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The Leaderboards and Tournaments Service enables you to easily create in-game events to boost user engagement and retention. You create, manage, and monitor competitions through the self-service Leaderboards and Tournaments Console, and your developers integrate the various Leaderboards and Tournaments APIs to create Leaderboards and Tournaments tournaments.

The Leaderboards and Tournaments Console is an easy-to-use, intuitive interface you use to manage competitions. From the Leaderboards and Tournaments console, you can create individual and team competitions, determine who can participate, assign prizes, and end competitions. Use the Leaderboards and Tournaments Console to easily schedule recurring leaderboards and competitions.

Major Leaderboards and Tournaments Components

The major components of the Leaderboards and Tournaments service include:

Leaderboards and Tournaments Console: Use the Leaderboards and Tournaments Console to perform Admin Tasks, for example to create and manage Leaderboards and Tournaments competitions.

Admin API: The Admin API provides programmatic access to the same capabilities as the Leaderboards and Tournaments Console. For details about the Admin API, see the Admin API reference.

Game API: Your developers will use the Game API to integrate Leaderboards and Tournaments competitions into your games.

Tournament Organizer Twitch Extension: Tournament Organizer is a Twitch extension that enables Twitch streamers to create Leaderboards and Tournaments tournaments for their games.

Integration Prerequisites

Before your developers can start to add Leaderboards and Tournaments integration into a game, use the Leaderboards and Tournaments Console to perform the following management tasks:

  1. Register the game
  2. Link your AWS account to the game
  3. Create a tournament

To complete these tasks, see Tournament Admin Setup for the detailed steps.

Learn About Leaderboards and Tournaments

To learn about all the different Leaderboards and Tournaments features, see Leaderboards and Tournaments Introduction and Feature Descriptions.