From 1v1 Concept to Full Tournament System

ExamGiant’s head-to-head matches started as a simple idea: let two students compete on the same academic challenge at the same time.

Since then, that idea has grown into something much larger. We have been building the foundation for a fuller academic tournament system, including public 1v1 tournament pages, flight registration, scheduled rounds, player pairings, match-room links, crosstables, and standings.

This matters because a good academic competition needs more than a “play now” button. It needs structure. Students need to know when they are playing, who they are paired with, how results are tracked, and where they stand as the event progresses.

We also added staged head-to-head tournaments. That means a large event can be broken into qualifying stages, flights, advancement rules, and eventually finals. This gives ExamGiant room to support classroom events, school-wide tournaments, district competitions, and larger online events.

Teachers now have a path to create 1v1 class events with either class-only access or event-code access. Admins also have tools for creating flighted Swiss-style head-to-head tournaments.

This is one of the biggest steps toward making ExamGiant feel less like a set of practice games and more like a real academic competition platform.

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