What's the Seneca quiz tournament?

Seneca's mission is to make education more fun & effective. A new way to make learning more fun on Seneca is the introduction of in-class games.

The Seneca tournament is an in-class multiplayer experience. Like many in-class games, teachers create a game room and then share a link for students to join on their own devices.

The tournament is played over several rounds, depending on how many students are in your class.

In the first round, students are matched head-to-head with another random student.

These two students compete to answer multiple-choice questions as accurately and fast as possible - whoever answers the question correctly first gets a point ⭐ effectively 'scoring a goal'.
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Each round is best of 1, 3, 5 or 7 questions - depending on what the host chooses at the start of the game.
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At the end of the match, the student with the most points wins a medal🏅

In the next round, students are matched with someone who has a similar number of wins (🏅) to them.

E.g. if you win in the first round, you'll play against someone who also won in the first round.

And if you lose in the first round, you'll play against someone else who lost in the first round.
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Crucially, this is not a knockout tournament; players will always be playing in head-to-head matches even if they lose multiple times. This is so that no student is sitting around doing nothing whilst the rest of the class has fun.
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If your class has an odd number of students, we will automatically add one bot 🤖 to ensure there's an even number of players in the tournament.
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In subsequent rounds, students will continue to be matched against other students with a similar score to them.

After the final round, we will crown an undisputed champion in your class 👑

On the tournament leaderboard, you can get a deeper dive into how all your students did.
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Specifically, how accurately they answered the questions and how quickly they answered the questions.

Hosts have the ability to amend the details of the game to best suit your class's needs.

If a teacher wants to play in the game against the students, they can do so by toggling "Participate" (yes). Many students find the highlight of a game is beating the teacher.

Each match can have 1, 3, 5 or 7 questions per round. The more questions per round, the longer your game will be.

Just bear in mind the number of available questions in your quiz/assignment/game, if your game ends up having more questions than there are available, the questions will repeat.

This is the maximum amount of time a student has to answer an individual question before moving on to the next question.

However, if both students in a match answer the question before the countdown timer ends, they'll move on to the next question straight away.

The number of rounds in the game is determined by the number of students playing, much like a football tournament.

If you want to add more rounds to your game, you can do so by manually adding a few bots to get player numbers above one of those thresholds.

Be careful about selecting your bots' difficulty, though; a good bot can win the whole tournament!