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- Log in your account, click on Create Tournament on the user menu to the left to get started.
- A form will appear to customize the basic setup of your tournament.
- Input a title (or name) for your tourney. A suggestion is that you put some key information about the tournament, i.e: "2006 NBA Men's Basketball Playoff". This way visitors will have keywords they can search for if they did not have the URL or Tourney ID (TID) to a tournament bracket.
- Select a type of tournament.
Elimination (Regular) - In this type, numbers of team supported are 2th power only, for example: 2,4,8,16,32... Each round, half of remaining teams will be eliminated and the other half go to next round and play each other.
Swiss (Regular) - Swiss supports any number of teams beyond two; in each round, teams with the same number of wins will play each other so there is guaranteed winner in the end. Teams will not be eliminated and get to play all the games throughout the tournament. When there's an odd number of teams, one random team (with least wins) will get a bye (no opponent, free win) in each round. A single team will not get more than one bye in a tournament.
- Input a description of the tournament. The description should be detailed but brief at the same time. It will appear directly under the title on the public page, above the bracket. HTML is restricted in the description, you may only use the following tags: <font><u><i><b><a><s><br><img><hr>.
- When you input the number of player, remember the number must be 2th-power if you've selected Elimiation.
- Also keep in mind you will not be able to change the number of teams after you've created the tournament.
- The Random match pairing checkbox will only apply to Elimination type tournaments. If you check the box, teams will be randomized in the first round of the tournament and match setup ups will go from there. If you leave the box unchecked, you will be able to pair up teams for round 1 matches of the tournament. This feature will be explained more clearly in Creating Teams section of this tutorial.
- Click the "Create Tournament" button on the form to finish creating the tourney.
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- To get to your tournaments, log in and click Manage Tournaments on the left user menu and it will display all the tournaments you have created. By default, 30 tourneys are displayed on one page.
- When displaying the list of all tournaments, there are four columns. One of the column is the TID (Tournament ID), this unique number is very important in identifying a tournment. If you would like your players/fans to access a tournament faster, supply them with the TID and they can enter the number on the front page or search page to go straight to the tournament bracket.
- On the far right of display column is the Current Round info. For example <3/4> means the current round is 3 and the maximum possible round in the tournament is 4. If the font color of Current Round numbers is red then it means that tournament has ended. It is possible for a Swiss-type tournament to end before reaching the maximum round number.
- Links leading to any of your tournament will automatically direct you to the page associated with the stage of the tournament, for example if your tournament is not finished creating teams, then it will goto the Manage Teams page.
- You can also quickly get to your most recent tournaments immediately after login, on the user Home page, 5 most recent tournaments you've created will be listed there.
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- Get to your tournament by going through Manage Tournaments on the menu and you'll be automatically directed to Team Manager page if the tournament have not been started.
- Until you have entered all the teams, the option to start the tournament will not appear. When you have entered all teams, this button will appear:
- You can use the Save button to store the team list and come back later to edit.
- If you have entered all teams but made changes to any team, make sure you press Save again before starting the tournament.
- Entering teams for Swiss type and Elimination Random-pairing type is the same. You can enter the teams in any order since match pairing will be randomized anyways.
- Entering teams for Elimiation non-Random-pairing is a little different. Entry boxes will be displayed in pairs, so you can decide who plays who in the first round of the tournament. The top half of the entry boxes represents the left extreme of a elimiation tournament bracket and the bottom half of team entry is the right extreme of the bracket. see figure:
- Please try to restrict the length of team names to 15 characters and under. It will make brackets look better. In Elimination tournaments, team names with more than 15 characters will be truncated on the bracket.
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- When the tournament has officially started (Round number is 1 or greater), find your tournament through Manage Tournament in user menu or you may search it on the visitor search engine. If you do search it, it will come up as public view, so click on manage this tournament.
- To report the result of a game, find the match on the bracket:
For Elimination type tourneys, click on the winner to report a game result. Once you have clicked, the background color of the winning teams turns green.
For Swiss type tourneys, each row represents one team's path in the tournament, laying out all the opponents that team will face for each round; each column is a round. To report a win, find the row of the winning team and go to the current round and click on the link provided there to report a win.
- If matches played in certain types of tournaments involves points and you want to display it, please use the Match Info feature. The match info is displayed conveniently on all viewable brackets, hosts or guests can just put the mouse over the match info link to see a small popup that displays the info. It is recommanded to use this feature to display scores if needed; however it can be used for other purposes as well, ie: review of the match, comments, location information, etc.
In Elimination tourneys, click on the link made for each match, says Round # - Game #, to add any information you want to that match/game of the tournament.
In Swiss tourneys, click on Edit Match Info of a match/game to add any information you want.
- Reported match results are not finalized until you have clicked on Continue / Next Round, so you may still change the result of any match in the current round by clicking the appropriate links to report the winner.
- Additionally, the Continue / Next Round will not appear until every match in the current round has been reported.
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- To start next round of a tournament, report all matches and the button to proceed to next round will appear. In Elimination tournaments, if the current round is the last round, then the Continue / Next Round will just officially end the tournament and the result of last game will not be able to be edited again.
- To edit match information: In Elimination tourney, click on the links that says Round # - Game #. In Swiss tourney, click on Edit Match Info. Allowed HTML tags while editing matching info are <a><b><u><i>.
- Click on Edit link under the tournament description to make changes to the tournament's title and/or description and/or rules.
- Hosts have complete freedom when editing the rules page, it will fully support HTML and Javascripts, etc. The Rules page is a link on the public tourney view page that will pop up a new window with rules content.
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- Green cell background color indicates winner of a match.
- Rules link will pop up a page with contents supplied by the host of tournament.
Warning: Hosts can post any HTML and Javascript on the rules page, therefore including malicious scripts that may damage or intrude your computer. Tournament Pilot are not responsible for such incidents.
- The round info in < > displays the current round. When the tournament has ended, it will say Ended instead of the round number.
- If you are a host and is logged on while viewing a public tournament page, then there will be a link that says manage this tournament. If you're are the host of the tournament you're viewing, then you may use that link to administer the tourney. If you are not the host, you will be denied access if you clicked on it.
- Guestbook is on the left side of the screen, it can be dragged by the header to any where on the screen.
- The tournament bracket can also be dragged (for convenience if you don't want to use scroll bar). This applied to both public view and tournament manager.
- Match Info can be viewed just by putting your cursor over the link. The link will lead to a page where you can view the info in a bigger window.
- An asterisk next to Match Info indicates that there actually are comments saved, else the match info is empty.
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- Withdraw feature only applied to Swiss-type tournaments. In Elimination-type, simply report a loss for the team that wanted needs to be withdrawn.
- To withdraw a team, in Tournament Manager, choose the team to withdraw from the first column of the bracket and click on the withdraw button (like figure below). When you click it, a confirmation page will come up, click Yes to complete the process.
- Withdrawing team process is irreversible so please use with caution.
- Withdrawn teams will have the gray Withdrawn icon:
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- Guestbooks are unique to each tournament created and are included in a IFRAME to left of bracket that is draggable by the header.
- Tournament Pilot's guestbook feature is based on iPei Guestbook v1.8. Click on Smilies Help on submit page to learn about adding Yahoo! smilies in your posts.
- Hosts of the tournament have edit permission to the corresponding guestbook. To comment or delete a guestbook entry, click on "e" on an entry. see figure below
- The guestbook admin page requires a password, use your account password for authentication.
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- For additional help, please use the Technical Support Request Form or register on our message board and post under the appropriate category.
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