Tournament Manager

• Make/Update Tournament Team Application. In order to start accepting online registrations for your tournament you will first need to determine what questions to ask and set the text accordingly on application form. This is probably the most important aspect of managing your tournament and deserves careful consideration before completing. InfoSports has selected a base set of questions we feel are appropriate to ask. You can subtract from this list but you can not add. The tournament application has a text block ahead of each major portion of the application. The text blocks are there to allow you to instruct your tournament applicants on how to fill out that specific portion of the application. If you think no additional instructions are necessary then leave the block blank and it will not appear on the application. The text prompts on the application can all be changed to whatever suits you. They can even be translated into other languages such that our tournament websites can support a tournament in the USA as well as countries from other parts of the world. To get you started you might go ahead and simply submit the form as presented to see the resulting application. You can then go in and modify the areas that need changing. Also, it is permissable for you to change the tournament application after you post it (for example a portion of the application needs better explanation). Changing the application will not affect the way your website works. Note that teams that have already applied would not have used the modified form. After you submit the application, the system automatically creates pages for the most common tournament information (rules, fields, hotels, etc) and replies back to you with the names of the pages created.
  Note: By default the top (or left side) nav bar has a link for each tournament. When your tournament application is created the link at the top of the page automatically changes to the newly created tournament about page.
• Blank Application. This option is available for those teams that can not or for whatever reason do not want to register online. The question set is exactly the same as your tailored online application. To use the Blank Application print some copies of it and have the teams fill out the form manually.
• Administer Photo Album. Each tournament directory has its own photo album. The photo album is the same as that on the main portion of your website, the only difference being that it controls the photo album in this specific tournament directory.
• Add Tournament Article - Add Tournament Page - Display/Remove Page. These items perform like those in your main website section. The only difference being they are used for articles in this tournament directory.
• Upload Image/File - Display Directory - Remove File. These items perform like those in your main website section. The only difference being they are used for for files in this tournament directory.
• List Accepted Teams. When a team first applies for your tournament their status is set to pending. After you have accepted a team their status is set to accepted. This menu item allows for the display of all accepted teams in a specific area or all teams accepted so far for your tournament. The resulting display also allows you to edit this teams data and display all information about this team. There is also a capability to reset a teams login password. To best learn how the registration system functions go ahead and register a few ficticuous teams and then perform various things to change their registration data. Also, you should become familiar with the Reset Password capability since there will be registrants who forget their password and without the reset capability they would be unable to login and update their teams data.
• List All Pending Acceptance Teams. This menu item displays all teams that are in the "pending acceptance" state. Resulting displays are similar to those of the accepted teams. To move a team from pending to accepted state simply go in and edit their data. When you do that you will see a list of all the data items for that team in the database. Locate the one titled Accepted, click on the drop down box and select Accepted. Then submit the form at the bottom of the page. There are three other fields that you will need to update. The payment field after the teams fees are paid, the bracket the team will be playing in and the level of that bracket. For example Boys 11 U and Majors. These fields are then shown in grey on the teams application when they display it in their team admin area.
• List All Rejected Teams. If a team does not meet the qualifications of the tournament then their record in the database can be set to rejected. The resulting display also allows for you to delete the record from the database. Be careful though if you decide to delete the record since it can not be retrieved once deleted.
• Create Finalist Page. This form is used to set the names of the bracket finalists as well as giving you the opportunity to place a thumbnail photo of the team on the page. You would use the thumbnail feature if the finalist teams are photographed. Note, the photos must have been previously uploaded for the thumbnail to be created. If the image filename field is left blank then it will not show on the resulting finalist page. The created finalist page URL is shown at the top of the form.
• Clear Finalist Page. This selection initializes the finalist page and deletes all photos previously used for the page. Use if with caution.
• Clear All Data and Files. Once you have completed the tournament and no longer need the information you can reset the directory and reuse if for the next tournament. Or if you are experimenting with the system to learn its operations, when you get finished you can clear out the test data, reinitialize your tournament application and you will be ready to start accepting applications.