Creating a tournament

Create a tournament from the Create menu on the Competitions page: open it and choose Tournament. To edit or clone one, use Edit / + Clone on a tournament’s details page.

The same form is used for creating, editing, and cloning. When editing or cloning it is pre-filled with the tournament’s data, and a cloned tournament’s internal name is suffixed with (Clone). A newly created tournament starts in Draft.

General

Set the tournament’s core configuration here:

Field	Description
`Internal name`	Back-office label, not visible to players.
`Start date and time`	Start of the tournament, in your local time zone (also shown in UTC).
`End date and time`	End of the tournament, in your local time zone (also shown in UTC).
`Scoring method`	How player rankings are calculated. See Scoring methods.
`Lobby Category`	The categories the tournament appears under in the lobby. See Lobby categories.
`Base Currency`	The currency used for tournament prizes.
`Opt-in Type`	How players join. See Opt-in types.
`Min Bet Amount`	The minimum wager required to participate.
`Limit rounds`	Whether the number of rounds a player can participate in is capped.
`Allow score reset`	Whether players may reset their score during the tournament.
`Auto payout`	Whether payouts run automatically when the tournament finishes. See Payout.

Lobby categories only tag the tournament for filtering, except VIP/Hidden, which hides it from the lobby. Use VIP/Hidden for invite-only tournaments.

Botting

Botting adds automated players, called bots, to the tournament so that it looks active even when few real players take part. Bots never place real bets and are never paid a prize.

Field	Description
`Enable Botting`	Switch on to add bots to the tournament. Off by default.
`Number of bots`	How many bots join. Switching botting on fills in 18. Allowed values are 1 to 50. The number is the total for the tournament, not per brand. On a network tournament, all bots belong to one of the selected brands.
`Instant populate`	Switch on to make all bots join within the first few minutes, instead of at random times during the first 30% of the tournament. Off by default. Can be switched on only when botting is on. Use it for demo tournaments that run for weeks or months.

Botting can be switched on only when:

The scoring method is Total Bet Amount, Total Bet x 10, or Total Bet x 100.
The opt-in type is Automatic or Manual.
Limit Rounds is off.
There is no maximum number of participants and no target score.
Min Bet Amount is above 0.

The form shows an error if one of these is not met. Botting settings can be changed only while the tournament is Draft or Scheduled. Cloning a tournament keeps its botting settings.

⚠️

Bots can finish in prize ranks. A prize at a rank held by a bot is not paid, and nobody moves up. Each real player still gets the prize of their own final rank. If you expect few players, choose fewer bots.

See How bots play.

Prizes

Set the prize table here. Prizes are awarded by final leaderboard rank, as individual ranks or ranges, and prize types can be combined. The table can be omitted if prizes are handled outside the system. See Prizes for the full breakdown.

Brands

Select one or more casino brands the tournament runs on. Selecting multiple brands makes it a network tournament.

Games

Select one or more games the tournament runs on. Playing any of them generates a score via the chosen scoring method. The selected brands may limit which games are available, where game-per-brand availability is known to Gamity.

Translations

Player-facing text: Title, Summary, and Terms & Conditions. The default language is mandatory and is used as a fallback. See Translations.

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