A championship is a set of one or more tourneys, organized by the same club with the same format: all tourneys of a particular championship are obligatorily all singles or all doubles and use the same prize-giving method.
Each championship has a description that must be unique within the same club.
Players per team determines the maximum number of players participating as a single competitor: 1 for singles, 2 for doubles, up to 4 for teams.
With skip worst prizes you specify how many worst result will be ignored in the final sum for each player at the end of the season. This is usually used to tolerate that a player could not participate to all the tourneys of the championship and yet she remains competitive.
The coupling method is used as the default value when creating new tourneys within the championship and determines how SoL will couple the participants at each turn (vedi coupling generation method of the tourney for details).
The prize-giving method field determine the method used to assign final prizes. These prizes have two primary scopes:
One particular case is the value Simple tourneys, no special prizes, which basically means that the prize-giving will use the competitor’s points as the final prize. This method does not satisfy the first point above, so it’s not a good choice for a championship ranking. These prizes won’t appear in the ranking printout of the tourney, but are considered for its order, and they can be eventually adjusted after the the finals.
The other four values have the following meanings:
The field closed indicates whether the championship is complete: no other tourney can be associated with these championships. The championship lookup combos (for example, when inserting new tourneys) show only those still active.
Previous championship is used by the weighted prize-giving method. It allows the selection of one closed championship.