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Tournaments
A tournament ranks players against each other over a fixed period and pays prizes to the top of the board. You define it once; the engine recalculates the standings on a timer and, when the tournament ends, settles and pays what is owed.
What a tournament is made of
| Setting | What it decides |
|---|---|
| Criteria | What is being measured — the thing players are ranked on. |
| Scope | Which games, providers or categories count. Leave it empty and everything counts. |
| Period | When it opens and closes. Play outside it is not counted. |
| Prize pool | What each place wins, and in what form. |
| Currency | The currency the board is scored in. |
What you can rank on
Seven criteria, all measured from play and payments the platform already records:
| Criteria | Ranks players by |
|---|---|
wager | Total staked |
bets | Number of bets placed |
total_win | Total won |
biggest_win | Largest single win |
deposit_amount | Total deposited |
deposit_count | Number of deposits |
deposit_max | Largest single deposit |
A deposit criteria ranks only players who have actually deposited in the period. This matters more than it sounds: ranking first and filtering afterwards leaves holes in the board, and a leaderboard reading 1, 4, 9 pays the wrong people.
Currency
The board can be scored in the brand's own currency, USD or EUR. Every bet is already recorded in all three, so scores are directly comparable without any conversion.
A fourth currency is refused rather than approximated. If you need one, that is a change to the platform, not a setting.
Prizes
Each place in the prize pool pays one of three kinds:
| Kind | What the player gets |
|---|---|
cash | Real money in their normal wallet. Withdrawable at once. |
bonus | Bonus money, carrying the wagering multiplier set on this tournament. |
free_money | Bonus wallet with no wagering — available like cash immediately. |
Wagering terms belong to the tournament, not to the platform. Two tournaments can pay bonuses on completely different terms.
Free spins cannot be paid as a tournament prize. The request that creates a prize needs a game and a spin count to hang them on and a tournament carries neither, so a free spins prize fails with a reason rather than silently paying nothing. Cashback is not offered either — on this platform cashback is calculated from losses on a schedule, so it has no meaning as a one-off prize. Use free_money for "like cash, no strings".
Ending and paying
When a tournament's period ends the engine settles it: the board is frozen, each winning place is written down as owed, and the payout sweep credits it. The Settle button in the panel triggers that same routine rather than doing its own thing.
Paying out is permissioned separately from editing a tournament (tournaments.payouts), because settling is money leaving the business.
A player is paid once. The record of what they were owed is created only if it does not already exist, and each credit closes its own row, so a sweep that runs twice does not pay twice.
The offer is fixed when a tournament opens
Editing the prize pool of a tournament that has already opened does not change what the players in it were promised. This is the same rule as bonuses: a campaign and a granted bonus are different objects.