Adding a swiss tournament
A Swiss tournament is a system for holding sports tournaments without elimination, in each round, starting from the second, pairs of opponents are selected so that participants with an equal number of points meet each other. This excludes games between opponents that are obviously unmatched in strength, which makes it possible to determine the winners with a small number of rounds, compared to the round-robin system, with a large number of participants. The main features of a Swiss tournament:
- up to 15(free) and 40(paid) members;
- step-by-step game schedule generation and manual game adding;
- table building and place distribution;
- tournament statistics calculation.
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;
- tournament type - we are adding a Swiss tournament;
- winner determination - specify here the order of sorting rules for determining the winner;
- additional parameters -> points - specify the point scoring rules, including scoring points for a round skip.
Example of the winner determination setting:
Example of the point scoring setting:
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 games for the first round.
For a Swiss tournament, manual game adding and automatic generation are available.
To generate, go to the "games" tab and use the "generate games" button.
The game generation window will be displayed. The generation is performed for the next round; all current games
must have a result, and repeated games within pairs are not allowed.
After generation, the games of the next round will be created. The games are available for editing.
Your tournament is ready! Now you can fill in the game results for each round, after which the generation of the next round's games will become possible.