Operators can now run competitions on any provider’s games with their own prizes, point rates, and entry rules, with no provider approvals needed

LIMASSOL, Cyprus, Oct. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NuxGame, a B2B iGaming software provider, has launched tournaments, leaderboards, and wager races as a native part of its casino platform. The new mechanic works on any game from any provider in an operator’s library, with no approvals from studios, and is available to both real-money and sweepstakes casino operators from today.

Built Into the Platform, Not Plugged In

Most tournament mechanics in iGaming are run by individual game studios, which limits operators to the providers that offer them and to the terms those providers set. NuxGame has built its own tournament engine into the platform, so the rules, the prize table, and the point rates belong to the operator and apply across any mix of providers from the library.

Tournaments are part of the NuxGame gamification toolset alongside bonuses, achievements, and tier programs, and they are designed to do three commercial jobs: lift average bet size, direct player attention to the games an operator wants played, and hold retention across a full campaign period rather than a single session. They can run daily, weekly, monthly, or over any custom period, including wager races scored on turnover.

The mechanic is not limited to real-money projects. On a sweepstakes casino, the setup flow, filters, and leaderboard work the same way, with prize types adapted to that model.

What Players See

Each online casino on the platform gets a dedicated tournaments page listing every upcoming and finished tournament. Each entry carries a banner, a short “How it works” block, the rules and conditions written by the operator, the prize table, the list of eligible games, and a live leaderboard.

The leaderboard updates in real time: a player places a qualifying bet, points are added, and their position moves, so they always see where they stand and how far they are from the next prize. Operators can also display the active tournament on the casino homepage, where it updates on its own.

What Operators Control

Setup runs through the NuxGame back office, and every step is a commercial lever:

• Schedule. Start and end dates and the calculation time, with the system showing how many days the tournament will run.
• Prizes. Ranks and rewards for each place: cash to the player’s balance, shop points, or experience inside the operator’s tier program. The system totals the full prize cost before activation.
• Games. Selection by provider, game type, category, or individual title across everything connected through the casino API integration, using the same filter already used for bonuses, achievements, and tiers. At launch the feature covers casino content.
• Point rates. A base rate for how much turnover earns a point, with per-game overrides to raise the rate on titles the operator wants promoted and lower it on titles it does not want farmed.
• Entry thresholds. A minimum qualifying bet, a minimum number of bets, and a minimum total turnover. Players adjust their stake to qualify, which is the practical reason tournaments raise average bet.
• Banner and copy. Custom banner, colors, primary and secondary prize display, a countdown timer, and “How it works” and rules text in every language the operator runs.

To protect the points economy, risk settings include a control that excludes turnover-risky games — titles flagged for transaction behavior that lets players generate more points than the mechanic intends. Operators can run up to ten tournaments at the same time, and campaign results are available in platform reporting. Segmentation, allowing a tournament to target a specific tier or players active in a given set of games, is the next planned addition.

A Margin Instrument, Not a Banner

“Operators have been asking for tournaments for a long time, and the usual answer was to wait for a provider to run one and accept whatever terms came with it. We built our own engine so that stops being the case. You pick the games, you set the prizes and the point rates, and you decide who qualifies. Point overrides are where this turns from a promotion into a margin instrument: the games you want played pay better, and the ones you do not want farmed pay less. That is a lever operators simply did not have before.”

— Denis Kosinsky, Chief Product Officer at NuxGame

Three Ways Operators Can Use It Now

1. Launch new titles with a points race instead of a static banner, so the promotion comes with a leaderboard rather than artwork alone.
2. Build campaigns around the calendar — Halloween, winter holidays, a local event — by pointing the tournament at the slots that fit the season.
3. Bring tournaments to provider negotiations. Many studios have no tournament mechanic of their own, and a dedicated tournament on their games is promotional value an operator can trade against commercial terms.

Tournaments are available to NuxGame operators now. Existing clients can speak to their account manager about a first campaign, and operators evaluating the platform can request a demo to see the setup flow end to end.

About NuxGame

NuxGame is a B2B iGaming company founded in 2018 that has grown from a software provider into an open ecosystem for operator growth. It combines an award-winning casino and sportsbook platform, a game aggregator with 18,500+ titles from 140+ providers, sweepstakes-ready infrastructure, and a vetted network of partners covering CRM, payments, orchestration, and traffic, supporting 100+ operators worldwide as they launch, scale, and enter new markets. In 2026, NuxGame was named Casino Platform of the Year at the iGaming News Awards. Visit https://nuxgame.com/ for more information and inquiries. 

Original Source:https://nuxgame.com/blog/tournaments-leaderboards-races

Media Contact: Yanina Kaplya, CMO at NuxGame, y.kaplya@nuxgame.com

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