Most gaming communities on Discord run their competition by hand. Somebody posts a sign-up message, somebody else copies names into a spreadsheet, a bracket gets drawn in an image editor, and results arrive as screenshots in a channel nobody can search a week later. Clutchat replaces that with a small set of tools that share one record: the same player identity, the same results and the same ratings, whether a match was played in a server tournament, a clan fight, a duel or a scrim.
This page is the map. Each section below explains one part of the product in a paragraph or two and links to a page that covers it in detail — the commands, the steps an organizer or player takes, and the limits worth knowing before you rely on it.
Tournaments
Run brackets inside Discord without a spreadsheet. An organizer creates a tournament with /tournament-admin create, players register with /tournament register, and a check-in window confirms who actually turned up before the bracket is generated. Clutchat supports single elimination, double elimination, round robin and Swiss. Players report their own results, the other side confirms, and disagreements become disputes an organizer settles with one command. Tournaments can also be put on a recurring schedule so a regular event runs without being rebuilt every time.
Clans
Clans are the long-running teams of a server. Each clan has a captain, optional co-captains and a roster, and can be open to anyone or invite-only. Clans challenge each other to fights, and every reported fight moves both clans on an Elo ladder. On top of that ladder sit achievement badges, clan cups — knockout tournaments where the entrants are whole clans — and optional seasons: if your server turns seasons on, Elo resets each season and the top clans make the podium. Clans also earn clan coins by playing — the daily check-in, fight wins, weekly quests and contracts — and spend them on fixed-price cosmetics such as card themes. Clan coins have no real-world value and can’t be bought, sold or transferred.
1v1 duels
Duels are the quickest competitive format, and they are global across Clutchat rather than a per-server feature: challenge one member, or leave the opponent out and join a queue that matches you with whoever is waiting. Both players report the outcome from their DMs. When the reports agree the result stands and ratings move; when they disagree the duel is disputed and counts for neither player.
Weekly scrims
Scrims are practice matches that count in the scrim standings and nowhere else. An organizer sets a weekly schedule once, the bot opens registration each week, a waitlist catches late sign-ups, and the organizer forms the two squads before the match. Captains report results, and a scrim leaderboard tracks who keeps showing up and winning.
Teams
Teams are put together in Discord, by the bot. A clan is the standing roster of a server, with one captain, optional co-captains and members; players come in with /clan join or through an invite they accept from their DMs, and /clan view shows who is on it. When a tournament takes team entries, the captain runs /tournament register, names the team, picks the teammates and an optional substitute — or enters under the clan’s name — and the team takes its bracket slot once every player on it has accepted. /tournament team handles substitutes, player swaps and pending invites after that, so nobody signs up five times.
Leaderboards, ratings and Clutch Cards
Results only matter if they are kept. Clutchat shows a rating for each game on every public profile on the website, and keeps duel ratings, clan Elo and the server leaderboards inside Discord, and turns a member’s record into a Clutch Card — a generated profile image you can share in a channel. The rankings page explains what each number measures and how it changes.
Bracket maker
Not every bracket needs a server event behind it. The bracket maker on the website turns a pasted list of names into a seeded single-elimination bracket for up to 512 entrants, places the byes, moves winners up as you record results, and gives the bracket a share link, an embed for a page or stream overlay, and SVG, PNG, JSON and CSV exports. You enter the field and the scores yourself, so it suits events run anywhere.
Read about the bracket maker →
Bot commands at a glance
Every Discord feature lives under a small number of slash commands:
/help— a short checklist for players, captains, organizers and admins, then every command by category;/help— every command, grouped by feature;/setup— the server admin’s configuration: channels, roles, games and which features are switched on;/tournament …,/clan …,/duel …and/scrim …— the four competitive formats;/tournament-admin …,/scrim-admin …and/clan-admin …— the organizer and admin tools, hidden from members who cannot use them;/player profile,/player cardand/player logs— a member’s activity, Clutch Card and history in the server;/leaderboard— the server’s rankings.
Purely competitive
Clutchat is a tool for playing and keeping score, and nothing else. Ratings, XP, clan coins and standings exist to show who has been playing well; they cannot be bought, sold or exchanged for anything, and the only way to earn them is to play. Clutchat records who played and who won — what a community does to celebrate a winner is up to its organizers.
Where to go next
- How it works explains how the bot and the website fit together, step by step, for admins and for players.
- The guides are practical walkthroughs: running a sixteen-team bracket, setting up check-in, handling disputes, seeding and weekly scrims.
- Server admins configure the bot from the server dashboard.
- Questions the pages do not answer can go to the Clutchat support server or the FAQ.