1. (This step is for game.tv partners only. If you’re creating tournaments on your own server, please skip to step 2.) Share your Discord nickname and user ID to game.tv admin
2. Visit https://app.game.tv/dashboard
1. From your main menu on the left, click on “Create Tournament” button
2. From Tournament Templates page, find a game that you want to create tournament for and click Customize.
3. In Customize Tournament page, click Add another server link.
4. Browser will pop up and show Discord UI, asking you to select server to add the Bot to.
5. When authorized correctly, you will get a confirmation screen in the same browser. Now Tourney Bot is installed in your Discord server.
6. Check your Discord server to make sure that the bot has been installed.
“Tourney AI” mode allows Tourney AI Bot to create, launch, and operate tournaments on its own!
** Note that this mode will only be available to server admins. Other roles with tournament permission will not have access to this mode.
** Only bracket mode games are available for AI mode. (ie. PUBG M, Free Fire excluded)
1. On your dashboard, there’s is Tourney AI button. Click on it.
2. On Bot settings page, first select your server from the dropdown menu. Then click on Enable AI.
3. Moderator Setting
4. Game Settings
5. Schedule Settings
1. Usable in Tournament Lobby
2. Usable in DM with Tourney Bot
3. Usable in Game Lobby
1. From your main menu on the left, click on “Create Tournament” button
2. From Tournament Templates page, find a game that you want to create tournament for and click Customize.
3. In “Customize Tournament” page, scroll to the very bottom and select Advanced Settings.
4. Fill out Basic Info section
Registration Start Time : This is when the players will be able to start registering for your tournament in the Discord channel. Before this time, players won’t be able to register, and “!register” command will not work in the channel.
Registration End Time : After this time, players won’t be able to register anymore. Registration End Time cannot be less than 10-minute before the Tournament Start Time. Check-in process can only begin after registration ends. Also, you may only create bracket or lobby after registration ends.
Tournament Start Time : This is the time your tournament begins.
5. Fill out Details section
6. Fill out Platform section
7. Fill out Match Settings section
8. Click Create to proceed
1. Once your tournament is created, you will be able to see your tournament listed in the Dashboard.
2. Click on a tournament to view details and registered players, to manage brackets and lobbies, and to send out prizes. (Prize feature is only available to game.tv partner tournaments on BlueStacks Discord server.)
1. During this period, Discord users will be able to register in #tournament-lobby channel by typing “!register” command if registration is open at that time.
2. As soon as “!register” command is input, users will receive a direct message from Tourney Bot, asking for more information about their ingame ID and team name.
3. Once user responds back to Tourney Bot using correct commands in DM, they will receive a registration completion message from the Bot. (If they didn’t receive the completion message, then they’re not registered for the tournament and they should try registering from the beginning again.)
4. As Discord users are registering for the tournament, you will be able to see how many users have registered for your tournament in our dashboard. You can also check their names, remove player, or remove team from this tool.
5. If Check-In is on, the check-in process will begin at the time that you have set. (ex. If you set 30 min as check-in time, check-in process will begin 30 minutes before the tournament.)
6. Both registered users and waitlisted users will receive a check-in request from Tourney Bot via direct message in Discord. Users must follow Tourney Bot’s instruction and input check-in command correctly to qualify for the event.
7. Users will receive a check-in completion message from Tourney Bot if they entered the check-in command correctly.
1. There are 3 conditions which allow you to create bracket for you tournament:
2. Once any one of these 3 conditions are met, you will see Create Bracket button under Brackets tab. Click on it to create your bracket.
3. As soon as bracket is created in your tournament tool, the same bracket will be announced in the Discord channel, pinging all the registered tournament participant.
4. Along with the bracket announcement, the bot will also create private channels for all live matches. Each private channel only invites the participants of the match. The participants can use this private channel to communicate with one another about their match (ie. sharing room code, sharing player ID) and to report result
5. Players must report results in the private channel, using the “!result
6. Once a result is submitted, a red dot will appear on the match so you (tournament admin) can see that the result has been submitted.
7. Once bracket reaches the end and the final winner is selected, the bot will announce the winner in the tournament channel automatically.
1. There are 3 conditions which allow you to create lobbies for you tournament:
2. Once any one of these 3 conditions are met, you will see Create Lobby button under Lobby tab. Click on it to create your lobbies.
3. For each lobby, click on 3-line menu button, then click on Create Channel. Doing so will create a private Discord channel for each lobby strictly for players in each lobby.
4. If you (tournament admin) want to send message to each lobby (ie. match code and pw), you can use Send message feature from each lobby. Sender will be Tourney (bot), so it likely to catch players’ eyes. Or you may send message directly on the channel by typing it out. (Send will be you in this case.)
5. If you’re not creating each match for players, you can simply assign a player in each private channel to create a game room and share code/pw.
6. Players may report results in the private channel, using the “!result
7. Once a result is submitted, a red dot will appear on the match so you (tournament admin) can see that the result has been submitted. Click on View results to view screenshots submitted.
8. In order to select winner(s) of each lobby,
1. If you need to have lobbied tournament where players advance/transfer to new lobbies, you must select “Elimination” under Tournament Format.
2. If “Elimination” is selected as your Tournament Format, you will see an option to create a new lobby in addition to initial Lobby Counts you selected.
3. While your initial lobbies are still live, click on “+” button to create a new lobby. This new lobby is where you will be advancing/transferring your players for future round.
4. For you to advance/transfer players to the new lobby, you must END existing lobbies first. (Please refer to Ending a Tournament - Lobbied Competition section on how to end a lobby) Once you end your lobbies, click on “Edit Lobby” button in your new lobby.
5. Select a lobby from which you want to move players.
6. Select position(s) of players that you want to move.
7. Once you’re done selecting players that you want to transfer, click Save button. Transfer complete!
1. Once all lobbies are updated with accurately scores and winners, click on 3-line menu button, then click on End Lobby button for each lobby. Do this for all lobbies. (It’s a good practice to end lobby as soon as it has been updated. You will not be able to move players if lobbies are not ended.)
2. Once all lobbies are ended, game.tv tool will tell you that your tournament will end and that results will be published.
** This feature is only available to game.tv partners that are producing tournaments on BlueStacks Discord servers.
1. Once winners are selected and the tournament is ended correctly, you will be able to see the winners listed in the Prizes tab.
2. Simply fill out the information for each winner.
3. After all information is filled out accurately, click on Send prize button.
By cloning existing tournaments, tournaments host can easily duplicate tournaments of the same format
over and over again without having to set up details each time.
** You may not clone a tournament and change it’s tournament mode: lobby vs.
bracket.
1. Find a tournament that you want to duplicate from your dashboard. At the right end of the tournament, click on 3-dotted menu button.
2. Click on Clone. A new screen will show up where you have to input some minimal information.