Create a tournament

Creating a tournament takes two steps: the basics, then a plan. The tournament exists as soon as you finish the first step, so you can stop after it and come back to the plan whenever you like.

Where to start

Open your organization’s home screen, click the Tournaments tile, then click Create tournament.

No Create tournament button?

Creating tournaments needs permission in your organization. Ask an owner or admin to give you a role that can, or to create the tournament for you.

Step 1: the basics

1. Enter the name.

   This is what appears on your public page, your scoreboard and everywhere in the app. You can change it later.

2. Check the subdomain.

   Scored suggests one from the name. It becomes the address of your public tournament page: a subdomain of acme-open makes the page acme-open.scored-page.com, and team managers work at acme-open.scored-page.com/manage.

   It takes lowercase letters, numbers and dashes only. If someone else already has it, the form tells you and nothing is created.

3. Pick the timezone.

   Every match start time you enter later is read in this timezone, so pick the one the event is played in. The list is searchable.

4. Add the start and end dates.

   Optional, and easy to add later. The end date has to be on or after the start date.

5. Add a logo, if you have one.

   Optional. Pick an image and crop it to a square.

6. Click Create tournament.

Your tournament now exists on the Free plan, which holds up to 8 teams. Nothing has been charged.

Step 2: pick a plan

The second step shows the four plans with their prices, and what each one adds. Take your time here or skip it - the tournament is already made.

• Start free and continue leaves the tournament on Free and takes you to it.
• Pay and continue takes you to Stripe, our payment provider, to pay by card. Once the payment lands you come back to the tournament’s Billing page.

There is one payment per tournament, and nothing renews. If you upgrade later, you pay only the difference to what you have already paid.

Each plan card lists what it holds and what it adds, and Settings > Billing shows the same thing any time later.

Changed your mind at the payment page?

Close it or click back. Nothing is charged and your tournament is untouched - you land on its dashboard with a note saying it is on the Free plan. Add a plan any time from Settings > Billing.

Closing the window at this step

The tournament was created at the end of step 1, so closing the window does not throw it away. Scored takes you to the new tournament instead of back to the list.

What to do next

Your new tournament opens on its own workspace - Finding your way around shows you through it. Three things get it ready to play:

1. Build the structure.

   Divisions, stages and groups - the shape of the competition. See Structure.

2. Add your teams.

   Type them in yourself, or invite each team’s manager to fill in their own squad. See Teams.

3. Make the schedule.

   Courts or pitches, time slots, and the matches that fill them. See Schedule.

Once teams and matches are in place, team managers can name their line-ups and follow their fixtures in the Team Manager portal.

Changing the basics later

Everything from step 1 lives in Settings > General, and you can edit it whenever you like.

Changing the subdomain breaks old links

Your public page address is built from the subdomain. Change it and any link you have already shared - posters, emails, a message to your team managers - stops working.