As an organizer, you already know that the step of putting members in your event phases is important for its clean operating, however may be difficult to realize. Fortunately, Toornament helps you handle your event seeding and placement simply with all the flexibleness you could possibly want.
The distinction between seeding and placement
Earlier than attending to the guts of the matter, we should clearly differentiate between the seeding and placement notions relating to members.
Seeding is the motion of attributing a seed quantity to a event participant, who’s given a preliminary rating for the aim of the position. The participant is then positioned into the event stage primarily based on his seed, in order that the very best members normally don’t meet till later within the competitors.
The location is the competitors step the place the members are attributed a slot in one of many phases of the event. This slot may be attributed relying on the seeding of the members, or different guidelines, or fully randomly.
The seeding and placement steps are carried out on a single interface on the Toornament dashboard.
The Toornament placement interface
Placement with no seeding
Seeding your event members will not be necessary. It will depend on your have to classify and separate the members earlier than putting them in your event phases.
In case you have determined to not seed your participant, you need to use the random methodology proposed by Toornament to put them into the event stage.
In case you opened the event registrations, you too can place all of the newly validated members mechanically to the primary stage, following their registration date.
Open the stage configuration part to activate the automated placement
Placement with a seeding
Predefined strategies
In case you have determined to seed your members in a ranking-based stage, Toornament gives 4 predefined strategies to put them afterward: adjoining, effort balanced, seed optimized and bracket optimized.
You possibly can verify the outline of every methodology and choose the very best one in your wants from the stage configuration web page.
Listing of placement strategies from the event stage configuration web page
After you’ve got chosen the position methodology, you possibly can seed your members from the position interface. As soon as seeds are validated, Toornament will place members accordingly to the position methodology chosen.
Handbook
If you have to handle your event placement in a non-standard means, you possibly can manually place members into the bracket straight, utilizing the visible preview:
You possibly can choose any match and place members in it
Combined-methods
You too can determine to solely allocate a seed to a fraction of your members. It’s thus doable to put the primary X members in accordance with their seed in a stage, and the rest could also be randomly positioned.
First 8 gamers have seeding locked and others are randomly positioned
Placement between two phases
Due to the flexibleness of Toornament, you possibly can place and seed your members between every event stage. You possibly can thus award new seeds to certified members for the subsequent stage, or hold these they obtained in accordance with their end result within the earlier stage.
To make it simpler for you, the Toornament interface helps you to filter the members listing to solely show these popping out of a earlier stage.
You possibly can order and choose members who certified from a earlier stage
Go additional with the position
You possibly can go even additional in the way in which members are distributed, or how rounds and matches are organized, with superior guides from our Data Base: https://assist.toornament.com/placement/