---
title: "Remove a tournament staff member"
method: DELETE
path: "/tournaments/{identifier}/staff/{userId}"
tags: ["Tournament: Staff & Invites"]
---

# Remove a tournament staff member

`DELETE /tournaments/{identifier}/staff/{userId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://teambattles.gg/api/v1`
- URL: `https://teambattles.gg/api/v1/tournaments/{identifier}/staff/{userId}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Removes the delegated staff row for the named user. Requires the tournaments staff capability and ADMIN authority on the tournament - a tournament MODERATOR answers 403, so a moderator cannot remove a peer. Idempotent: removing a user who holds no staff row succeeds, so a retry after a lost response is safe. Removing the host has no effect, because host authority comes from the host record rather than a staff row.

## Path parameters

- `identifier` string, required: Tournament slug.
- `userId` string, required: User ID of the staff member to remove.

## Response `200`

The staff member was removed.

- TournamentWriteAck: Acknowledgement returned by the tournament write endpoints whose backing operation has nothing to return - the organizer writes (endpoints 22-34), the team roster writes (40, 41), and the competitor self actions that neither mint nor resolve a row (38, 39, 44, 45, 47). Endpoints that mint a row answer with that row's id instead, and the two respond endpoints (42, 46) answer with the decision they recorded.
  - `success` true, required: Always true; failures are error responses.
  - `timestamp` string, required: Response generation time (ISO 8601).

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request (invalid body, cursor, limit, or date).
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key.
- `403`: API key lacks the required permission.
- `404`: Resource not found.
- `429`: Rate limited.
- `500`: Internal server error.

## Changes

- **2026-07-23** `33b122ff59d0`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/teambattles/apis/teambattles-api/changes/tournaments/:identifier/staff/:userId/delete.md)

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