A free account is all you need to join tournaments, create teams and chat on PAF.GG.

1. Press the Sign up button at the top right and enter your e-mail address.
2. Enter the 6-digit verification code sent to your e-mail.
3. Enter your username, full name, date of birth and password; the phone number is optional.
4. With the eye icon in the password box you can see what you typed; if Caps Lock is on, a warning appears below.
5. Accept the User Agreement and create your account.
6. To log in you can use e-mail/password, Google, Facebook, Discord or (if linked) your Steam account.

You can change your username once every 90 days.

Open Settings from the user menu at the top right; manage everything with the tabs on the left.

1. Profile Customization: profile photo (a crop window opens when you upload), username, about text, social media accounts.
2. Account Details: full name, date of birth, phone, e-mail/password change; Google, Facebook, Discord, Steam connections.
3. Privacy: choose whether details like your full name, date of birth and friend list are visible to everyone, only friends, or nobody.
4. Premium: styled/colored username, profile banner, GIF profile photo and profile card background in a separate tab.
5. When you make a change, a save bar appears at the bottom; if you leave without saving you will be warned.

If you are still playing in a tournament (not eliminated), your profile details and that game's account links cannot be changed.

To join team tournaments you first need to link your game account and, if needed, create a team.

1. Link it from Settings → Game Connections or with the Link Account button on your profile.
2. Steam for CS2, Riot Games for VALORANT/League of Legends/Wild Rift; for EA FC, eFootball Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Mobile Legends, Brawl Stars you enter your in-game name.
3. On the Teams page choose Create Team: team name, a 2–4 letter tricode and the game.
4. You are the captain of the team you create; it has a Roster list and team announcements/posts, and the logo/banner are uploaded from settings.
5. You invite players by nickname; they join the roster once they accept.

While your team is registered and not eliminated from a tournament, team settings and members cannot be changed.

Open a tournament from the showcase on the home page or from the Tournaments page and press Join Tournament.

1. The bar at the top shows the Registration → Matchmaking → Start steps, the time left and the slots.
2. In 1v1 tournaments you register yourself; in team tournaments the captain registers the team.
3. After registering you appear in the Not Ready list; once you add friends with the + in the roster slots, the roster becomes Ready.
4. If your game account is not linked, a linking window opens during registration; you finish without leaving the site.
5. If you change your mind (before matchmaking), use the Leave Tournament button.

Once you register, until you are eliminated or the tournament ends, your profile details and that game's account links cannot be changed.

From the Fixtures tab on the tournament page you follow the bracket, and each match from its match room.

1. Fixtures: single or double elimination; finished matches show their scores, and pressing a card takes you to the match room.
2. The room opens close to the match time: one of your teammates saying I'm ready marks the team ready.
3. In VALORANT/CS2 the teams ban/pick maps in turn; in CS2 the server starts automatically and the live score streams in.
4. The captain enters the scores and presses Report Match Result, the opposing captain confirms; in CS2 the result comes automatically from the server.
5. In the room chat (both teams + admins) and the team chat you can use messages, GIFs, emoji and @mentions.

Have a problem or want to send a message? It's all just a few clicks away.

1. Use Open Support Request on any page; you can also open one without logging in, using your name and e-mail.
2. In your request you chat in real time with an admin: messages, file/GIF attachments, emoji reactions.
3. On a player's profile press Add Friend; accept/decline incoming requests from the notification panel or your profile.
4. Press Send Message in the three-dot menu of your friend list and the chat window opens with that person.
5. The Notification bell and the message badge show what you haven't seen/read yet.

A hub is the page of an organizer or community: it brings together tournaments, members and announcements.

1. Pick a hub on the Hubs page and join with Join; everyone who joins the hub's tournaments becomes a member automatically.
2. The hub page lists members, announcements and all of the hub's tournaments.
3. The summary cards at the top show the number of members, tournaments and open tournaments.
4. Admins edit the page, tournaments and members from Hub Settings.