What we make
Competitive communities have the same two problems everywhere: getting enough people together at the same time to play, and getting a result to count for anything afterwards. Both usually end up in a chat scroll that nobody can search a week later, with a bracket in a spreadsheet that one person knows how to update.
Clutchat is the tool for both. It has two halves that share one record:
- A Discord bot that runs competition inside a server — tournaments with brackets, check-in, result reporting and disputes; clans with rosters, captains and co-captains, clan fights on an Elo ladder, achievements, clan cups and optional seasons; 1v1 duels with ratings, global across Clutchat; weekly scrims; and server leaderboards.
- This website, where you can browse public tournaments and enter them, make a bracket with the bracket maker, and keep a public profile with a rating for each game you play. Rosters for a team are put together in Discord, and the server leaderboards live there too. Browsing needs no account.
The features overview goes through each part in detail, and how it works explains how a result travels from a match to a leaderboard.
The bot, in commands
Everything in Discord is a slash command, grouped by feature so a member can find what they need by typing a slash:
/help— a short checklist for what you want to do, and every command by category./setup— for server admins: channels, roles and which features are on./tournament …— browse, register, check in, view the bracket, and report and dispute results./clan …— create and join clans, manage the roster, challenge other clans to fights, and follow achievements, cups and — if your server turns them on — seasons./duel …— challenge a member or join the queue, report the result, and look back through your history./scrim …— register for a scrim, see the roster and report results./tournament-admin …,/scrim-admin …and/clan-admin …— for organizers and admins: create and run tournaments, schedule recurring events and scrims, and moderate clans. Discord hides these from members without Manage Server until the owner allows a role in Server Settings → Integrations → Clutchat./player profile,/player cardand/player logs— a member’s record as text, as a shareable Clutch Card image, and as recent activity./leaderboard— the server’s rankings.
Who it’s for
- Players who are tired of asking in chat and want their results to count for something past the match;
- teams and clans that want a persistent roster, a ladder and rivalries worth defending;
- server admins and organizers who want to run a season without becoming full-time bracket administrators.
What Clutchat does not do
Clutchat is about competing, and only about competing. So there are things it deliberately does not do, and will not:
- no real-money play of any kind;
- no betting, wagering or predictions on matches;
- no paid entry to tournaments, scrims or ladders;
- no cash prizes paid through the Service;
- no buying or selling of items, coins, accounts or advantages.
XP, ratings, Elo, clan coins and every other number in Clutchat are game points. They have no real-world value and cannot be exchanged for anything. Clan coins are earned only by playing and spent on fixed-price clan cosmetics; they can’t be bought, sold or transferred. The Terms of Service also forbid organizers from using Clutchat to run paid-entry or cash-prize events.
How Clutchat is funded
The website and the bot are free to use, and there is nothing to buy with money. Advertising shown on this website pays for hosting and development. Ads are served by Google and its partners — we don’t sell your data to advertisers, and what an advertiser says isn’t an endorsement from us. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what advertising cookies do and how to opt out of personalised ads. We do not run ads inside Discord.
Where Discord fits
Clutchat started as a Discord bot, and most competition still happens inside servers. The website is the public side of it: a place to find players and teams without needing an invite to anyone’s server. Discord is one of three ways to sign in — Google and a six-digit email code are the others — and signing in with Discord attaches you to the record the bot already keeps, so nothing you have earned goes missing.
Support
Something broken, a result recorded wrong, or a bracket stuck? The fastest route to the people who run the service is the Clutchat support Discord. The contact page lists what to include so we can help on the first reply, how to report a player or a team, and how to make a data request.
Decisions taken inside a Discord server — results your organizer settled, who is in which clan, local rules — stay with that server’s admins. Anything about this site, the bot, your account or your data comes to us. The community guidelines describe what may be posted.
Add Clutchat to your server
If you run a Discord community, adding the bot takes a couple of clicks: invite Clutchat, run /setup, pick the games your community plays, and open your first bracket. Server settings can also be managed from the server dashboard. The server setup guide walks through the first fifteen minutes, and the Terms of Service set out the rules that apply once you do.