Getting Started - Creating a Tournament

In this next article in the getting started series, we will walk through the process of creating a simple tournament.

Before a tournament can be created, there must be a Club record for the club that will be hosting the tournament. This can be simply created by navigating to the Clubs screen, clicking "Add New Club", entering the club name and clicking "Save". The other details on the club screen we'll leave for now as not required for a simple tournament.

Now to create the tournament.
Navigate to the Tournaments screen and click "New Tournament" and then enter each of the fields and click Save:

The Tournaments screen will now include your tournament in the grid - click on the tournament name link and the tournament summary will be displayed.

The next step is to "Add New Grade", filling in all of the required details and clicking Save:

Next we need to add players to the tournament - click on the Players tab and click "Add Player". Select each player (from the presented full player list) to add to the tournament. The players will now be in the "[Ungraded]" section:

Now we need to add the players to the grade by click on the arrow button and selecting the grade that you want to add the player to.

In the next article we will run the draw, schedule the matches and enter the results.