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How to find players

This guide shows you simple ways to look up players in MatchZy Auto Tournament so you can check profiles, help them join teams, or debug issues.

Find a player by Steam ID or URL

If you know a player’s Steam information:

  1. Go to the Players page in the sidebar.
  2. Use the search box to enter one of:
  3. Steam64 ID
  4. Steam32 ID
  5. Steam vanity URL (if you have configured a Steam Web API key in Settings).
  6. Select the player from the results to view their profile and recent matches.

Find a player from a team

If you know the team but not the exact Steam ID:

  1. Go to the Teams page in the sidebar.
  2. Click the team to open its details.
  3. Use the Players section to see all players on that team.
  4. From here, you can:
  5. View a player’s information
  6. Add or remove players from the team (see Managing Teams)

Find a player from a public team page

If teams are using their public team pages:

  1. Open the team’s public URL (for example https://your-domain.com/team/team-name).
  2. Scroll to the roster to see all players on that team.
  3. Use this list to match players with their Steam accounts in the admin interface if needed.

Mark a player as an in-game admin

Sometimes you want specific people (for example, your tournament staff) to have in-game admin rights on every match server without managing a separate MatchZy admin list.

To do this:

  1. Go to the Players page in the sidebar.
  2. Click a player to open their details, then click Edit.
  3. Enable the “Is admin (has in-game admin rights for all matches)” toggle.
  4. Click Save.

Behind the scenes, MatchZy Auto Tournament will:

  • Store this flag on the player.
  • Automatically include all admin players in the admins list inside every generated MatchZy match config (standard and shuffle matches).
  • Let these admins use MatchZy’s in-game admin commands whenever a match is loaded, without any extra server-side setup.
  • Allow them to bypass whitelist / get5_check_auths checks and join matches even if they are not on the team’s player list for that match.
  • Make them behave exactly as if they were configured in MatchZy’s admins.json file, so you don’t need to maintain a separate server-side admin list.