acct runs a card competition as a tournament. Members enter their cards, Keqing seeds a single-elimination bracket, and every round posts all of its duels at once, each as an image and a Discord poll. When a round's polls close, the next round goes up by itself, until one card is left.

#Before the first one

Tournaments use the same Host role and poll length as card competitions, both set on the Card competitions page of the dashboard. Only members with the host role can create or run a tournament. Anyone can check on one with acct status.

Card competitions

Who can start a comparison, how long its poll runs, and what it looks like.

Card Competition

Host role

Members with this role can start a comparison. Until one is set, nobody can.

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itsdeiToday at 21:03

acardcomp 1v1

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KeqingAPPToday at 21:03

Set a host role

An admin needs to choose a Card Competition host role before anyone can start a poll.

Poll length

How long a comparison poll stays open, 1 to 768 hours.

hours

KeqingAPPToday at 21:03

Keqing vs Raiden Shogun

Select one answer

• Card 1 · demo123
• Card 2 · demo456

0 votes · 1d left

Canvas background

Upload an image for the whole comparison canvas, or keep Keqing’s default.

Drop your canvas image here

JPG, PNG or WebP · Up to 5 MB

Choose image

Use an image link instead

Your image fills the canvas behind the cards.

Keqing’s default

Everything is saved.

Save changes

Open your dashboard

#Usage

1. Open registration

   Run acct create in the channel where people should enter. Add a size, a poll length and a channel for the duels if you want them, for example acct create 16 6h #card-comp. Without them, it takes 16 cards and uses the dashboard's poll length.

2. Enter cards

   Members run kci <code> in that channel. Keqing adds each card it sees and reacts with ✅. Each owner can enter one card, and a card can only be entered once.

3. Start

   Press Start on the registration message, or run acct start. You need at least 3 cards. Keqing shuffles them into a bracket and posts round one.

4. Vote

   Each round gets a message with the bracket and a thread holding its duels. Members vote in the polls. When the last poll of a round closes, the next round starts.

Sizes run from 3 to 32 cards. A bracket that isn't full gives some first-round cards a bye, so they go straight to round two.

#Running it

• acct status
  • Shows the bracket and how each duel of this round stands. Anyone can use it.
• acct end
  • Closes this round's polls now, so you don't have to wait for the poll length.
• acct pick <code>
  • Sends that card through its current duel. Use it when a poll ends in a tie, or to settle a duel yourself.
• acct remove <code>
  • Takes a card out while registration is open.
• acct open
  • Takes cards again after registration closed, for example after Keqing restarted.
• acct cancel
  • Stops the tournament. Polls already posted stay up but no longer count.

If a poll ends in a tie, or its message was deleted, Keqing pings the host to pick the winner. acct, acardtournament and atournament all work.

#The bracket on the web

Every tournament has its own page on keqingbot.com. The round messages and acct status carry an Open bracket button.

• keqingbot.com/cardcomp/<id> shows the server, host and settings, the duels still open with a link to vote on each, the champion and top four once it's over, and every card that entered.
• keqingbot.com/cardcomp/<id>/bracket shows the whole bracket. On a phone it scrolls sideways, and the rounds you've scrolled past fold away so the one you're reading stays close together.

#Card images

Keqing keeps its own copy of each card's image while the tournament runs, because the image in Karuta's message stops loading after about a day. The copies are deleted when the tournament ends or is canceled.

On a premium server, duels use the Canvas background from the dashboard, the same as card competitions.