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Tournament Manager

Tournament Manager

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Release Date	16 November 2023
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The Splatoon 3 Tournament Manager is a feature of Splatoon 3 that is available through SplatNet 3 and a dedicated website. It enables the creation of private tournaments using the Private Battle mode and links both the Splatoon 3 game and the SplatNet 3 service together to help players create and manage tournaments on demand.^[1]

The feature was announced through a July 2023 update to an article on the Splatoon 3 website that was originally posted on 10 August 2022 and released on 16 November 2023.

It can be found by clicking the yellow Tournament Manager button on the home screen of Splatnet 3

Features

Tournament Creation

When creating a tournament, players can customise almost any aspect of gameplay to create a completely unique tournament.

Basic Information

One of the required sections in Tournament Manager is the basic information section. This section asks for things such as:

Tournament Name - This is the name of your Tournament. It can be up to 32 characters long and must comply with the Community Tournament Guidelines.
Tournament Icon - Select one icon from a selection of ten.
Date and Time - This is when you will be able to start your tournament. Once ready, you can press the start tournament button under navigation. Alternatively, you can start a tournament before its scheduled start time by pressing "Starting a tournament before the scheduled start time.". Depending on your format and amount of teams, the end time will vary.
Registration Window - This is the period of time where registrations are accepted. The registration window can end any time before the toutnament starts.
Tournament Format - There are three types of format: League, Elimination format and Swiss-Style tournament. More info can be found below.
Participating-Team Limit - This is the maximum amount of teams allowed to partake in your tournament. For league tournaments, the amount of teams ranges from 2 - 10. For Swiss-Style tournaments, the limit ranges from 2 - 512. For Elimination tournaments with preliminaries off, the limit ranges from 2 - 512 hovever with preliminaries on, it ranges from 8 - 512.

Battle Settings

This is the second required section in Tournament Manager. It asks for things such as:

Victory Conditions - The amount of battles required to decide one match.
Modes and stages:
- Mode - Chose between Turf War, Splat Zones, Tower Control, Rainmaker and Clam Blitz to be played in your tournament.
- Stages - Chose between having a pool of all available stages for your tournament or chosing select stages.
  - Prevent Stage reuse - This option removes a stage from the pool of available stages once it has been played in your tournament
Semifinal settings:
- If your tournament format is Elimination or Swiss-Style (with Playoffs on) then you can set semifinal settings.
- Victory conditions - In a semifinal, you can make your victory conditiona range from a single battle to a best of 19 set.
Final settings:
- If your tournament format is Elimination or Swiss-Style (with Playoffs on) then you can set Final settings.
- Victory conditions - In a semifinal, you can make your victory conditiona range from a single battle to a best of 19 set.

Other Settings

This is an optional section to fill out when creating a tournament in Tournament Manager. This section asks for things like:

Abilities:
- Primary Gear Abilities Only - This option when toggled only allows players to use thier primary gear abilities and not secondary abilities.
Team format - This is the amount of players on each team. You can chose from: 1 vs. 1, 2 vs. 2, 3 vs. 3 and 4 vs. 4
Number of Players Per Team - This is how many players will be on each team. The options change depending on what format you have chosen. For example:
- If the chosen team format is 1 vs. 1, the available players per team range from 1 - 3.
- If the chosen team format is 2 vs. 2, the available players per team range from 2 - 4.
- If the chosen team format is 3 vs. 3, the available players per team range from 3 - 5.
- If the chosen team format is 4 vs. 4, the available players per team range from 4 - 6.
Invited-Teams Window - This setting allows you to make a seperate registration window for teams you have invited to the tournament. This will prioritise these teams over others.
Special Tournament Rules - This option (if checked) will mark your tournament as having "Special rules" that can't be enforced by Tournament Manager. These rules should be stated on a public sitesuch as a tournament website or social media.

Tournament Formats

In Tournament Manager, there are three formats: League, Elimination ans Swiss-Style.

League

A type of tournament in which teams play each other in turn.
The order will be determined by the following rules:
- Matches Won > Battles Won > Battles Lost > Head-to-Head Matchup > Registration Date (Entry Number)

Elimination tournament

A type of tournament in which the teams that win get to keep playing.
In elimination tournaments, you can turn preliminary rounds off or on.
- Preliminaries Off If there are no preliminaries, all teams will participate in the full bracket.
- Preliminaries On If preliminaries are enabled, all teams will be divided into groups of three or four for preliminary rounds. Only top-ranked teams will advance to the final bracket. If there are fewer than six participating teams, preliminaries will be disabled by default.
Number of Teams per Group
- This setting is only available when preliminary rounds are enabled.
- You can set the number of teams in a preliminary group.
- If the number of participating teams cannot be divided by the number of teams per group, the number of teams per group will be revised automatically.
Number of Teams Advancing
- This setting is only available when preliminary rounds are enabled.
- You can set how many teams will advance to the main tournament from the preliminary round.
- You can select either one or two teams.
By Division
- You can split a tournament bracket into multiple divisions.
- After the participating teams are confirmed, you can set up divisions by editing the bracket.

Swiss-Style Tournament

Swiss-style is a format where teams with similar win-loss records battle each other. All teams play until the end of the tournament.
Round 1 opponents are determined randomly.
Rankings are decided by comparing factors according to the following priority:
- Points > OMW% > GW% > OGW% > # (entry number)
Results are displayed on Swiss-Style Rankings, which update at the end of each round.
In Swiss-style tournaments, you can turn playoffs on or off. Playoffs are a deciding tournament that only the top teams in the Rankings participate in.
- Playoffs Off
  - The winning team is decided based on the Swiss-Style Rankings.
- Playoffs On
  - The winning team is decided in playoffs after the Swiss-style tournament.
  - The director can specify how many teams advance to the playoffs.

Gallery

Promotional

Rewards available from using the Tournament Manager. Participants get a food ticket, and organizers can earn badges.
An example of a Tournament Image shown when creating one
A help image that is shown at the top of Tournament Manager
Official image highlighting the Tournament Manager button on the Splatnet 3 home screen