What is a compass draw?
This draw received its name due to the bracket sheet being marked by points found on the compass (North, South, East, West, Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast). This style of draw works best with tournaments that consist of 8 or 16 players. Note: The winner always advances in the draw they are currently in.
First Round
All players or teams will begin in the center of the bracket based on their seeding. When a player or team loses, they will advance to the West (left side) of the bracket, whereas the winning player or team will advance to the East (right side) of the bracket.
Second Round
For brackets containing 8 or 16 players, the player or team that loses on the East (right) side of the bracket will advance to the North (up) and the winner advances to the East (right) once again. The player or team that loses on the West (left) side of the bracket will advance South (down) and the winner advances to the West (left) once again. The winning player or team will continue to advance to both the East (right) and the West (left).
Third Round
For brackets containing 16 players, the losing player or team on the West (left) side will advance on the Southwest (down and left). The losing player or team on the East (right) will move Northeast (up and right). The losing player or team of the South (straight down) will advance Southeast (down and right) and the losing player or team of the North (straight up) will advance Northwest (up and left).
Fourth Round
For brackets containing 16 players, the winner of each direction is the ultimate winner of the specific direction.
To get started, select the Event Desk button on your event page and you'll see the improved Event Desk loading page.
Note: The Event Desk button will appear after the registration has been closed.
CREATING NEW DRAW
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".
MANAGING EXISTING DRAWS
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. For them to be moved into the Compass 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 "Set 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.
To view the other points of the compass draw to set dates and times, 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 appropriate 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.
Once the draws have been published, you will then be taken to the event homepage. There you can scroll down and click on the "Draws" tab to view the draws. Here you can filter through the published draws and print your draws.
Awesome! You have created a Compass draw!
Check these articles on the different draw types: