Creating and running a tournament

A NEMIX tournament always goes through the same phases: configure, open registrations, start, play the matches, close. Here is each phase with what you need to get through it, from the dashboard or by command.

1. Create the tournament

After !setupticket the server is ready but the tournament still has to be created. A server can hold several tournaments at once: they stay isolated, with separate teams, lobbies and standings.

With several tournaments active, !tornei lists them and !selezionatorneo picks the one subsequent commands act on.

2. Choose the mode

The mode determines how points are calculated and how many teams fit in a lobby. Pick it before starting the tournament: once started it can no longer be changed.

How scoring differs between modes is explained in the scoring system page.

3. Set the format

The format is the pair total matches and matches that count. With 5 total and 4 counting, each team plays five matches and the four best go into the standings: the worst one is dropped.

4. Open and close registrations

With registrations open, the button in the #crea-ticket channel is active and teams register themselves. The registration flow is detailed in its own page.

5. Form the lobbies

Once teams are in, they need to be distributed across lobbies. NEMIX assigns them automatically; balancing by average KD is optional and serves to avoid lopsided lobbies.

If a team ends up in the wrong lobby, move it with !spostalobby without redoing the balancing.

6. Start the tournament

Starting closes registrations and activates the lobby channels and team communications. From this point the mode can no longer be changed.

7. Send out match codes

Each lobby needs the custom match code. Instead of pasting it into every ticket by hand, you send it to the whole lobby at once.

8. While the tournament runs

While matches are being played you record results and the standings update on their own. If you need to stop everything, the tournament can be paused and resumed without losing anything.

• !pausatorneo and !riprenditorneo to suspend and resume.
• !cancellagamelobby cancels a match for the whole lobby, useful after a server issue.
• !bonus and !penalizza apply point corrections with the reason recorded in the history.
• !sync realigns tickets, categories and embeds if something has drifted.

9. Close the tournament

At the end, !terminatorneo closes the tournament while keeping data and standings available. If instead you want to start over on the same tournament, !reset clears everything, and with the keepteams option it keeps the already registered teams.