Challonge vs Etournity

Challonge is competition management software for organizers handling registration, tournament progress, and records. It offers more than 25 formats, including single and double elimination, round robin, Swiss, and Grand Prix. Tournament pages can bring together brackets, participants, standings, sponsor details, stations, discussions, and score reporting. Event tools cover paid or unpaid tickets, registration fees, analytics, and attendee check-in; communities can host tournaments, events, contests, announcements, statistics, and Elo leaderboards. Applications can use its API to create tournaments and report scores. Paid registration runs through Stripe. The free Standard plan supports unlimited tournaments, events, and communities, up to 256 participants per tournament, and charges a $0.75 per-order Challonge fee on paid registrations. Premier is $83.88 a year, billed annually, and supports up to 512 participants, with no Challonge registration fee. Both plans limit single-stage Round Robin tournaments to 40 participants. Brackets can be embedded on websites; Premier adds custom themes and priority support. Challonge is available on web and through an API.

Etournity is a free, open-source web platform for running online tournaments. Organizers use its Host Hub for tournament control, player management, bracket generation, and player-support tools. The Match Lobby guides players through a check-in timer, lobby-code exchange, and score submission with automatic comparison. Players can send issues to the organizer and moderator dashboard, while tournament information stays together on the platform rather than across spreadsheets. The service provides bracket-based competition and currently lists Brawlhalla 1v1 single-elimination tournaments as its supported format. Players are guided through the event in one place, with dark mode available. Tournament listings include an All Tournaments view and a Create option. Sign-in is available through Discord, and Discord login is required to create a tournament. Etournity is labeled a public alpha, so features may be unpolished or break. The team invites feedback through Discord and says new features follow user feedback.