useful to gather tournaments, admins and everything about your competitive endeavors in a single place.
You may now manage the tournaments in your project, and create a new one from the Project interface. You could also directly create a tournament, and later associate it with one of your projects.
If you have other administrators to manage the tournament with you, we have a whole Permissions System to let you organize things and have everyone able to do his job!
Choose a structure/format
The next step is for you to choose what kind of tournament you want to play. How many participants are you going to pit against each other? Will they all play a League or Swiss System? Or maybe you want to split them into several Groups, and then seed the best ones in a Bracket? The choice is yours, and if you need a hand making your pick, we got some advice for you: how many phases to play and which format to choose.
Publish your tournament
Next logic step, unless you prefer keeping your tournament private, is publishing it, so that potential participants can find it, and apply for registration.
Publishing your tournament will make it visible to everyone.
You have several choices when it comes to sharing the tournament, you can use our widgets to integrate on your website share the link to the public page of your tournament, that can be found on the main dashboard (as per the screenshot above) share the link to the registration page, that is available under the "Registrations" menu, and is easily accessible from the main public page.
Manage your participants
It's now time to open your registrations! Don't hesitate using Custom Fields for your participants to fill, if you need more information about them when they register.
Alternatively, you can also manually create participants directly in your tournament, but you will have to fill in their Toornament Account Emails in the info to make sure they can enjoy everything the platform has to offer.
Place your participants
When your participants are created, or accepted through registrations, your next mission is to place them in the structure you've created. The detailed process is explained here, but to make it quick, you get to choose which stages each participant will play in, who they're gonna face, when and in what order.
Enter match results
In most of the cases, match results will have to be manually entered. If you enabled the Participant Report, your participants will be able to report their results on the website after each match they play in your tournament. You'll only be needed in case a dispute emerges.
Once the matches are all played, you can either place the qualified participants in the next stage if you have one, or build the Final Standing to let the world know about the results of your competition!
Updated on: 02/12/2021