The tourney is clearly the primary element of the whole system, everything has been designed to allow an easy and fast management of these events.
Each tourney has a date and a description of the event and there cannot be two dictinct tourneys in the same date associated to a single championship.
The location is optional.
The duration and prealarm refer to the length of a single turn, and are expressed in minutes. They will be used by the The alarm clock window. window.
A tourney may use a particular rating: in such a case, the first turn is generated accordingly with the rate of each player instead of using a random order.
The pairing method determines how the couplings are done at each new turn: