How do I make my games competitive (ranked) so results affect player ratings?

Any organizer can make a game competitive (ranked): turn on the “Competitive game” switch on the Gameplay step when you create or edit a game. There is no authorized host status, application or approval in Playbox: you just host games here with your players, and every organizer feature, this switch included, is open from your first game. You don’t need Team Clash either; the switch works for both Pickup and Team games.

Team Clash is the Team join type, where captains register whole squads. It decides how players sign up, not whether results are ranked.

For ratings to actually move, the results must be confirmed after the match: more than 30 percent of each team’s players tap “Confirm results” (a permanent team’s captain confirms for the whole team), or you attach a video to every played match and then tap “Submit results”. Saving the video alone does not confirm; if you never submit, a game with videos is confirmed automatically about two days after it finished. Until then ratings stay unchanged.