Tournament Builder: Quick Start Guide
A brief overview of how to run tournaments using Digital Pool
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A brief overview of how to run tournaments using Digital Pool
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You can create a new tournament by going to the Tournament Builder located at https://digitalpool.com/tournament-builder and clicking "Create tournament". See screenshots below for a quick tutorial:
The Tournament Builder home page is where you can find all of the tournaments you have created in the past.
Clicking "Create tournament" will take you to the tournament setup flow and you only really need to complete step 1 to create a new tournament. The remaining steps you can come back and finish later. If you make the tournament private it will only be visible to you. This is good for running test tournaments or keeping the tournament hidden until you are ready to share it.
In order to make the tournament visible and accessible to others, toggle the access from "Private" to "Public" on the Dashboard page in the Tournament Builder. You can also set this in the "Setup" under the "Access" setting.
Once you have set up the tournament and have added players and tables and generated the bracket, you can access the tablet scoring by going to the "Tables" section within Tournament Builder and clicking on any of the tables.
For example clicking on "Table 1" will take me to the detail page for that table and you will see on the left there are buttons for "Mobile scoring, Tablet scoring and TV display".
Clicking on "Tablet scoring" will open a new window with the tablet scoring UI visible. This is the url you can copy and paste into any of your Tablets and each table has a unique URL like this. There is no additional setup or configuration required and any new match that is assigned to that table will automatically appear in the tablet scoring UI.
Once a player has reached their specified race value, they can press the "Submit scores" button to submit the match.
This will mark the match as finished and the scores will be submitted for TD approval in the Tournament Builder.
If you are using an event, you can use these URLs for the scoring overlay which will detect matches assigned to a table across multiple tournaments.
Tablet scoring across tournaments:
https://digitalpool.com/events/YOUR_EVENT_NAME/tables/table-1/scoring
https://digitalpool.com/events/YOUR_EVENT_NAME/tables/table-2/scoring
TV display of live scores:
https://digitalpool.com/events/YOUR_EVENT_NAME/tables/table-1/tvdisplay
https://digitalpool.com/events/YOUR_EVENT_NAME/tables/table-2/tvdisplay
View all table scores for an event (rotates every 7 seconds):
https://digitalpool.com/events/YOUR_EVENT_NAME/tables
Whenever a new match is submitted from a tablet or mobile device, it will appear as pending in the Tournament builder. You will see a notification message that says there is "1 pending match" that needs your approval.
That match will appear blinking in green in the bracket and also in the "Pending" tab in the left "Tournament Status" menu.
Clicking on the match in either of those places will show you the scores and all you have to do is click "Approve Scores" to advance the players in the bracket and release the table.
You can see here that match 13 is now complete and Mario He has advanced to match 23 as the winner.
To access the live stream overlay, there is an "Overlays" dropdown menu in the Tournament builder on the top right next to "Setup". Here you will find a list of the streaming tables you configured earlier. Clicking "Stream overlay - Table 1" will open a new tab with the scoring overlay.
The live streaming overlay looks like this currently. Copy the URL for this page and paste it in your streaming software ( OBS, Wirecast, XSplit, etc.) as a new overlay.
I hope this gives you a better idea of how the live scoring and streaming overlays work.
