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Tournaments

A tournament is a competition with dates and a prize pool. The top scores win, and each winner's prize is boosted by how much they support the game.

Where they live

A game's tournaments are at indie.fun/tournaments/your-game, and the game's bar shows a countdown beside the Tournaments link while one is live or about to start. A developer creates them in the Tournaments section of their game.

How a tournament is scored

A tournament ranks players on their best score while it runs, reported by the game. Everybody starts at zero, whatever they scored before.

Scores come from your game server

A tournament pays real money, so its scores are the ones your game's server reports with its App Secret: submitScore(playerId, score) from the server SDK, or POST /api/player/score with your App ID and App Secret. A browser cannot report a score at all. A tournament ranks on your game's score unless you pick a score type for it (Ranked on), in which case only scores of that type count. See Scores.

The prize

Place prizes: The pool, split over the winners in steps down from first place. With 3 winners and 600 tokens that is 300, 200 and 100.
The boost: Each winner's place prize is multiplied by up to ×1.5, from their total on the game's leaderboard: ×1 for somebody with no score there, ×1.5 for somebody at the top of everything. 2nd place at a ×1.4 boost wins 200 × 1.4 = 280.
What the boost leaves out: Token holding. A cash prize that grew with how much of a token somebody holds would make the token pay its holders, so holding counts on the leaderboard and for whitelist places, and never in a prize.
When it is fixed: At the end. The ranking and every boost are frozen the moment the tournament closes, so nothing done afterwards changes what anybody wins.

Running one, as a developer

Five fields: a name, when it starts, when it ends, the prize pool and how many winners. The form says what it can cost before you create it: between the pool and the pool at the full boost (×1.5), depending on how much your winners support the game.

Paying: Prizes are paid in your game’s own token from your payout treasury, so set up payouts in the Payments tab before offering one. A tournament with a pool of zero needs nothing.
Reviewing before you pay: Nothing is paid automatically. When a tournament ends you get a results table: disqualify anybody whose score you do not believe (the next player moves up), then press Pay winners.
Paying twice is impossible: Each prize is one payment per winner per tournament. Pressing Pay again pays only who has not been paid: a winner who had no wallet linked, or the rest after a day’s payout budget ran out.
Editing: Everything is editable until it starts. After that only the name, because players are competing for the prize and the dates the page states.