Can I change the size of tournaments if I don’t get enough registrations?

Sometimes it just happens—you don’t get the number of registrations you expected. Don’t worry, Dustup makes it easy for you to drop the size of the tournament at check-in close…as long as you have enough players to play some kind of tournament.

When you close check-ins, if you haven’t met the minimum registrations required for your tournament, the bot will prompt you to resize to a smaller tournament so that you can continue.

Minimum tournament sizes

Here’s some example minimum registrations required for various tournament modes offered by Dustup:

• Other, 16-team bracket: 9 teams (7 byes in first round)
• Other, 8-team bracket: 5 teams (3 byes in first round)
• Other, 32-team group: 24 teams
• Other, 16-team group: 12 teams
• Apex tournaments, 2 lobbies: 20 teams
• Apex tournaments, 1 lobby: 10 teams
• Apex scrims, 2 lobbies: 20 teams
• Apex scrims, 1 lobby: 10 teams

How does resizing work?

As an example, if you set up a 16-team single-elimination bracket, and only 7 teams register by the check-in close time, Dustup will prompt you to resize to a 8-team bracket to continue. After closing check-ins, the 7 teams will be placed in the bracket, with 1 team getting a bye in the first round.

If you don’t reach enough registrations for even the smallest tournament type available in your chosen game mode, you will not be able to run a tournament. For instance, if you’re running an Other (bracket) tournament type, and only get 4 registrations, you will not be able to close check-ins.