Guides
How to run a tournament that finishes on time, how to enter one that is real, and the operational details nobody writes down — including the parts where our own platform stops short.
Organizer playbook
How to host a VALORANT tournament
Written from the position you will actually be in: 23:40, one round disputed, two teams certain, and a decision to make. Everything here exists to prevent that.
13 min read
Game guides
How to run a mobile battle royale custom room tournament
Three games, one operational problem: getting the right squads into the right room without the code reaching everyone else first.
11 min read
Organizer playbook
Esports tournament formats explained, with the maths
Every guide defines these formats. Almost none tell you how many matches you are signing up for, or how many hours that is. Here are the formulas and a decision table.
12 min read
Game guides
Battle royale points systems for tournaments
Your points table is not an admin decision. It is a game-design decision that changes how the entire lobby plays — and most organizers pick one without realising that.
10 min read
Player guides
Skins, UC and diamonds as tournament prizes
A large share of amateur events pay in items rather than cash. That is a legitimate prize — and it fails in ways cash does not. Here is how it works and what to check.
9 min read
Trust and safety
How to spot a fake esports tournament
Almost every entry-fee scam is one of four shapes, and most of them fail a ninety-second check. Here is the check — including the arithmetic nobody does.
10 min read
Player guides
Where to actually find tournaments you can enter
Search for "esports tournaments" and you get professional fixtures you can watch. The events you can actually enter are somewhere else entirely.
9 min read
Organizer playbook
The best tournament platforms for small organizers
We make one of these. It appears mid-table with a "No" in the most-requested column, and the last section names three cases where you should use a competitor.
13 min read
Organizer playbook
How to run a weekly scrim ladder that survives month two
Almost every guide is about running one tournament. The thing that actually kills grassroots series is week six — and nobody writes about that.
11 min read
Organizer playbook
A tournament rules template you can copy-paste
Rules do not exist for the nights that go fine. They exist for the one round in twenty that is disputed at 23:40 by two people who both believe they are right.
12 min read
Organizer playbook
How to organise an online gaming tournament
Most guides tell you what a tournament is. This is the list of decisions you have to make before twenty strangers join your lobby, in the order you have to make them.
11 min read
Player guides
Finding gaming tournaments near you (and why most are online)
Searching "gaming tournaments near me" returns pro fixtures, dead Facebook events and gaming cafés. Here is where amateur events are actually posted, and when "near me" is the wrong filter entirely.
8 min read
Game guides
How to host a BGMI tournament
BGMI events fail for reasons Valorant events never encounter: the lobby holds a fixed number, the room ID is the whole security model, and placement points decide everything.
10 min read