Tourney management
This is the core window of the application and is composed of four panels.
On the left there’s the competitors one, where you can register new players, withdraw existing ones or rearrange them in teams if season’s players per team is bigger than 1 (first round only).
On the right there’s the ranking panel, where you can see the current ranking. .. , possibly grouped by nationality.
At the bottom there’s the first round view that let you alter the random combination generated for the first round.
The remaining space in the middle is dedicated to the matches.
The three panels on the borders can be minimized, thus maximizing the space for the matches. In particular, the one on the left and the one at the bottom are mainly used only just before and just after the first round is created.
Competitors panel
This panel is used mainly at the start of a new tourney, to compose the group of participating players. Using drag&drop you can either insert new players or rearrange them in teams, as shown in the figure: you can drag single players from one team to another, or add new players picking them from the players window. The add... button brings up that window, showing only players not yet associated with the tourney.
Note
It is possible to add new players at any time, even when the tournament has already started and some matches has been played: even if this is not allowed in official tourneys, in amateur events it may happen that a player is late, or that one person of the public asks to enter the game. In such case, the new player gets zero points and is positioned at the end of the current ranking.
Adjusted teams
You can see that there is a new completed team (with a green background); one team is not complete because it has only one player: this has no effect on the succeding operations (it can be played without problems) although it would be quite strange; another team will be deleted (red background) because it’s only player has been removed.
Hint
Players may be removed from the panel by dragging them and dropping over any empty space (the scrollbar, when the panel is full): the icon associated to the drag operation will reflect the case.
Important
It’s not possible to change the composition of a team once the first round has been played, for obvious reasons.
Withdraw confirmation
A competitor may be withdrew by double-clicking it and confirming the action: this means that he won’t participate to further games. He will show up in the ranking, though.
Teams
From the application point of view, the number of players that compose a single competitor does not make any difference. Each game involves two distinct competitors, no matter how many players are grouped in each one, each group represent a single entity.
When organizing a teamed championship, beware that any team is determined by the people assigned to it and by their ordering: the team John and Paul is different from the one composed of Paul and John, that is the same guys but in different order! This is where the duplicate tourney action is very useful.
Note
The nationality of a team is determined by that of its first player, so order matters: be sure to drag in players in the right sequence.
Once the registration has been completed, the next step is to generate the first round of the tournament, that will be done taking into account the current rate of each player if the tourney is linked to a particular rating, otherwise by randomly pairing the competitors.
First round recombination
The tournament secretary may decide that the random combination generated by the application for the first round is not adeguate and some manual intervention is required. In this window, enabled only before the first round is actually played, you can drag&drop competitors around, swapping them as desired.
Even the association of matches with the carrom boards is random, for the first round. From the second on SoL tries to give a different board for each round to a given player, following ranking order. This guarantees that top players will preferably play on different low-numbered boards, while weaker ones will use high-numbered boards, possibly repeatedly, in particular when the number of players (and thus the number of tables) is very low.
Deletion of rounds
The middle panel is where most of the activity happens: here you iteratively create next round, insert its results and compute the new ranking.
Of course, only the last round is editable, that is, you cannot alter previous rounds results. If something went wrong and you need to rectify any previous score, you must delete the last round (or even more than one, should that make any sense at all), make the change and regenerate the new round.
Hint
To insert the results of each round you may follow two distinct strategies:
Whenever you change and commit the results of the last round the ranking is automatically recomputed and shown here. The prize column is usually hidden until prize giving.
Hint
By double-clicking on a competitor the matches panel focuses on him showing only his matches. You can see any other player details by double-clicking on another name. The match panel returns to the usual view either by double-clicking the same player a second time, or when a new round is created.
Once the Prize-giving is done, the prize column becomes editable, either to manually force the prizes, or to swap top players after the final.