Brackets, Sign-ups,
and a Champion

Team Up supports single elimination, double elimination, Swiss, Pod Swiss for free-for-all games, and two-stage tournaments (a group, Swiss or pod stage feeding a playoff). Both elimination formats work with any participant count — the bracket pads to the next power of two and byes go to the top seeds automatically, so you don't need exactly 8 or 16 people to show up. Double elimination runs a full winners bracket, losers bracket, and grand final, and needs at least 4 players. Swiss eliminates nobody: everyone plays every round, pairings match players on similar records, rematches are avoided, and standings break ties on Buchholz. Pod Swiss is Swiss for free-for-all matches: each round seats the field into pods of the size you pick (3 to 10), points go by finishing place, and after round one players on similar totals sit together. Two-stage tournaments let you pick the first-stage format and how many advance (a fixed number, or for a Swiss stage a top percentage of the field), and draw the playoff automatically once that stage finishes. Single-elimination brackets can also include a third-place match.

Yes. Pick Squads to run teams of 2 to 10 made for this tournament only: a captain registers and shares a join code with teammates, or players sign up on their own and you form the squads before the start, balanced by Elo or at random. Each member's own rating moves with their squad's results. Teams your league already has can enter as named teams instead.

Yes, if you turn it on. Schedule a check-in window to open 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours before the start, or open one on the night. Players check in from a button on the Discord tournament message or on the public tournament page, and when a scheduled window opens the bot pings everyone who hasn't checked in. Nobody is dropped automatically: when you start, you choose whether to drop the no-shows or start with everyone.

Two ways: enable self-serve registration and players click a Register button right on the Discord schedule or tournament message (or sign up on your league's public tournament page), or manage the roster yourself from the web dashboard. You can cap the field size and set an unregister deadline so the bracket stays stable close to start time.

Link the tournament to one of your leaderboards and one click auto-seeds the bracket by Elo rating — your top-rated player becomes the #1 seed, and top seeds are placed on opposite sides of the bracket. Prefer manual control? Drag and drop participants into any seed order from the dashboard.

Yes — when a tournament is linked to a leaderboard, every recorded match writes to match history and updates Elo ratings, so a strong tournament run moves the ladder. Undoing a result rolls the rating change back too. You can also run standalone tournaments with no leaderboard link, where the bracket alone decides the outcome.

Yes. Every tournament gets a public web page with a live bracket, an up-next queue, a recent results feed, and final standings — shareable with anyone, no Discord login needed. In Discord, the /tournaments display message updates automatically as the event progresses, and a champion announcement is posted when the final is recorded.

Yes! Tournaments are included on the free tier alongside leaderboards and matchmaking. Paid plans ($1.99/month Pro, $4.99/month Unlimited) raise match limits and add extras like automatic tier roles and custom styling — ideal for larger events.

Tournaments support up to 256 participants. Set any registration cap from 2 to 256, or leave it unlimited. Both single and double elimination handle any field size with automatic byes — double elimination just needs at least 4 players.