Battle Royale Scrims and Elo Leaderboards on Discord

Setting up your Battle Royale leaderboard

The decisions that are specific to Battle Royale. Everything else follows the general setup guide.

1. 1

   Score the block, not the map

   Set the queue's Match Format to Cumulative over N rounds — five or six maps is the usual scrim block — and set the round label to "Map" so the scoreboard reads the way your players talk. Cumulative is the format the rest of this configuration depends on; on Single Match the per-round scoring options do not appear.

2. 2

   Placement points plus kill points, the way your ruleset already works

   Under Configure Cumulative Scoring, set the per-round mode to Placement Points and enter your placement table. Kills go in as a cumulative stat definition — Kill=1 awards a point per kill, and you get up to five such stats, so damage or revives can count too if your ruleset says they do. This reproduces an ALGS-style points sheet without a spreadsheet.

3. 3

   Decide separately what moves the rating

   Rating Mode (per series) is a distinct axis from the points above, and it fires once at the end of the block. Leave it on Elo Rating to have the ladder measure skill while the points decide the night, or use Elo Rating + Stat Points if you want kills to feed the rating directly. Running points as the standings and Elo as the ladder is the configuration most communities actually want.

4. 4

   Record the placements you genuinely know

   A twenty-team lobby has 190 pairwise comparisons in it and you will not have reliable placements for the bottom half. How many you can record depends on the unit: /record_match elo takes ten places, while /record_match team_alias — the one that takes team names — takes twenty-three, so a full lobby fits if your squads are named rosters. Either way, record only the placements you genuinely know and say publicly that you are doing it. Ten meaningful placements describe the field better than fifty noisy ones, and the bottom of a battle royale field is close to noise by construction.

5. 5

   Rate the teams, or the players, but not both

   For trios with stable rosters, rate the team: the decomposition happens at team level and you skip the attribution problem entirely. For scrims where trios re-form every week, rate the players. What you must not do is record one event as both team results and individual results on the same leaderboard — that moves the same people's ratings twice for one match.