To get started, select the "Event Desk" button on your event page. Note: The Event Desk button will appear after the registration has been closed. If no existing draws, you'll be prompted to choose how you like to schedule your matches.
Then you can either:
- Start by creating a new empty draw
- Go to the All Players List and start creating a draw by selecting players
Option 1: Create Draws
This is our traditional way of creating draws. From the welcome page of your Event Desk, click the Create Draw button and the create draw sidebar will appear.
Option 2: Create Draws from All Players List
This feature allows you to add selected players to a specific draw. From the welcome page of your Event Desk, click the All Players List button and you'll be redirected to the list of all of your registered players. Here you can arrange the players according to their name, Singles/Doubles rating, and age or filter the players based on their gender. You also have the option to search for a specific player. Once you have ticked your selected players, click the "Add To" button at the top then, click "Add To New Draw" and "Create Draw".
PLAYOFF DRAWS
Playoff draws are a new feature that allows the automatic creation of playoff draws (child draws) connected to the main (parent) draw. This feature is useful to advance top players from a main draw into playoff rounds.
Things to note:
- An option to add a 3rd/4th place playoff will be available. If selected, players who lose in the semifinals will be moved to a 3rd/4th place playoff draw to compete for 3rd place.
MANAGING EXISTING DRAWS
The Player Bank or the list of players you see that have registered for your event. You also have the option to sort players according to their UTR, name, or status within the draw.
You'll see all the players that have registered under Players Not in Draw. In order for them to be moved into the draw, you'll need to move them into the Not Placed category first. Select their names and click "Add to Draw".
SEEDING YOUR DRAWS
After you've populated your Players Bank, you will have the following options for seeding your players (available for all formats except Matchplay):
- Manually assign seeds
- Seed by UTR Rating (with options for 25%, 50%, or 100% of the draw)
- Use random seeding
- Hide seeds from players
Seeding by UTR Rating
Providers can now choose what percentage of the draw to seed based on UTR Ratings:
- 25% of the draw → The existing option, where 25% of players are seeded, and the rest are placed randomly.
- 50% of the draw → Half of the draw is seeded by UTR, with the remaining players placed randomly.
- 100% of the draw → All players are seeded and placed based on their UTR Rating.
Manual Seeding
- Providers can manually assign seeds by entering numbers in the seed boxes next to each player’s name.
- Any unseeded players will be placed randomly in the draw.
Random Seeding
- Providers can choose to seed 25%, 50%, or 100% of the draw randomly.
- This option does not consider player ratings, ensuring a completely randomized seeding process.
Hide Seeds Option
A new “Hide Seeds” checkbox allows providers to hide seeding information from players.
The Hide Seeds setting can be turned on or off at any time.
When enabled:
- Seeds will not be visible on event profile draws or printed draw views.
- Providers will still see seeds in the event desk draws.
- Printed draws always hide seeds, even for providers, since both players and providers share the same print views.
SETTING MATCH LOCATION, DATE, AND TIME
Once you have the players placed in the draw to your liking, you can then enter in times, dates, and locations for the Rounds or each match. You have the option to do this by round by clicking the "Set Location" and "Date & Time" under the round or you can do it by individual matches by clicking the "Set Date & Time" and "Set Location" on the match details box. Here is the information you will be asked to complete:
For draws with a back draw, move your cursor to the far left of the page to expand the "Event Desk" drawer. There you can select the draw or back draw you would like to edit. Note once scores are entered, players are automatically pushed to the back draw.
PUBLISHING AND UNPUBLISHING YOUR DRAWS
- Publishing draws makes them visible to anyone viewing the main event page. When you're ready to make your draws public, click the "Publish" button on the top right of the page. From the pop-up window, select each draw you'd like to Publish. Unselected draws will remain unpublished.
- Unpublishing draws will remove them from your event page. To un-publish a draw, simply click the Publish button again, uncheck the boxes of the draws you'd like to un-publish and click Publish to save your choices.
Note: Draws that have scores, cannot be unpublished.
Awesome! You have created a First Match Backdraw/Single Elimination draw!
Check these articles on the different draw types: