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Run a tournament

Prepare the venue, entries and draw. Give your team a clear match-day plan.

Prepare the venue and event

  1. New to Rallyna? On an empty dashboard, choose Explore a sample tournament. It adds a private practice tournament with made-up players, published draws and matches to score. It sends no messages.
  2. Create a tournament in your workspace. Set its dates, venue, local time zone and court names.
  3. Under Configuration, set venue hours and closures. Add your singles or doubles event and review its rules before publication.
  4. Add participants and entries. For a CSV import, preview the rows and fix reported errors before confirming. A player record does not require a sign-in account.
Create tournament form with a rehearsal name, venue, dates and time zone
Start with the venue and courts. A new tournament stays a draft. Rehearsal data · select image to enlarge.

Review entries, then publish the draw

  1. Review entry status and eligibility. Resolve incomplete pairs or other entry issues before preparing the draw.
  2. Prepare and inspect the draw. Publication records the chosen rules and draw; do not treat published competition data as a freely editable draft.
  3. Create the match plan, then assign courts and planned times. Check for participant overlaps, court conflicts and venue closures.
Rehearsal tournament overview with links to events, participants and court desk
The tournament overview keeps preparation and match-day work together. Rehearsal data · select image to enlarge.

Invite your tournament team

  1. Open Staff. Invite a director, official or court-desk user with the email address they use to sign in.
  2. The recipient accepts under Account › Tournament invitations. Approve their tournament access after acceptance.
  3. Court desk staff run the court board but cannot change entries, draws or scores. Allocating an official does not grant scoring access: use Scoring access on the match to grant it.
  4. Remove or suspend access in Staff when someone leaves. Their old links and repeat submissions do not retain that authority.

Finish and publish

  1. Check submitted game scores and confirm results with an authorised account. Confirmation, not a desk status, completes the match and advances eligible winners.
  2. Use standings publication and tournament visibility controls to share results. Check the public page signed out before distributing the link.
  3. Use withdrawal controls if results must stop being public. For disputed or incorrect confirmed results, pause and involve the director; do not invent a replacement score to bypass a restriction.