Y99 Tourney Spectator Guide
For people who just want to watch.
Requirements
- A decent Internet connection.
- An adblocker such as uBlock Origin
Use Your Guest Account
- Go to the Login Page.
- Enter your name in the text box and click Continue.
- After entering your name, you'll be directed to the intro page.
- Click GO TO CHAT in the center or bottom of the screen.
- A prompt will pop up asking you to allow its message alerts. Up to you (optional).
Random Userwill show up in the menu sidebar (left side). Just hover over it and click onwhen visible.
- If you see a blue notification in the lower right corner of the screen asking you to add its icon to your desktop, ignore it and close it.
Congrats, you have a guest account now. If you have time, you might want to learn some new stuffs below.
▌I don't have time for this.
Menu Sidebar
Menu Options
The 
- Register: Lets you keep your account and rooms forever.
- Logout: Logs you out of your guest account. You won't be able to recover your account after this.
- Switch Accounts: Lets you create or switch between multiple accounts. Just be sure not to delete the cookies.
Menu Buttons
They're in the left side of the menu sidebar. Only a select few are relevant:
CHAT: A homepage (discover page) containing public and private rooms. Don't enter public rooms at all costs.
PEOPLE: Where you can find and manage your friends (registration required) and blocked users.
APPS: Irrelevant mini-apps. Only one relevant mini-app you may want to use:
- Y99 Meet: A video call app similar to Discord's video call. When you open it, you'll see a list of every video call you've last visited.
Messaging Preferences
The 
- Notification Sounds and Volume: Self-explanatory.
- Push Notifications: Lets the site send you message alerts from someone.
- "Who can PM you?": See the following list below.
- Everyone: Anyone can Private Message (PM) you.
- Friends Only: Only your friends (registration required) and the automated system message can PM you.
Join the Chat Room
- Click on the invite link.
- You'll see the Room you were invited to: title next to the CLEAR button at the top of the screen.
- Click JOIN ROOM.
- Enter the password (if possible).
You can now "freely" chat and ERP with anyone in a chat room. If you've time, you might wanna learn some stuffs below.
▌I can't join the room, what gives?
▌I don't have time for this.
Room Interface
Member List
Appears in the right sidebar of the chat room. You can see a list of users and moderators present in the room.
Contextual User Menu
There are ways to open it:
- Clicking on a user from the Member List (on the right side).
- Clicking on
when you hover over another user message.
- Clicking on
- Clicking on
beside the user name in the chat window.
List of actions:
- Private Message/Message User: Lets you message someone in private.
- Block User: Lets you block someone. To unblock, go to
- Empty Chat: Clears your chat in PM (only visible when you have a conversation with someone; doesn't clear chat on other's end).
- Change Wallpaper: Lets you change the background of each chat window (only visible when you have PMs with someone).
Close Room
You can close the room by clicking the
Leave Room
You can leave the room completely by hovering over the
Room Chatting
Images and Links
Unfortunately, only registered accounts can post actual images, but you can post links to images, as well as other stuffs. However, they're not linkified for some reason, so you'll have to deal with selecting the whole URL and copypasting it into your address bar.
Recommended file hosting sites:
- Litterbox: Use if you just want to shitpost, to save up Catbox dwindling and expensive storage.
- Catbox: Use it when you want to share your replays of your big shots.
Room Troubleshooting
Join Request
If you can't enter the room after clicking on the invite link then the room's in lockdown. Beg the moderator before joining.
- Click JOIN ROOM/OPEN to send a request to the moderators and wait for them to approve your request.
- When approved,
!Notificationswill appear on your menu sidebar. - Click on it to open your chat window.
- Click JOIN ROOM.
- Enter the password (if possible).
▌Back to the Join the Chat Room.
Join the Video Call
- Click JOIN CALL from the moderator's message in the chat screen, or click on the invite link.
- Click Ask to Join and wait for them to approve your request (if possible). ✱
- Enter the password (if possible).
- Click Allow if you're there to commentate and cast.
- Click Block if you just want to watch and chat.
✱ If you see that button then the call's in lockdown. Knock the moderator's door before joining.
You should now be able to watch and chat freely. If you're interested, you can learn some more stuffs below:
▌ I don't have time for this.
Video Call Interface
Control Bar
Your control bar is at the bottom of the screen.
/
: Self-explanatory. Careful not to dox yourself.
: Opens the Audio and Video Settings; lets you quickly change your video, microphone, and speaker.
: Self-explanatory. Careful not to show you're /here/. : Opens the chat sidebar.
: Raises your virtual hand.
: Opens Participant List.
: Arranges and swaps between video thumbnails.
Your Name: Lets you change your name.
Manage Video Quality: Self-explanatory.
User Thumbnails
They reside in an invisible pane on the right side of the screen. You can hide the thumbnails by clicking on the small 
There are two types of user thumbnails:
- (You): Your video thumbnail is always at the upper corner of the pane.
- Other: Their video thumbnails are always at the lower corner of the pane.
You can swap focus by clicking on the video thumbnail (including yours).
Minimize Call
- To minimize the call: Click the
button in the right corner of the title bar. ✱
- To restore the call: Click the
button in the upper right corner of the screen. ✱
✱ You must be in a chat room to see the title bar. It's pointless if you join the call from somewhere other than this site.
Close Call
There are two ways to close the call:
- Click the
- Click the
button in your control bar. ✱²
✱ Need to be in a chat room to see the button.
✱² This will take you to the Y99 Meet homepage (
Video Call Chatting
Chat Sidebar
You can open the chat sidebar by clicking the
Polling
You can also make polls by clicking the Poll tab in the chat sidebar.
Private Messaging
You can PM anyone in a video call by doing one of the following below:
- Hover over
- Click
while hovering over the user in the participant list and click Send Private Message.
It's also a great way to avoid getting the wrong players in your lobby. Useful for the games with a simple lobby invite or code system.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Happens If I Log Out or Delete the Cookies?
- You'll lose everything. You won't recover your accounts regardless of how much you try.
- The site appears to have no auto-delete function for logged-out guest accounts, so you can't reuse the same names anymore.
- If you logged out by accident, you'll have to rely on modifying your name to enter, for example,
anon1instead ofanon. - Unless your chat rooms are not in the Waiting List mode, you may be able to rejoin your chat rooms (untested).
- Conference Calls are seemingly permanent; therefore, you may rejoin the call if you can remember their URLs.
▌Back to the Option Menu.
▌Back to the Join the Video Call.
▌Back to the Top.