Gamercraft vs Amber.gg: Payouts, Fees & Scoring
A dated spec sheet on how Gamercraft and Amber.gg handle payouts, fees, scoring and ladder formats, built only from terms each platform publishes.
Gamercraft and Amber.gg both run competitive ladders with entry fees and prize pools on League of Legends, Valorant and TFT. They are not the same product, and this is not a popularity contest. It is a spec sheet.
Every claim about Gamercraft below comes from a page Gamercraft publishes, with the date it was published, and all of it was re-checked in September 2026. Amber.gg is the platform we run, so hold our side to the same standard. Where Gamercraft does something better, we say so.
The short version: Gamercraft publishes a $6 withdrawal minimum, a 0% platform fee and a 5% processing fee, paid in batches through Trolley. Amber.gg runs asynchronous, rank-tiered ladders and gives new players a $5 signup bonus.
What Gamercraft is 🎮
- A competitive platform where you play ranked or casual matches in games you already own, on your own account.
- Gamercraft reads the match result from the game's official API, scores it, and ranks you against everyone else on the same ladder.
- There is no separate Gamercraft client watching your screen, and no proprietary game to learn.
- Four titles are live as of September 2026: League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, Valorant and Brawl Stars.
- Counter-Strike 2, Apex Legends and Marvel Rivals are listed as coming soon, without a date.
- The terms are identical for every account. There is no VIP tier with better payout terms.
- Source: Gamercraft's payout explainer, published 30 August 2026.
Gamercraft withdrawals: the numbers they publish 💸
- Minimum withdrawal: $6.00.
- Platform fee: 0%.
- Payment processing fee: 5% of the amount requested, so a $50 request arrives as $47.50.
- Payouts leave through Trolley, a licensed payout provider, in scheduled batches rather than instantly per request.
- Bank transfers carry an extra Trolley transfer fee based on your country and currency, quoted per recipient. PayPal, Pix, PagBank and crypto payouts carry no additional gateway fee beyond the 5%.
- Methods listed: bank transfer, PayPal, Pix and PagBank for Brazil, and crypto in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Solana, USDT or USDC.
- A request moves through requested, then processing, then completed. You can cancel it while it is still requested, which returns the balance to your wallet.
- The confirmation screen shows the net amount before you commit, but not an estimated arrival date.
- Credits are a different balance. They pay tournament entry fees, and they convert into gift cards and merchandise through the Gamercraft Store. They cannot be withdrawn.
- Identity verification runs through Sumsub, and you register a payout recipient with Trolley before any money moves. Their page also argues that this is what stops one person farming prize pools across a stack of smurf accounts.
- Source: Gamercraft's payout explainer, published 30 August 2026.
Scoring: three games, three models 🎯
Gamercraft scores every match with its own rating, the Gamercraft Competitive Score, and the model changes per game.
- Teamfight Tactics: a score out of 20. Up to 15 points come from placement, 3 from your level and 2 from damage dealt to other players.
- Valorant: a score out of 100, measured against the best other player in your lobby rather than a fixed target. KDA, average combat score and average damage rating are worth 25 points each; frag rating and economy rating are worth 12.5 each.
- League of Legends: its own scoring track, with Summoner's Rift and ARAM scored by different engines.
- Source: Gamercraft's product update, published 27 August 2026.
Stacking, clans and Season 0 🛡️
- Since 27 August 2026 you can stack up to 12 tournament entries from the same queue and settle all of them with one set of games. Your first pick locks the queue, and team ladders or access-code events stay outside the stack.
- Clans landed with Season 0. A clan is a permanent team with a unique tag of 2 to 4 characters, a crest you design, and a shared wallet called a treasury.
- Clan XP cannot be bought and never goes down. Playing ranked matches, entering tournaments and finishing well all feed the same counter.
- The Weekly Clan Cup runs Monday to Sunday on two boards, total XP and XP per active member. The Clan Championship is free to enter, runs the last weekend of the month, and needs three active members.
- Season 0 prizes start at a floor of $7,500 and grow as clans play. The first Championship is 26 to 27 September 2026 and the finale is 31 October to 1 November 2026, with three crowns awarded at the end.
- Source: Gamercraft's clans announcement, published 1 September 2026.
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What the two have in common
- Both score the games you already play, on your own account, instead of asking you to enter a separate competition.
- Both list League of Legends, Valorant and TFT in their line-up.
- Both offer a free way in: Gamercraft runs freeroll tournaments with free entry, and some Amber.gg ladders are free to enter.
Where Amber.gg fits 🤝
- Amber.gg runs skill-based cash ladders for League of Legends, Valorant and TFT.
- The format is asynchronous: no schedules, no brackets, no team overhead. You play your normal ranked games and the ladder scores them.
- Ladders are tiered by rank bracket, so you compete against players at your level rather than against the entire population of the platform.
- Stats are pulled from game APIs, so there are no screenshots to upload and no disputes to file. Your results roll into an Amber Score built from KDA, CS, damage and teamwork.
- New players get a $5 signup bonus, and new ladders open regularly.
- Anything we could not confirm directly on our own product, including our withdrawal terms, is not printed in this article.
What Gamercraft does better ✅
- It publishes its payout terms in full, including the parts most platforms bury: the 5% processing fee, the batched payouts, the credits distinction, and a section arguing against its own page.
- Its prize split is flatter than winner-takes-all. In a Jackpot ladder's side pot: 1st takes 20%, 2nd 15%, 3rd 10%, the top 25% band 21%, the top 50% band 17%, the top 75% band 11%, and all finishers 4%. More than half the pot goes to the percentile bands.
- Four live titles, including Brawl Stars, where Amber.gg does not compete today.
- Clan Season 0 is a real team format: free championship entry, no way to buy XP, and a floor of $7,500 on the prizes.
- Freeroll tickets let new players enter certain ladders without an entry fee, and prize money won from a freeroll is ordinary prize money.
How to pick between them 🧭
Four questions decide it, and none of them are about marketing.
- Does the platform score the games you already play, or something separate?
- What does it cost to get your money out, and how long is the wait?
- Is the scoring transparent enough to explain why you placed where you placed?
- Which titles are live today, rather than announced as coming soon?
If you are leaving Repeat.gg, one date matters more than any comparison: withdrawals close on 14 November 2026, and any balance still sitting there after that is gone. We covered the Repeat.gg wind-down timeline and the full comparison of alternatives separately.
The cheapest way to settle the rest is to play. Test a ladder on Amber.gg, or start with League of Legends, and judge on the games rather than on the page.
