For Mobile Legends organizers running open qualifiers and campus cups
MLBB fields scale in a way physical sport never does — a Discord post can produce 128 registrations overnight. Tournamyx handles the bracket, the live results and one spectator link, without the screenshot-of-a-screenshot bracket update.
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If any of these sound familiar
We built Tournamyx for mobile legends organizers in exactly this situation.
Field guide — mobile legends organizers
MLBB removes the constraint that shapes every physical tournament: lobbies run in parallel and there is no court count. Thirty-two first-round matches can all start at once, so a round takes as long as one match rather than as long as your venue allows. That is why open qualifiers reach field sizes physical sport never sees.
A single game runs fifteen to twenty minutes, so a best-of-one round is about twenty-five minutes with drafting and lobby setup, a best-of-three is around an hour, and a best-of-five is closer to an hour and three quarters. Sixty-four teams as a best-of-one knockout is sixty-three matches over six rounds — roughly two and a half hours of actual competition if every round starts on time, which is the real reason qualifiers use Bo1 and playoffs use Bo3.
What replaces the court constraint is attention: casters, streams and the patience of teams waiting for their next lobby. A field of 128 is 127 matches over seven rounds, and the binding limit is how long people will stay in a Discord voice channel, not how many games can run at once.
Field size at best-of-one, all lobbies in parallel
| Teams | Matches | Rounds | Rough duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 15 | 4 | ~1h 40m |
| 32 | 31 | 5 | ~2h 5m |
| 64 | 63 | 6 | ~2h 30m |
| 128 | 127 | 7 | ~2h 55m |
The honest part first. Most serious MLBB events — M-series, MPL playoffs, and the campus tournaments modelled on them — run double elimination, and Tournamyx does not run it live yet. It is in development and coming soon. If a lower bracket is essential to an event you are setting up this month, better to read that here than to discover it halfway through.
There is already a free double elimination bracket generator on this site that draws and resolves the full winners and losers bracket in your browser, including the grand final reset. It saves nothing, so it is a drawing tool rather than a way to run the day — for now.
What does run live and suits large MLBB fields is Swiss: teams are paired against others on the same record each round, nobody is eliminated early, and a sixty-four team field is ranked in six rounds of thirty-two matches. It is how most open qualifiers should be run, and it is the standard shape for large fields in every other esport for exactly this reason. A Swiss stage feeding a short knockout is the closest supported equivalent to the format a major uses.
The characteristic failure of a community MLBB tournament is not the bracket, it is the distribution of it. An admin updates a spreadsheet, screenshots it, posts it in Discord, and within an hour four different versions of the bracket are circulating with no way to tell which is current. Every team asks in general chat, and the same admin answers.
Every Tournamyx event publishes one public URL that needs no login and no install. Teams check their own next match on it, spectators follow the bracket, casters take the current state from it, and a result entered by an admin updates it for everyone at once. The screenshot loop disappears entirely.
Roles are per tournament, so several admins can report results from different parts of the bracket without any of them being able to redraw it. Events up to 8 teams are free with no limit on how many you run — enough for a weekly campus cup — and larger qualifiers use a paid plan. For running the event itself, how to run an esports tournament covers registration, check-in and no-show policy in order.
The comparison
Every tournament hits the same five moments. The difference is whether you handle them from a spreadsheet or from one link.
| The moment | The usual way | With Tournamyx |
|---|---|---|
| The schedule | An Excel sheet that lives on one laptop | One link, always current, on every phone |
| Score updates | 47 unread WhatsApp messages on match day | Standings update themselves as scores go in |
| A team drops out | Redraw the bracket by hand, again | Drag, drop — the bracket adjusts on its own |
| “What time is our match?” | Answered forty times, individually | Answered by the link, once |
| After the final | Typos on the printed bracket sponsors saw | A clean recap sponsors actually post |
If the middle column reads like your last event, Tournamyx was built for you.
What it handles
Five places where most tournaments fall apart. None of them will be yours.
01/Scheduling
Enter your teams, groups, and courts. Tournamyx lays the whole schedule out across them, round by round — the job that used to eat your Saturday night.
02/Preview
Walk through every fixture, field assignment, and standing before you publish. Spot the imbalance or the awkward matchup while nobody’s watching.
03/Changes
Thirty minutes before kickoff, someone always cancels. Drag the team out, drop a replacement in — the bracket and the public link adjust on their own.
04/Scoring
The scorer picks the match, types the result, hits save. Standings recalculate, the bracket advances, and the public link shows it — before the teams have left the court.
05/Collaboration
Invite co-scorekeepers with the right permissions and divide the venue between you. Every score lands in the same live standings — no “who has the latest sheet?”
Case study — IIUMRC, Jul 2025
In July 2025, Tournamyx ran the IIUM Robotic Competition — the annual international robotics tournament at IIUM Gombak, where school teams from Malaysia and abroad battle in sumo, robot soccer, and time-rush events. 406 teams across three categories, 755 matches scheduled and scored live, every standing on one public link. If it can run an international robotics championship, it can run your Sunday futsal night.
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Questions
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Weighing up other tools? Here’s a neutral checklist for comparing them.
Yes. You can build a full tournament at scores.tournamyx.com without signing up — Tournamyx creates a guest session, and an account is only required when you publish the event, add an organization, or upgrade. The free generators on tournamyx.com need no account at all.
Tournamyx lets you drag a team out of a running tournament and drop a replacement in. The bracket, the standings, and the public link everyone is checking all update together — no rebuild, no group-chat announcement, and nothing redrawn by hand.
Yes. Tournamyx supports owner, admin, and member roles plus per-tournament scoring permissions, so you can invite co-scorekeepers and have several people scoring at the same time from different courts. Every score lands in the same standings.
Tournamyx places byes automatically, so an organizer never has to work out the bracket padding by hand. Tournamyx seats them on the top seeds, advances those teams straight to round two, and redraws the bracket if the team count changes before kick-off.
Tournamyx supports both. You can seed teams deliberately so the strongest sides meet late, or use the one-click randomiser for a contested draw, and Tournamyx builds the bracket from whichever order you settle on.
Tournamyx ranks group tables on match points and recalculates them on every save. Tie-breaks are applied automatically, and attempt-based events can rank on custom metrics such as fastest time or highest score instead of points.
Yes. Tournamyx exports the full match schedule and blank scoresheets for every field as print-ready PDFs, for referees, judges, and the registration desk. On the Pro plan those PDFs carry your organization logo.
Yes, on every plan including Free. Tournamyx does not limit how many tournaments you run or how many are active at once — the plan limit is on players per tournament, not on the number of tournaments.
Yes, on Pro. Tournamyx shows unlimited sponsors on the public event page and reports click-throughs and audience analytics afterwards, so you have something concrete to send a sponsor after the final.
Tournamyx is used for futsal, football, volleyball, basketball, badminton, pickleball, chess, esports, robotics and STEM competitions, university sport, school sports days, and corporate events. The formats differ from sport to sport; the scheduling and live-scoring engine underneath is the same.