A video game tournament, one match a day

How a tournament runs

A tournament gathers 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 games into a knockout bracket, like the final stage of a world cup. Each match sets two games against each other; whichever gets more votes moves up a round.

Voting opens and closes at midnight UTC. An open match stays open for twenty-four hours, not one more: the next day the result is settled and the following round takes shape. How many matches run per day is set phase by phase: four in the round of sixty-four, one for the final.

You vote once per match. The score can be hidden while voting, shown live, or revealed once you have chosen: that is a setting of the tournament, not a preference.

The game of the month election

Alongside tournaments, AlloGames runs a game of the month election. You rank up to three games among the period’s releases, in order. A first choice weighs more than a third.

The count lands at the stated hour, and nobody sees the results before then. The database itself does not return them. That is not interface politeness: it is a row-level security rule, and it applies to everyone.

The results are kept: each month adds to the last, and the year ends up telling a story.

• A full bracketAll sixty-four entrants are visible before voting opens.
• One vote a dayMatches open and close at midnight UTC, everywhere at the same moment.
• The bracket, liveEvery round shows the scores, the vote counts and the winner’s path.
• Game of the monthA monthly ballot with three ranked choices, counted at a fixed hour.

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