How do I seed my Apex Legends tournaments?

With Dustup, you can ensure your participants get assigned to the right lobbies based on their seed roles. Seeding works differently based on whether you’re running a scrim or a tournament:

Scrims: Seeds are separated into different lobbies to ensure each lobby is as competitive as possible.
Tournaments: Seeds are evenly distributed across lobbies to ensure the final is as competitive as possible.

Seeding is enabled by default, so if any team captains have a seed role, seeding prioritisation will be applied to the Apex scrim or tournament. You can undo this at any time by assigning a new seed role or removing the seed role.

How does seeding for Apex scrims work?

Run /generate-seed-roles. The roles seed1, seed2, and seed3 will be generated on your server.
Have teams register via Dustup as normal.
Assign the seed roles to the captains of teams as necessary. Your scrim line-up will be automatically updated live as you make role changes, and any users that move into or out of lobbies will receive DMs with updates on their status. See the sections below for specifics of how the seeding logic works for scrims and tournaments.
Once you’re happy with the line-up, you can close check-ins as normal.

You only need to run /generate-seed-roles once. You can use the generated roles for all future tournaments (both scrims and tournaments). If you accidentally delete a seed role, just run /generate-seed-roles again. Seed roles are also persistent, so if any captain has already been assigned a seed role, you don’t need to assign them a role again.

Apex scrims seeding logic

Seed1 is the highest seed (for the best teams). They will be prioritised for the highest lobbies.
Any captains without a role are considered the lowest seed (essentially a “seed4”).
Captains within the same seed role will be prioritised based on registration time.
Give captains higher seed roles to push them to higher lobbies.
Give captains lower seed roles to push them to lower lobbies (or out of the scrim).

Apex scrims seeding example

If you’re running two lobbies with 15x seed1, 15x seed2, and 10x seed3, then the lobby placement would look like:

Lobby A	Lobby B
15x seed1	10x seed2
5x seed2	10x seed3

If you subsequently changed one of the captains’ seed roles from seed3 to seed1, the lobbies would automatically rearrange to:

Lobby A	Lobby B
16x seed1	11x seed2
4x seed2	9x seed3

Apex tournament seeding logic

Captains are prioritised based on their registration time, not their seed role. First come, first served.
As new teams register or you assign new roles, teams will be continuously redistributed across the available lobbies to ensure even lobbies.
Seed1 is the highest seed (for the best teams).
Any captains without a role are considered the lowest seed (essentially a “seed4”).

Apex tournament seeding example

If you’re running a two lobby tournament with 15x seed1, 15x seed2, and 10x seed3, then the lobby placement would look like:

Lobby A	Lobby B
8x seed1	7x seed1
7x seed2	8x seed1
5x seed3	5x seed3

If you subsequently changed one of the captains’ seed roles from seed3 to seed1, the lobbies would automatically rearrange to:

Lobby A	Lobby B
8x seed1	8x seed1
8x seed2	7x seed1
4x seed3	5x seed3