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 Delete 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If a player was suspended or requested to be withdrawn after selections were completed, an icon will present next to the player's name in the Tournament Desk-Participants tab.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tab alerting the TD with the above information as below: The warning arrow will show you if they are suspended or withdrawn.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)
- 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.
- Draw Creation:
- Automated - The system will place players 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
After a Draw is created, you can choose to Publish the draw for the public to view. Go to Publish and Unpublish Draws for assistance.
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Delete a draw
- Click 'Draw options'
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Click' 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.
- Click the Draw Options drop-down on the right.
- Click Reset Qualifying Draw or Reset Main Draw. This will only delete one structure.