# Matchmaking

## Motivation

coherence provides a powerful matchmaking API with various different setups (multiple teams, team sizes, etc.).

## Configuration

Before using the matchmaking service you have to configure it on the developer portal. Currently there are two things to setup: the timeout and the teams.

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The timeout is in seconds. There can be any number of teams and any number of players per team.

For example, a chess game would need only one team with two players, while in a socker game you'd need two teams with eleven players per team.

## Using the matchmaking

Please refer to the [**Cloud API: Matchmaking.**](/0.5.2/api-reference/cloud-api/matchmaking.md)


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