Bracket and match schedule

Generate the bracket#

Generate Bracket shows in the header when three things are true: the tournament is Registration Closed, its format is Single Elimination, Round Robin or Group Stage, and it has no matches yet.

• The confirmation describes what the tournament's own format will build.
• Only Confirmed participants go in, ordered by seed and then by the order they registered. At least two are needed.
• Single Elimination pairs the top seed with the lowest so the best seeds meet late. Byes are played automatically as walkovers.
• Round Robin makes one League with every pairing once. Group Stage makes the groups and, when it fits, the knockout rounds with empty places.
• If some teams are below their required roster, the bracket is still built and a warning names them.
• The bracket can be generated once. To change the draw, edit the matches.

Courts and times#

Right after generating, every match with both sides known gets the primary court and a time. Matches are placed one after the other from the start date, one match length apart, inside the daily hours, and roll to the next day when a day is full. Without daily hours they run on continuously from the start time.

Auto schedule matches in the header does this again, for example after you change the daily hours, the match length or the primary court. It shows from Registration Closed to In Progress while some matches are still waiting. It changes the times of every match not started yet and leaves started and finished matches alone. The matches it moves go after the last started or finished match, never on a slot already played, and from the start date when nothing has been played yet. Placing matches never creates bookings.

The Matches tab#

• Add match creates a match by hand.
• The Score column shows sets won in a sport scored in sets, and the total goals or points in other sports.
• Edit changes the two sides, the stage, the group, the round, the court, the time, the status, the winner and the set scores. Use it to fill the knockout places of a group stage, or to give later rounds a court and a time.
• Record result enters the scores of a match and completes it, the same as Finish and record on the Scoreboard.
• Reopen takes a finished match back to live, see Scoreboard, results and winners.

When the matches are ready, press Move to Scheduled. It needs the tournament's minimum number of confirmed participants and a bracket.