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Creating a Tournament

If you are a tournament director of an organization, you may create tournaments.

  1. Log in to BowlBoard by clicking the Sign In button at the top right.
  2. From the home page, under the Management Tools section, click Manage Tournaments.
  3. Click the Create Tournament button.
  4. Fill out the details of the tournament.
    • Organization: Choose the organization that the tournament is hosted by. You must be a director of the organization to select it.
    • Name: The name of the tournament.
    • Bowling center: The bowling center where the tournament will take place. If it is not in the predefined list, please contact us to have it added.
    • Description (optional): A public description of the tournament. You can include tournament rules or a link to them here. If you'd like to add formatting, markdown is supported. For more guidance on formatting, visit markdownguide.org.
    • Start/End date: The start and end date of the tournament as a whole. You and other directors/managers will only be able to create events and squad times for this tournament within this date range.
    • Basis score (for handicap events): The score from which a bowler's average will be deducted. The result is multiplied by the multiplier value.
    • Multiplier (for handicap events): The value used to calculated a bowler's handicap for the tournament. If it is a scratch-only tournament, set the multiplier to 0 to disable handicap features for the tournament.
    • Registration cutoff minutes: The number of minutes prior to the start time of a squad that a user must register by. Self-registration for a squad will close automatically once the time has passed this set number of minutes prior to the start time.
    • Side pot cutoff minutes: The number of minutes prior to the start time of a squad-level side pot (Brackets, Match Play entry, Eliminator) that a user must register by. It is assumed that the side pot's start time is the same time as the squad it is associated with.
    • Enable event averages: Check the box to enable per-event bowler averages. Caution: Enabling this means that for any update to a bowler's average while managing bowlers in an event's squad, it will only update the average for that event. If an event-specific average is not set, BowlBoard will use the bowler's average set for the tournament.
  5. Click Create Tournament.