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Hosting scrims and tournaments
Guides for the people running competitive events: slot lists, room details, points tables, group draws, and the rules around them.
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Free Fire points system explained: placement, kills and tiebreakers
The Free Fire placement table (12 for a Booyah down to 1), how kill points stack on it, and a worked example of two teams level on 30 points.
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How to run scrims from your Discord server: bot setup to results
Add the bot, connect it to your organization, bind a channel, and let announcements, one-tap registration and room reveals run themselves.
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Quotient alternative: run scrims from the web, not Discord
Quotient's code has been frozen since 2024 and its site is gone. Finalist is a web-first alternative: hosts manage on web, players join anywhere.
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Entry fees, prize money, and the 2025 gaming Act
India's 2025 online gaming law separates e-sports from online money games. Where the line sits, and the design decision we made because of it.
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Running a daily scrim without burning out
Daily scrims die from host fatigue, not from lack of teams. What to automate, what to keep doing by hand, and how to take a week off.
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How to draw tournament groups nobody calls rigged
Group rotations for 32 teams, the divisibility rule that stops a group sitting out, and why the qualification cut decides how the draw is judged.
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Hosting scrims from a Google Form: what breaks
Forms, WhatsApp and a pinned message get you to about twenty slots. Here is the exact point each one fails, and what has to replace it.
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How room ID leaks actually happen
Lobby crashing is almost never a hack. Four boring distribution mistakes cause it, and each one has a fix you can apply tonight.
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BGMI points table explained, with tiebreakers
The official BGMI placement table, how kill points stack on it, and the tiebreak chain that decides two teams sitting level on 38 points.