The Double Elimination draw format is most commonly used in pickleball play but can also be used in tennis. This allows players the opportunity to play more matches during an event wherein all players must lose twice before being eliminated, regardless of which draw or round they are in.
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".
CREATING NEW DRAWS
Upon creating your draw, ensure that you are selecting the "Double Elimination" draw format and the corresponding draw size.
Pro-tip: The recommended draw size for this format is 8 or 16 players - 32 is also good!
MANAGING YOUR PLAYER BANK
In your Player Bank, you'll see all the players who registered for your event categorized under All, Not Placed, Placed, or Players Not in Draw.
To move players from Players Not in Draw to a draw, you can either check the boxes to the left of their names and click "Add to Draw", or you can click the three dots to the right of their names and select "Add to Draw" from the dropdown menu. Either way, players will be moved to the Not Placed category:
Hint: To move players to another draw or to remove them from the draw you're working with, simply check the boxes next to their names and select "Move" or "Remove" from the top of the Players Bank.
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.
ENTERING SCORES
Once you start entering match scores, main draw losers will move to the back draw, regardless of which round they lose.
Note: When players move to the back draw, they will be placed during certain rounds in reverse order at a time to avoid repeat matchups.
The last player in the back draw with only 1 loss will be moved back to the main draw to play against the main draw winner with 0 losses in the championship match.
Note: If the back draw winner with only 1 loss defeats the main draw winner with 0 losses in the championship match, an additional match will be required to be played. This is due to the fact that the main draw winner with 0 losses cannot be eliminated with only 1 loss.
In the example below, Regina is the player with 0 losses from the main draw and Jamie is the player with 1 loss from the back draw. Since Jamie defeated Regina in the championship round (Round 4), an additional match is populated.
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 Double Elimination draw!
Check these articles on the different draw types: