Adding an olympic tournament
A single-elimination tournament, or play-off — a competition system in which a participant leaves the tournament after the first loss (based on one game or a series of several games between two participants that unambiguously determines the outright winner). It identifies the winner in the minimum number of rounds and encourages intense competition in the tournament. The main features of a single-elimination tournament:
- up to 32(free) and 128(paid) members;
- game schedule generation;
- the ability to play the tournament up to 2 losses, with a losers' bracket and a super final;
- the ability to have several games within a pair;
- bracket building;
- tournament statistics calculation, including goals, assists, warnings and expulsions.
Adding a new tournament
To add a tournament, go to the
"tournaments" page and
click the green "Add" button.
The new tournament adding page will open:
New tournament parameters:
- title - the name of your tournament;
- sport - choose a suitable sport to make your tournament easier to find. If nothing fits, leave "other";
- tournament type - we are adding a round-robin tournament;
- description - here you can provide a detailed description of the competition, which will be displayed on the tournament home page;
- contacts - leave users a convenient way to contact you. This information is available to everyone;
- start and end dates - the dates of your tournament;
At this point the tournament can be created by clicking the "save" button.
After creation, the main information page of the new tournament will open:
Adding games
The next step is adding members. See the tutorial Tournament members
A tournament with filled members allows proceeding to creating the tournament games.
For a single-elimination tournament, only automatic schedule generation is available.
The created schedule can be edited later.
To generate, go to the "games" tab and use the "generate games" button.
The game generation window will be displayed. The generation will create games for all pairs of members, the further schedule,
and, where possible, evenly distribute home and away games.
It is possible to specify the number of losses, the presence of a super final, 3rd place games, the number of games in pairs:
Also, if the members are not yet known, it is possible to pre-generate games using the "Members" -> "By member hint list" setting. In this case, you need to enter hints that will appear in the games instead of the members.
After generation, all games and the schedule will be created. In the first games of the schedule, the participating
teams can be changed manually.
Scheme types
The system supports 2 types of single-elimination tournament scheme generation for incomplete brackets.
The first type - a participant starting from round 2 plays against the winner of a round 1 pair:
The second type - a participant starting from round 2 plays against another participant starting from round 2:
Your tournament is ready! Now you can fill in the game results, after which the schedule and statistics will be recalculated automatically.