Everything you need to know about how tournaments work.
/tournament register) or in-game. Entry fees are charged on registration.Two brackets: winners and losers. You need to lose twice to be eliminated. Losers from the winners bracket drop to the losers bracket for a second chance. The losers bracket alternates between play rounds (survivors face each other) and drop rounds (where new losers from the winners bracket enter). The champions of each bracket meet in the Grand Final.
Classic bracket. Lose once and you're out. Fast and straightforward — best for larger tournaments.
Everyone plays everyone. No elimination — the player with the most wins takes it. Tiebreaker: head-to-head record, then SP difference.
When a tournament starts, players are seeded by their SPin the tournament's gamemode. The player with the highest SP gets seed 1.
Seeding determines bracket placement — seed 1 plays against the lowest seed, seed 2 against the second lowest, and so on. This ensures top players don't face each other until later rounds.
Each match within a tournament can be configured as:
The prize pool is the sum of all entry fees plus the base prize set by the creator.
By default, prizes are split 60% / 30% / 10% for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. The creator can customize this distribution as long as the percentages add up to 100% or less.
Tournament matches do not affect your SP or MMR. Your tier ranking is determined exclusively by queue matches.
However, tournament matches still count for:
If a tournament is cancelled, all entry fees are refunded automatically and all active matches are cancelled.
When your match is ready, you have 2 minutesto be online on the server. If you don't show up, you forfeit the match and your opponent advances.
If the player count isn't a power of 2 (4, 8, 16, 32...), some players get a bye — a free pass to the next round without playing. Byes are given to the top seeds first.
Admins can create tournaments for free. Any player can sponsor a tournament for 500 Blades.
Use /tourney-admin create on Discord or the in-game command to set up a tournament.