How it works
A leaderboard turns a run of tournaments into one season-long table. It explains how a result becomes points, why the same finish can be worth different amounts, and how to check your own total.
What a leaderboard is, and what it is for.
A leaderboard is a season-long table that runs across several tournaments. Each tournament pays points, the points add up, and the table ranks everyone who played.
One tournament crowns a winner on the night. A leaderboard answers a bigger question: who has been the best across a whole run of them.
The page running the leaderboard does. They choose which scoring rules apply and what each one is worth, and they attach the tournaments that count.
Kapeesa does not decide any of it, and none of it is hidden. Every rule in force is published on the leaderboard's own rules page.
Most leaderboards rank anyone who plays an attached tournament. Some restrict it to a roster the organiser keeps, or to players from particular countries.
A leaderboard can also ask for a minimum number of events before you are fully ranked. Below that you still appear, marked provisional, so one lucky result does not outrank a season of steady finishes.
The path from a result on the night to a number in the table.
When a tournament finishes, every rule the organiser switched on is applied to your result. Some add points for finishing well, others for goals, clean sheets, beating a higher seed, or simply turning up. A few take points away, for forfeiting or not appearing.
Added together, that is what the event paid you before any scaling.
Each attached tournament is given a tier, and each tier carries a weight. A Major counts double, an Open counts once. That is what makes winning the season finale worth more than winning a Tuesday qualifier.
Not every rule is scaled. Rules marked Scales with tier are multiplied by the weight. The rest pay the same everywhere, because turning up is turning up whichever night it was.
A leaderboard can only count tournaments run by its own page, unless the organiser of another page grants access. They can share a single event or everything they run for that game.
Once a shared event is attached to a leaderboard it stays there permanently. The organiser can stop further events being added, but the ones already counting keep counting — a season is something players enter and plan around for months, and pulling results out of it partway through would take points from them rather than from anyone else.
An organiser can give one event rules of its own, such as a bigger placement table for a final. When they do, the event carries a Custom rules mark wherever it appears, and you can open it to see exactly what changed.
Season-wide settings such as decay and best-of selection always stay circuit-wide, because they describe the season rather than one night of it.
Your total is not always the sum of everything you earned. This is why.
Many leaderboards count only a player's best few events, for example the best four of however many they played. One bad night then does not follow you all season, and someone who can attend everything does not automatically beat someone who cannot.
Events that miss the cut still show in your breakdown, marked as not counting.
Some leaderboards let points fade with age, so the table reflects current form rather than something won a year ago. A result keeps a share of its value each period, and never drops below a floor the organiser sets.
A per-event cap limits how much any one tournament can contribute, so no single result can decide a whole season. If a cap applies, your breakdown shows the amount before and after it.
When two players finish on the same total, the leaderboard settles it with tie-breakers in a fixed order: usually titles won first, then podium finishes, then best single result. That order is published with the rules, so it is never decided after the fact.
Everything is auditable. Here is where to look.
Open any leaderboard and select a player to see every event they scored in, and inside each event, every rule that paid and what it paid. If a result was faded, capped or dropped, the breakdown says so and by how much.
A tournament pays into the leaderboard when it finishes and its results are final. Ongoing events can show provisional points, which are an estimate and are labelled as such.
If an organiser corrects a result or changes the rules, the whole season is recalculated from scratch, so the table always reflects the rules as they stand now.
Check the breakdown first: it names the rule behind every point. Then check the leaderboard's rules page, which shows the exact values in force and can be downloaded. If it still looks wrong, the organiser running the page is the person to raise it with.
For pages setting up their own season.
Create the leaderboard from your page, attach the tournaments that count, give each one a tier, then choose the scoring rules. You can preview the effect before publishing.
Start with a placement table and a turn-up award. That alone gives a season worth chasing, and you can add more later.
Every available rule is listed in the catalogue, with what it does and a worked example. Some rules are exclusive: switch on two from the same group and only the higher-priority one applies.
You can, and the whole season is rescored immediately, which means standings can move. Every change is versioned and the rules page shows the current version, so players can see when something changed. Tell them before you do it.