TL;DR - Between 24 April and 19 October 2026 the ingest pipeline behind trading-tournaments.com collected 19,467 candidate announcements from eight kinds of source, about 109 a day. 111 were published, 20 are waiting for review and 19,335 were rejected, an acceptance rate of 0.6%. The rejections are not arbitrary: 12,229 were not tournaments at all, 1,145 were single-token promotions, 1,330 were duplicates, 381 named no prize in a currency a reader can compare, and roughly 100 would have ended before anyone could enter. What survives is a catalogue of 150 events across 101 platforms, 131 of them finished, with the final standings kept after the organizer's own page is gone.
Exchanges, brokers and prop firms publish promotions every day, and the word "tournament" is attached to a large share of them. A deposit bonus with a leaderboard is called a tournament. A trade-to-earn campaign for a newly listed token is called a tournament. A welcome offer with a prize draw is called a tournament. If this site listed everything that called itself one, it would be a feed of promotions, and the results library would be worthless as a record. So there is a filter, and this article is the filter, written down with the numbers it has produced.
Where candidates come from
The pipeline watches eight kinds of source. Since April it has taken 6,887 candidates from exchange and broker blogs via RSS, 5,165 from press-release feeds, 4,138 from scraped announcement pages, 2,330 from public Telegram channels, 600 from help-center feeds, 301 from official APIs, 40 submitted by hand and six from curated directories of recurring programmes. Seventy distinct platforms have produced at least one candidate.
Each candidate arrives as raw text: a title, a body, a source URL. Nothing is published from the raw text. Every candidate goes through the steps below, and a row is rejected at the first step it fails.
Step 1: is it a tournament at all
An automated classifier reads each announcement and answers one question: is this a time-boxed contest in which traders are ranked against each other and the top of the ranking is paid? It also extracts the dates, the prize pool, the markets and the join link when they exist.
This step removes the most. 12,229 candidates were rejected because the classifier found no contest: listings, bonuses, airdrops, product updates, market commentary. A further 898 contained no contest vocabulary anywhere in the title or body and never reached the classifier. And 1,145 were rejected as token-specific: a campaign that pays for trading one newly listed coin is a listing promotion, and it is excluded by rule because the ranking exists to move that coin, not to measure trading.
The classifier is the one place in the pipeline where a model makes a judgement, and it is only trusted when it is confident. A low-confidence answer with no date evidence stays in the queue for a person.
Step 2: can a reader act on it
A tournament that a reader cannot enter is not useful, so the next checks are about dates and money. 381 candidates named no prize pool in US dollars or in a currency that converts to one, and a contest without a comparable prize cannot be ranked against the others. 96 had neither a prize pool nor an end date. 90 had no usable start or end date after a month of repeated passes and were dropped as unpublishable. Around 100 would have ended within ten days of being found, which is less runway than a reader needs to register, verify and fund an account, and were rejected with that reason recorded. Anything that had already ended when it was found was rejected automatically, because old news should never sit in the queue.
Step 3: has it already been seen
The same event arrives many times. A press release is syndicated to a dozen outlets; a Telegram channel restates the exchange blog; a translated title shows up under a new URL every week. The duplicate rules removed 550 candidates with the same source URL as an earlier row, 373 restatements of an event already pending, 338 whose title-and-date signature or URL matched a previously rejected row, 69 whose normalized title and start date matched another pending row, 21 with the same prize pool and start date as another pending row, and 69 that matched a tournament already published.
The signature rule has no time window on purpose. A rejection is an editorial decision, and it stays in force until an editor clears it, so the same promotion cannot wear the queue down by resurfacing every cycle.
Step 4: platform, geography, organizer
What remains is checked against three things that a model cannot decide.
Platform. Every event is attached to one of the 101 platforms in the catalogue, each with a category: centralized or decentralized crypto exchange, forex broker, prop firm, paper-trading platform or championship circuit. A platform that cannot be identified does not get an event. Platforms are also retired: when a partnership ends or a venue stops operating, its events stop being listed, and the retirement is recorded in the pipeline so the venue's announcements are not re-ingested by mistake.
Geography. Each event records the countries whose residents the organizer excludes, so the country pages can show a reader what they can actually enter. An event whose eligibility cannot be established is not published as if it were open to everyone.
Organizer. Every published event carries the organizer's own source URL, and the final standings are taken from that page or from the organizer's leaderboard, never from a participant's screenshot. The Hall of Fame applies the same order of evidence to individual placings: organizer announcement first, audited statement second, self-submission with proof last.
Affiliate links fund the site. Of the 150 published events, 136 carry a referral link and 14 are listed with no commercial relationship. The editorial standards commit to the same rule in both cases: revenue does not change which events are listed, and no placement is paid for.
Step 5: a person
Every approved event crosses an admin desk before it goes live. That is where the 111 approvals happened, and where 20 candidates sit today waiting for a decision. It is the slowest step and the one that cannot be removed; the automated steps exist to make the queue short enough for a human to read all of it.
What stays after the event ends
This is the point of the exercise. Organizers delete or overwrite their tournament pages when the campaign is over, and leaderboards usually live only as long as the promotion. Of the 150 catalogued events, 131 have finished. For 89 of them the library holds a capture of the final results page; for 84 it holds the standings as a structured table. The results page lists every finished event with its winners, and 97 individual placings are recorded in the Hall of Fame, 77 of them verified against the organizer's own publication.
That is what makes a record like Danillo Ramos Duarte's Copa BTG Trader title, Sergey Shirko's two World Cup Championship of Forex Trading podiums or Muslim Abdullayev's ICTC final citable years later: the placing, the source and the date are kept in one place that does not depend on the organizer keeping its page up.
How to use it, and how to correct it
Cite a result from the event page or the trader's profile; both carry the organizer's source. If an event is missing, the fastest route is the Suggest a change form with the organizer's announcement URL, which puts it straight into the queue. If an event is listed and should not be, the same form reaches the same desk. Decisions are logged with a reason, as every number in this article shows.
Frequently asked questions
Why is a tournament I saw on an exchange not listed on trading-tournaments.com?
Most candidates are rejected for one of four reasons: it was a promotion rather than a ranked contest, it rewarded trading in a single newly listed token, it named no prize in a comparable currency, or it would have ended before a reader could enter. Since April 2026, 19,335 of 19,467 candidates were turned away on those grounds and 111 were published.
Where can I find past trading tournament results?
The results page keeps every finished event the site has catalogued with its final standings, including captures of organizer pages that have since been removed. Individual placings are recorded in the Hall of Fame with the organizer's source.
Does paying for a listing get a tournament into the library?
No. There is no paid placement. Affiliate links fund the site, 14 of the 150 published events carry no commercial link at all, and the moderation steps are the same for both.
Who decides what gets published?
Automated rules remove non-tournaments, duplicates and events a reader cannot act on; an editor reviews everything that remains and approves or rejects it with a reason on record.
Related
- How the Hall of Fame works for how individual placings are verified.
- Are trading tournaments legit? for the organizer-side red flags.
- The P&L screenshot problem for why screenshots are not evidence.
- Trading tournament formats explained for what the catalogue classifies.
External references for the circuits named above: World Cup Trading Championships, Copa BTG Trader 2026 schedule (Money Times, Portuguese).
Last reviewed 2026-10-19 by the trading-tournaments.com editorial team. Pipeline figures cover 24 April to 19 October 2026 and come from the moderation log; corrections via the Suggest a change form.