Challenge Ladder settings
Open the event's host dashboard, go to Settings and choose Challenge Ladder Settings. If the event runs more than one Challenge Ladder division you pick which one you are editing first — each division keeps its own rules.
Every field has a working default. A host who changes nothing still gets a season that runs.
Days to play each round
Default 21. How long a round stays open, counted from its start date. The last day of that span is the play-by date on every match card in the round.
This is the season default. A single round can be made longer or shorter than the rest without touching it — see Set round dates on a Challenge Ladder.
Challenge matches per round
Default 2. Extra matches an entrant may start themselves, on top of the one they are assigned. The allowance resets each round.
Set it to 0 to turn challenges off and run a purely assigned ladder.
Challenge range
Default 5. How many spots up or down the ladder an entrant may reach when starting a challenge. At the default, someone sitting 10th can challenge anyone from 5th to 15th.
This limits challenges only. Asking someone to play — a request — reaches the whole ladder whatever this is set to.
How much the score matters
Default 19. The weight the margin carries in the points a match pays.
Raise it and a comfortable win separates itself from a narrow one. Lower it and the result matters more than the scoreline — at 0, winning is worth the same however close it was. The rest of the model is in How scoring works in Challenge Ladder.
Players per end-of-season bracket
Default 8. The size of each group when you build the end-of-season brackets. The ladder is cut into groups of this size from the top down, and each group plays its own seeded knockout.
If the ladder does not divide evenly, the last group runs with whoever is left — unless that is a single entrant, in which case there is nobody to play and the group is skipped.
Share opponent contact details
A toggle. When it is on, an entrant can see the email and phone number of the opponent they have been assigned this round, and of anyone they have exchanged a play request with.
Contact details are never shown in standings and never shown for the ladder at large — only for the specific people someone has a reason to reach.
Turning it off does not break the format, but it does mean players have to find each other some other way, which is most of what makes a self-scheduled ladder work.
Changing settings mid-season
Settings can be edited at any time. Changes apply from that moment on:
Points already awarded are not recalculated by a settings change alone.
A new round length applies to rounds that have not been given their own length.
A smaller challenge allowance does not remove challenge matches that already exist.