Setting up your Wicked 8 Ball Tourney
To setup your tourney the way you want it you first need to log into the td center (click link to log in). The main focus of this guide will be on learning to setup your tourney.
Look at the list in the td center and find the link for administer tournaments and click on that.
Once you click on that link this is what you will see:
Select the tourney that you wish to work with from your list of tourneys. To select a tourney click on the bold numbers in the I.D. # column and you will be taken to the administration page for that tourney.
This is the part of the tourney administration we will be working with:
This is what the right side of your tourney administration page will look like. We will go through this step by step and explain what to change on each part of this.
First let's look at the remove team option:
The drop down box shown above will show all the people/teams who are registered for your tourney. Never remove someone from your tourney unless they asked to be withdrawn or you are instructed to do so because they have been dqed or boxed. To remove someone you will select their name from the drop down menu and click on the remove team button.
Next let's look at Edit Tourney Information:
This is where you will edit the tourney information that you set when you created the tourney in the previous guide. To change the date of the tourney click on the drop down menu's to change the month day and year as necessary. This will change your tourney to another date (however please check tourney calendar for open time slots before moving your tourney to make sure we do not have them overlapping. To change the time of your tourney you need to change the time that round 1 will begin and change all times below leaving a 15 min gap between each round. You will also need to make sure you change the am and PM settings as necessary.
On this page you can also change the name of your tourney. You may also give a ladderbux award to the top finisher of your tourney by putting a number value in the box (your only allowed to do this 3 times per month). Please remember these bux come out of your personal bux.
Always leave your tourney at 8 rounds, cases will adjust the tourney to less rounds if not enough people join to fill 8 full rounds of tourney play. Also please always leave the location as Cali Saloon or California Saloon so that members are not confused as to where they tourney will be played.
Click change tourney info to finalize your changes or reset to clear the changes you made. There is also a link that will return you to administer your tourney if you do not wish to make changes at this time.
Now we will discuss customizing tourney rules:
This is where you customize the rules of your tourney. Unless your doing a special format you will leave the rules for each round blank. If you go to the Wicked 8 Ball Yahoo Group you will find the tourney rules text file listed under the files tab. You will copy and paste these rules exactly as they are into the custom rules box. Once you paste them into there set them as your default rules by clicking on the box labeled as such. This will put the tourney rules on your tourney page every time you make a tourney. However please not that cases does hiccup as we all know and so you need to double check for each tourney that these rules are there. Click submit to finish customizing rules.
Next we will talk about Seed Players by:
In your tourney you can seed the players however you want. We have no set way that we require seeding to be done. It is done as td choice. You can see by rating, rank or registration, select one of these from the drop down menu and click on change seeding. The default set by cases is by rating.
Customizing tourney layout:
Because of the amount of description and detail needed this will be done in a separate guide. Please follow the link at the bottom of this page to learn how to customize your tourney layout. This is the section where you will add graphics, text, colors and music to your tourney pages.
Now we will talk about posting a tourney message:
This is the place that will allow you to add a message to everyone who views your tourney page. Now a couple things to keep in mind here... This message cannot be edited or deleted once you click on post message. You can and will be disciplined if you are found to be posting things you should not be. You may not post anything that insults people, name calling, foul language or sexually explicit information. Keeping in mind that this cannot be edited please double check your spelling! If we find things being posted that should not be we can and will delete the tourney and put you on vacation and/or in training status as necessary. Click on post message when your finished.
Finally we will talk about deleting tourneys:
I wanted to show you what this screen looks like. However per new league rules unless you are an admin you are NOT ALLOWED to delete or cancel a tourney for any reason!! If you delete or cancel a tourney for any reason you will be placed on 1 day of in training status and not be allowed to run tourneys for that day.
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