My time is up for “early next week at the latest” so I’ll show you guys where we are.

Visit http://staging.challonge.com to try out our two-stage tournaments. You’ll need to register a staging account if you haven’t already.

Please be aware, bugs or quirks are still likely at this point. For instance, tie-breaks in groups can’t be customized or manually overridden, so it’s possible you’ll disagree with the participants we show as “Set to Advance” — the only workaround right now is to edit match scores to get the results you want.

Thanks for trying this out, and we greatly appreciate your feedback as we refine this feature. Our aim was to make a group stage system that isn’t a major hassle to work with (e.g. you don’t have to predefine the number of groups).

Sorry this has taken ages. Just a couple more small tasks and we’ll have this up for beta testing on our staging site. The group stage will initially be limited to round robins.

I’ll post a link when ready. Early next week at the latest. Thanks!

won’t be able to get to this immediately, but planning on tackling this feature due to demand