Template of Custom Tournaments on SpriteClub

This is the first iteration of a tutorial to explain how to format your custom tournaments for SpriteClub.

Step by step basis

The steps are simple:

  1. Copy the below format into your notepad program of choice.
  2. Change the format as needs be, see below for examples and help.
  3. Send the file (the whole .txt file) to a moderator of your choice in DMs and let them handle the rest.

Update (10/25-2023): Rentry didn't allow for tabulators, so a Pastebin has been implemented for each of them where you can copy it with the tabulators.

Base Barebones Setup

First and foremost, here's the base barebones of the custom tournament setup, if you know what you're doing you can re-use this on a tournament-to-tournament basis.

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User:
Size:
Format:
Matchup:
Palettes:
Team names:
Stage:
Shuffle:

Next, lets take a look at the individual parts that make the submission format what it is:

Individual Format Parts

Username

User: [Username] lets you link the tournament to your SpriteClub username, you should change this to be the name you use for SpriteClub. This will show up when the tournament gets ran.
Examples:
User: Snack
User: Devils

Size

Size: [8,16,32,64,128,...] lets you determine the size of your bracket. It must be a power of 2, such as any of the lengths inside the bracket.
Examples:
Size: 8
Size: 32

Format

Format: ["single elimination","double elimination"] lets you determine whether or not the bracket should be using the formatting of a double elimination type.
Examples:
Format: single elimination
Format: double elimination

Matchup

Matchup: ["1v1", "2v1", "2v2", "2-turns", "3-turns", "4-turns"] lets you determine the team styles of matches in the tournament, see characters to see formatting of this.
Examples:
Matchup: 1v1
Matchup: 3-turns
Matchup: 2v1

Palettes

Palettes: ["matchmaking", "lowest matchmaking", "custom"] lets you choose the palettes of the individual characters. Matchmaking will pick any one of the matchmaking palettes available, lowest matchmaking will pick the lowest of the available matchmaking palettes, while custom lets you choose which palettes to use. If you use custom and you want a character to stick to matchmaking palettes, just use -1.
Examples:
Palettes: matchmaking
Palettes: custom

Team Names

Team names: ["enabled","disabled"] lets you determine whether or not to use team names specific to the individual teams, this is good for community tournaments or tournaments with overarching themes of character teams.
Examples:
Team names: disabled
Team names: enabled

Stage

Stage: ["random" or a valid stage name] lets you choose a stage for your tournament. If you don't want a specific stage, leave it as random. Remember the full name of the stage, as shown in the stage view here:
https://mugen.spriteclub.tv/stages
Examples:
Stage: random
Stage: Little Innsmouth
Stage: CH - Canada (by Cenobite 53)

Shuffle

Shuffle: ["enabled", "disabled"] lets you determine whether or not to shuffle/randomize the fights. If left disabled, it will be ran exactly as you put it with the characters, if left enabled, it will be randomized when the tournament gets ran.
Examples:
Shuffle: disabled
Shuffle: enabled

Characters

This is the meat and bones of your submission, here you input every character you wish for your tournament to contain, but please note there's a very specific format for this to function correctly.

First and foremost, if you chose custom for your palettes you need to write palettes immediately after the individual characters.
Second, after you've written the characters and the palettes, if you've chosen enabled for team names you put the team name directly after the last character's palette.

!! IMPORTANT !!
Finally, in-between each character you must use a tabulator, which is the following symbol: . This is a lengthy space also defined as a \t on html. You can procure this type of space by pressing the TAB button on your keyboard, this is the button above your Caps Lock key.

This is different from a regular space, and the bot will NOT accept tournaments that just have regular spaces. If you are unsure, copy the contents of one of the below Pastebins into an Excel sheet, or a Google Sheets sheet.
!! IMPORTANT !!

Here's how an example 8-man list of solo characters without palettes would look:

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Lightning Geese
Test Nanaya
D.Yashiro.Rhythm
God Orochi
Flan-B
Haizilyo
Sula MK
Neo Geo
Thorough Character Example

Here's how an example 8-teams list of 4-turns with custom palettes and team name would look:

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Tharja Yoshikage    -1  Protectos   -1  Lightning Geese -1  Test Nanaya -1  Team 1 name
Brimstone   -1  Perfect Alice   -1  D.Yashiro.Rhythm    -1  God Orochi  -1  Team 2 name
Marisa Kirisame CV  -1  Zero Chan   -1  Flan-B  -1  Haizilyo    -1  Team 3 name
Funny Nanaya    -1  Bowser SMW  -1  Sula MK -1  Neo Geo -1  Team 4 name
Sanae Type M    -1  Seiteiou    -1  Ibuki Beast Max -1  Omegamon    -1  Team 5 name
Dance Master Duane  -1  Darkness Merkava    -1  Kula AC -1  Oly Oly -1  Team 6 name
Fie -1  Order Ky    -1  Mech-Element    -1  Gars    -1  Team 7 name
Himegami Aisa   9   Master Sakura   -1  Dragon Domain Lord  -1  Justice GG1 -1  Team 8 name
Warachia EX -1  A-Okita 7   3rd Astaroth    5   Shiho EX    12  Team 9 name

You can use this example for pretty much everything, just change the characters as you see fit, and the numbers (to fit palettes) or remove the numbers if you do not use custom palettes. Team names likewise can also be removed.

Final Examples

Finally, here are some real usage examples that may help you figure out how exactly you should be running your tournament. There are plenty of examples, so do take what you may need and change it to cater to yours.

8-man 1v1 single elimination with random 5th Division characters

User: Snack
Size: 8
Format: single elimination
Matchup: 1v1
Palettes: matchmaking
Team names: disabled
Stage: random
Shuffle: enabled
Tingle
Think-sama
Blackmore
Nyamo
Chensirou
Crumpmaster MKT
Hawkeye
Zero Redline

https://pastebin.com/raw/Cazv6diz

16-man 1v1 double elimination 12p with random 5th Division characters

User: Snack
Size: 16
Format: double elimination
Matchup: 1v1
Palettes: custom
Team names: disabled
Stage: random
Shuffle: enabled
Pulse-K 12
EB Vegeta   12
Cloud Strife    12
Time Flux Sonic 12
Ayame   12
Mario Mythos    12
Shin Kazuma 12
Sauri   12
Windows 2000 EX 12
Kirakira    12
Nei Terestar    12
Night Gaunt 12
Golgo13 12
Haunted Merasmus    12
Taki    12
Abramy  12

https://pastebin.com/raw/8zbR7jiD

8-man 2v2 single elimination with team names and random 3rd Division characters

User: Snack
Size: 8
Format: single elimination
Matchup: 2v2
Palettes: matchmaking
Team names: enabled
Stage: random
Shuffle: enabled
Valvatorez  My Melody   Team One
NaLkami Shovel Knight   Team Two
Black Ecoco Iseria Queen    Team Three
Galaxy Nanaya   Dark God Ryu    Team Four
SandMarine  Baragon Team Five
Vlade.pl    Lodiac  Team Six
Krillin Relius  Clover XIII Team Seven
Sanae ULiL  Kyo & Iori Rebirth  Team Eight

https://pastebin.com/raw/u6xHWdhK

16-man 3-turns double elimination with team names, palettes and random 2nd Division characters and a specific stage

User: Snack
Size: 16
Format: double elimination
Matchup: 3-turns
Palettes: custom
Team names: enabled
Stage: Touhou MoF: The Waterfall of Nine Heavens
Shuffle: enabled
Synthesized Angel   5   Patchouli Kishinami 7   Synn    6   Team 1
Female Krizalid 6   China Kohaku    8   Big Bandit's Bigger Tank    4   Team 2
Akashi Hibiki   12  Ramina  1   Gohan SV    6   Team 3
Nanoha XP   7   Zero_K  11  Leo_A   11  Team 4
Orochi Yamazaki-HELL    1   Iori-MIX    8   Dark Meta Knight    2   Team 5
S. Sinclair 2   Ox EX   4   Bullton 2   Team 6
Guile Kirby 2   R'lyeh Text-Special 5   Evelyn  3   Team 7
Addict Eyes Tohno   9   EX-F-Meiling    12  Raisen  1   Team 8
Omega Tharja    10  Guts Dozer  11  D0 Mizuchi  9   Team 9
Natsuka Fuou EX 11  Ruputna 11  Death End   9   Team 10
Kumi    2   Kyo-C.KG    4   R-Pepe  8   Team 11
H-Chonshu   7   Kyo-666 1   Huitzititsu 4   Team 12
Mahesvara 2 3   Gundam Bael 3   Omega Inarabbita    6   Team 13
Atmosphere  8   Poltergeist 11  A.I.Y.  2   Team 14
Korokoromushi   9   The epicenter that does not shake   1   Rayquaza EX 6   Team 15
Reimu-K 3   G-Rugal Type B  12  Borgrim 7   Team 16

https://pastebin.com/raw/gJuuVv7P

32-man 1v1 double elimination with lowest matchmaking palettes, random 1st Division characters, a specific stage and no shuffle

User: Snack
Size: 32
Format: double elimination
Matchup: 1v1
Palettes: lowest matchmaking
Team names: disabled
Stage: Fight Club
Shuffle: disabled
Beelzebub
Shelby Cobra
20 Oxlajuj Ak'abal 12
K-Azul
Boueie Defense Systems
Z-Ton
Mermaid Sim Young
System HERA
Gritty Torao
Atomic Suika
D-Tenshi
Qdora
Blind Sage Gloria
Aion & Yaldabaoth
The Suwa Continent
Aika MK
Flandre Scarlet CV
Foolish and mystical little girl
Junko
Mizuchi-HELL
M-Koa
Fortuna Suwako
Index
Berserker Misaki
Boss Mukai
M.A.J
Extreme Dark Akuma
Schnee Blume
Joker Shiki
Boss Krizalid
Mani-Mani KOXA
Luna Himeki Rx

https://pastebin.com/raw/MTdV235i

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Pub: 30 Jul 2022 22:02 UTC
Edit: 24 Oct 2023 23:16 UTC
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