Challonge Integration with XSplit Broadcaster

If you’ve been catching up to our presence and support for the recent competitive gaming scenes including some of the major esports venues, many tournament organizers were thrilled to use the Challonge tournament bracket management services for the competitors at the venue and for stream viewers at home.

Challonge tournament bracket management Challonge integration

While the Challonge integration sounds awesome for the stream director to communicate with the tournament bracket organizers, their only current solutions were to either use the ‘screen capture’ feature or for more advanced users, to use the ‘webpage url’ feature within XSplit Broadcaster.

With the announcement of the recent XSplit 3.0 Public Test Release (more info here), we are trying to implement an actual Challonge bracket viewing plugin to be built into XSplit Broadcaster.

This will allow the stream directors to instantly focus and zoom into the current topic of involved players within the bracket while commentary personnel and their team can fluidly transition with natural conversations and transitions to prepare for the upcoming queue and schedule.

For those who’d like more vocal and visual insight for this upcoming plugin, our product manager and the stream tech guru of the global Fighting Games Community, Victor ‘Spooky’ Fontanez will guide you through the instructions on how they can be implemented for the modern esports and in any competitive atmosphere, which your deserving viewers will definitely appreciate.

Introducing XSplit PTR (Public Test Release)

We have created XSplit Broadcaster PTR in order to give daredevils access to new features and functions faster. We have many users who have expressed interest in getting access to a preview of upcoming software versions, but until now that has not been possible without overwriting the installed official stable software version.

XSplit Broadcaster Public Test Release

XSplit Broadcaster PTR uses a different installer than the official stable builds of XSplit Broadcaster in order to allow:

  • Side by side installation: installing/uninstalling XSplit Broadcaster PTR doesn’t change any files of the official XSplit Broadcaster installation
  • Different update versions: more frequent updates containing the latest features will be pushed to the XSplit Broadcaster PTR track, while XSplit Broadcaster application only stable updates

Aside from component isolation between XSplit Broadcaster PTR and XSplit Broadcaster application, plugins (broadcast, source, and extensions) are also isolated.

Presentation, broadcast channel settings, user settings continue to be shared between the stable installation and PTR. We will consider to make a complete isolation based on user feedback, but currently we feel it is important that users can quickly jump between the stable release installation and PTR.

If you have installed XSplit Broadcaster using the PTR installer, you will be forced to install new updates released on the PTR track, but you can still maintain an installation of the stable official XSplit Broadcaster release side by side (much how Chrome and Chrome Canary work).

Click here to visit the release website for XSplit Broadcaster PTR.