Challonge vs Tourney Bot

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.

Tourney Bot lets communities run and manage tournaments inside a Discord server, keeping tournament activity there rather than relying on external hosting sites. Admins configure an event, publish an entry portal, register participants, start play, and score matches in match threads. Players can use the portal to register, spectate, or leave. Supported formats include single and double elimination, round robin, Swiss, group stages, FFA, and Race. Team tournaments let captains register teams and provide team names and rosters. Admins can create, import, update, and delete tournament templates, and servers can link tournaments to leaderboards to track players competing for first place. A free plan allows three tournaments per month and up to eight participants. Paid plans start at $1.99 per month, with participant limits that vary by tier and reach 512 on White. Documentation points users to email support and a Discord community, while paid tiers list priority support. The terms require users to be at least 13, with minors supervised by a parent or adult.