Tournaments on Skirmz: single and double elimination brackets
How Skirmz tournaments work, from registration and seeding to live brackets, byes, the double elimination grand final reset and public or private events.
A Skirmz tournament is a bracket your players can see, follow and play through on the site, from the moment registration opens until the final result.
Formats
Skirmz supports two formats:
- Single elimination. Lose once and you are out. It is the fastest way to get a winner, so it suits large fields and short events.
- Double elimination. You have to lose twice to be out. Losing in the main bracket drops you into the losers bracket for a second chance. The winner of the losers bracket meets the winner of the main bracket in the grand final. If the losers-bracket player wins that first grand final, a grand final reset plays a second one, because the other side has still only lost once.
Other formats such as Swiss or round robin are not available yet.
Teams and registration
Players register as teams that belong to the tournament. A team is either public, so anyone can join it, or private, so it is invite-only, and that choice is made when the team is created. Teams that do not fill their roster by the start are left out of the bracket.
A tournament is public or private. A private tournament uses a join code that the organizer shares with the people they want to take part.
Registration closes when the tournament starts, or earlier if the organizer set a registration cutoff.
Seeding and byes
When the tournament starts, the bracket is seeded and locked. Seeding is either random or based on player ratings, which spreads the strongest teams apart. If the number of teams is not a power of two, the bracket is filled out with byes, and teams that get a bye advance automatically.
Playing it
Matches in a tournament use the same flow as any other Skirmz match: check-in, any pre-match votes, play, and result reporting. See How a match works. As results come in, winners move forward and the bracket updates live for everyone watching.
Tournaments inside communities
Communities can run their own tournaments, so the events live next to the members, announcements and matches of the community that runs them. See Communities.