Skins, UC and diamonds as tournament prizes

Three practical reasons, none of them shady.

1. 1.Cross-border payments are hard. An organizer with entrants in six countries can top up a game account in minutes and cannot send cash nearly as easily.
2. 2.Small amounts. Sending the equivalent of a few dollars as cash is mostly fees; as in-game currency it is a single top-up.
3. 3.The audience often prefers it. For a mobile player, currency in the game they already play is more useful than a small bank transfer.

Getting the name right matters. An organizer advertising "diamonds" for a BGMI event either means UC or has copied a listing from a different game — and either way it is worth a question.

Direct top-up to a player ID

The organizer buys currency against your in-game ID through a top-up service. Fast, and the most common method for mobile titles. It requires you to hand over your player ID — which is public information anyway — and nothing else. Never your password.

Gift cards and codes

The organizer buys a card and sends you the code. Common where direct top-up is not available. Two things to know: codes are frequently region-locked, and a code is bearer-instrument — once it is sent in a group chat, whoever redeems it first owns it.

In-game gifting

Where the publisher supports it. Often restricted — by friend-list duration, by region, by account age — and those restrictions are usually discovered on payout day rather than before.

Item transfers

For titles where cosmetics are tradeable. Subject to the publisher’s own trade rules and holding periods, which the organizer may not have checked.

Read the game’s terms before you promise anything as an organizer, and skim them as a player before entering for a large item prize.

• Account sharing to deliver a prize is prohibited almost everywhere, and can get the recipient actioned rather than the sender.
• Gifting is region-restricted in most titles. A prize your account cannot receive is not a prize.
• Some publishers restrict third-party top-up services, and using a cheap one can flag the receiving account.
• Trade holds and cooldowns mean an item prize may not arrive when the organizer expects.

A listing advertising a prize "worth" a certain amount is quoting retail price. Retail price is not what it cost the organizer, and it is not what it is worth to you if you would never have bought that currency.

None of that is dishonest — it is just a different unit. Compare item prizes to other item prizes, and cash to cash. An event with a small cash prize is often better value than one with a nominally larger item prize you cannot use.

1. 1.Is the delivery method stated? "500 UC" is an amount, not a plan.
2. 2.Is a timeframe stated? Within 48 hours of the final is a commitment; "after the event" is not.
3. 3.Can your account region actually receive it? This is the single most common failure for gift-card prizes.
4. 4.Who covers a failed top-up? If the organizer sends currency to a mistyped ID, whose problem is it?
5. 5.Does the prize match the game? Diamonds advertised for a BGMI event suggests a copied listing.
6. 6.Are they asking for anything beyond your player ID? A prize delivery never needs your password or a login code.

Paste this into the prize notes field and fill it in. Most payout disputes are one of these five lines going unstated.

PRIZES
- 1st: 500 UC · 2nd: 300 UC · 3rd: 200 UC
- Delivered as a direct top-up to the winner's in-game ID
- Within 48 hours of the final match ending
- Winners must provide the same in-game ID they registered with
- On a tie, the tiebreakers in the rules apply; prizes are not split
- If a top-up fails because an ID was given incorrectly, the winner
  provides a corrected ID and we retry once
- Prizes are funded by entry fees and paid by us directly.
  Fragnet is not involved in any payment.

We display the prize the organizer entered and convert it for orientation. We never collect it, never hold it, never deliver it and never take a percentage of it. If a prize does not arrive, we can remove the organizer — not recover the item.

That is the same trade the rest of the platform makes, and it is why listing is free. It also means the checks above are yours to run, which is why this article is longer than it would otherwise need to be.

• Trust and safety
• Spotting a fake tournament