New customized bracket construction accessible

Toornament is launching the brand new “Customized Bracket” construction right now to present organizers much more freedom in creating their desired match format.

The customized bracket construction is obtainable in beta and works for all of your duel (1 vs 1 or crew vs crew) tournaments. It lets you manually create brackets with customized participant development, which might not be possible with the various different codecs accessible on Toornament.

For instance, you possibly can create brackets just like the LFL or LPL playoffs, a triple-elimination bracket, a twin-headed gauntlet and many others.

A customized bracket construction is outlined by a “schema” that it’s important to write, to create the entire matches and relations between them.

Every match shall be given a reputation, after which its two opponents shall be recognized, with three potentialities:

• The opponent is positioned on this match, and they’re recognized by the seed quantity
• The opponent gained a earlier match, and they’re recognized by a “W” and the identifier of the match they gained (i.e “W:A”)
• The opponent misplaced a earlier match, and they’re recognized by a “L” and the identifier of the match they misplaced (i.e “L:B”)

Instance:

A = match identifier
[1,4] = participant seeds

full match syntax: A=[1,4]

The next syntax will generate a quite simple Single-Elimination Bracket with 4 individuals, with matches between seeds #1 and#4, and seeds #2 and #3, then a last between them and a third place decider.

A=[1,4]
B=[2,3]
C=[W:A,W:B]
D=[L:A,L:B]

Observe that every match should be positioned on a separate line.

The total stage configuration web page with its customized bracket schema

And right here is the results of this sequence of 4 matches:

Under we’ve got written one other customized bracket schema not achievable with different Toornament buildings.

On this instance, we’ve got reproduced the construction of the French League of Legends match playoffs. It includes 6 of the ten groups from the championship common season, in a Double-Elimination Bracket during which seeds #1 and #2 from the common season begin within the Winner Bracket, whereas seeds #3 to #6 begin within the Loser Bracket.
Here’s what the schema for such a bracket may seem like:

B=[3,6]
C=[4,5]
D=[W:B,W:C]
A=[1,2]
E=[W:D,L:A]
F=[W:A,W:E]

As you possibly can see, you possibly can identify and arrange the matches as you like, to make the schema simpler to prepared and/or perceive.
And right here is the visible rendition of the 2023 LFL Summer season Break up Playoffs, with its outcomes:

Now you can take a look at and play with this new format. Observe that the “customized bracket” construction continues to be in “beta”, as we’re nonetheless working no a few of the edgier instances potential, and plan on enhancing the visible rendition of extra complicated bracket buildings.