Tournaments
A Tournament is a container in which games can be created – it might help to think of it a season of Blood Bowl, or if divisions are being used for seasons, perhaps as a phase within a multi-stage competition (a ‘regular’ season, followed by a different tournament for ‘playoffs’, for example).
Different tournaments can be scheduled or scored differently and are always created within a Division.
To start the process of setting up a Tournament, we’ll need to be logged on with a commissioner or admin account.
Go to Admin -> Leagues, Divisions & Tournaments, click on “Tournament”.
Now we are in the Tournament section, where we can get teams ready to either allow coaches to schedule their own matches, or schedule matches within the division for them.
We need to create a tournament within a pre-existing division first.
In this example, we will create a tournament within each division to represent each season. Note that creating the Tournament using this method is only used for Free-for-All tournaments. Don’t use this for creating a Round Robin tournament, for that we can do it all from the Scheduler.
If you click on the “In division” drop down box we can choose which division, from which league, we want to create a tournament for.
We choose the division we want to create the season (Tournament) within.
We enter the Name of the Tournament (here we used “Season 1”).
In the next drop-down box we can choose what scoring method we would like to use.
All five of our standard NAFLM Ranking methods are in milestone 1. We have chosen #5, which sorts the competitors by points (three points for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss); then by net touchdowns; then by net team casualties. The different aspects of these scoring setups is detailed in the Advanced Settings section of this document.
We next must choose what sort of tournament it is we like to run.
There are two options:
Round-Robin – where each team plays each other once. (don’t use this option as it is done from the scheduler)
FFA (Free For All) - where the players organise independently whom they would like to play round to round.
We will choose round robin, and uncheck “Coaches may schedule their own matches”
Then we hit “Create” and we are done.
If you have made a mistake, not to worry, you can modify the tournament later.
It has the same options as the creation, but here you can change an already created tournament.
Again, don’t create a Round Robin here, it is best done from the Scheduler
This Feature is only available to Global Commissioners; it is very dangerous to delete a tournament that has data in it.
This feature is only meant to be used for non-played or empty tournaments and test-tournaments.
If you decide to delete a proper tournament you should know that this will
- delete the tournament-associated data forever (this includes team and player gained stats in the tournament).
- generate incorrect player statuses for those matches following (date-wise) the matches deleted. Re-saving/changing old matches may therefore be problematic
Select the season from the drop-down box and hit “Delete”
It is now deleted.