Quick Start Guide

Quick Start Guide

This quick start guide shows you how to create a tournament, create and import team data, and run your tournament using Tournament Maker. Make sure you have Java v1.7 or greater installed on your machine. The screenshots on this page are from Tournament Maker v7. You may see a different interface if you are using a different version.

Creating a new tournament

Prerequisite

None

Steps

1. Click the plus icon to open the New Tournament pop-up.
2. Type a Name.
3. In the Number of Courts field, type 5. See image.
4. Click OK.

Result

The Tournament Overview tab populates with five courts, all listed as Available.

Importing player data from a CSV file

Prerequisite

Download data.csv

Steps

1. Click the stacked sheets icon to open the file selection dialog.
2. Navigate to the folder where you saved data.csv and select it.
3. Click Open to open the Import from CSV Data File pop-up.
4. Type [Name] in the Name field.
5. Type [Gender] in the Gender field.
6. Click Import. See image.
7. Click OK.

Result

The Player Overview tab populates with 79 entries.

Creating new team types to use as templates for teams

Prerequisite

None

Steps

1. Click the two person icon to open the New Team Type pop-up.
2. Type MD in the Team Type field.
3. Type 2 in the Size field.
4. Select Male Only from the Team Modifiers drop-down.
5. Click Save. See image.
6. Select New... from the Type of Team drop-down to open the New Team Type pop-up.
7. Type WD in the Team Type field.
8. Type 2 in the Size field.
9. Select Female Only from the Team Modifiers drop-down.
10. Click Save.
11. Select New... from the Type of Team drop-down to open the New Team Type pop-up.
12. Type WS in the Team Type field.
13. Type 1 in the Size field.
14. Select Female Only from the Team Modifiers drop-down.
15. Click Save.
16. Click Done.

Result

You have three types of team types saved: MD (Men's Doubles), WD (Women's Doubles), and WS (Women's Singles).

Manually creating a team

Prerequisite

None

Steps

1. Click the two person icon to open the New Team pop-up.
2. Select WS from the Type of Team drop-down.
3. Type Aaliyah in the Name field.
4. Select Aaliyah from the Players drop-down.
5. Click Done.

Result

The Team Overview tab populates with 1 WS entry.

Creating a new event

Prerequisite

None

Steps

1. Click the single sheet icon to open the New Event popup.
2. Select Single Elimination from the Type of Event drop-down.
3. Select MD from the Type of Team drop-down.
4. Type Event 1 in the Name field.
5. Type 16 in the Number of Teams field.
6. Type 21 in the Minimum Winning Score field.
7. Type 30 in the Maximum Winning Score field.
8. Type 2 in the Win By field.
9. Type 3 in the Best Of field. See image.
10. Click OK.

Result

The Event 1 button appears in the Tournament Overview tab. Note that the text is red, because the event is not started.

Importing team data from a CSV file

Prerequisite

None

Steps

1. Click the stacked sheets icon to open the file selection dialog.
2. Navigate to the folder where you saved data.csv and select it.
3. Click Open to open the Import from CSV Data File pop-up.
4. Select Import Teams from the drop-down below Import from CSV Data File.
5. Select MD from the Type of Team field.
6. Select Event 1 from the Event Name field.
7. Type [Name] in the Player 1 Name (Required) field.
8. Type [Partner] in the Player 2 Name (Required) field.
9. Click Import. See image.
10. Click OK.

Result

The Team Overview tab populates with 25 MD teams. Note that because you are only importing men's doubles teams, the system fails to import all data for women's singles and women's doubles.

Importing team data from a TXT file

Prerequisite

Download data.txt and create a new event.

Steps

1. Click the stacked sheets icon to open the file selection dialog.
2. Select All Files from the Files of Type drop-down.
3. Navigate to the folder where you saved data.txt and select it.
4. Click Open to open the Import from Generic Data File pop-up.
5. Select WD from the Type of Team field.
6. Select Event 2 from the Event Name field.
7. Click Import. See image.
8. Click OK.

Result

The Team Overview tab populates with 14 WD entries.

Starting an event

Prerequisite

None.

Steps

1. Select the Tournament Overview tab.
2. Click Event 1 to open the Team Selector pop-up.
3. Highlight a team entry from the list of teams.
4. Type the numerical seed and press Enter. You can also drag and drop the team entry to the desired seed.
5. Assign a seed to each team until the bracket is filled.
6. Click Start Event.

Result

The Tournament Overview tab populates with the pending matches.

Checking in players

Prerequisite

None.

Steps

1. Select the Player Overview tab.
2. Find the player you want to check in and select the Checked In checkbox.
3. See image.
4. If you are using version 8 or higher, you can edit the tournament, go to the advanced tab, and select the "allow match start without player check in" checkbox. This will automatically mark all players as checked in. See image.

Result

Checked in players are no longer marked Absent.

Assigning matches to courts

Prerequisite

Started an event and checked in all the players in the event.

Steps

1. Select the Tournament Overview tab.
2. Drag a match to an available court.

Result

The match is scheduled to the available court.

Completing a match

Prerequisite

Have a match playing in a court.

Steps

1. Click the court where the match was played. See image.
2. Enter the score.
3. Click Finish Match.

Result

The match is complete and will show up in the Completed Matches tab.