start.gg
start.gg, formerly known as smash.gg, is a website that provides tournament organizing tools for event organizers within the esports community. The website was launched in 2015 and features the ability to host registration, form a bracket, and create rankings amongst other things. While the website initially only supported games within the Super Smash Bros. series, it has since then expanded to a plethora of other games with competitive scenes, eventually leading to its rebranding to "start.gg" on May 16th, 2022 to represent this expansion.[1] As of 2020, it has seemingly become the most widely used software for organizing tournaments, surpassing earlier alternatives such as Challonge.
The website was acquired by Microsoft on December 2nd, 2020 following a continued history of collaboration between the two.[2]
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Logo from 2015-2022.
