Tournament templates: a ready layout for a typical event
Many tournaments look alike: office ping-pong for eight, a 16-team football league, a padel Americano evening. For these there are templates — format, sport and number of participants are already chosen.
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What is in the catalogue
- football fixtures for 8 and for 16 teams;
- an office table tennis tournament for 8 people;
- padel Americano for 12 people: 3 courts, 2 hours;
- a school volleyball tournament between classes;
- a weekend club tennis tournament for 16 players;
- a 10-player Swiss-system chess tournament;
- a darts league in a bar for 8 players.
How to use it
Open a template: its page describes the scenario — how many participants, the system of play, how long it takes. The button on the template opens tournament creation with these settings already filled in. You just add participants and start entering scores.
- Open the Tournament templates catalogue — the link is in the site footer.
- Pick a template and press the create button.
- Add participants and get going.
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