The best way to provide exciting rewards for your community tournaments; Critical Force and Battlefy partner to provide in-game prize support for Critical Ops tournaments.

As a game built explicitly for mobile-multiplayer, Battlefy is thrilled to power Community tournaments for the rapidly growing Critical Ops game, which has over 50,000,000 downloads.

What is the “Community Prizing” program?

Battlefy is now the official (and only) platform where organizers can apply for and receive official prize support directly from Critical Force for their qualified Critical Ops tournaments.

You can create a tournament and apply for prize support on Battlefy right now.

Battlefy has opened a Discord support channel where Critical Ops organizers can join to receive live support for their tournaments. Here is the link to the support channel.

What’s at stake?

Each approved tournament has thousands of credits up for grabs. For tournaments with 32 or more teams there’s a 40,000 credit prize pool, and tournaments with 8–32 teams have a 9,000 credit prize pool.

What are the guidelines for a tournament to be approved and for prizing to be appropriately distributed?

• The tournament must be submitted for approval at least 14 days before the start date.
• The tournament must have at least 8 teams registered.
• The tournament must be competitive and fair with clear winners.
• The organizer of the tournament or the team he/she is a member of, cannot compete in their tournament.
• The tournament must have clear rules and procedures to discourage cheating.
• The tournament must not include or endorse offensive content or behavior.
• Players must ensure they input their correct Critical Ops IGN to ensure they are prized correctly. No recourse will be given for incorrect IGN entry.

Below is how the program works (there is also an FAQ at the bottom of this article):

1. Go to Battlefy and create an account. After, click “organize tournaments” or go to this URL and select Critical Ops from the list of game titles.

2. You will be directed to a page explaining some of the key details of the program. Click “I want free prizing” to continue.

3. For your tournaments to be eligible for prizes, there will be community guidelines you need accept.

4. You will now create your tournament. This is required so we can approve your tournament for prizes.

5. You will be asked to personalize your tournament on Battlefy.

6. After your tournament is setup and customized, submit your tournament for prize approval. Battlefy staff will review your tournament application to confirm that it meets the minimum requirements.

7. After submitting your tournament, you can check the Community Prizing approval status by going to tournament settings through the Manage button

…and into the Prizing section.

In the “prizing” section you can continue to review the status of your application, as well an overview of the community guidelines and requirements to be approved for prizes.

8. Organizers will have their own tournament application portal in which they can review the status of each application.

9. Within 7 days after submission, your tournament will be approved or disapproved for Community Prizing. If approved, you can publish your tournament immediately and start promoting it to players.

10. To publish your tournament after it has been approved, return to your tournament settings and go to PUBLISH, where you’ll want to set your tournament to “Published” and “Public”. Setting it to public will allow players to find it via battlefy.com recommendations.

Once it has been approved, you will notice a blue trophy icon which indicates to players that the tournament has been approved for in-game prizes.

11. Upon tournament completion, you must submit winner info through the Prizing section.

12. Fill out the required player information for prizing to be appropriately distributed to your tournament winners. You can submit up to a maximum of 8 player for each winning team. Once you have successfully submitted your tournament’s information, Battlefy will pass the winner information to Critical Force who will then distribute prizes to the players. Prize distribution typically takes 7–14 days from tournament submission to the time players receive their prizes.

FAQs

Below are a list of commonly asked questions. If you would like to talk to a real person, visit our support channel for Critical Ops organizers here.

How does the program work?

If you want to run a Critical Ops tournament for the community, first create a Battlefy tournament. After you create your tournament, you can apply for in-game prizes provided directly from Critical Force. If your tournament meets the minimum requirements, Battlefy will approve your tournament so you can start marketing it to players.

How does Battlefy work?

We created this tidy little guide just for you!

How will my players interact with Battlefy?

Here is a guide on how players will interact with Battlefy. We encourage you to share this with your community of players to help them learn the system’s functionalities.

What happens if my tournament is not approved?

Battlefy staff will send you an email informing you of the tournament’s rejection. You’ll also be provided a list of the reasons why your tournament is not eligible for prizes. You may edit your tournament and re-apply for prizes at this point.

How much prizing is available for my players?

The amount of prizes available depends on how successful you are as an organizer. If more players compete in your tournament, the prizes will increase. For a full list of prizes, consult our blog post.

What kinds of tournaments can I organize?

Currently, prizes are only available for 5v5 formats. You may use any style of bracket that is provided on the Battlefy site (Single Elim, Double Elim, Swiss, Round Robin).

How will my players receive their prizes?

At the end of your tournament, you will have to submit the winning teams and players to the prize submission page on Battlefy. You can get there by going to Manage, and then Prizing. Once submitted, Battlefy staff will review the submission form and then send it to Critical Force for prize distribution. Expect 7–14 days for prizes to be deposited into a player’s Critical Ops account.

What is Battlefy?

Battlefy is a global esports competition platform used by the largest game developers, brands, teams/influencers, and tournament organizers. Our mission is to help tournament organizers of all sizes run successful events for the esports community.

We have setup a discord support channel for you to ask us questions about the platform. Simply join and type @Battlefy Staff to notify one of us that you need help.