Do I have to set up or award badges myself?

No. Badges are platform-wide and are awarded automatically as soon as a player reaches a milestone, for example a certain number of matches or wins. You don't have to configure anything for it.

What is the difference between a challenge and a ladder challenge?

A club challenge is a club-wide goal with a reward, meant to keep players active. A ladder challenge is something different: there a player challenges another player to a match within a ladder. You can read about that at the ladder in Slams (/kennisbank/ladder-in-slams).

Do players get credits for badges?

Yes. On top of the credits for matches played, every badge earned gives an extra credit bonus. You can read how credits work and what they can be used for at using credits (/kennisbank/credits-gebruiken).

Badges and challenges

Badges are earned automatically after every match, and with club-wide challenges you give your players an extra goal with a real reward.

2 min read · Updated 18 July 2026

Slams has two built-in ways to keep your players active and engaged: badges that players earn automatically, and challenges that let you tie a club-wide goal to a real reward. Together they form the game layer around your competitions and tournaments.

Badges: earned automatically

Badges are platform-wide, so you don't have to set them up yourself. As soon as a result is entered, Slams automatically checks whether a player has earned a new badge. Think of milestones such as:

Matches played: at 1, 10, 50 and 100 matches.
Wins: at 1, 10 and 50 matches won.
Profile complete: bio, photo, playing hand and playing style filled in.

On top of that, every badge earns a credit bonus, in addition to the credits players already receive for matches played. Read more at using credits. Earned badges appear on the player profile and in the Engagement overview of your dashboard, where you'll also find a per-player leaderboard.

Challenges: a club goal with a reward

With challenges you set a temporary goal for your entire club, for example "play 5 matches this month" with a free drink as the reward. You manage them via Challenges in the dashboard. For each challenge you choose:

a condition: matches played, wins, rating improved, unique opponents, beating a higher-ranked player, or manual tracking;
a target number, a reward and a duration with a start and end date;
optionally a link to a specific competition.

Active and expired challenges are listed neatly below one another. You can pause, reactivate or delete a challenge at any time. Choose the Manual tracking condition when you want to decide yourself who reaches the goal.

How they relate to the rating

Badges and credits are separate from the Slams rating: they reward activity and engagement, while the rating purely reflects playing strength. That keeps playing fun for both the die-hard competitor and the player who mainly wants to be on court often. You'll find more per-player figures at player statistics.

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Slams ratings

Updated automatically after every match.

Player engagement

Badges and credits keep players active.

For players

Profile, rating graph and challenges.

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