How to join a tournament
Four steps, a few minutes. The Zone Weekly events are free (just open the Discord ticket, no payment); for any paid tournament you pay with PayPal F&F after signing up. For tournaments on UVS Games follow the external flow.
Riftbound Zone account + Discord required
Signing up always goes through a private ticket opened by the Vander bot on Discord (channel #weekly / #monthly). Without Discord linked the ticket won't start, so you can't pay or be confirmed.
⚠️ What to do: register in 30 seconds on the site (email + username + city), then go to your profile and click Link Discord. You can also start from Discord using OAuth: in that case the site account is created and linked automatically.
Click Sign up on the tournament
From /tornei/ open the tournament and click Sign up. The site doesn't add you to any list right away: it sends you straight to the Discord #weekly / #monthly channel to open the ticket. On the site, until then, you are not signed up yet.
Open the ticket in the Discord channel
In the #weekly / #monthly channel click the tournament button: the Vander bot opens a private ticket with you and the staff.
🎟 Zone Weekly and Monthly Zone (free): the bot confirms your signup instantly, no payment required. You appear directly as signed up (green badge ✅).
💰 Paid tournaments (if any): you appear as awaiting payment (yellow badge ⏳) and move to the next step. If it's your first paid signup, the bot asks for the first+last name on your PayPal profile — once only, we store it for future signups. We never ask for it on the site.
Pay in the ticket and get confirmed (paid tournaments only)
For paid tournaments (if any) send the amount to paypal.me/riftboundzone as Friends & Family, note torneo #ID. The bot auto-matches (name + amount); if the sender PayPal name doesn't match or you skip the note, the staff confirms manually within a few hours. You move to signed up (green badge ✅) with a site notification and a Discord DM. You upload the decklist from the tournament menu.
For the free Zone Weekly events this step doesn't exist: you're already signed up after step 3. The decklist is optional.
🎮 Tournaments hosted on UVS Games
Some tournaments (e.g. run by shops/associations) are imported from UVS Games: the button becomes Sign up on UVS Games → and you complete everything on their site under their rules. Here you only see the player list, updated automatically.
Frequently asked questions
▶ Are the Zone Weekly tournaments free?
#weekly) and the Vander bot confirms you instantly. They run every Sunday at 21:00 (max 16, 3 Swiss rounds, voice on the official Discord mandatory even just listening, neither streamed nor judged). Prize: every week the podium gets packs from the box offered by our partner Games Time Pavia (3 to 1st, 2 to 2nd, 1 each to 3rd and 4th); packs stack until the next Monthly Zone and are opened live from the store — the cards are yours (shipping at your cost, or sell them back to the store at 70% of value / 80% in store credit). Plus points for the weekly leaderboard of the current expansion cycle, podium scaled by entrants with a 4-point cap for 1st place. Monthly Zone is free too (a box for the top 8, streamed and judged).▶ How is the prize pool calculated?
▶ Can I cancel after I have already paid?
▶ Can I sign up for a tournament directly from Discord?
/iscriviti command in the tournament channel. If you do not have an account yet, one is created by linking Discord via OAuth. For the free Zone Weekly and Monthly Zone events the bot confirms instantly; for any paid tournament payment is via PayPal F&F and you confirm with /pagato.