Every tournament organizer knows the drill: you close registration, export the list to Excel and start sorting by hand. Who plays at what level? How do you spread the stronger teams fairly across the groups? With 20 participants you can still manage. With 40 or 50 it becomes a puzzle that eats up an hour and still never quite comes out right.
From now on, Slams handles this automatically. With a single click, the platform generates a complete group assignment based on skill level.
How does it work?
Slams uses a snake-draft algorithm. All registered teams are sorted from strongest to weakest based on their rating. They are then distributed across the groups in a snaking pattern: the strongest team goes to group A, the second to B, the third to C, the fourth back to C, the fifth to B, and so on.
The result: every group has one strong team, two average ones and one weaker team. The average rating per group is almost identical. That produces fairer matches, more tension right up to the end of the group stage and less debate afterwards about the draw.
