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Create and set up a tournament

Every event in Scoreboard Live starts with a tournament. This page covers creating one and the settings you can change afterwards. For the bigger picture of how tournaments, classes and courts fit together, see How Scoreboard Live is organised.

Create a tournament

Open the Tournaments page and click create tournament. A dialog asks for:

  • tournament name.
  • start date and end date.
  • type of tournament — the five types are explained in the overview. You choose the type once, when you create the tournament; it cannot be changed later.
  • series match setup — shown for the team formats (team competition, team cup, team series). It sets the line-up of games that decides each tie; see Team competitions, tables and cups.
  • number of teams — shown for a team cup; the size of the bracket (2–32).

Click ok. The new tournament opens on its settings page so you can finish setting it up.

A new tournament starts as a draft — only you and other administrators can see it until you publish it.

Settings

Open a tournament and go to its settings to change:

  • published — turn this on to make the tournament public; leave it off to keep it a draft.
  • scoresystem — how many games and points decide a match, for example standard (21-21-21).
  • start date, end date and timezone. A team competition has a start time instead of an end date.
  • logo — an image shown with the tournament (cups and series tables).

Team formats have a few extra settings:

  • number of teams — resize a team cup bracket. Making it smaller deletes matches that no longer fit.
  • show series table and series table type — for a series table, whether to show the standings and which point system to use (default, SBL 2021 or simple).

Click save when you are done. To remove a tournament for good, use delete tournament at the bottom of the settings page.

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