Setting Up Your Competition

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1. Set up the Sports Portal Settings
Quick Steps: Go to Competitions > Sports > Edit 1. Within the Management Console, select  Competitions  from the top menu, then click Portal Settings from the left side menu. 2. Click  Edit  and complete the relevant sections as foll...
2. Review (and edit) the Sport Settings
Quick Steps: Competitions > Sports > Edit > Save The settings in ‘Sports’ are the default settings for every competition created. This allows you to set up all the standard options for that sport, making it easier each time you set up a new...
3. Review the Organisations Listing
Quick Steps: Go to Competitions > Organisations  The Organisations tab displays a list of all of your current tiered organisations. This list will only show those organisations that are in the tier directly below yours. This will allow you ...
4. Creating and Uploading a Fixture Template
Fixture Templates allow organisations to create a template by which their fixturing is then done. This allows them to set up a template that creates the fixtures based upon the teams' seedings and automatically create the required fixture for the co...
5. Setting up Venues
Each venue that you will host matches at should be added into the Sports system before creating your competition. This allows you to assign a Default Venue to each team and makes scheduling of fixtures a breeze for the administrator. Quick St...
6. Creating Venue Availability
To assign a venue to a fixture, you need to have set up the times that venue is available for games on the applicable days. This assists in the fixturing so that you don't end up with two games scheduled at the same time at the same venue. Qu...
7. Adding a new Season
Seasons are used to provide a category for your competitions to sit within. Seasons should be set to your organisation's standard seasons, for example Summer Season and Winter Season, and then the different competitions set up within each of these s...
8. Adding a New Competition
Competitions can be set up only once you've completed all the steps in creating the settings for your competitions. Once all your settings are done, they are automatically imported into any competition that you set up, making it easier to create a n...
9. Adjusting the Settings for the Competition
Once a competition has been created, some of the general competition options are fixed and cannot be edited. There is however the option to edit other settings for an individual competition if necessary. Quick Steps: Competitions > Competitio...
10. Adding Clubs to a Competition
Quick Steps: Go to Competitions > select the relevant competition > Clubs > Add or Add Organisation 1. Within the Management Console, select COMPETITIONS  from the top menu, then COMPETITIONS from the left menu. 2. Select the rel...
11. Adding Teams to a Competition
Once you've created a competition, before you can start fixturing you need to add your teams. Depending on how your competition is set up, you will have multiple options for how to do this. If your competition includes Clubs, then you'll be able to ...
12. Generating Fixtures
Fixtures can be generated based off a fixture template created in the system.  Quick Steps:  COMPETITIONS > select relevant competition > FIXTURES > GENERATE FIXTURE  Generating Fixtures: 1. Within the Management Console, select ...
13. Publishing Fixtures and/or Results Online
Quick Steps:  COMPETITIONS > select the relevant competition > ROUNDS > select Published Mode  Publishing Fixtures Online : 1. Within the Management Console, select COMPETITIONS  from the top menu, then the relevant competition, follo...