Create & Publish A Draw

Once you are ready to create your tournament draws, follow the steps outlined below. For an overview of draw creation and draw creation options, please refer to the Creating Draws in Tournament Desk Overview article.

How to Create and Publish a Draw

Before following the steps below and creating your draw, ensure you have completed all the pre-draw activities you require (avoidances, seeds, etc). When you are ready to create the draw, follow these instructions.

• Navigate to Tournament Desk by clicking Launch Tournament Desk on the tournament menu.

• Click on the Events tab and select the appropriate event.

• Click on the Draw tab.

•  Click Make Draw.
  • Ensure you have completed all the pre-draw activities you require (avoidances, seeds, etc) before clicking Make Draw.

• Upon clicking Add Draw, you will enter the draw details. 
  • There are two Creation method options listed in the last drop-down box:
    • Automated - The system will place ENTIRES into the draw automatically.  
    • Manual - This option will provide a blank draw. 

• Once you have input the details, click Make draw.  Your draw will now be created.
  • Please note your draw will be blank if Manual Draw was selected.

• For manual draw creation, you will need to enter players into the draw by right-clicking on the position in the draw and selecting the Assign draw position.   
  • You can also assign seeds to the draw by right-clicking and selecting Assign Seeds.

• If you need to redo the draw you can click Draw options and then Delete draw. 
  • The system will require a reason as to why the draw was deleted. 

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• Once draw has been created, you are able to publish the draw on your tournament website.
  • This can be done by publishing each draw individually or by publishing all created draws at once. Both options are described below.
    
    

• To publish each event's draw individually, within each event, click Draw Options and then Publish Draw.

• The tournament draw will show the matches and schedule for for the selected round and two others.
  • The selected round is indicated by the darker blue box at the top of the draw, while the other two rounds are indicated by a light blue box. Any round you're not currently viewing is indicated by a grey box.
  • You can click on the box for any round to jump to the matches and schedules for that round.

• To Unpublish your draw, click Draw Options and Unpublish draw.

• To publish all created draws at once, within the Events tab, click Publish and then Publish all Created Draws.  
  • This will publish all draws that have been created, pending draws will not be published. 
  • To unpublish all draws, click Unpublish all created draws.