Slot tournaments with leaderboards
Pick the games, the dates and the prizes; the platform starts the tournament, scores every qualifying bet, closes it on time and pays the winners — with rules that keep a prize from going to the wrong kind of play.
What does a tournament consist of?
A title and description in each language, a cover image, start and end times, a list of at least one game, and at least one prize for a place on the leaderboard, set in US dollars. Three scoring settings decide what counts.
A tournament can be saved as a draft and published later. Once it is scheduled, nothing else needs doing until it is over.
- Minimum counted bet
- Rounds with a smaller bet are ignored, so a leaderboard cannot be climbed with thousands of minimum-stake spins.
- Points multiplier
- Points are the bet times the multiplier — 100 by default — which turns dollar amounts into whole numbers a player can read at a glance.
- Minimum prize points
- The least a player must score to receive a prize — 10,000 by default — so a thinly played tournament does not pay out for almost nothing.
How are tournament points scored?
Every real-money round on one of the tournament's games, placed between its start and end and at or above the minimum bet, adds its bet times the multiplier to the player's score. Bonus-balance rounds do not count.
Scoring on bet size rather than on wins is deliberate. A leaderboard based on the biggest win rewards luck on a single spin; one based on turnover rewards the players who play most, which is the behaviour a tournament is run to encourage. The multiplier changes the look of the numbers, not the ranking.
Excluding bonus money follows the same logic as the bonus system and the VIP programme: a tournament prize is real money, and letting promotional funds compete for it would pay out cash for playing with the house's stake.
Points are recalculated every five minutes, and an administrator can recalculate on demand. The leaderboard the player sees follows those recalculations.
How are prizes paid?
Automatically when the tournament finishes. Each prize goes to the player holding that place, provided they reached the minimum prize points, and is credited to their real balance in their wallet currency, with no wagering requirement.
Prizes are set in US dollars and converted at the current rate for a player whose wallet runs in another currency. They are recorded in the ledger as a promotional expense, so tournament spending appears in the same promotional cost line as bonuses rather than disappearing into a manual adjustment.
Each payout carries a key made of the tournament, the place and the player. If a payout is retried — after a restart, say — the ledger recognises the key and does not pay twice. That is the property that matters most for a job that moves money unattended.
If the player in a prize place did not reach the minimum points, that prize is not paid. The rule is shown to players on the tournament page, so it is not a surprise at the end.
What runs automatically, and what can staff do by hand?
Every five minutes the platform starts tournaments whose start time has come, recalculates points, and closes and pays out tournaments that have ended. Staff can also start, recalculate, finish and cancel a tournament manually.
A tournament moves through draft, scheduled, running and then finished or cancelled. Finishing early closes the leaderboard and pays prizes on the standings at that moment. Cancelling ends it without payouts, and a cancelled tournament cannot then be finished — so a mistaken cancel cannot be followed by an accidental payout.
Automation is the point. A tournament that needs someone to remember to close it at midnight on a Sunday is a tournament that eventually pays late, and late prizes cost more in support tickets and trust than the prizes themselves.
What does the player see?
A tournaments page with a card for each active tournament — cover, prize pool, time remaining — and a details view with the leaderboard, the games, the prizes and the rules, including the minimum points for a prize.
Tournaments can also be placed in the casino lobby as a block between game categories, promoted with a banner or a promotion card, announced with an on-site notification to a segment of players, and sent to the whole audience as a Telegram broadcast. The tournaments section can be switched off entirely in the site layout if a brand does not run them.
In the Telegram Mini App the page and the leaderboard are the same, on the same account, so a player can score in the browser and check their place in Telegram.
How should you set up a tournament?
Choose games your players already play, set the minimum bet near your typical stake rather than at the lowest possible, and size the prize pool as a known cost — it is the maximum the tournament can spend.
A few practical points from how the settings interact. A minimum bet that is too low lets a player farm points with tiny stakes; one that is too high shuts out most of your audience. A minimum prize points threshold protects a new brand whose first tournaments are thinly attended. And a single-game tournament is easier to explain and to promote than one across a dozen titles, while a provider-wide tournament suits a brand with a studio its players love — the full list is on game providers.
The real cost of a tournament is the prize pool plus nothing else, because the scoring rewards bets that would carry the house edge anyway. That makes it easier to budget than a percentage bonus, whose cost depends on how many players take it.
Who can create and change tournaments?
Staff with the tournaments permission, which comes in two levels: view, and manage. Managing covers creating, editing, starting, recalculating, finishing and cancelling.
How permissions work across the back office, and what is recorded when staff act, is on security. Everything else an operator runs day to day is on the back office page.
The tournaments page
Three active tournaments on the demo deployment, each with its prize pool and a countdown to the end.
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Tournament questions
Do bonus bets count in tournaments?
No. Only rounds played from the real balance on the tournament's games, within its dates and at or above its minimum bet, are scored.
Are tournament prizes subject to wagering?
No. Prizes are credited to the winner's real balance, in their wallet currency, and can be withdrawn like any other real money.
Does someone have to close the tournament and pay the winners?
No. The platform checks every five minutes, starts and closes tournaments on schedule and pays the prizes itself. Staff can still finish or cancel one by hand.
What if the player in first place scored very little?
A prize is paid only if the player holding the place reached the minimum prize points, 10,000 by default. Otherwise that prize is not paid.
Can a tournament cover several games?
Yes. A tournament has a list of games, at least one, and an administrator can add a single title or a provider's games.
Can a prize be paid twice by mistake?
No. Each payout is keyed to the tournament, the place and the player, and the ledger refuses a second payment with the same key.
Run a tournament on a live deployment
We will set one up with you in the admin panel on a call, from the games and prizes to the leaderboard the player sees.