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. Before or after you have published your draw, you can choose what is visible in the public draw in Public Draw Settings. (For Team Tournaments, see Creating Team Tournament Draws)
How to Create and Publish a Draw
Delete Separate Draw Structures (Qualifying and Voluntary Cons)
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.
Note:
If a player was suspended or requested to be withdrawn after selections were completed, an icon will present next to the player's name in the Tournament Desk-Participants tab. The icon next to the player name will display whether this is due to a suspension/ withdrawal request:
- Player suspended
- Withdrawal request [Event name (s)]
- Player suspended and withdrawal request
Additionally, a banner will be displayed on the Participants tab alerting the TD with the above information as below: The warning arrow will show you if they are suspended or withdrawn. The TD can continue to override this, it is just a warning.
- 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.
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Click Make Draw.
- Ensure you have completed all the pre-draw activities you require (avoidances, seeds, etc) before clicking Make Draw.
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Draw Configuration- Input the details,
- Select a draw, draw type and enter a draw name
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Draw size is automatically determined by tournament desk based on the number of players in your main draw, for example:
- 1-4 players = Draw size of 4 players.
- 5-8 players = Draw size of 8 players.
- 9-16 players = Draw size of 16 players.
- 17-32 players = Draw size of 32 players.
- 33-64 players = Draw size of 64 players
- Enter a number of seeds, this will autofill but can be lower (not increased)
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Group Seeding:
- In some cases, the Tournament Committee may group seed players together and assign each of them the same seed (for example, in the group 5-8, each player in the group is assigned the fifth seed).
- Select the number you would like to begin the grouping after, i.e. if you have 8 seeds and you would like seeds to show as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5 you will select 4 here.
- Group seeding will show in the draw only, not in the Entries Tab (regular seeding will show here).
- This will not be available for flighted events.
- More details on group seeding can be found in the Friend At Court 2023.
- Score Format: Options available will be listed. If a score format is not listed, Section/National has not enabled this format.
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Draw Creation:
- Automated - The system will place ENTIRES into the draw automatically.
- Manual - This option will provide a blank draw.
- For manual draw creation, your draw will be blank. You will need to enter players into the draw by right-clicking on the position in the draw and selecting the Assign draw position.
- Click Make Draw
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To delete a draw, click 'Draw options' and then 'Delete draw'.
- The system will require a reason as to why the draw was deleted. This will delete all draws (Main, Consolation)
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Delete Separate Draw Structures (Qualifying and Voluntary Consolation Draws Only)
Tournament Directors have the ability to delete draw structures separately (e.g., Qualifying draw, Main draw) within a Qualifying and Voluntary Consolation type tournament.
- To delete one of the structures, Click the Draw Options drop-down on the right.
- Click Reset Qualifying Draw or Reset Main Draw. This will only delete one structure.
Publish and Unpublish Draws
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Once the 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.
- For Qualifying and Voluntary Consolation draws: Main draw/Qualifying draw, Main draw/Voluntary Consolation can be published separately or together, see below. Note: This is only for Voluntary consolations and does not include other consolation draws currently.
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To publish each event's draw individually, within each event
- Click Draw Options
- Publish Draw.
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For Events with Qualifying or Voluntary Consolation draws, you can publish these draws separately or at once:
- Click Draw Options
- Manage Draw Publishing
- Tick the draws you would like published
- 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.
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You can click on the box for any round to jump to the matches and schedules for that round.
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To Unpublish your draw, click Draw Options and Unpublish draw.
- For Events with Qualifying or Consolation draws, to unpublish, click Mange Draw publishing and un-select the draws you would like to be un-published.
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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.