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Tournaments

Standings, Tiebreakers & Match Results

How final standings are calculated from match results, how ties between participants are broken, and how forfeits, no-shows, and disputes are recognized as distinct outcomes.

As matches are completed, Tournament Suite builds a standings table that ranks every participant. How that ranking is calculated — and how ties are broken — depends on the tournament's structure format. Not every match outcome is a straightforward win: forfeits, no-shows, and disputes are all tracked as their own outcomes, separate from a normally completed match.

Where to find it

  • Final standings: Projects → [Your Project] → [Tournament] → Structure → Final Standing
  • Tournament statistics and analytics: Projects → [Your Project] → [Tournament] → Analytics → Overview
  • Reviewing an individual disputed or corrected match: see Apply Interventions to a Match

How standings are calculated

Standings are generated from completed match results and ranked according to the ranking approach configured for the tournament — most commonly win/loss record, but points-based and rating-based (Elo/Glicko) ranking are also available depending on format. For each participant, the standings table tracks wins, losses, draws, matches played, and total points, then assigns a rank.

As an organizer you can:

  • Generate (or regenerate) standings from the current match results at any point while the tournament is running.
  • Finalize standings once the event is complete — this marks the standings as the official final result and is also the step that triggers prize distribution.

Standings can be generated for the tournament as a whole or scoped to a single stage, so a multi-stage event (for example, a group stage feeding into a playoff bracket) can show standings for each stage independently.

Breaking ties

When two or more participants finish with the same record, a tiebreaker resolves the order between them. Which tiebreaker criteria are available depends on the tournament's structure format:

  • Round robin, league, and group formats: head-to-head result, score difference, points scored, points conceded, match win rate, and number of forfeits (fewer is better).
  • Swiss: Buchholz (sum of opponents' scores), Median Buchholz (Buchholz with the highest and lowest opponent scores discarded), Sonneborn-Berger (opponents' scores weighted by whether you beat, drew, or lost to them), cumulative score (rewards accumulating points earlier in the event), strength of schedule (average opponent win rate), match win rate, game win rate, and head-to-head.
  • Any format: a manual override (an organizer decides) or a random draw as a last resort — random tiebreaks are seeded and recorded so the result can be verified after the fact.

You can configure more than one tiebreaker criterion in priority order. If the first criterion doesn't separate a group of tied participants, the next one is applied, and so on, until the tie is broken or the list of criteria is exhausted.

Match outcomes

A match's status reflects what actually happened, and standings and tiebreakers (like the forfeit count above) take this into account:

  • Completed — the match was played out and a winner was recorded normally.
  • Forfeit — one side forfeits the match, either during play or before it starts; the opponent is recorded as the winner without the match being played to its normal conclusion.
  • No-show — a participant fails to check in or otherwise doesn't appear for the match; the match is resolved without being played.
  • Cancelled — the match is called off and does not produce a result.
  • Disputed — a match (including one that already shows as completed) is flagged for a formal ruling — for example, because a participant disagrees with the reported score. A disputed match is held for review rather than counted as final until it's resolved. See Officiating and disputes for how disputes are reviewed and resolved, and Apply Interventions to a Match for reporting or correcting a score, including forfeits and no-shows.

Tournament statistics

The tournament's Analytics → Overview page surfaces a live statistics summary alongside standings: total and completed matches, a breakdown of matches by status, average match duration, how many rounds have been completed against the total planned, and participant-side metrics — registration, check-in, and completion rates, plus a breakdown of participant status (registered, checked in, active, eliminated, disqualified). This is the same data organizers use to sanity-check that a tournament is progressing as expected before finalizing standings.

What happens next

If a match result needs to be corrected or a dispute needs to be resolved before standings can be trusted, see Apply Interventions to a Match and Officiating and disputes. For how the competitive structure that feeds these standings is built, see Tournament Structure and Formats.

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