On a generic platform you are a line item on someone else's site, your players belong to them and they set the cut. On yours, the logo, the domain, the players and the revenue are all yours.
| On a generic platform | On your platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Their logo, their colors, their URL | Your logo, colors and subdomain across the whole experience |
| Players | Register with them and belong to them | Register into your instance and belong to you |
| Prize pools | They set the cut | No cut. Flat subscription; PayPal payouts under your control |
| Sponsors | Their inventory, their deals | Your ad slots and a 50 to 80 percent affiliate share by tier |
| Data | Shared tenant | Per-tenant row-level isolation, GDPR-ready export and deletion |
| Time to launch | Weeks of setup or a dev project | Minutes. No code, no developers |
Labeled by the plan each feature ships on. Items marked coming soon are in development and not sold today.
Claim yourbrand.esportsleaguehub.com, drop in your logo and colors, and the whole player experience is yours.
Live availability check on the name, instant branding, per-tenant data isolation. Players register into your instance and belong to you. Custom domains are on the roadmap for paid tiers.
Single elimination and round robin, seeded and auto-advancing.
Create a tournament, set the format and seeding, and the bracket advances itself as results are reported. Double elimination and Swiss formats are in development.
Player accounts, team rosters and a COPPA age gate before any minor data is collected.
Youth competitions follow the Youth Protection policy. Registration, check-in and roster management run inside your instance with GDPR-ready export and deletion.
PayPal-secured entry fees pooled server-side and paid to winners after results are final.
Server-authoritative capture means amounts cannot be tampered with. We do not take a cut of prize pools; organizers pay a flat subscription and keep their affiliate split.
A public page for every instance showing live, upcoming and completed matches.
Fans and families follow the schedule without an account. Scores post as organizers confirm results.
Player growth, entry revenue and tournament performance in one view.
Know which titles, formats and dates fill brackets so the next season is planned from data, not guesswork.
Embed your live stream, sell ad slots and keep a 50 to 80 percent affiliate revenue share by tier.
Free includes 3 ad slots, Starter 6, Pro 10, Elite unlimited. Stream embeds and monetization unlock on Starter and above.
Every athlete in your league can register free at nilsuperstar.com today: verified profile, designed logo, merch store, verified brands and a compliance center, with no agent and no percentage taken.
The in-hub integration, arriving on the Elite plan, adds a roster view showing which of your athletes are NIL Superstar registered and compliant, one login across both platforms, and sponsor opportunities routed to your rostered athletes.
A Brand Manager's Guide to Esports Tournaments Online by Dan Kost describes Esports League Hub as five feature modules. This is where each one stands in the product today.
| Module | As described in the book | What ships today | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tournament Management | League and season structures, divisions, brackets (single elimination, double elimination, round robin, Swiss), seeding, byes, forfeits, rescheduling. Title-agnostic. | Single elimination and round robin with seeding and auto-advance; tournaments per instance; title-agnostic. | Live. Double elimination and Swiss in development. |
| Team Administration | Roster management and age verification built for the amended COPPA mixed-audience rule. | Player and team registration, COPPA age gate before any minor data is collected, Youth Protection policy, per-tenant data isolation. | Live. |
| NIL Opportunities | Connects athletes to the Sports Media NIL program with disclosure standards above the platform toggle. | NIL Superstar (nilsuperstar.com) is live for every athlete: free registration, verified profile, logo and merch store, verified brands, compliance center. In-hub roster integration and single sign-on in development for the Elite plan. | Live at nilsuperstar.com. Hub integration coming soon on Elite. |
| Unified Dashboard | Standings, statistics, registration status and sponsor reporting in one view. | Organizer dashboard with player growth, entry revenue and tournament analytics (Starter and up); public live match board on every instance. | Live on Starter and up. |
| Engagement Tools | The community layer that keeps a season alive between match days, plus broadcast and sponsor inventory. | Live stream embeds, sponsor ad slots (3 to unlimited by plan) and affiliate revenue share. Owned-destination broadcast stack and defined sponsorship inventory units are delivered on managed network seasons by Sports Media, Inc. | Live on Starter and up; broadcast stack and inventory units on managed seasons. |
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Pick your subdomain with a live availability check.
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Drop in your logo and pick your colors. It is instantly yours.
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Players register, you run brackets, PayPal handles payouts.
Self-serve
Claim a subdomain, brand it, publish a bracket. You administer the league, confirm results and manage payouts from your dashboard. Start free; upgrade for analytics, streaming and sponsor inventory.
Launch Your League FreeManaged
For districts, conferences, colleges, senior communities and installations. Sports Media, Inc. staffs season operations, officials, moderation and sponsor delivery, and your organization competes in one of the five network leagues or in a private branded season.
Request a Managed DeploymentServer-side controls that apply to every instance, free or paid.
Captured through PayPal inside your branded instance.
Server-authoritative amounts, pooled until results are final.
Paid to winners under your control. We take no cut.
Start a free league on your own subdomain today, or talk to our operations team about a managed season for your school, conference or organization.
