Publishing

Publishing makes your tournament visible and opens it for registration. It also locks the settings entrants rely on. Decide these before you publish.

What publishing does

• The tournament becomes visible and open for registration.
• Entry fees and the prize split are locked from this moment.
• The platform fee rate in force at that moment is recorded on the tournament. It does not change afterwards.

Publishing creates nothing else: no matches and no seeding. Those come when each stage starts. Check-in follows the window you set.

What it freezes

After you publish, you can no longer change:

• the entry fee, the fee scope and the organizer fee
• the prize split
• whether registration is on, the tournament's visibility (public or invite-only) and automatic approval of join requests

The lock applies even to free tournaments, so a fee cannot be added later. Entrants join under the terms they saw.

You can still change info and rules (until the tournament is over), the staff list, the schedule windows and chat, screenshot and Epic requirements (until the tournament starts).

What can block publishing

Open the Overview tab. The Before you publish card lists every blocker. Publishing is refused when:

• there are no stages
• you chose a fee per stage but no stage has a fee
• the prize split pays more places than the tournament has slots
• the tournament charges an entry fee but has no valid prize split
• the organizer fee and the platform fee together leave nothing for the prize pool

Publish

1. Open the tournament and review the Overview tab.
2. Click Publish.
3. Confirm in the dialog.

Only the Owner or someone on the tournament's staff list can publish.

After publishing

Registration opens, subject to your registration window. If you made a mistake in a locked setting, you can cancel the tournament (entry fees are refunded) and create a new one. See also Cancel or restore a stage and Delete a tournament.