Once you have launched Tournament Desk, it is time to create teams, add players to teams and promote selected teams to the main event.
- Creating Teams
- Adding Players to a Team
- Promoting selected teams to the Main Event
- View Team's Average Ranking and Seeding
Creating Teams:
- In the Participants Tab, click on Teams and select Create Team.
- Here you will fill out the information for the teams you want to create. Each team is made individually.
Once you have created all the teams, it is time to add the players.
Adding Players to a Team
From the Teams tab:
- Click the Teams tab
- Click the Team you would like to add players to
- Click Add Participant
- Here you can click 'Only show players without a team'.
- You can also filter players by event.
- Select players to be added to a team. Select top box to select all player.
- Click 'Add Players to team'
Once players are placed on a team, the team will show an average WTN total (as shown below). The decision to use average WTN instead of cumulative was decided because of the use case of teams having unequal number of players.
- Players will now appear on the Roster for that team
- To remove a player, click Remove next to their name on the Team Roster
From Players tab:
- From Tournament Desk, select the Participants tab.
- Click 'Players tab'
- You can filter players by event or gender and search by player names.
- Select players to be added. Click the top box to select all.
- Click 'Add to team' in in the blue box
- Here you can view all players selected to confirm.
- Select the team from the drop down and click 'confirm'
- To remove a player from the team, click the x by the team name
Once players are placed on a team, the team will show an average WTN total (as shown below). The decision to use average WTN instead of cumulative was decided because of the use case of teams having unequal number of players.
Promoting teams to Selected Teams:
- Once teams are created and players are put into teams, head over to the Events Tab and go through the events.
- The teams will be placed in Alternates Teams section until you are ready to promote them to the Selected Teams. In the alternate teams section, you can move the first team on the list into the Selected Team section by clicking Main Event. You can also move multiple teams by ticking the boxes and selecting Move to Selected.
You will then need to confirm the move and the amount players will be charged. Click Confirm Move. Registrants that have been charged at Player Selections will not be charged extra and will show amount paid.
Note: Players that were manually added to the tournament will not have a credit card stored and therefore will not be charged until sent a payment request in Serve Tennis admin. Please remember to send payment request to receive the payment.
The amount paid and the charge amount (owed) will show when teams are promoted to the main draw in Tournament Desk (as shown below).
Once Confirmed, teams will be moved into the Selected Team section, complete manual seeding as necessary (Only manual is available to Team Tournaments) How to Seed Manually .
You are now ready to create you draws. This guide will assist Creating Draws for Team Events
View Team's Average Ranking and Seeding
The average rankings of a team in a team event will now be displayed in Tournament Desk within the event. Note: In Team Events - only Manual Seeding is an option. Auto-seed will not work for teams. If you are seeding by ranking or WTN, click on the label and it will sort in order.
- Click the Events Tab and select the event
- Click the Entries tab
- Under the Teams section, you see the WTN SINGLES column. This is the average off all player's rankings in the team.