Tournament Page

The tournament page is the public information page for one tournament. Anyone can open it, even without an account — a guest sees a "Log in to register" button in place of the registration form.

• A tournament can stand alone, or belong to a parent Event. When it belongs to an Event, a "Part of Event" banner near the top links back to the event page.
• If the organizer set a background image on the parent event, that image skins the whole tournament page behind a light or dark overlay.
• The cover photo at the top shows the tournament name and, underneath it, the organizing organization's logo and name.

See Events & Event Pages for how a tournament attaches to an event.

Two kinds of controls sit in the page header: a bookmark button for players, and a set of management buttons visible only to tournament staff.

Bookmark

If you are logged in, an outline bookmark icon sits next to the back arrow. Click it to save the tournament to your favorites; the icon fills in red once saved. This is separate from following an organization (the heart icon on an organization page) — bookmarking saves one tournament, following tracks everything an organization runs.

Staff Buttons

If you are the organizer, a staff member with a role on this tournament, or a platform admin, four buttons appear. On a phone they collapse into a single gear-icon dropdown menu with the same four entries:

For what each of these tools does once you are inside, see the Organizer Guide and the Judge Guide.

A row of small parallelogram badges under the cover photo shows the tournament's current status, its entry fee, and any tags the organizer added.

Status

Draft and Cancelled carry extra context for the people who need it:

• Draft — only the organizer or a platform admin sees a banner reading "This tournament is in draft mode." with a dropdown to switch straight to Published, Registration open, Registration closed, In progress, or Completed, without opening the edit form.
• Cancelled — everyone sees a banner reading "This event has been cancelled." followed by "Registered players have been or will be refunded."

Entry Fee

• A paid tournament shows the amount and currency. If the organizer collects payment off-platform (an external payment such as HelloAsso, cash, or bank transfer), the label they set shows in parentheses next to the amount.
• A tournament with no entry fee shows a "Free" badge, unless it uses an external payment method — in that case no fee badge shows at all, since the platform is not the one taking payment.

Tags

If the organizer added free-form tags to the tournament, they show here as purple chips.

This card lists the practical facts of the event: when, where, what game and format, and how many players it holds.

• Date — Shown converted to your own browser's local time, with the venue's timezone printed underneath so you can double-check. An end date, if set, shows after a dash.
• Location — The venue name, city, and country as text, with the street address underneath when the organizer set one. An online tournament simply shows "Online".
• Game / Format — The trading card game and its format, e.g. "Magic: The Gathering — Modern".
• Team Trio (3v3) — Team Trio tournaments show three seat chips instead of a single-format line, one per seat:
  A: Seat A B: Seat B C: Seat C
  The organizer can relabel each seat (for example "Deck A" / "Deck B" / "Deck C") — the letters always stay in the same order.
• Max Players — The registration cap, when the organizer set one.

• Photos — If this tournament belongs to an Event that has uploaded photos, a "Photos" card shows that event's gallery between the Tournament Details card and the Description. A standalone tournament with no parent event only shows its single cover image at the top of the page.
• Description — The organizer's rich-text write-up of the event.
• Rules — A collapsed card you click to expand, with the tournament-specific rules.
• Prizes — A collapsed card you click to expand, with the prize structure.

Rules and Prizes only appear when the organizer filled them in; an event with neither simply skips those cards.

The Registration card sits in the sidebar and is where players actually take action. What it shows depends on whether registration is open, whether the tournament is full, and whether you are already registered.

Player Count

• With a max player count and remaining-spots display on, a progress bar shows "X / Y players" and either "N spots left" or "Full".
• With a max player count and remaining-spots display off, it just says "Limited spots" or "Full" — no numbers.
• With no max player count set, it shows "N registered".

Before You Register

The entry fee (with any external payment label) and the registration window ("Opens: {date}" / "Closes: {date}") show above the action button. A short privacy notice explains that your display name, scores, and results will be published on this page once you register.

• "Register" — free, open registration.
• "Register & Pay" — paid, open registration.
• "Request Registration" — registration requires organizer approval.
• "Join Waitlist" — the tournament is full but the waitlist has room.
• "Register Team" — Team Trio events send you to the team registration flow instead.
• "Waitlist Full" — disabled, greyed out: even the waitlist has no room left.
• "Log in to register" — shown to visitors who are not signed in.

A paid button also carries a "Secured by Stripe" note underneath it. When registration has not opened yet or has closed, the card simply reads "Registration opens on {date}" or "Registration is closed."

Once You Are Registered

• Registered — with a ticket number underneath ("Ticket: {number}") once one has been assigned.
• Pending — with the note "Awaiting validation by the organizer."
• Waitlisted — with "Position: X / Y" underneath, when a position is known.
• "A spot is available!" — a waitlist offer, with "Offer expires: {date}" and Accept / Decline buttons.
• Offer expired / Offer declined — a past offer you did not act on in time, or turned down.

If your account has more than one player profile, each registered profile gets its own compact block with its own status, and a "Register another player" button appears below them so you can enroll another profile while registration stays open.

While you are enrolled and the tournament is in progress or completed, a purple "Player Portal" button appears — this is your gateway to your pairings, results, and decklist during the event. See the Player Portal page.

Cancelling

Cancelling shows as a small red underlined text link, not a button, and its label and availability depend on your situation — free registration, paid with Cancellation Protection, paid without it, or already enrolled once the tournament has started. The full rules, including refund percentages and what happens to TIX, live on the Registration & Payment page.

Once a tournament is in progress or completed, a full-width button appears above the Registration card:

It leads to the live area, organized into tabs:

• Standings — current rankings by match points and tiebreakers.
• Pairings — the current round's matchups and table numbers.
• Metagame — archetype distribution and win rates.
• Bracket — only for a 1v1 elimination phase, and only once it has generated its first round. Multiplayer top cuts play in pods and do not get a bracket tab; follow them on Pairings instead.
• Results — a star-marked tab that appears once the final elimination phase has at least one completed round, showing the champion and final placements.

A round timer sits in the live header when a round is running — it turns red once under five minutes remain. The page footer reminds you: "Auto-refreshes every 30 seconds." On a phone, a dismissible "Follow this tournament live" banner also offers the App Store or Google Play link for the mobile app.

If this tournament requires a decklist, decklist controls show in two places for a confirmed player: inline inside the Registration card, and again as a standalone "Decklist" card further down the sidebar.

• No decklist yet — an amber "No decklist submitted" notice, the submission deadline if one is set, and a "Submit Decklist" button.
• Decklist submitted — the deck name and card count, with "View" and "Change" actions.

If your decklist is due within the next 7 days, a reminder banner also appears near the top of the whole page, above the cover photo.

For how to build and submit a decklist, see Decklists & Deck Builder.

Two more cards can appear at the bottom of the sidebar:

• Organizer — the organizing organization's logo and name (or the organizer's personal name if the tournament has no organization), linking to its page.
• Links — Website, Discord, Twitter / X, and Twitch links, shown only for the ones the organizer actually set.

Why is there no map for the venue?

The tournament page shows the venue as plain text (name, city, country, address). There is no embedded map on this page.

I don't see a Cancel option — why?

A paid registration without Cancellation Protection has no self-service cancel link; the card tells you to contact the organizer instead. See Registration & Payment for the full refund rules.

Why don't I see the staff buttons?

Judge, Manage, Registrations, and Edit only show to the organizer, a staff member with a role on this tournament, or a platform admin. A regular player never sees them.