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How Tournaments are Structured
Organization Homepage Your public page listing the tournament events you have coming up. Visitors start here and pick their event.
Tournament Event The whole tournament, for example your Fall Classic. An event awards several trophies, one per competition. Create one from Add-Edit Events.
Competition A group that competes for one trophy, usually a division or age group such as Boys 14U.
An event can hold many competitions.
Bracket A Competition can have one or many brackets: round robin, match play, pool play, single elimination, double elimination, and custom brackets you build yourself.
Teams and Pools The teams in a competition, and Pools if you split them into groups. Teams can be made available for the Competition, and then assigned to a bracket slot. 
Advance to the next stage A competition can run in stages. We use the term rounds for matches within a bracket, while a Stage is a new bracket. You can set up advancing rules, and you can override the advancing teams before you finalize which ones advance. 
  Advance to the finals The last stage, where the qualifying teams play for the championship.
Scheduling
  Scheduling and Date Entry Scheduled dates for your game.  
  Time Start times and time slots. You can set game times and setup times and use the quick fill based on how many games you can play based on your available playing areas.
Auto-schedule Automatically build the schedule based on the time slots and playing areas you have available. You can also block out slots that are not available for easy scheduling. 
Location Venues and playing areas. The location has the address and directions, and will link to mapping software automatically. You can then list the fields, courts, etc., that are at that location, with more specific instructions. For example "Court 3 and 4 are on the second floor".
Common actions
  Add more Add another Competition, more Teams, another Event, etc. 
  Edit Edit the specific item you are looking at.
  Settings Settings for whatever you are working on. For example to change number of teams in a bracket.
  Options Further options and preferences. For example use a different theme or hide seed numbers. 
  Close Close the panel or dialog. 
  Photos Symbol used when you can upload an image or photo to your webpage. 
Status and alerts
Setup Indicates you are in the bracket setup phase. You can estimate your bracket sizes, etc., and return to the bracket setup later once you have more details on your final setup. 
  Complete Done, or confirmed.
  Alert Something needs your attention. For example a contact person with no email or phone entered.
  Important! Missing input is needed. Items that need to be completed are shown in orange. If you need to input something to continue, for example the number of teams for a bracket or the number of matchups for round-robin play, it may also show the important! icon. 
People and registration
People Coaches, Tournament staff, Officials, and Website Admins. Use the message center to send alerts to various groups. 
  Send Send a message or email to a group from the Message Center.
  User Your own account symbol.
Registration Registration forms and entries. You can register teams and create as many forms as you need. 

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