Run a first tournament

Create teams

1. Open Teams.
2. Click Create Team, or Import JSON to add many teams at once.
3. Give each team a name, a tag and its players (Steam ID and name).

You need at least 2 teams. Single and double elimination need 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 teams. See Teams and players for the import format.

Create the tournament

1. Open Tournament and click Create Tournament.
2. Enter a name.
3. Choose the tournament type, for example Single Elimination. See Tournament formats.
4. Choose the match format: Best of 1, Best of 3 or Best of 5.
5. Set Max Rounds per Map and Overtime. The defaults (24 rounds, overtime on) match normal competitive CS2.

Choose teams and maps

1. Select the teams.
2. Choose a map pool. Map veto needs a pool of exactly 7 maps. The Active Duty pool works if you are not sure.
3. Click Save & Generate Brackets.

Check the result on the Bracket page. You can change settings and generate again until you start.

Tell the players where to go

Players sign in with Steam at your Auto Tournament address. After sign-in they land on their own player page. That page shows their next match, the map veto when it is their turn, and the button to join the server.

Each team also has a page at /team/<team-id>, for example https://tournament.example.com/team/navi. On Teams, click the link icon next to a team (Copy team match link) to copy it. Send players the guide for players.

Start

Click Start Tournament. For each match that can be played:

1. The two teams do the map veto on their player pages.
2. Auto Tournament picks a free server and loads the match.
3. Players join the server and type .ready in chat.
4. The match goes live. You see the score on the Matches page.
5. When the match ends, the winner moves on in the bracket and the server is free for the next match.

If there are more matches than servers, the extra matches wait until a server is free.