Group (Round Robin) Competition Setup

This guide walks you through the creation of a round robin tournament, group structures, and optional automated knockout progression with optional seeding to ensure your event runs smoothly.

Matthew Warr
31 steps
3 minutes

Localhost

Round Configuration

This guide assumes you have already entered the basics for your competition, and added all your competition entries. You need to be in the **Rounds** tab of the competition setup wizard.

Select "Group (Round Robin)" as the Round Type.

If your round robin takes place over a series of weeks, then setup the date configuration. If your matches are being played on a specified date, set it to On. Otherwise there are options for "By" if there is a deadline for a match, or "Week Commencing" if they have to be played at any time in a certain week.

Configure your match details for the tournament. These will be applied for the round robin matches, and automatically copied for optional tournament brackets after the group stage. Choose the number of sets played, Race To or Best Of, and the number.

Enable "Play all Frames" to continue matches beyond the winning amount, which might be useful if you are using a Points per Frame format.

Choose a League Table Profile. This will determine what points are awarded for the match and how the group tables are sorted. Click the **Setup league table profiles** link to set up more or review them in detail.

Enter the number of groups you want to create. This will usually be a "power of 2" (2, 4, 8, 16) to ensure an even tournement bracket after the group stage, but you can have as many as you like. Then press Generate Groups.

Group Setup

With the groups generated, you can either drag and drop entries into the groups (if you have drawn them manually offline or you have some other drawing method), otherwise you can press Randomize, which will shuffle everyone into the groups at random.

Set the frequency for how many times they will "Play Each Other"in the group stage, and press Generate Matches

Select the "Single Elimination" option.

The matches will be generated, and you can expand the Round to view the matches created.

If the competition is not a Single day event, you can configure a date to be applied to each round of matches.

Knockout Configuration

With the groups setup, you are able to determine what happens after the group stage is complete.

1. **No Knockout** - When you want to end the competition at the group stage. This is rare, but can be common for singles leagues. 2. **Manual Next Phase** - When you want to manually sort out what happens next 3. **Single Elimination** - This will automatically construct a single elimination draw that will be created and qualifying entries placed into it according to the randomise/seed options 4. **Double Elimination** - This will automatically construct a doible elimination draw that will be created and qualifying entries placed into it according to the template selected, and the randomise/seed options

Single Elimination

Choose the number of entries that will qualify per group.

Enable "Randomize each round" and "Pre-draw randomized matches" if you wish to do so.

**KNOCKOUT OPTIONS** 1. **Randomize Each Round** will shuffle the entries in each round and will not produce a bracketed tournement. When a match gets completed the winner will be put into a slot in the next round at random. 2. **Pre-draw Randomized Matches** will randomize the matches right away. So although it is not a bracket draw, you can still work out your route to the final.

Next, choose a seeding option for the tournament. These can vary depending ont he options chosed. As you make your seelction,s a preview of what they will do appears below.

**SEEDING OPTIONS** 1. **Randomize All** - This will randomize all the qualifiers and won't care if people play each other in the round from the same group or finish position. Truly a lottery. 2. **Group Position Rotation** - This will group all qualifiers by their finish position. The top finisher in group A will play the lowest finisher in the lats group, and work backwards. This ensures that group finishers avoid each other until the latter stages and that group winners are rewarded with "easier" next phase draws 3. **Group Position Randomize**- This will group all qualifiers by their finish position and randomize them in groups, and ensure that high place finishers play low place finishers, but still won't care if they played in the same group

Click "Save" to finalize the knockout configuration.

Click "Start Competition" to lock the draw and activate matches.

Double Elimination

Select the "Double Elimination" option.

Choose the number of qualifiers you want in each group.

Choose a template. These will be filtered to only valid templates based upon the number of qualifiers it calculates you will have.

Choose a seeding option for how qualifiers will be allocated matches in the first rounds of the double elimination tournament.

Click "Save" to finalize the knockout configuration.

Click "Start Competition" to lock the draw and activate matches.

Competition Operation

When the competition is started, you can share the "Live Scoring" page. This will give you a view of the tournamenet and there is also a bracket view for supported tournament types.

The matches appear underneath the group tables.

You can then operate the tournament using any of the supported scoring options. Using own apps, tablet scoring, referee mode, or as below, the scorecard editor.

Record the frame wins for the match in the scorecard.\ Click "Update, Commit, Process Statistics" to save the result.\ Click "Continue" to confirm the scorecard submission.

You can click "Progress To Knockout" to advance qualifiers to the next phase. You can do this when all matches are completed or set as walkovers.

When you view the live scoring page you will see the relevant entries have been allocated matches.

Now, as matches are completed, they automatically progress through the tournament bracket.

Group (Round Robin) Competition Setup

This guide walks you through the creation of a round robin tournament, group structures, and optional automated knockout progression with optional seeding to ensure your event runs smoothly.

Matthew Warr
31 steps
3 minutes

Localhost

Round Configuration

This guide assumes you have already entered the basics for your competition, and added all your competition entries. You need to be in the **Rounds** tab of the competition setup wizard.

Select "Group (Round Robin)" as the Round Type.

Enable "Play all Frames" to continue matches beyond the winning amount, which might be useful if you are using a Points per Frame format.

Group Setup

Set the frequency for how many times they will "Play Each Other"in the group stage, and press Generate Matches

Select the "Single Elimination" option.

The matches will be generated, and you can expand the Round to view the matches created.

If the competition is not a Single day event, you can configure a date to be applied to each round of matches.

Knockout Configuration

With the groups setup, you are able to determine what happens after the group stage is complete.

Single Elimination

Choose the number of entries that will qualify per group.

Enable "Randomize each round" and "Pre-draw randomized matches" if you wish to do so.

Next, choose a seeding option for the tournament. These can vary depending ont he options chosed. As you make your seelction,s a preview of what they will do appears below.

Click "Save" to finalize the knockout configuration.

Click "Start Competition" to lock the draw and activate matches.

Double Elimination

Select the "Double Elimination" option.

Choose the number of qualifiers you want in each group.

Choose a template. These will be filtered to only valid templates based upon the number of qualifiers it calculates you will have.

Choose a seeding option for how qualifiers will be allocated matches in the first rounds of the double elimination tournament.

Click "Save" to finalize the knockout configuration.

Click "Start Competition" to lock the draw and activate matches.

Competition Operation

When the competition is started, you can share the "Live Scoring" page. This will give you a view of the tournamenet and there is also a bracket view for supported tournament types.

The matches appear underneath the group tables.

You can then operate the tournament using any of the supported scoring options. Using own apps, tablet scoring, referee mode, or as below, the scorecard editor.

Record the frame wins for the match in the scorecard.\ Click "Update, Commit, Process Statistics" to save the result.\ Click "Continue" to confirm the scorecard submission.

You can click "Progress To Knockout" to advance qualifiers to the next phase. You can do this when all matches are completed or set as walkovers.

When you view the live scoring page you will see the relevant entries have been allocated matches.

Now, as matches are completed, they automatically progress through the tournament bracket.