When teams apply into your tournament, they generally apply as a particular age group. Depending on the number of teams within that age group, you may or may not have enough to divide them up into “flights” OR you may have to combine multiple ages into one larger group or “division.” Each of these “flights” is defined in the Scheduling Module>Divisions and once defined as such, they become their own “tournament division.”

While there may be a youngest age attached to each, the team is no longer defined by the age and then flight, just simply by the “tournament division.” In short, there are no longer any “GU10s” or “GU15s” but rather “GU10Black,” “GU10Red and “GU17-19” even though all the GU10 “flights” are U10 teams. But they may be 15 U10 teams and one strong U09 team playing up. (If you choose to keep the Gender/Age drop down menus along the left, then the system will use the age group specified in the application unless you change it on the back end. This may cause some confusion, so it is always recommended you switch to display the Tournament Divisions AFTER you place the teams into tournament divisions.)

This gives you maximum flexibility in defining a “division” without fighting the software with defining ages, flight as subgroups of ages, etc. The age of the team no longer matters for purposes of scheduling and scoring, only the “tournament division” it is in.

1. Make sure your Tournament Division are properly defined and refined. Delete any you will not be using from last year and add any that are new for this year.

2. Seed the teams using the appropriate filters in the Team Applications Module. Use the Seeding Format help doc to make sure the correct seed is assigned into the correct group. The Tournament Divisions will be a drop down menu next to each team name, sorted by youngest age. Select the Division to place each team into and save changes.

Make sure you click on the SEED button to the right of the GO! button in the Team Applications Module so you can make assignments and changes in bulk and act just on the subset of teams.

SCHEDULING MENU
00: Overview
01: Set up tournament divisions
02: Set game times and dates
03: Set up venues and playing fields
04: Create Placeholder Teams
05: Placing Teams into Tournament Divisions/Groups
06: Update and/or review your tie-breaker rules.
07: Schedule games by division
08: Review and publish
09: Making Changes to a Schedule