Terms & Conditions

1. Using Gametayo

Gametayo is the competitive identity layer for Philippine grassroots esports — computer shops, schools, barangays, and community orgs running verified tournaments with a permanent player record.

If you’re using this platform — signing up, joining tournaments, or applying as an organizer — you’re agreeing to what’s written here.

You need to be at least 13 years old to have an account. If you’re under 18 and joining paid tournaments or applying as an organizer, make sure a parent or guardian is aware and okay with it.

Gametayo is built for the Philippines. That’s the context everything runs in.

2. Your player account

Gametayo is built around one competitive record per real player. Your match history and placements should reflect who you actually are in the scene.

Don’t create duplicate player profiles to inflate stats, smurf on leaderboards, or impersonate another player. That’s what we’re trying to prevent — not someone sharing a family phone or staff helping at a venue.

If we find obvious duplicate profiles or abuse, we may merge them, correct records, or suspend access. We use judgment here — we care about fair records, not punishing honest edge cases.

Your display name, match history, and placements are tied to your account. We don’t delete official results because you lost or because you don’t like how a tournament went — that’s the point of the platform.

An organizer may register you before you create an account. If that happens, you can claim that profile when you sign up using the link they share with you.

Keep your login info private. If someone else gets into your account and does something bad with it, that’s on you.

3. How you should act in tournaments

This shouldn’t need to be said, but:

• Play fair. Don’t cheat, don’t use hacks, don’t exploit bugs that aren’t part of the game.
• Don’t collude or throw games on purpose. Match-fixing is an instant ban.
• Respect the organizer’s rulings during the event. If you think something was wrong, use the dispute system — don’t just cause a scene.
• Treat other players with basic respect. You’re at a computer shop or a school event. Act like it.

Breaking any of this can get you disqualified, suspended, or permanently removed from the platform.

4. Organizer accounts

Organizer accounts represent a venue or organization — not a personal player profile. The contact person who applied is accountable for what gets published under that name.

To run events on Gametayo, you apply for an organizer account. New organizers can publish one community trial event — public, up to 16 slots — while their account is under review. It shows a Trial Event badge until you’re verified.

Full verification (ID and profile review) unlocks the verified organizer badge and official results on player profiles. Verification is optional to publish your first event, but required for results to count on the official record.

Verified organizers on the Free plan can run one live event at a time. Pro unlocks concurrent live events and additional features.

If you’re running events, here’s what we expect:

• Be honest about your organization and what kind of events you’re running.
• Run your tournaments properly — clear rules, fair brackets, timely results.
• Pay out prizes as advertised. If you announce a prize pool, you need to actually give it out.
• Handle registrations and entry fees responsibly. Players are trusting you.
• Use the dispute system in good faith when players raise issues.

We can revoke organizer status at any time if you’re not holding up your end.

5. Entry fees and payments

Gametayo doesn’t collect or hold entry fees. Payments happen between players and organizers directly — usually via GCash or walk-in at the venue. We’re the record-keeping layer, not the payment processor.

Organizers may ask for payment proof on the platform, but we don’t verify or guarantee payments. Always confirm the GCash number, amount, and instructions with the organizer before sending money.

We can’t guarantee refunds or reverse GCash transfers. If something goes wrong with a payment, work it out with the organizer — we can help facilitate, but we’re not liable for money that changes hands off-platform.

6. Match results and your record

When a verified organizer records a result, that result is official on Gametayo. It goes on your profile and stays there.

Results from trial events only count on player profiles once that organizer is verified. Until then, the event still runs on Gametayo with a Trial Event badge, but it doesn’t land on the official record.

We don’t claim these records are recognized by any game publisher or esports federation outside Gametayo. It’s your record within our platform.

Think something was recorded wrong? Each tournament has a dispute window — shown on the event page, usually a few minutes after the result is posted. Raise it through the dispute system before that window closes. After it closes, we generally won’t reopen it unless there’s a clear technical error on our end.

7. Disputes

The dispute system is for when you genuinely believe a result was wrong — not for when you’re just upset about losing.

• Submit disputes through the platform, not through social media or messaging us directly.
• Our admins review the evidence and make a call. That call is final.
• If you abuse the dispute system — fake claims, spamming disputes, trying to pressure organizers — you can lose access to it.

8. Teams and things you upload

You can join tournaments solo or as part of a team. Team captains manage rosters and registrations on behalf of their team. What they submit on your behalf is your responsibility to verify.

Team logos, avatars, screenshots, feedback — anything you submit to Gametayo, you’re giving us permission to store and display it on the platform. We don’t claim ownership of your stuff, but we need to be able to show it.

Don’t upload anything illegal, offensive, or that belongs to someone else without permission.

9. Your data

We collect what we need to run the platform — your account info, city, tournament history, and similar data. We don’t sell your data.

Your public profile (display name, match history, placements) is visible to anyone on Gametayo. Your email, phone, and contact details are not shown publicly.

10. Platform issues and downtime

We do our best to keep things running but we can’t promise the platform will always be up and error-free. Server problems happen, especially during peak tournament seasons.

We can update, change, or remove features as needed. We’ll try to give notice for big changes, but we can’t always.

11. What we’re not responsible for

We’re not liable if you miss a match because of downtime, if an organizer doesn’t pay out prizes, or if a GCash transfer fails. We mediate and record — we’re not a guarantee on everything that happens at a tournament.

Use the platform and participate in tournaments at your own risk, with that understanding.

12. Updates to these terms

We might update these terms occasionally. If we make big changes, we’ll let users know through the platform. Continuing to use Gametayo after changes go live means you’re okay with them.

13. Questions

If something here is unclear, use Platform Feedback in your player or organizer dashboard. We’re a small team and we actually read those messages.