How beer pong works

An overview of the tournament system: team, registration, matches, standings.

Beer pong tournaments are announced by organizers for a given event: an event can have at most one tournament. Participants register as teams, the matches are played on site, and the organizer records the results in the panel.

The process

1. You create a team or join an existing one.
2. You register for the tournament while the organizer keeps registration open, and choose who plays from the team.
3. On site, the organizer checks in the teams that showed up, in the panel.
4. The organizer starts the tournament, and the system draws the matches of the first round.
5. You play, the organizer records the results, and the standings update automatically.

Tournament formats

• Group: the teams are placed into groups and everyone plays everyone in their group. There is no knockout stage, the standings decide at the end.
• Knockout: one loss and you're out. With an odd number of teams, a randomly chosen team advances with a bye.
• Combined: first a group stage, then the top two teams of each group go to the knockout stage.

The organizer decides which format it is, and it is shown on the tournament page. The how a tournament runs article describes in detail what happens in each stage.

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