Avidus Interactive

Gamerji - Automating Leaderboard Data Extraction Using AI

Beyond the Screenshot: How Gamerji Scaled to 5,000 Daily Tournaments with AI-Driven Automation

Industry

eSports

Product

Desktop and Mobile

In the high-octane world of competitive gaming, speed isn't just a player requirement—it’s a platform necessity. Gamerji, India's leading eSports tournament platform, faced a massive operational wall. With over 5,000 tournaments hosted daily, the task of manually verifying leaderboard results from user-submitted screenshots was becoming a tedious task of unscalable proportions.

Each game produced a different visual format, filled with multilingual text, special characters, and complex emojis. Manual data entry was not only slow but prone to the kind of errors that break player trust.

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The Challenge:

Winning the Data War

Gamerji needed a sophisticated AI-powered OCR for eSports that could handle the messy reality of user-generated content. The goals were:

Automate Extraction: Move away from human-dependent verification to a machine-led process.
Handle Symbolic Complexity: Accurately parse in-game nicknames, rank icons, and scores embedded with emojis.
Ensure Platform Scalability: Create a system capable of processing tens of thousands of images daily without latency.

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The solution:

A Custom OCR Pipeline for Gaming

We engineered a robust automated leaderboard data extraction engine using a sophisticated tech stack centered on AWS Textract gaming solutions.

The implementation featured:

Intelligent Pre-processing: Custom image enhancement filters to reduce background noise and normalize contrast across different mobile devices.
Custom Language & Symbol Handling: A proprietary logic layer designed to interpret "gamer-speak"—recognizing unique symbols and emojis that standard OCR tools often ignore.
Structured Data Transformation: An engine that converts raw pixel data into structured, database-ready fields like Rank, Username, and Kills/Scores instantly.

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The Impact:

Performance at Scale

By deploying this eSports tournament automation framework, Gamerji achieved a new level of operational velocity :

90%+ Extraction Accuracy: The system successfully handles the vast majority of submissions with precision, even those with low image quality.
85% Reduction in Manual Effort: We saved the operations team hundreds of hours every month, allowing them to focus on community growth rather than data entry.
Seamless Operational Scaling: As tournament volume spikes during peak hours, the AI scales instantly, ensuring leaderboard updates happen in real-time.
Improved Player UX: Reduced verification times meant winners were announced and rewarded faster than ever before.

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Conclusion:

AI is the Ultimate Power-Up

Gamerji has proven that in the gaming industry, custom OCR pipeline for gaming technology is the key to managing hyper-growth. By replacing manual hurdles with a scalable digital engine, they have solidified their position as a dominant force in the eSports ecosystem.

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Smart Thinking - Sharp Delivery