Powering Community
Tournaments
Matcherino develops, owns and operates the industry-leading monetization platform for sponsors, game publishers and tournament organizers (TOs) to run more successful, efficient and regulation-compliant gaming events.
- Instant tournament payouts and tax management for global player bases
- Industry leading consumer engagement tools via Matcherino SponsorQuests™ and SponsorOverlay as well as brand ROI capabilities
- Monetization capabilities including fan donations as well as physical and
digital goods sales and distribution - Easy-to-use player registration, ticketing and bracketing systems
- Community and retail location management and analytics
Number of Payouts
300,890
Total Tournaments
77,743
Amount Paid Out
$25,743,664.79
Matcherino Addresses
Customer Needs
Customer Needs
Fans
Need ways to support teams, players, and the games they love. Matcherino lets fans:
- Make Fan donations
- Buy in-game content and other DLC
- Buy merchandise
- Engage with brands to increase prize pools
Gamers
Need more opportunities to play and win prizes. Matcherino provides:
- Faster payouts
- Bigger prizes
- Tax documentation
Organizers
Need better ways to fund tournaments and pay players. Matcherino grants:
- Tools to manage prize pools and payouts
- Ability to sell skins and e-commerce to increase prize pools
- Support for sponsorships to increase prize pools
Publishers
Need to engage existing players and attract new players. Matcherino can:
- Recruit, onboard and manage new organizers
- Provide comprehensive third-party event analytics and insights
- Offer a publisher branded, optimized tournament experience for all third-party events
- Run tournament series or leagues on a publishers behalf
Sponsors
Need an easy way to sponsor events that is engaging and has a quantifiable ROI. Matcherino delivers:
- SponsorQuests™ and SponsorOverlay to let fans contribute through viewership and brand-sponsored actions
- Ability to run your own brand specific tournaments
- Real-time analytics dashboard to monitor your campaigns
Matcherino Event
Functionality
Functionality
Everything needed to run a successful event.
All in one place.
All in one place.
Ticketing
- Advanced and easy to use check-in tools
- Easy Registration for players & fans
- Customizable player & fan info
- Analytics and metrics dashboard
Bracketing
- Bracket Integration with prize pool payouts
- Single, double elimination and Swiss
- Leaderboards and match history
Prize Pool
- PCI and regulatory compliance
- 1099 tax compliant issuance
- Secured payouts based on official results
- Full customer support
E-commerce
- Self-serve e-commerce that can share revenue directly with the prize pool
- Analytics and metrics dashboard
Sponsor Tools
- Drive fan engagement with brand actions using SponsorQuests™
- Place your brand on thousands of events via SponsorOverlay
- Increase prize pools and pay organizers
Matcherino Enables
Gaming Communities
Gaming Communities
For Organizers
Make Events Thrive Financially
- Event sponsorship through SponsorQuests™ and SponsorOverlay allowing your community to boost prize pools without spending
- Simple and transparent prize pool distribution and compliance
- E-commerce that rev-shares to players, the prize pool, charity and the tournament organizer
- Sell DLC to your audience directly from game publishers
- Custom merchandise fulfillment and drop shipping
- Customizable registration and ticketing for players and spectators
ESL Tournaments Case Study
For Publishers
Matcherino specializes in helping publishers like Wizards of the Coast create a vibrant ecosystem of first-party and third-party gaming events giving your fans plenty of opportunity to watch and engage with your content.
- Create a white-labeled grassroots program for tournament organizers
- Recruit, vet and foster event organizers
- Provide organizers a complete end-to-end tournament platform to create successful events around your game
- Distribute prize support to tournaments in fiat and/or game currency
- Real-time, custom-defined analytics into each event, organizer and competitor in the ecosystem
- Help create new online communities or help existing ones grow to increase LTV
Mo Fadl
Director of esports, Wargaming
Now at Bright Star Studios
Now at Bright Star Studios
For Brands
Reach gaming audiences easily and at-scale through our proprietary tournament and stream engagement tools available only to vetted creators.
- Sponsorship tools directly support gaming creators and their communities
- Access advanced and detailed insights to measure campaign success
- Same-day campaign launches with no maintenance cost
- Pay only for actual delivered results
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About Us
Matcherino has empowered gaming creators and their communities since 2015 with free-to-use tournament production and monetization tools. We strive to support growth in grassroots gaming communities by reducing operational overhead and providing bridges to industry.
We work directly with game publishers, brands, gaming organizations and individuals across the world to foster end-to-end ecosystems delivering the greatest tournament experiences possible.
77K+
tournaments powered
300K+
paid winners & over 25 million dollars in prizes
1K+
monthly tournaments & $400K+ monthly prizes
Brands We Have Partnered With
Testimonials
Daigo “The Beast” Umehara
Street Fighter Legend
“Matcherino empowers the Fighting Game Community by helping it increase the prize pool. It’s very American – smart, edgy, and effective.”
Zhi
Twitch, FGC Partnership
“Matcherino is steadily empowering modern FGC tournaments with additional revenue streams, peddling fresh ideas and unique deliverables to stream monsters with an insatiable appetite for hype entertainment on Twitch.”
Byun
2016 ESPN Esports Player of the Year
“The increase in prize money helps fuel the competition which supports the players and community! It’s an amazing platform!”
Daigo “The Beast” Umehara
Street Fighter Legend
“Matcherino empowers the Fighting Game Community by helping it increase the prize pool. It’s very American – smart, edgy, and effective.”
Zhi
Twitch, FGC Partnership
“Matcherino is steadily empowering modern FGC tournaments with additional revenue streams, peddling fresh ideas and unique deliverables to stream monsters with an insatiable appetite for hype entertainment on Twitch.”
Byun
2016 ESPN Esports Player of the Year
“The increase in prize money helps fuel the competition which supports the players and community! It’s an amazing platform!”
In the News
in esports tournaments had 3x longer
lifespan and 3.5x higher spending."