This is another feature requested by a lot of our users in our feedback forum: the third-forth place match for bracket tournaments.

So, if you’re organizing a knockout competition and want to assign also the bronze medal, you can do it so easily with Konkuri! From now onwards all bracket tournaments will have by default the third place game. You don’t even need to set it up.

The losing semi-finalists will be placed automatically in the third place match and you will just have to enter the game result.

Just in case you want not to have the match, go to the Draw/results page, click on the “setup tournament” button and choose the option “no” third place, as you can see in the image…

But, would you really take away an occasion for the losing semi-finalists to salvage some pride? ;-)

Have fun!

Konkuri introduces the concept of “following” a tournament. When you find a tournament that you would like to get updates on about results, messages and comments, click on the “follow” button next to the name.

In your home page, you will have the stream of all the tournaments you are following. This allows you to keep track of the competitions you’re interesed in without having to visit every single tournament. Of course, you can decide to “unfollow” a tournament at any time. Konkuri won’t send a notification when you unfollow.

If you’re a tournament administrator, this is a great tool to let your audience be informed on the competition updates and/or to promote your tournament externally to help spread the word to new spectators and fans.

Effective communication between the organizer and the participants, as well as simple trash talking between friends, is a key aspect of a tournament’s life. That’s why Konkuri has developed a much more advanced way to create and follow the conversation inside the competition.

First of all, not only the tournament’s administrator but also followers and registered users will be able to write messages on the dashboard. The form to add a message has become a single text area which is immediately available. If you want to create a title, just press return after the first line.

And here we go: your message will be published in the dashboard. You can also share your post on Facebook or Twitter, if you want.

When you post content on the dashboard, other users will be able to comment on it. You can also comment on matches and on live results. You will receive e-mail notifications when someone adds a comment on a post you’written or on a conversation where you’ve added a comment.

Then, since a tournament discussions can get pretty hot, we’ve created some tools to let the administrator have full control on the conversation and publish only appropriate content. The tournament administrator will be able to:

• delete any content at any time
• pre-moderate comments before publishing
• block users from writing on the dashboard
• set specific discussion permissions to the different users: followers, registered Konkuri users, anonymous users

It’s finally online the most voted feature request in our forum: starting from today you can create and manage Groups/Playoffs tournaments!

It’s the exciting multi-stage competition used by the FIFA World Cup, the Volleyball World Cup and many others.

In Konkuri managing this system is simple and intuitive. As you click on the “Create tournament” button, Konkuri will automatically suggest the group splitting that fits best your competitors number. Then you can add or delete groups, change the participants number for each group, drag and drop participants between groups, and so on.

You can also allocate the full schedule of pairings across the bracket before the start of the tournament For instance, you can make the winner of group A play against the runner-up of group D.

And, as the tournament starts to hot up, Konkuri will place automatically the qualifiers of each group (and eventual repechages) in the brackets, to let you start the final stage.

As usual, with Konkuri is easier to do things than to describe them. Try to believe!